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Michie’s Family Feast

The history of our Michie Feast!

In case you aren’t familiar with my blog or our family who loves to cook, this post will show you a little of how it all started — our love for food and family. So take a minute to look at one or two of our “family feast” dinners and if you get a chance look under “stories” for some “it’s not always about the food” stories/dinners.

So, our Michie feast started one Thanksgiving (before all the grandsons (6) ). This was the first year my husband started frying our turkeys. After buying something like 3 gallon of oil, we wanted to use that oil again before the kids all went back home.

Our first Michie Feast would have, of course, been a fish fry with my dads famous hushpuppies (see blog for recipe). Then the next family feast came the oysters (fried, smoked, Rockafellow, and raw of course). After that it didn’t matter that we had all that oil to find a use for; we just wanted to make a special meal together where everyone cooked a dish, presented it to the group (whoever was in town for Thanksgiving), pairing it with wine/cocktail of their choice. Friends of ours would be there every other year and occasionally one of the kids brought some extra guests.

I would normally have a flag representing the country from the menu we were preparing and we would all take our pictures with it. Some of the dinners I remember, and I hope I can remember them all because they were all memorable, were the fish fry, all about oysters, Spanish tapas, Southern Inspired, Hawaiian, New Orleans, French, and New American.

If you have some time on your hands on some rainy/cold day, take a look at some of our “after Thanksgiving Day when everyone is tired of eating turkey” dinners.

I’ll never forget the Hawaiian dinner. Brooke, our D-I-L was pregnant with Milo and she was in charge of picking up the piglet in Austin to bring to The Woodlands. She almost got sick looking at it when she saw what she brought. Papa G and Paul, McGivered a homemade spit for the pig with a rotisserie (he can make anything) and then the rains started so he and the boys had to come up with a tent for over the pig. Final results you can see in picture below of them carrying the pig into the house on a big pole. Another unforgettable dinner.

Without further ado here are a few of our dinners/recipes.

Fish/Frog Leg Fry — no pictures needed; just a bunch of fried fish/ frog legs, French fries, hushpuppies and slaw. I can remember just how good that was and all the fish fries since then.

Oysters — any way you can think of we did but sorry no pictures.

SPANISH TAPAS —