Just did my shopping for Thanksgiving dinner. Are you ready yet? What are you cooking? Are you not cooking anything and just eating delicious food that someone else cooked? Do you skip thanksgiving all together?
@RiotDemon Well…depends on where you live. My Dad’s church in tiny community near the family cabin in PA makes these delicious ham rolls/loaves. Their recipe is similar to this one for individual rolls, except they add bran cereal and maybe some bits of minced sweet pickles or sweet pickled peppers (never have been able to get that little secret out of my dad of what those bits actually are). They are good enough that I bring the large loaves home to keep in the freezer for the holidays:
1 lb. ground ham
1½ ground pork
2 cups bread crumbs
1 cup milk
2 eggs
Sauce:
1 cup brown sugar,
1 teaspoon mustard
½ cup vinegar
½ Cup water
Mix together well - the ground ham, ground pork, bread crumbs, milk and eggs. Form into little mounds, creating a trough down the middle.
Mix the sauce ingredients together and pour over the ham rolls. Bake at 350’ for 1 hour. Baste a few times during the cooking time pulling the sauce from the pan and drizzle it over the ham rolls.
Serves 6-8 depending on size of little meat loaves.
The kids and I are volunteering at a local church that puts out around 700 meals on Turkey Day (in-house and delivery). While I want to have the kids learn the importance of giving back, I also told them there will be around 7 different kinds of pie. It’s a balancing act.
@RiotDemon Great deal! I tried to do similar with my kids when they were younger but we’re so rural there really wasn’t any place doing that. The nearest soup kitchen was almost 70 miles away. Our local churches usually did the meal for the needy the wkend before.
I read that sous vide is the new rage to cook your turkey. Any one going to try it with our multiple meh vacuum sealers/bags? I’m not doing a turkey this year or I’d be in.
@mtb002 I got roped into doing a sous vide turkey. I’ve been doing various sous vide items for family get togethers, all of which turned out very well. (Ironic since I can’t cook my way out of a plastic bag.) I thought my family members were joking when they suggested I sous vide a turkey for T-day, but my sister dropped off a turkey today, so I guess now it’s for real.
@RiotDemon My wife will cook the same, plus fresh potato dinner rolls, the best cornbread stuffing & homemade cranberry sauce. The pies: Pumpkin, Blueberry & Apple. And bacon stuffed mushrooms. And a cheese log thing she makes.
We’ll have family over.
Breakfast will be our hotcakes (pancakes) from a very old family recipe…
Going to my sister-in-law’s for dinner. My contribution is six homemade pies; two pumpkin, one deep dish apple, one pecan, one french silk, one cherry. But when you go somewhere else for dinner, you get no leftovers. So on Sunday I have the kids and grandkids at my house for leftovers. Of course, I have to make the leftovers!!!
@pooflady haha… we have a rule around here. Anyone that’s cooking (there are usually about 14 of us these days) makes extra. I purchase a bunch of those ziploc containers and everyone gets leftovers to take home. It’s a must!
I did my thanksgiving shopping yesterday. Store had a promo for a free turkey with $100 in groceries. Spent $101.79 and got a free 21lb bird. Half the stuff I bought I don’t really need but will eat eventually so I’m still calling it a win.
@RiotDemon It was a lot harder than I thought it would be to get to $100. Booze didn’t count, and neither did milk for some reason. And I went to Costco last week so the fridge and freezer are both pretty full and there wasn’t much I really needed. Ended up getting a bunch of baking stuff and dried goods. I’m sure eventually I’ll get through 8 lbs of beans and 6 bags of chocolate chips.
@looseneck I’m only shopping for 2 and I get almost all my meat from Costco so most the time groceries are under $100 but it was extra hard this time since I didn’t have room for anything frozen at home.
I’m alone for the holidays, so I have only myself to please. I’m loosely planning to have my favorite part of Thanksgiving, biscuits and cream gravy, for breakfast and making Thai green curry with jasmine rice for dinner. I’m having people over for board games on Friday and I promised a crock pot of green chile chicken soup, which I’ll also be starting on Thanksgiving. So I guess I need to go shopping tomorrow.
I have always hosted Thanksgiving (for 40yrs). Traditional fare. A perfect Turkey…stuffing, taters, gravy, cranberry sauce, pies, etc. This yr unfortunately, will be different. My husband unexpectedly passed a few weeks ago so, I’m still doing some cooking but I’ll be doing it at my daughter’s house because mine is in such disarray at the moment (documents search). Hopefully all goes well. Still much to be thankful for.
@lseeber I’m sorry to hear. After my Dad passed it was weird for a few years. Now I’ve taken over the thanksgiving duty from my Mom and we’ve created a new tradition. I hope you and your family can transition easily. Holidays were definitely the worst for my Mom, but now as long as she has her kids with her, she’s ok.
@f00l things are ok. My biggest issue had been waiting for the septic system to get fixed. (It wasn’t hurricane related, just bad timing.) They just laid sod a few days ago. Hooray!
@RiotDemon Thank you. Yes, it’ll be strange but the kids and grands will def help along that line. I think I’ll be fine. Have a happy one yourself tho!
@f00l having it on two different days is nice! I don’t miss trying to juggle all of the ex’s family obligations one bit. His parents were divorced so I was expected to show up at no less than three functions in the same day. They all got annoyed if you couldn’t stay for hours and hours. Sadly, it was miserable for me.
I wish they could of agreed to do different days. That sounds ideal.
@mtb002 Hmm. I have a fresh turkey breast, which I was going to roast. Sous vide meats work very well in a Ziploc clipped to a spoon suspended over the Instant Pot, as long as I monitor the water temp every so often. I could debone it, since the bones are for soup and gravy anyway. Fresh cranberry orange relish (Publix, with a few additions), sweet potato casserole, brussels sprouts, Trader Joe’s pumpkin pie.
/giphy sous vide turkey
I’m going to self blame for there not being relevant Google results for the search term “how to get the goddamn plastic thing out of the turkey”.
Turns out the industry term is a “hock lock” if anyone is curious.
And maybe tomorrow this will be the top Google result for that search. If it is, it’s still not relevant, but sign up and say hi if Google brought you here.
Cooking for three, small turkey, cornbread Dressing with sage, (love sage!), gravy, Make a Head Salad, carrots, Shoepeg Corn Casserole, homemade cranberry sauce, no jell shit for me(too easy and good)homemade rolls.
Don’t know about dessert, probably not, I really want a pecan pie.
Son got all my groceries, has to go back for sausage ball ingredients to make for breakfast, before turkey goes in.
Gotta make cornbread, salad and roll dough tomorrow.
Some of you who will have company could do this, I would but turkey would be small.
We’re doing multiple dinners. Ordered a cooked turkey and fixings from a grocery store for one of them.
I’m responsible for ham rolls, mashed potatoes, and pie. I get the easy stuff because I’m a crappy cook. Good for me!
@sammydog01 what is a ham roll?
@RiotDemon Well…depends on where you live. My Dad’s church in tiny community near the family cabin in PA makes these delicious ham rolls/loaves. Their recipe is similar to this one for individual rolls, except they add bran cereal and maybe some bits of minced sweet pickles or sweet pickled peppers (never have been able to get that little secret out of my dad of what those bits actually are). They are good enough that I bring the large loaves home to keep in the freezer for the holidays:
Mix together well - the ground ham, ground pork, bread crumbs, milk and eggs. Form into little mounds, creating a trough down the middle.
Mix the sauce ingredients together and pour over the ham rolls. Bake at 350’ for 1 hour. Baste a few times during the cooking time pulling the sauce from the pan and drizzle it over the ham rolls.
Serves 6-8 depending on size of little meat loaves.
The kids and I are volunteering at a local church that puts out around 700 meals on Turkey Day (in-house and delivery). While I want to have the kids learn the importance of giving back, I also told them there will be around 7 different kinds of pie. It’s a balancing act.
@mfladd nice work!
@RiotDemon Great deal! I tried to do similar with my kids when they were younger but we’re so rural there really wasn’t any place doing that. The nearest soup kitchen was almost 70 miles away. Our local churches usually did the meal for the needy the wkend before.
Oops, @thumperchick, can you edit the post to say eating delicious food instead of reading… Apparently I don’t know how to proofread.
@RiotDemon sure!
@Thumperchick thanks!
I read that sous vide is the new rage to cook your turkey. Any one going to try it with our multiple meh vacuum sealers/bags? I’m not doing a turkey this year or I’d be in.
@mtb002 I don’t do sous vide. I’ll be cooking my turkey in an infrared “fryer”.
So easy. Love that thing.
@mtb002 I got roped into doing a sous vide turkey. I’ve been doing various sous vide items for family get togethers, all of which turned out very well. (Ironic since I can’t cook my way out of a plastic bag.) I thought my family members were joking when they suggested I sous vide a turkey for T-day, but my sister dropped off a turkey today, so I guess now it’s for real.
@mtb002 I stick with steak when using the sous vide method, but looks like @mehcuda67 can update us all how it turns out!
@mehcuda67 what’s the plan for the browning? looks like at this site they just brown it under the broiler, and pan sear, makes sense I guess!
@thismyusername That’s what I was wondering. How it gets browned.
@mehcuda67
Ok, let us know how it turns out. I may be doing it for christmas.
I’m only doing dinner for four. I’ll basically be cooking everything with a little assistance from my brother.
I’m trying to keep it simple.
Turkey
Mashed potatoes
Gravy
Green bean casserole
Sweet potato casserole
Salad (from a bag with homemade ranch)
Cranberry sauce (canned)
Pumpkin pie
For breakfast I’ll probably do buttermilk waffles since I needed the buttermilk for the ranch dressing.
Luckily I only work until 2 on Wednesday so I can start some prep.
@RiotDemon My wife will cook the same, plus fresh potato dinner rolls, the best cornbread stuffing & homemade cranberry sauce. The pies: Pumpkin, Blueberry & Apple. And bacon stuffed mushrooms. And a cheese log thing she makes.
We’ll have family over.
Breakfast will be our hotcakes (pancakes) from a very old family recipe…
@daveinwarsh I forgot to mention stuffing. I’ll be doing stuffing out of a box. Blasphemy, I know. I just don’t have the time for homemade.
I’d like to make more stuff, but my kitchen is tiny, and I already know I’ll have a problem packing the leftovers from what I’m cooking, haha.
Going to smoke a turkey this year. Usually my go to is the infrared fryer but I feel like branching out.
@djslack either way, it’s awesome to have the entire oven for everything else. No more juggling stuff around to fit the turkey.
@djslack I tried to smoke a turkey once, but couldn’t keep it lit.
I need to make an apple run if we are going to have pie. I think I have most everything else. I am cooking for 3 so trying to stick to the basics.
I don’t “do” Thanksgiving. Things are much easier this way.
Going to my sister-in-law’s for dinner. My contribution is six homemade pies; two pumpkin, one deep dish apple, one pecan, one french silk, one cherry. But when you go somewhere else for dinner, you get no leftovers. So on Sunday I have the kids and grandkids at my house for leftovers. Of course, I have to make the leftovers!!!
@pooflady only six pies??
@pooflady haha… we have a rule around here. Anyone that’s cooking (there are usually about 14 of us these days) makes extra. I purchase a bunch of those ziploc containers and everyone gets leftovers to take home. It’s a must!
@pooflady The best part of Thanksgiving feasting is leftovers!
I did my thanksgiving shopping yesterday. Store had a promo for a free turkey with $100 in groceries. Spent $101.79 and got a free 21lb bird. Half the stuff I bought I don’t really need but will eat eventually so I’m still calling it a win.
@metaphore not bad!
@RiotDemon It was a lot harder than I thought it would be to get to $100. Booze didn’t count, and neither did milk for some reason. And I went to Costco last week so the fridge and freezer are both pretty full and there wasn’t much I really needed. Ended up getting a bunch of baking stuff and dried goods. I’m sure eventually I’ll get through 8 lbs of beans and 6 bags of chocolate chips.
@metaphore you’ll bake us all cakes and cookies right?
@metaphore Where the hell do you live? It takes less than 3 bags for me to reach $100 at the grocery store and we can’t even buy alcohol there.
@looseneck I’m only shopping for 2 and I get almost all my meat from Costco so most the time groceries are under $100 but it was extra hard this time since I didn’t have room for anything frozen at home.
I’m alone for the holidays, so I have only myself to please. I’m loosely planning to have my favorite part of Thanksgiving, biscuits and cream gravy, for breakfast and making Thai green curry with jasmine rice for dinner. I’m having people over for board games on Friday and I promised a crock pot of green chile chicken soup, which I’ll also be starting on Thanksgiving. So I guess I need to go shopping tomorrow.
@moondrake
/giphy please myself
@moondrake
/giphy myself to please
I have always hosted Thanksgiving (for 40yrs). Traditional fare. A perfect Turkey…stuffing, taters, gravy, cranberry sauce, pies, etc. This yr unfortunately, will be different. My husband unexpectedly passed a few weeks ago so, I’m still doing some cooking but I’ll be doing it at my daughter’s house because mine is in such disarray at the moment (documents search). Hopefully all goes well. Still much to be thankful for.
@lseeber
We hope you have a good Thanksgiving in spite of everything.
Glad you have good family.
Glad you had the years together.
@lseeber I’m sorry to hear. After my Dad passed it was weird for a few years. Now I’ve taken over the thanksgiving duty from my Mom and we’ve created a new tradition. I hope you and your family can transition easily. Holidays were definitely the worst for my Mom, but now as long as she has her kids with her, she’s ok.
@RiotDemon
Are things now fixed up there post-hurricane?
@f00l things are ok. My biggest issue had been waiting for the septic system to get fixed. (It wasn’t hurricane related, just bad timing.) They just laid sod a few days ago. Hooray!
@lseeber So sorry for your loss. Glad you have fa it to help cushion it. Holidays are the hardest.
@f00l Thank you. I do have a lot of great family so it should be good. I’m doing pretty well under the circumstances.
@RiotDemon Thank you. Yes, it’ll be strange but the kids and grands will def help along that line. I think I’ll be fine. Have a happy one yourself tho!
@moondrake Thank you, I appreciate that. Family definitely helps!
@lseeber Very sorry about your loss. But glad you have other family to lean on!
Part one was Sunday.
(Much of the family will be in Austin on Thursday. (football and in-laws).
Damned good.
Part two on Thursday.
Also will be damned good.
Way too many desserts. (A plus.)
Lots of kids. (The best thing.)
They always tell me not to bring anything. So I bring wine, and sometimes bring games.
@f00l having it on two different days is nice! I don’t miss trying to juggle all of the ex’s family obligations one bit. His parents were divorced so I was expected to show up at no less than three functions in the same day. They all got annoyed if you couldn’t stay for hours and hours. Sadly, it was miserable for me.
I wish they could of agreed to do different days. That sounds ideal.
@RiotDemon
My younger brother and wife worked this out with his kids when they married (everyone lives at quite a distance):
Thanksgiving, everyone come to my brother/SIL’s house.
December holidays, everyone goes to the in-laws.
And during the December holidays, my brother and SIL go to where one of the kids are at the in-laws, round-robin per year.
Brother and SIL stay in a hotel, so that people don’t get sick of each other.
That way, during Dec, they get extended time with one child and family, and get to know the in-laws much better.
Since it’s a great extended family, this is a huge plus. And they can afford it.
I hope in the future your holiday visits are better quality. I also hope you don’t get guilt-tripped into staying when you really wanna leave.
I’m usually in charge of the deviled eggs.
@msklzannie Man, those smell great.
@msklzannie I might have to make those as well. Damnit. More stuff to do.
@mtb002 Hmm. I have a fresh turkey breast, which I was going to roast. Sous vide meats work very well in a Ziploc clipped to a spoon suspended over the Instant Pot, as long as I monitor the water temp every so often. I could debone it, since the bones are for soup and gravy anyway. Fresh cranberry orange relish (Publix, with a few additions), sweet potato casserole, brussels sprouts, Trader Joe’s pumpkin pie.
/giphy sous vide turkey
@OldCatLady That turkey may be undercooked.
Thank goodness for the food. Otherwise, my Thanksgiving consists of sitting in a room looking at people who are staring at their phones.
@DrWorm Yuck! Collect them at the door!
@2many2no it’s no longer Rocktober, but I found a song you might enjoy?
@RiotDemon I do like it. I didn’t know they had a holiday album, but I’ve heard their beverage song and it’s a classic.
I’m going to self blame for there not being relevant Google results for the search term “how to get the goddamn plastic thing out of the turkey”.
Turns out the industry term is a “hock lock” if anyone is curious.
And maybe tomorrow this will be the top Google result for that search. If it is, it’s still not relevant, but sign up and say hi if Google brought you here.
Correction: my actual search was “how to get that goddamn plastic thing out of the turkey”
Cooking for three, small turkey, cornbread Dressing with sage, (love sage!), gravy, Make a Head Salad, carrots, Shoepeg Corn Casserole, homemade cranberry sauce, no jell shit for me(too easy and good)homemade rolls.
Don’t know about dessert, probably not, I really want a pecan pie.
Son got all my groceries, has to go back for sausage ball ingredients to make for breakfast, before turkey goes in.
Gotta make cornbread, salad and roll dough tomorrow.
Some of you who will have company could do this, I would but turkey would be small.