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2024 Thanksgiving Menu and Meal Prep Timeline

* image These past few months have been busy for our family, especially since our oldest joined a local swim team. Between juggling our work schedules and balancing school with practices... we're all pretty wiped out. Although it's a lot of work, I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving. Preparing the holiday meal for our family fills my heart with joy, and I can't wait to get started. To make things easier for me, I don't deviate much from  our first Thanksgiving  as a family. The dishes I make are familiar ones, and the recipes for them live at my fingertips. Keeping the same menu year after year means I don't have to spend time researching recipes or planning a new one. Here are my tried-and-true Thanksgiving recipes, as well as my prep timeline for the big day!
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Caramelized Red Onions with Merlot

Caramelized Onions | Taste As You Go

When I caramelize onions, I typically use yellow onions since I always have one or two of them in my kitchen. Yet one weekend, I found myself with one large red onion and a smidgen of Merlot left in the bottle after I had a glass couple of glasses after work earlier in the week and after I had baked some pretty freakin' fantastic brownies. Before I could even blink, I knew what I had to do next and I started moving around my kitchen as if someone had switched on my auto-pilot function.

I sliced the onion...

Sliced Red Onions | Taste As You Go

... then heated 2 tablespoons of extra-virgin olive oil and 1 tablespoon of butter in a large skillet over medium heat.

Sliced Red Onions Cooking in Olive Oil and Butter | Taste As You Go

Once the butter melted, I put the red onions in the pan, added a pinch of salt, and began cooking the onions down, stirring every once in a while, until the onions started to look like this:

Caramelized Red Onions | Taste As You Go

I reached for the bottle of Merlot...

2005 Merlot from JT Cellars - Russian River Valley | Taste As You Go

... and used about 1/4 cup of wine to deglaze the pan, making sure to scrape the brown bits off the bottom. As the alcohol began to cook off, the onions soaked the luscious deep red color of the wine until I was left with a pan of richly flavored caramelized onions.

Caramelized Red Onions with Merlot | Taste As You Go

Don't those look amazing?

Although I could have easily eaten those onions straight out of the pan with a spoon, I restrained myself and set upon serving them as an accompaniment in one of my later weekend meals. So, how did I use the Caramelized Red Onions with Merlot?

You'll have to check back to find out!

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