A November Luncheon

It's Thursday and since it may be December and Christmas will abound on tabletops, Linderhof's table is all about Thanksgiving and November!

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Just before Thanksgiving and just before I left for points South, I entertained the Lunch Bunch. And since it was November, it was a luncheon of Thanksgiving plates and Thanksgiving flavors!

But in my beloved blue and white! The table set for lunch.
The centerpiece -- fall leaves in a Spode blue and white pitcher and pheasant salt and pepper shakers which were a Christmas gift from "The Bunch" a couple of years ago. They are the salt and peppers for the Breakfast Room.
A white tablecloth, the Spode turkey plates, the menu (the turkey plates echoed on the menu), a blue linen napkin and my hotel silver.

And since it was November, the flavors of Thanksgiving for lunch! With sherried cream of mushroom soup to start and then . . .
A salad of chunks of turkey, roasted sweet potatoes, sliced celery and dried cranberries in a vinaigrette. With a hot roll topped with minced sage from the garden.
More cranberries but this time for dessert -- a cranberry crumb tart served with whipped cream flavored with Grand Marnier and a peel of orange. Served with coffee, of course!

The salad would be good to serve anytime in the fall or it would be a good use of leftover Thanksgiving or Christmas turkey. I used a rotisserie turkey breast from the grocery store rather than deli turkey. I think it made a difference.