First time meeting my boyfriends extended family at Thanksgiving! What should I cook?
Make a dessert that would feed all the family. Since you say it is casual, you don’t have to fuss, but bake something very homey and large. You could make a fruit sheet pie, quite large, in a cookie sheet. My secret is to buy a can of pie filling (Blueberry or Cherry) Then in the grocery store I would purchase fresh blueberries to add to the canned pie filling to extend the amount to fill the sheet pie I have created and baked the crust already for about 10 minutes, then pour the filling into the crust and make a sweet crumble topping for the pie and bake for 35-40 minutes more, or alternative can of cherry pie filling and add drained sour cherries that are in jars usually European import, but I add the drained cherries to the canned cherry pie filling with about 2 tbsp sugar to sweeten a bit and mix gently, do the same with the pre baked crust, doing this also extends the chery pie filling to cover your sheet pie crust , then use the same type of sweet crumble topping for you cherry p