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[Thanksgiving] Time is Here Again!
Xaquin
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That's right! THANKSGIVING IS HERE AGAIN!
Loosen those belts! Throw out those tight pants! Feast! FEAST! FEAST!!
It's a well know fact that americans aren't thankful for anything. Once a year however, we all gather together to lie about what we are most thankful for. Under that veneer though lies a foundation of thankfulness that is real. The thankfulness for delicious food and a day off work and school (unless you work for a blue collar job where it's only your bosses who are thankful).
.... this is turning into a downer that was unintended. Apologies!
also, I lied about only being thankful for food because this year I have a LOT to be legitimately thankful for!
I am happily married!
My kids are healthy and are (incredibly) doing well in school!
I am employed!
I have good friends and family and forumers!
MST3k is filming a new season that I helped create!
but enough about me! More about food!
The most important part of Thanksgiving is of course the turkey! Without a properly cooked bird, Thanksgiving will be ruined
The other most important part of Thanksgiving is the Mashed Potatoes. With lots of butter, rosemary, mushrooms, and everything.
The most important part of Thanksgiving dinner is without a doubt the gravy. This must be served ornately and each person is allotted a minimum of 1 gallon.
Sides! Green Bean Casserole, Brussels Sprouts, Peas and Pearl Onions, and Roasted Carrots are popular! They are the most important part of the meal.
Sausage Stuffing is widely considered the most important part of the Thanksgiving experience. It's my personal favorite part of the day.
Bread and Butter go well with everything! Especially important for sopping up extra gravy.
Dessert is the most important part of Thanksgiving and Sweet Potato pie is up there with the best!
Last but not least, the most important ingredient is French's crispy onions! Dump this on your finished plate!
Important Link!
https://kickstarter.mst3k.com/turkeyday (this is for voting for movies, not the actual kickstarter which has ended)
So! What's everyone doing? I'm going to hang with friends and eat 10 tons!
Loosen those belts! Throw out those tight pants! Feast! FEAST! FEAST!!
It's a well know fact that americans aren't thankful for anything. Once a year however, we all gather together to lie about what we are most thankful for. Under that veneer though lies a foundation of thankfulness that is real. The thankfulness for delicious food and a day off work and school (unless you work for a blue collar job where it's only your bosses who are thankful).
.... this is turning into a downer that was unintended. Apologies!
also, I lied about only being thankful for food because this year I have a LOT to be legitimately thankful for!
I am happily married!
My kids are healthy and are (incredibly) doing well in school!
I am employed!
I have good friends and family and forumers!
MST3k is filming a new season that I helped create!
but enough about me! More about food!
The most important part of Thanksgiving is of course the turkey! Without a properly cooked bird, Thanksgiving will be ruined
The other most important part of Thanksgiving is the Mashed Potatoes. With lots of butter, rosemary, mushrooms, and everything.
The most important part of Thanksgiving dinner is without a doubt the gravy. This must be served ornately and each person is allotted a minimum of 1 gallon.
Sides! Green Bean Casserole, Brussels Sprouts, Peas and Pearl Onions, and Roasted Carrots are popular! They are the most important part of the meal.
Sausage Stuffing is widely considered the most important part of the Thanksgiving experience. It's my personal favorite part of the day.
Bread and Butter go well with everything! Especially important for sopping up extra gravy.
Dessert is the most important part of Thanksgiving and Sweet Potato pie is up there with the best!
Last but not least, the most important ingredient is French's crispy onions! Dump this on your finished plate!
Important Link!
https://kickstarter.mst3k.com/turkeyday (this is for voting for movies, not the actual kickstarter which has ended)
So! What's everyone doing? I'm going to hang with friends and eat 10 tons!
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that doesn't sound right at all!
https://www.seriouseats.com/buying-prepping-cooking-carving-thanksgiving-turkey-complete-guide-food-lab
My boy Kenji breaks it all down for you.
Get a meat thermometer.
I stole Thanksgiving from my mother as soon as I bought my own house and had space to host. This will be year four. First year I did Alton Brown's menu, then Martha Stewart, then Kenji Lopez Alt.
Kenji's easily the most simple with a great payoff.
Scalloped potato season is finally here!!
Take a look at local restaurants in your area too. A lot of places now do take home menu stuff for holidays. You likely get some better food and support a local joint at the same time.
so this year I'll make it again so i can enjoy it and hopefully remember the recipe??
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
I love this holiday; an excuse to see the family that we all can stand and to perfect a gravy. Mostly the first but I'd be lying if the second wasn't the fun part.
It does if you live in Canada!
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Is that near San Antonio!?
gravy is definitely gonna get you more bang for you time and effort buck, because in the end you will have gravy which is one of the top food groups, but brining and gravying are in no way in opposition to each other and a dry brine is just salting the normal amount ahead of time so if you season it at all it would the same salinity in the renderings.
i really like Adam but sometimes he talks out his ass because something is inconvenient to his personal workflow (like his anti home frying video, or his anti food pretension videos), tending to speak in universals that aren't necessarily true.
yeah, the space thing is the big impediment, he is correct there. here is my bias because i cook Thanksgiving at my mom's where i am currently staying and she happens to have two full size fridges so making space for the dry brining bird is not too hard. just put it on a rack on a quarter sheet pan, and since i either spatchcock or part out the bird now it's even less of a concern.
hence why the thrust of his point is correct, if you don't have a way to temp-controlled store a brining bird or bird parts you will have better luck just making a good gravy with roast drippings. however that doesn't mean if it isn't too much trouble that brining isn't worth it, because for seasoning and moisture retention for any meat it's the most surefire method. it's all about workflow and the out lay of effort for return, and sometimes the dude is bad at framing things in a way that says these other ways can be worth it if you want to put in the effort and get that result. the best example is the macaron thing he did, like if you just want an almond sandwich creme cookie then yeah it ain't worth the effort to get a perfect dome and foot, but if you want to have the fun of achieving that look it's totally worth it.
We spatchcockin this bird, and we go Mashed potatoes and stuffing.
Maybe a Costco pie.
Some bread from the cute bakery down stairs.
Simplicity itself!
The past few thanksgivings I've eaten have left me feelin pretty ill afterwards.
EDIT: I mostly enjoy the cooking with my mom part of thanksgiving though, and watching MST3K with Claw. That said my mom is very simple about cooking a turkey, she's never let me try a dry brine on the bird before, she usually just bastes it with a frankly unconscionable amount of butter over the salt and pepper and poultry seasoning. It usually tastes good but I want to try making a proper gravy this year but I don't have the proper type of pan that will work in the oven and on the burner to deglaze the fond and drippings (Which with my mom doing a lot of the work is actually a ton of melted butter...) and reduce into a nice gravy.
you could deglaze it quickly and dump everything into a regular sauce pan and go from there!
Pretty excited
I do miss cooking the feast, but that hasn't been feasible recently
It's like when I did a Christmas dinner with some Australian colleagues and we had a pavlova, because apparently pavlova is a standard Christmas thing in Australia. And I felt like I was on another planet having dinner with aliens.
cranberry tastes like a cherry that hates you
It's insane the amount of sugar in it to make it palpable
Because sadly I work in hell retail and thanksgiving is the ugly day of black friday in the US I will have it in the monday or tuesday before
It being just my brother and I may not have turkey because of the size of them instead we might have Rouladen [stuffed beef rolls a german style food} with Thüringer Klösse a potato dumpling
I cook up a bunch of sausage, onion, and jalapenos and add it in with a bunch of cheese and 1 can of creamed corn. Makes it dense and flavorful
Much Ado About Stuffing Thanksgiving Menu:
Appetizers:
Deviled Scotch Eggs
Cheese/Veggie/Antipasto Tray
Cranberry Brie Pecan Bites
Sausage Stuffed Mushrooms
Main:
Fried turkey with Gravy
Spiral Ham
Meat Pie Empanadas
Cornbread Stuffing
Mashed Potatoes and Toppings Bar
Mac n’ Cheese
Maple Cinnamon Carrots
Sweet Potato Casserole with Marshmallows
Bacon-Blue Cheese-Balsamic Brussels Sprouts
Pumpkin muffins with Honey Cinnamon Butter
Cranberry Sauce
Squash
Green beans/Green bean casserole
Dessert:
Pumpkin Pie
Chocolate Silk Pie
Pumpkin Spice Cookies
Vanilla Ice Cream and Whipped Cream
I do appreciate making a decent Thanksgiving spread (I am the designated pumpkin pie maker for the family and have been since the task was first given to me in my early teens) but I do admit to being a picky eater philistine whose Thanksgiving intake consists of Turkey, taters, rolls, and gravy, with pie for dessert after the first 2-3 plates have resolved themselves over board games.
Can you share the recipe? It sounds great.
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I did this recipe by Alton Brown last year, and while it was a big hit it was a lot of work/clean-up afterwards. I simply substituted dairy for almond milk and dropped cheese/onions from it entirely.
This has been depressing for the last five months but is particularly depressing looking at Thanksgiving and Christmas.
That said, I've solidified my menu and fuck it.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
We're keeping it simple because the tradition of gluttony isn't really a thing here so the last two times I made an appropriate amount of too-much-food, my poor fiancee and I had to go through leftovers for 8. We're not gonna do that this time.
Also we're going out the weekend after Thanksgiving Day, so this year we're doing the weekend before