Best food/recipe to add to a traditional Thanksgiving Dinner...friendsgiving?
2I’m inviting people from work who don’t have any place for T-day dinner…to bring food to add to the traditional Thanksgiving meal( you know… Ham, Turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes , cranberries, sweet potato casserole, green beans, rolls, butter, wine, pies, coffee, cookies, cheesecake)…
What will you bring?
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That table needs potato salad, deviled eggs, and pumpkin pie!
@RiotDemon you’re right! Thank you
So you want a bunch of people who don’t have family to spend Thanksgiving with to prepare and bring you a bunch of food and give thanks for getting to spend it with you?
I don’t think that word means what you think it does.
@mike808 No. I’m providing all the food for the traditional meal. I’ve put out the invites and people are free to come without food or contribute if they would like to. Most people have said what can I bring?
@AZnatural1 That wasn’t clear from the topic intro.
Blame the scapegoat.
@ybmuG thinks pumpkin pie is better than pecan pie.
@AZnatural1 @mike808 just tell them what is already on the menu and that they can bring or not as they wish. If the push suggest beverages
@AZnatural1 @mike808 sure, I’ll take the blame for someone doing something really nice and you assuming it wasn’t. You know what they say when you assume…
@ybmuG is your neighbor with Christmas lights up already.
@ybmuG
Unlike you, I commented based on what was actually written/posted. I made no such assumption about the intent, you did.
You know what they say when you assume…
I blame the you for trying, and failing, to point out that the absence of an assumption is somehow a claim of the opposite of your own assumption. This false equivalence is but one of the reasons your position is meritless, and to be dismissed with prejudice.
@ybmuG is your neighbor with Christmas lights up already.
@mediocrebot is clearly a less than mediocre AI. Pecan only loses to Cherry and Key Lime.
@mediocrebot @tightwad
pecan looses to everything
There are so far 11 of us…
Maybe a salad for those attempting to be good?
Btw, what you are doing is commendable!
@tinamarie1974 Ooh, Waldorf salad. Apples, celery, pecans, mayonnaise and mini marshmallows. Healthy!
@OldCatLady @tinamarie1974 I always preferred Statler, myself
@ybmuG
With gravy or without?
@mike808 ok, so I think you’re talking chicken?
@OldCatLady @ybmuG statler?
@OldCatLady @tinamarie1974
/giphy Statler Waldorf
@OldCatLady @ybmuG hahahahaha. As muppets go, I prefer
/giphy muppets animal
@OldCatLady @ybmuG even though
@OldCatLady @tinamarie1974 my favorite as well!
Appetizer type things, if you are having them come early instead of just before dinner is served. Or if they have a favorite family dish they’d like to bring, maybe they can take one of the things you listed off of your hands.
@memini you know, that favorite family thing is an excellent idea, especially if they are away from family. Could make it extra special for them, and give your guests something to talk about. I think that’s really cool.
My wife and I made a big plate of sushi to share with my family one year. It was a hit!
Ratatouille
a nice ice wine or port for after
Cheeeeese!
@ybmuG
you win
you said ice wine
/giphy winner
@Cerridwyn @ybmuG ooohhhh ice wine and Rocky!! Winner, winner chicken dinner
@Cerridwyn @tinamarie1974 wouldn’t that be winner winner turkey dinner?
@Cerridwyn @ybmuG that would actually be my preference
no thanksgiving dinner is complete without garlic naan.
@carl669 ok, off topic here. I’ve never eaten at an Indian food place except for Trinidadian and Tobago Indian food. That was a million years ago and I can’t remember exactly was it was. I think it was pronounced dobles? I remember that was good.
As someone who doesn’t eat spicy stuff, what would your recommendations be for some of your favorite foods? There’s a local place run by Southeast Asians. I was told the food was different from T&T.
Hope I don’t sound like a jerk asking you.
@carl669 wrong
@RiotDemon oh sure… ask the indian guy about indian food. just kidding!
i don’t have a lot of experience with south indian food. i’ve mostly had north indian food like chicken tikka, chicken tikka masala, butter chicken, chicken korma, all sorts of lamb and goat, etc.
does the place near you have a menu online? i’d be happy to take a look and see if there’s something on there i’ve had and would recommend.
@tightwad why wrong? naan is just like dinner rolls, but 1293823473478 times better.
@carl669 you’re the best. Thanks! I’m going to whisper a link to the menu so I don’t give away where I live.
@carl669 I love Naan with the right foods, rices and gravies and curries. However “traditional” Thanksgiving foods call for light and fluffy yeast rolls that properly soak up the Turkey Gravy.
We are all about the pies (for what we bring). This year it’s:
@tightwad So you’re having like 8-10 people over?
@ybmuG pretty close. We try to go for a 1 pie per 2 people ratio…I think we are at 35 people.
@tightwad that’s actually about right for us as well. I mean, you don’t what the last person to have limited choices and you need something for the leftovers.
A well-know local cook was on my show and gave me this simple idea for FRESH cranberry relish: Buy fresh cranberries and seedless oranges. Wash both. Quarter the orange RIND STILL ON, and pulse in a blender/chopper with the bag of cranberries and some sugar. Should NOT be mushed like salsa, but more like hot dog relish. You will have to play with the proportions. She also adds a shot of Jack Daniels. Leftovers can be cooked down to a gravy-like state and poured over things, Really wonderful! Get a 16 ounce canning jar and fill it as a gift.
@radi0j0hn that is cranberry orange relish. It is on the side of the fresh ocean spray cranberry bag since at least the 80s. A tradition in my family
@CaptAmehrican I never read the bag! Bet the Jack Daniels wasn’t on it!
Bacon.
Mixed roasted root vegetables–beets, parsnips, turnips, carrots.