Posted on 11/22/2022 9:59:02 AM PST by ConservativeInPA
Post your Thanksgiving preparations and traditions.
Nothing. Somebody else is doing the cooking and cleaning. All I'm going to do is relax, eat, relax, watch some football, relax, and say THANK YOU JESUS!!!
Lobster tails. Have them every Thanksgiving. Don’t care for turkey.
Just me and the boy so probably steak and potatoes
Sounds great......what time should I be there? 😁
Turkey, mashed potatoes, dressing, corn pudding, green beans and cranberries. Apple dumplings for dessert.
Spam with all the trimmings!
I have some sliced chicken breasts in the freezer. I’m going to trick them into thinking they’re really Turkey with this big bottle of Gravy....with mashed potatoes...And this can of stuffing mix....and two little winter squash...
Carved turkey by Swanson’s.
Turkey, dressing, mac and cheese, yams, green beans (maybe casserole), homemade rolls. Just 3 of us this year.
We will have a big crowd at the house and we’re cooking:
Four geese (fresh from our pasture!), one turkey, and a prime rib roast.
Potatoes, yams (not candied), carrots, peas with white onions, stuffing, and cranberry sauce.
One pumpkin pie, two apple pies, and two blackberry pies.
Not to mention a lot of egg nog!!
A couple of slices of prepackaged turkey (Boar’s Head) my food budget Food Stamps would allow.
My wife is Italian and I married into a VERY big family. She has 10 brothers and sisters and our thanksgiving involves around 80 people. By God’s grace, my wife is also the cook of the family and the matriarch since her mother died. She is in charge of the cooking. We have all of the traditional dishes but most important, my wife’s traditional hot apple crisp with ice cream for desert. My favorite plate is Turkey, dressing, green beans, turkey and noodles, Mac and cheese all slathered in turkey gravy. I wait an hour to recover before desert.
Nothing. I usually fast for a minimum of 24 hours. Why? Because I’m weird.
I'll make the dressing, and corn casserole tomorrow ahead of time, and slice the potatoes for the scalloped potatoes, and keep them submerged in water in the fridge so they don't darken, and put it all together must before I pop it in the oven. Will be making the mac and cheese, peeling and cooking the potatoes for mashing while the turkey and ham are cooking. I don't have a big oven so I've had to come up with alternative ways to give me the space in the oven for the side dishes to cook together. Once the turkey is taken out of the oven, I'm going to put it in a turkey roaster to keep it warm until the side dishes are done.
Small (~8 lb) turkey breast and a pot roast. Odd combo, although brown gravy on turkey is a family favorite.
Have graduated to the electric rotisserie method, from the more messy/cumbersome pot over a propane burner method.
Seasoning trick is to prep your mix of dry seasoning in a bowl with a bit of olive oil.
Using latex gloves, rub that paste inside and out of the bird, cover it and let it sit in the fridge overnight. (The syringe injection method is useless)
This also means that the bird is thawed and free from ice/water that causes splatter when it hits the hot oil.
You can filter and recycle the oil after cooling, but only if you intend to use it again before it goes bad in 6 months...
I’m an eater, napper and football watcher. My niece and nephew are preparing the meal, with turkey with all the traditional trimmings and a huge variety of pies and other deserts. This has become our family reunion tradition for the past 10 years or so.
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