Trouble in Paradise
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Let's talk Turkey Day
What does everyone like to make for sides?
Any special turkey recipes?
H wants to try this Bobby Flay maple turkey this year, but I (in my infinite vegetarian knowledge) think it will be too sweet. I made the bomb pomegranate glazed turkey last year.
Re: Let's talk Turkey Day
I loooove Thanksgiving! H and I are hosting this year so I have ten for dinner (and staying at my house Weds - Sun).
Sides this year are: mashed potatoes, lobster mashed potatoes (to celebrate our 1st holiday in ME!), mashed roasted sweet potatoes and bananas, stuffing, roasted root vegetables, creamed corn, roasted green beans with bacon, peas, and rolls.
Crap, I'm hungry!
I'm not sure what we're doing for dinner this year. I have always made a turkey that was stuffed with onions and celery and wrapped in bacon. Delicious! Last year, we made it stuffed with lemons and herbs and no bacon, but it was still pretty good. Our sides this year will probably be a lot of greens (we have so much stuff from our CSA) and green beans and squashes.
I think I'm going to attempt a homemade pumpkin pie this year.
thanksgiving this year is going to be whomp whomp.
MIL is hosting but has no plan, but told me to make desserts. I was like, YAY, annie's eats sweet potato cupcakes! And then she was all, oh but I know SIL likes cookies. and can you make pecan pie? Oh, your apple pie is good too.
So A plus B means I'm going to make a LOT of desserts because plan B for Thanksgiving in the past has been McDonald's, which gives me exactly zero options.
H and I have set down the mandate that we're staying home now that we have a kid. I don't feel like dragging him to eleventy billion houses, just so no one gets offended that they didn't get to see DS on the actual holiday.
So, we're making dinner at our house. We have a couple of Turkey Day purists, so we'll be introducing them to the dark side AKA we make what we want.
lton Brown's roasted turkey. OMG it doesn't go in a roasting pan... whatever shall we do?!
Cornbread stuffing... I'm not stuffing the bird with regular old bread stuffing. OMG OHNOZ!!! Bwahahaha.
Mashed potatoes. Yeah, even this is a novelty. They make the crap in a box. I know how to peel a potato.
Corn. I'm deciding between regular and creamed... I might go creamed. Just for the shock value.
Green beans. I'm not sure if I should go with bacon or almonds. Either way... a green vegetable. WTF is that?!
Homemade bread. Not martin's potato rolls, not pillsbury dinner rolls. My own bread, fresh from the oven.
I'm not sure about dessert yet. I need to work on that.
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I love Thanksgiving!
I just made TK dinner for friends last week, I just did mashed potatoes, green beans, asparagus, buttered corn, pumpkin bread, cornbread, cranberry sauce, and traditional stuffing.
My mom does a mashed potato casserole that is good...broccoli au gratin, roasted carrots, italian sausage stuffing, and she also does baked sweet potatoes.
For turkey, I follow a simple recipe from Giada De Laurentis...it's pretty much butter and a couple seasonings.
Sweet pillaging pilgrims do I love Thanksgiving. Just thinking about it makes me hungry. I'll be with my family this year, both sisters and my BIL will be home, I'm sure my grandmother will be there too.
We have gotten away from turkey recently and sometimes will do a chicken or a roast. I think this year it will be a roast.
My dad makes roasted green beans with shallots & olive oil, mashed potatoes, butternut squash, and sometimes something with sweet potato. My mom makes stuffed mushrooms, pecan tassies, apple pie, and whatever else sounds good.
I love my family's Thanksgiving food so much that I know I will have a hard time compromising on "splitting" Thanksgivings when I'm married. My ex-h wasn't American so he didn't give a crap about Thanksgiving which was fine with me!
We are doing Tgiving at our place this year. Since DH and I will be doing all the cooking around chasing after Baby Fuss, the mission is simplicity. Normally for sides we'd make chorizo-cornbread stuffing, sourdough-artichoke stuffing, mashed potatoes, roasted squash, and green bean casserole. I make my own cream of mushroom soup for casseroles so It's all classy-like.
This year, we will probably make a shorter menu of just one kind of stuffing (maybe oyster this year to give Baby Fuss something interesting to try), roasted garlic-rosemary potatoes, roasted acorn squash, and, like, maybe some heated-up frozen peas with herb butter drizzled on them lol.
On a related note, I think people who serve salad and dinner rolls at T-giving dinner are crazy. You can eat that shiit anytime!
It's just BF and I this year - the friends that aren't working decided to spend the holiday with their families. He really wants to brine the turkey and do all these fancy Food Network things, but I like a traditional dinner. He'll be in charge of the bird and I'll do the sides - my mom's stuffing, mashed potatoes, rolls, minted peas, gravy, bacon-wrapped figs. I might attempt another veggie-type dish, we'll see.
After dinner we're going to see the Muppet Movie.
Yes! I'm too lazy to deal with the crowds so we'll wait til the week later, but I'm so excited to see this!
Sweet potatoes and bananas? I've never heard of such a thing!
BF's family is coming to stay with us but my parents are having us all over. We are making some of the pies, veggie sides, potatoes (probably sweet potatoes and regular b/c I have a fussy dad). Mom is doing turkey, stuffing, and macaroni and cheese.
I did the sweet potato/banana thing one year and it was really yummy. It makes them sweet and interesting without involving marshmallows or other such blasphemies.
And rolls are the very last holdover from the days when my family used to serve antipasto, appetizers, and a pasta course before the turkey came out. And then we ate salad after dinner. I simply can't go a meal without bread, so the rolls have to stay. Sorry Fuss!
Oh FI won't see this, so I'm going to have to make a date w/ myself one night to see it.
Heh, usually I make biscuits, but BF asked for rolls. Less work for me, so I'm all for it!
I'm hosting-- my family, DH's family, maybe my grandparents and aunt. My sister is coming on Wednesday to help cook, and I'm super excited.
On the menu: roasted turkey (last year I basted the heck out of it with my uncle's homemade wine, it was awesome), mashed potatoes, creamed corn, GBC (specifically requested), rolls and some sort of green veggie. Something roasted, I think. Another nestie on ML suggested glazed carrots. All homemade, except the GBC.
And chocolate cake.
We're hosting and my grandma will be staying with us for a couple of nights. I'm looking forward to having her here!
This year I'll be making sweet potatoes two ways: a new recipe DH found for roasted spiced sweet potatoes and pears, and my usual mashed (with a little butter, milk, and honey). My mom and I are still finalizing the menu, but it will likely include another newly-discovered recipe for green beans with goat cheese, cranberries, and bacon. There will be bread or rolls, corn, maybe carrots, maybe also some broccoli, cranberry sauce, and turkey.
My mom makes stuffing with italian coldcuts and some of the denser types of italian bread. It is absolutely delicious. She'll also be cooking the turkey. My grandmother and I will make the apple pie while my mom will make the pumpkin pie.
Yay for comfort food and carbs!
Really? McDonald's? What a nightmare.
MIL is cooking this year. I have never seen her cook ever, so I have no idea what is in the works.
I'll probably try to contribute with a cauliflower dish that Broc turned me on to and cranberries with orange. Maybe some garlic rolls because I like them. I also like green beans with sage and garlic.