Questions for Americans and keen cooks.

[purplecat]

My sister-in-law is American (Texan to be precise) and I offered to do Thanksgiving this year. However, she had now arranged to go back to the States to see her family but is, nevertheless, sending her husband and children to me. The upside of this is that I do not have to recreate an authentic Thanksgiving only one which conforms, more-or-less to the children's memories. The downside, of course, is that I won't have an authentic American around to help out.

Turkey I can manage.

Should I buy cranberry sauce or try to make it? I'm not a jam or chutney maker and I'm appalling at gravy but I can manage simple sauces. My in-laws always have mashed sweet potato for Thanksgiving - would it be sacrilege if I roasted the sweet potatos? Is there anything else I need to include?

Comments

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

I don't know if this is relevant to your in-laws or not, but one Thanksgiving tradition is watching one of the two NFL games. One game always features Detroit and the other always features Dallas, and since you said your sister-in-law was Texan...

(Sky will be showing the games in this country.)

[purplecat]

We don't have Sky, which solves that one. I don't think they are particularly NFL fans though I will ask. B. and M. between them can almost certainly find a way to view the games if they really put their minds to it.