This or That, Day 27
4On the day before Thanksgiving, a little cooking theme.
There have been threads already about what to bring, what to make, what to tell others to bring. I was surprised that for a community built on the principle of “Meh” there wasn’t a discussion regarding the growing practice of ordering pre-cooked thanksgiving dinners and re-heating on the day. Seems like it would be the Meh way.
Whether giant
Or tiny
Traditional
Or non-traditional
Are you doing:
Pre-cooked dinner
or from scratch?
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Scratch
Let me clarify that. My Mother-in-law is doing it from scratch. I’m tasked with eating it. As long as there is NO squash or stuffing involved, I’m good with it.
Apparently traditional and fresh!!
@tinamarie1974 Funny, I would have thought non-traditional
@tinamarie1974 You’ve been waiting all month to use these haven’t you?
@ybmuG how did you get that pic of me?!?!? Lol
@Mehrocco_Mole I used the second one already…it is a recycled pic. Spoiler alert, you MAY see it again on Thursday
@tinamarie1974 I was going to post a giphy of “watching you” but they were all disturbingly creepy, so I’m just going to say I’m friends with Batman and he sent it to me.
@ybmuG haha. That damn Batman, he could not keep a secret to save his life! Thank god that is the only pic he sent. Clearly I need to put him over my knee
Scratch. At a restaurant.
@mike808 Was always one of our biggest days. I don’t miss the 3am Wed night prep shifts…
Scratch
the traditional way
Don’t forget dessert!
Totally scratch, except for the cranberry sauce - even though I grew up near the Wisconsin cranberry bogs, and we bought bushels of it for jam and sauce and pies, we always had canned, jellied cranberry sauce at Thanksgiving. Slid out onto a plate and cut into slices.
Traditional and fresh, except the turkey will be spatchcocked. My daughter-in-law wanted to do it this year, so she gets to make the call. And spatchcock is the gateway drug to a turduckin, so I’m good with that.
I did the turkey sous-vide a couple of years ago, so that part of the tradition was already broken. If I’m tagged again for next year I might invent the turbacon (if it hasn’t already been invented).
@mehcuda67 OK, so if you do turbacon, you have to share!
@mehcuda67 @ybmuG WTF is spatchcock?
@JnKL @mehcuda67 @ybmuG
/youtube how to spatchcock
@mehcuda67 if I was ever going to cook a turkey in the oven again, it would be spatchcocked. Came out great! I moved on to an outdoor infrared “fryer.”
@mehcuda67
@DennisG2014 @mehcuda67 I love Doctor Fun comics. I think my all time favorite was appropriate for a different holiday.
Traditional. I am cooking but in my sisters place so I don’t have to clean or host
We did sort of traditional last Saturday. So it was on Saturday which isn’t traditional, but we had turkey. And chicken pot pie. And Dutch oven casserole. And no pumpkin pie, just French silk pie. And peach pie.
Anyway, it was all good!
And everything was from scratch except the store bought pies (delicious) and the store bought gravy (horrible).
Scratch stuff
Arby’s
It looks like most people glossed over the question ( pre-cooked or from scratch) and are answering one of the red herring this-or-thats (e.g. traditional) leading up to the actual question.
We will actually go with a mix: most items, including turkey and dressing, will be made from scratch, but I know at least a pie or two are going to be store bought.
I’m going to a potluck, so it will be a mixture of scratch and prepared I’m sure.
Going to a fancy restaurant, so it damn well better be from scratch.
/giphy chef microwave
@DennisG2014 Ooh, is it Panera?
The made-from-scratch mac 'n cheese is delicious, I hear.
@mike808 https://www.chiarabistro.com/menus/TDMenu.pdf
I had the mushroom bisque and the steak.
It was damn good.
Also - of course that’s how Panera makes their mac & cheese… Do people expect anything different?
@DennisG2014 @mike808
That’s how chain restaurants achieve consistency. The guy going on about the “dood” and guffawing was over-selling it. He apparently has a low amusement threshold.
@DennisG2014 @therealjrn
Just saying that modernity and factory good production at scale has changed our notion of “from scratch”.
Home cooked Soylent is the BEST!
@DennisG2014 @mike808 @therealjrn the laughing guy is just a clip they use for videos. It’s not specific to this.
@DennisG2014 @mike808 @RiotDemon How annoying is that? I couldn’t take much of him laughing it up.
@DennisG2014 @mike808 @therealjrn this might actually be the original video it was taken from:
@DennisG2014 @mike808 @RiotDemon Looks like there’s a poofy-headed dood that needs his ass kicked lol.
Thanksgiving for me is a 4-day process. Literally everything from scratch; bird to biscuits.
Starts with making the vegetable and chicken stocks from scratch; brining the bird, mise en place, etc…
Usually we feed a couple dozen folks.
Making it hard this year, I’m in Mexico on an extended sabbatical. So the collection of all the right ingredients starts in October. (You have no idea how hard it can be to find fresh cranberries in Mexico! (first world problem))
But we’re in the home stretch now, and I’m already drooling.
(Yes, I’m a bit of a Thanksgiving nut; why do you ask?)
@simssj so what time should we show up?
@tinamarie1974 well, due to some unfortunate circumstances, we’ve had to push our Thanksgiving out to Saturday.
If, after tomorrow, you’re still hankering for some turkey, we’ll dine around 2:00 MST. Come as you are. BYOB. See you here!
/giphy made from scratch
I’m going to scratch my butt on my way to my mom’s to enjoy all her delicious, hard work.
@cinoclav 100
for that!
@cinoclav @ybmuG
And one to grow on