@spitfire6006006 I would be okay with just eating dressing/stuffing. And I know this because I have (not on Thanksgiving but for other meals, either post-Tgiving leftovers or just 'cause I had a box of Stovetop and felt like making it and nothing else for dinner for me).
I can eat sushi whenever I want. Thanksgiving to me is just a regular day (well, ignoring the fact that the channels which I would wanna watch in the morning are only showing the parade).
I’m so glad that gravy wasn’t one of the options for a side. Gravy is the star of the show on my plate. The reason every food is getting together in the first place.
There’s a lot of crap gravy in this country, though. Mark Twain commented that fried chicken shouldn’t be attempted on the wrong side of the Mason-Dixon. Personally, I think he’s full of shit on that one. But if he had said gravy instead of chicken, I’d believe him. I honestly believe, if there isn’t a John Deere within a stone’s throw of your porch, the gravy you’ve been eating your whole life is a scam, an imposter, a weak substitute masquerading as tradition.
@MehnofLaMehncha I would agree but my Dad grew up on a farm, and where we grew up was not that far from places with John Deeres and FarmAlls. We don’t live there any more but our gravy is real.
@MehnofLaMehncha@duodec Great gravy isn’t harvested from southern farmland, it comes from the cook. My great-grandmother ran a deli & boarding house in Chicago in the early 1900s. My grandmother grew up in that place and learned how to COOK: how to use good ingredients and combine them for the best flavor & balance.
Grandma was a city girl thru & thru and never even saw a farm until she was in her sixties, but she made better gravy than anyone her farm-girl daughter-in-law ever knew.
@duodec That’s basically what I was going to say. My grandmother grew up in rural Alabama and she’s the one that taught me to cook, including how to make gravy. I can make several different types of gravy, but my favorite by far is simple white cream gravy, with sage on Thanksgiving and Christmas. My answer to the survey is buttered biscuits and cream gravy. I bought a chicken breast, turkey stuffing, whole cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, Grands biscuits and gravy fixings to make Thanksgiving for one but I got con crud at Board Game Geek Con last week and am too sick to enjoy cooking or eating, so Thanksgiving is on hold till tomorrow.
@miko1 “I saw grief drinking from a cup of sorrow and called out, ‘It tastes sweet, does it not?’ ‘You’ve caught me’, grief answered, ‘and you’ve ruined my business. How can I sell sorrow now, when you know it’s a blessing?’” - Jalaluddin Rumi
I picked Brussels sprouts only because the stuffing didn’t specify that it came with gravy. But I do love Brussels sprouts. Our friends Ken & Peter are coming for Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow and Ken is making Brussels sprouts.
I should mention, we wouldn’t bother with the turkey, the pies, the meal, ANYTHING, unless you had rutabagas. Golden,mashed, with lots of butter, it makes the plate. My brother would add them to his turkey sandwich at the midnight fridge raid. We’ve made many recruits to the rutabaga army. You only have to try them.
@mlord4 With my InstantPot, I can start with cold raw eggs from the fridge, and in 30 minutes I’ll have perfectly peeled, chilled, and stuffed deviled eggs on a plate. I still love that. In fact, I’ll add them to what I’m taking to a potluck today. Never enough eggs.
Although home-cooked is great, my step-Mom (who only spends 60-80 hours a week running a decent business) orders most of the food from someplace. And it’s fine. I’m there for the people, who are just amazing and who I prob do not deserve.
My Mom used to cook, and she would get stressed doing it, even with the at-home kids co-opted as volunteer servants. It went better when we did it with the cousins and shared the work and the play.
My “ordinary” grandmother (not the self-defined Important Person grandmother, the other grandmother) grew up on a farm. Scratch cooking (including beheading the bird) was each-day normal in her childhood. She cooked without recipes and often without measuring. She would shoo everyone out of the kitchen - we distracted her. She had ready treats for bribing the kids.
She would let other people bring dishes as a sort of kindness, if they wanted to. Everyone knew she was the best cook in town. She died of a heart attack when I was quite young. Was I in first grade?
I don’t remember a Thanksgiving at that house, I think? i do remember one Christmas dinner there, perhaps - there was turkey and it was a “show meal” and the house was decorated; and I do remember many other ordinary meals.
@f00l People often ask my for my recipes, and I can tell them the ingredients, but not much else. You put in as much of each thing as it needs, you cook it at the temperature and for as long as it needs, it’s done when it smells done. That’s the way my grandmother taught me to cook, she was a farm girl who moved in with my family to raise us kids while my parents both worked. Even though I grew up in a dozen states and a hundred cities I was raised on what people now call “soul food”.
I chose Mashed Potatoes, but really, my wife, daughter and I went to the asian buffet for Thanksgiving, because we are thankful of a culture where you don’t have to cook for yourself on days when you don’t have to work. So really, 86 the turkey and add crab legs with a side of cabbage and egg drop soup. Today I give thanks to those that built the American railroads.
Mashed potatoes and gravy, of course. Unless that’s two items, in which case it would have to be tequila.
I would probably be ok with eating just mashed potatoes
@spitfire6006006 I would be okay with just eating dressing/stuffing. And I know this because I have (not on Thanksgiving but for other meals, either post-Tgiving leftovers or just 'cause I had a box of Stovetop
and felt like making it and nothing else for dinner for me).
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don’t have a Thanksgiving meal
@PlacidPenguin Don’t scapenguins eat fish/sushi for Thanksgiving?
@compunaut
I can eat sushi whenever I want. Thanksgiving to me is just a regular day (well, ignoring the fact that the channels which I would wanna watch in the morning are only showing the parade).
@PlacidPenguin
@thismyusername
I shared that with @narfcake earlier this month. Can’t remember where or when.
But yeah. That image is about the biggest connection I have to Thanksgiving (just a picture).
@PlacidPenguin
I could work some invites if you want to catch a morning plane.
@f00l
Have you seen NY airports on a busy day?
Thanks for the offer though.
(I haven’t. I stay away from them in general when possible.)
@PlacidPenguin
Yeah. I’ve traveled thru LGA and JFK on exactly those days. I know.
But if you would just have a talk with Peter Pan…
@f00l
If I took Peter Pan, it would take 2 days and 21 hours.
Broccoli rice casserole
not everybody eats turkey for thanksgiving, you insensitive gastro-normative foodists!
/image triggered
@awk If you could only have one side dish with your Tofurky today, it would be:
where is the french’s onion love tonight? come on green bean casserole people!!!
I’m so glad that gravy wasn’t one of the options for a side. Gravy is the star of the show on my plate. The reason every food is getting together in the first place.
There’s a lot of crap gravy in this country, though. Mark Twain commented that fried chicken shouldn’t be attempted on the wrong side of the Mason-Dixon. Personally, I think he’s full of shit on that one. But if he had said gravy instead of chicken, I’d believe him. I honestly believe, if there isn’t a John Deere within a stone’s throw of your porch, the gravy you’ve been eating your whole life is a scam, an imposter, a weak substitute masquerading as tradition.
@MehnofLaMehncha I would agree but my Dad grew up on a farm, and where we grew up was not that far from places with John Deeres and FarmAlls. We don’t live there any more but our gravy is real.
So good, real gravy can be inherited.
@duodec
Transitive Property of Gravy.
@MehnofLaMehncha @duodec Great gravy isn’t harvested from southern farmland, it comes from the cook. My great-grandmother ran a deli & boarding house in Chicago in the early 1900s. My grandmother grew up in that place and learned how to COOK: how to use good ingredients and combine them for the best flavor & balance.
Grandma was a city girl thru & thru and never even saw a farm until she was in her sixties, but she made better gravy than anyone her farm-girl daughter-in-law ever knew.
@duodec That’s basically what I was going to say. My grandmother grew up in rural Alabama and she’s the one that taught me to cook, including how to make gravy. I can make several different types of gravy, but my favorite by far is simple white cream gravy, with sage on Thanksgiving and Christmas. My answer to the survey is buttered biscuits and cream gravy. I bought a chicken breast, turkey stuffing, whole cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, Grands biscuits and gravy fixings to make Thanksgiving for one but I got con crud at Board Game Geek Con last week and am too sick to enjoy cooking or eating, so Thanksgiving is on hold till tomorrow.
@moondrake Get well soon
MARGARITAS
My side dish preference
@Fish_Kungfu what’s your main course then?
@awk A giant medieval turkey leg and some grog.
@Fish_Kungfu ok, there’s a stuffing joke here someplace… and maybe cranberry juice…
@awk Jessica Alba
This is reminding me of all the things I’ve been forgetting that are so damn delicious.
Dressing is way better than stuffing.
Way.
@MehnofLaMehncha This person gets it.
@MehnofLaMehncha Dressing all day, every day.
My in-laws believe the stuff made with bread is dressing. They couldn’t be more wrong.
My mom’s southern cornbread dressing.
@jbrookebarrow Thank you! I didn’t see it in the list and was hoping someone would mention it. (I’m making some right now)
@CrossEyedAtNite yummy! I’ll be there shortly to help you eat that dressing.
A side dish of sorrow.
@miko1 “I saw grief drinking from a cup of sorrow and called out, ‘It tastes sweet, does it not?’ ‘You’ve caught me’, grief answered, ‘and you’ve ruined my business. How can I sell sorrow now, when you know it’s a blessing?’” - Jalaluddin Rumi
@miko1
I sorrow for your sorrow.
Single choice surveys suck.
Head to head competition is where it’s at.
Two dishes enter, one dish leaves.
Walt Hickey, bringing the truth.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-ultimate-thanksgiving-dinner-menu/
I picked Brussels sprouts only because the stuffing didn’t specify that it came with gravy. But I do love Brussels sprouts. Our friends Ken & Peter are coming for Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow and Ken is making Brussels sprouts.
@SSteve Gravy is assumed, because 'Murica.
Sardine muffins
Okay, that was supposed to be a joke, but once again, I am reminded that every thing is a thing. Jeez.
See also frog eye salad
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/11/25/upshot/thanksgiving-recipes-googled-in-every-state.html?_r=0
Sweet potato casserole
@katbyter That’s what I was going to say!
Revenge.
@bokane
"Revenge is a dish best served cold."
@DVDBZN “Revenge is a dish best served with pinto beans and muffins!”
Mom’s braised red cabbage
My aunt always makes a fantastic baked mac and cheese that I wouldn’t trade for anything else.
@ninjaemilee ooooooh baked chilimac!
I should mention, we wouldn’t bother with the turkey, the pies, the meal, ANYTHING, unless you had rutabagas. Golden,mashed, with lots of butter, it makes the plate. My brother would add them to his turkey sandwich at the midnight fridge raid. We’ve made many recruits to the rutabaga army. You only have to try them.
@JoeSeadog that’s a must at Christmas time for me. We add a little potato to them.
@JoeSeadog are you allowed to share the recipe or would you get disowned?
This isn’t a turkey day.
That said, Yorkshire Pudding. Always.
My sisters’ brussel sprouts. They make them perfectly. If I have to prepare the side, though, it’d be the stuffing.
Where in the devil are the deviled eggs?
@mlord4
Re missing deviled eggs:
I ate them all. The kitchen is making more, and I have first dibs on those also.
@mlord4 With my InstantPot, I can start with cold raw eggs from the fridge, and in 30 minutes I’ll have perfectly peeled, chilled, and stuffed deviled eggs on a plate. I still love that. In fact, I’ll add them to what I’m taking to a potluck today. Never enough eggs.
@mlord4 Deviled eggs are compressed evil farts waiting to be released.
Butter beans.
@mahoneyli
My Gram’s homemade cream corn. Yummmmmm.
Beer.
Where are the Colorado voters?
Frog Eye Salad!!
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/11/25/upshot/thanksgiving-recipes-googled-in-every-state.html?_r=0
no Hispanics work at meh to remind you we don’t do a holiday meal without rice and beans?
Although home-cooked is great, my step-Mom (who only spends 60-80 hours a week running a decent business) orders most of the food from someplace. And it’s fine. I’m there for the people, who are just amazing and who I prob do not deserve.
My Mom used to cook, and she would get stressed doing it, even with the at-home kids co-opted as volunteer servants. It went better when we did it with the cousins and shared the work and the play.
My “ordinary” grandmother (not the self-defined Important Person grandmother, the other grandmother) grew up on a farm. Scratch cooking (including beheading the bird) was each-day normal in her childhood. She cooked without recipes and often without measuring. She would shoo everyone out of the kitchen - we distracted her. She had ready treats for bribing the kids.
She would let other people bring dishes as a sort of kindness, if they wanted to. Everyone knew she was the best cook in town. She died of a heart attack when I was quite young. Was I in first grade?
I don’t remember a Thanksgiving at that house, I think? i do remember one Christmas dinner there, perhaps - there was turkey and it was a “show meal” and the house was decorated; and I do remember many other ordinary meals.
And she was the best cook in town.
@f00l People often ask my for my recipes, and I can tell them the ingredients, but not much else. You put in as much of each thing as it needs, you cook it at the temperature and for as long as it needs, it’s done when it smells done. That’s the way my grandmother taught me to cook, she was a farm girl who moved in with my family to raise us kids while my parents both worked. Even though I grew up in a dozen states and a hundred cities I was raised on what people now call “soul food”.
Carrots don’t have a single vote. Good. Fuck carrots.
@Dweezle
They do now…
@Dweezle somebody voted carrots now. Did they do it just to spite you, or do they love carrots that much?
I chose Mashed Potatoes, but really, my wife, daughter and I went to the asian buffet for Thanksgiving, because we are thankful of a culture where you don’t have to cook for yourself on days when you don’t have to work. So really, 86 the turkey and add crab legs with a side of cabbage and egg drop soup. Today I give thanks to those that built the American railroads.
I’m triggered by this because I’m a vegetarian and we don’t murder innocent spawns of Satan
@legendornothing
Have you been around a turkey?
Next time, throw in the word “stupid”.
@f00l
Turkeys and I don’t have a good relationship, but I’d rather not talk about it on the forum.
I have a grudge against turkeys
@legendornothing Does that include politicians?
@compunaut yes
mac & cheese is a great Thanksgiving side guys