Monday, November 21, 2011

Thanksgiving at the Green Mountain Inn

Only 2 days away and our staff is hard at work preparing for one of our favorite holidays – Thanksgiving – when we’ll be offering a special prix-fix menu.

The Main Street Dining room is offering a refined and artisanal Thanksgiving Menu for $42 per person & $21 per child from 1:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. The Whip Bar & Grill will be offering lunch from 11:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. and dinner from 3:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.

Guests can choose from an array of homemade breads, appetizers, entrées and desserts. Including classics such as roasted butternut squash, Misty Knoll turkey with apple sausage stuffing and Old-fashioned Pumpkin Pie.

Spending Thanksgiving at home? Our baker shares her Old-fashioned Pumpkin Pie recipe so you so you can recreate the favored dessert from the Green Mountain Inn for your family and friends:

Recipe Makes 2 Pumpkin Pies-
4 eggs
29 oz can Pumpkin
1 ¼ cups white sugar
⅓ cup brown sugar
1 ⅛ teaspoons salt
2 tablespoons cinnamon
1 tablespoon ginger
1 ⅛ teaspoons cloves
1 ⅓ cup milk
1 ⅛ cup evaporated milk

Beat eggs.
Mix in sugars and spices.
Slowly mix in milks.
Pour into unbaked pie crusts.
Bake 15 minutes at 425° then reduce temperature to 350°.
Bake approximately 50 minutes @ 350°.