Posted on 11/27/2024 7:40:28 AM PST by Red Badger
It's Thanksgiving week, and many of us are traveling, meeting up with family, and preparing our Thanksgiving feast! While Thanksgiving may not be ALL about stuffing ourselves silly, it is undeniably a magnificent aspect of the occasion.
And there are so many great dishes to choose from! From the iconic turkey and humble bread rolls to the splendor of a pecan pie and sweet potato casserole, it's hard to save room for them all! Which ones are you looking forward to the most? Let us know in the poll below:
Turkey
253 Votes
981 Votes
Stuffing/Dressing
212 Votes
1342 Votes
Mashed Potatoes/Potato Dish
194 Votes
854 Votes
Pumpkin Pie
320 Votes
803 Votes
Pecan Pie
443 Votes
588 Votes
Sweet Potato Casserole
483 Votes
594 Votes
Cranberry Sauce
373 Votes
682 Votes
Bread Rolls
230 Votes
764 Votes
Brussel Sprouts
613 Votes
352 Votes
Mac and Cheese
624 Votes
312 Votes
Wendy’s.
Mac & Cheese is children’s food.
Yes and thank you. My wife just doesn’t understand.
Yankees and their stuffing
What can I say
Give them a tray of conventional cornbread dressing when they move down here
Most maybe even 98% are like damn this IS GOOD
I’m not anti stuffing
And I like oyster dressing at times
But actual Pyrex tray cornbread dressing is fairly simple it just takes time
Cornbread
Stale bread
Broth usually chicken
Trinity veggie chopped
Salt pepper sage
Mixed and baked
Giblet or Brown gravy
If u want oysters or sausage in that it’s fine
There is a company called Savannah Classics makes frozen premade u heat for like 35 minutes at 350 degrees in a aluminum tray
It’s not bad honestly but needs more sage
Cracker Barrel dressing is ok
Cranberry sauce is best made fresh from scratch
Tarte aux pommes à la crème pâtissière
Try this instead:
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
12-16oz of fresh cranberries
8oz dried cherries
1/4tsp cinnamon (optional)
Bring water and sugar to a boil and stir until sugar is dissolved. Add cranberries and stir until most of them have “popped”. Add cherries and cook until they are hydrated (about 7-8 minutes) stirring occasionally.
This is also really good on turkey sandwiches when watching football!
In my house growing up? LASAGNA.
And turkey stuffing made with Sweet Italian Sausage. I do not deny my heritage
Every family has its own Thanksgiving history and for many folks the favorite dishes as adults are the ones they enjoyed when they were growing up. Some folks family favorites might be strange to others.
In addition to the Turkey, turkey gravy, stuffing (baked in the turkey and in a caserole dish), mashed potatoes, sweet potatoe caserole, fresh green beans, crandberry sauce, and pumpkin pie (and mince meat pie as well), my mom always also made a mixed green salad, a waldorf salad, a cauliflower caserole, a big ham, and a salad of
Lime Jello 2-packs
Philadelhia Cream Cheese (regular size package)
Crushed Pineapple (20 oz can, chilled from at least the nite before)
Pineapple Juice (from draining the crushed pineapple)
1. The can of crushed pineapple should be kept in the refrigerator so it is well chilled before any preparation starts.
2. The whole preparation is done the nite before the dinner.
3. An hour or two before preparation time the Philadelphia Cream Cheese is put out of the refrigerator in the kitchen somewhere to begin softening up, and the contents of the can of crushed pineapple is put in a strainer to separate the pineapple from the juice (as much as it will).
For the preparation:
4. The Philadelphia cream cheese is mixed into the Jello after the hot water is mixed in BUT before the cold water is added, using an electric mixer on a very high speed.
5. Once the jello and cream cheese are thourougly blended into one combined mixture, the cold water is mixed in, again with an electric mixer on high, with the strained-out pineapple juice substituting as much as possible for the cold water.
6. The mixture (have not yet added the pineapple) is poured into an 8 x 8 or 9 x 9 baking dish, and placed into the refrigerator.
7. After the mixture has begun to be jelled, for an hour or two at least, THEN the crushed pineapple is folded into the mixture. If the crushed pineapple is put in too soon it will just go to the bottom of the dish instead of being mixed throughout.
With all the flavors from the dinner, this salad acts as a refreshing cool palate cleanser between all the other dishes.
Pot roast, in addition to the smoked turkey. The brown gravy from the pot roast is an extra bonus.
Haggis!
Gravy.
Driving a backcountry route of country backroads and gravel roads about 300 miles through West Virginia.
We’ll have two F-150’s with rooftop tents and a bronco.
My son strings a hammock inside his Bronco. The other will hammock between trees.
What's gone immediately? Mashed potatoes and giblet gravy, corn and oysters, stuffing, dark turkey
What iives on in the fridge until it eventually gets tossed? White turkey, pecan pie, green bean casserole
Sure did.
That sounds good; I’m saving it.
We don’t see much of Jello salads anymore.
Sounds wonderful! Have a great time.
Doesn’t a hammock between trees get really cold with air all around you?
They’re too cute to eat: especially the ones with antlers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCnQ0ash7As
Canned cranberry sauce is loaded with high fructose corn syrup.
Pumpkin Pie with Whipped Cream is my favorite TDay dish. After a huge plate of Turkey, mashed, green beans, Mac n cheese, corn pudding and stuffing n gravy plus Hawaiian Rolls.
Mac n Cheese is not a black or kid thing, my family reunions always have to have Aunt Mel’s Mac n Cheese, it’s not the same without it. She makes a huge pan and folks always line up to take some home.
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