lol, I just created a new topic and deleted when I saw yours.
My title was gonna be “ Shit Food At Thanksgiving - and Possible Replacements.”
I’m not from the US but lived here for 10 yrs now. It took a couple of years but now my rellies here have accepted that roast potatoes are better than mash (I might get blasted for that - but come at me haters!).
My father-in-law ALWAYS makes these soggy overcooked yellow beans. wtf! Is that as compulsory as mash?!
Good call. Cottage cheese is awful in jello.
What is that
7 layer jello.
We do 7 unique layers though.
Ham gravy is an Easter staple for my family. I’ve never had onion gravy. I’ll have to remedy that.
To clarify, I do like mash w gravy! Never beat roasties imo. Both my (american) kids go for the roasties - cos I intervened before they became indoctrinated. I insisted on doing roast potatoes as well as mash every time. Gonna cook both mash and roast this yr as well (I do the turkey and spuds). Somehow the roast potatoes always vanish first, even with all the USAians.
Those fkn yellow beans tho can just go right in the trash. I take a few - just for show and politeness - as they come round the table.
Sushi.
I grew up in Atlanta and my grandmother always served Waldorf salad as part of Thanksgiving dinner. It wasn’t until high school that I found out that it was actually Georgia Waldorf salad; the principal changes being replacing walnuts with peanuts and grapes with raisins. Apparently only fancy people eat walnuts and grapes, peanuts and raisins are food of the common folk.
Quit bragging.
I cook almost all the food for Thanksgiving but I just had rotator cuff surgery so I’m going to be directing my wife on what to do. Hoping for the best…
Man that sounds a lot like the perfect time to get the prepared meal from a market or restaurant, but you can’t be the one to suggest it.
It sounds worse than it is, I think.
She’ll have to spatchcock the turkey but I think I should still be able to brine it and season it one handed. Not going to smoke it this year though. Most of the rest of the food I can actually cook as long as she does the chopping and the prep.
My sister is in charge of dinner. The only thing she’s said was we weren’t having turkey. I have not been asked to prepare anything.
Wed night is soup night for my other sister’s in-laws. I am making mulligatawny for that.
We used to have something kind of similar but I think it was pistachio pudding instead of lime jello and no cottage cheese. It may have even had lime jello and pistachio pudding mixed.
Dang! You’re a champ! Good lad.
I think I love your sister already.
The worst thing about Thanksgiving is the fkn turkey. Prepping, cooking it. Then you’re supposed to eat some of that big old bird…?
Yeah we ordered the turkey this year. In previous years I’ve been cooking fish - I guarantee the “pilgrims” ate fish - but this year my family demanded a traditional meal.
Maybe we won’t fight. But the name Ham Gravy just does not sound appealing.
I like ham and I like gravy tho’.
It’s a pain in the ass to cook, but I’ve made some really good bird. Best turkey ever was injected and fried. Juicy and full of flavor. Smoked is also good.