The last SE++ [Thanksgiving] thread

Xaquin

until we get to the new forums!

It's November again! The finest month! Cooler temperatures, an extra hour of sleep, leftover candy, and a food coma to look forward to!

anyways, I won't waste anyone's time writing a boring intro, you all came for food and realistically I topped out at the Dr. Doom Thanksgiving 6 years(?!) ago.

GIMMIE THAT BIRD!


Mashed potatoes are so good you all


Especially with butter and gravy




Dressing (Stuffing is cooked in the bird) (that will be on the test)!


Green Bean Casserole preferably with lots of Frenchs Crispy Onions




Bread and Cheese and Cranberry Sauce (always a fine combination)





or


Unbuckle em if you got em, because you have to make room for Pumpkin Pie!!


So, what's everyone up to this Thanksgiving? Our plans are up in the air because the last two friendsgivings we went to a person has gotten decidedly too drunk and we're not up for it this year.

Hopefully everyone will happily be watching MST3k and wishing they had more room in their bellies!!

Xaquin

ONLY READ IN CASE OF TRUMP VICTORY.

Well .... fuck. I'm cancelling it.

turkey, who gives a shit


mashed po fucking tatoes


'butter'


ok you can listen to Zappa, but that's all you get


this crap


some funk


blah


fuck me


ugh



I HOPE NO ONE HAS TO READ THIS POST.

Fig-D

I love cranberry jelly squelching out of a ribbed can and keeping it's distinctive shape. Straight unfiltered Americana.

Xaquin

I know a lot of people who love it .... but it just doesn't do it for me. I love fresh cranberry sauce as a spread on a thanksgiving leftover sandwich or atop some warm brie with maybe some almonds or something

Fig-D

And I'll eat the entire container of French's Fried Onions. I don't care if you got the industrial drum from Costco, I'm eating the whole thing.

Fig-D

Xaquin wrote: »

I know a lot of people who love it .... but it just doesn't do it for me. I love fresh cranberry sauce as a spread on a thanksgiving leftover sandwich or atop some warm brie with maybe some almonds or something

That sounds delightful, but I've got some nostalgia for the can. Quite literally the only memory I have of my paternal grandparents was a quite Thanksgiving with just them and my folks. They passed when I was pretty young and to this day I can't remember their names, but I remember Thanksgiving and being mesmerized by the sliced rounds of cranberry jelly.

Hacksaw

I'm having Thanksgiving with my sister and her family. The food will be mediocre (none of us are particularly good cooks), but the company is going to be fantastic. My parents are going to remote in from their tropical vacation to chat with us over dinner. Kinda surreal, but honestly I'm here for it.

Xaquin

Fig-D wrote: »

Xaquin wrote: »

I know a lot of people who love it .... but it just doesn't do it for me. I love fresh cranberry sauce as a spread on a thanksgiving leftover sandwich or atop some warm brie with maybe some almonds or something

That sounds delightful, but I've got some nostalgia for the can. Quite literally the only memory I have of my paternal grandparents was a quite Thanksgiving with just them and my folks. They passed when I was pretty young and to this day I can't remember their names, but I remember Thanksgiving and being mesmerized by the sliced rounds of cranberry jelly.

No denying those memories. The only thing I remember about my great grandfather is his shoes always looked like he had just got them 5 minutes before he showed up. Always these white sneakers.

edit: cranberry sauce updated

Pinfeldorf

I've finally managed to convince my mother that having Thanksgiving with my dad is too uncomfortable for me and I'm not willing to make the sacrifice for her. She tried to guilt me into it anyway, but when I told her what she was doing she suddenly felt really bad. Apparently she'd never really thought about what she was doing as guilt tripping - only a step or two below abusive manipulation, potentially - and has since been a lot more evenheaded.

But either way, I'm still doing a Friendsgiving at least, where I'm going to make way way way too much beef stew.

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localhjay

My specialty is stuffed mushrooms with boursin cheese and bacon, but the main dishes I always make sure to have are

-turk
-stuffing
-mashed tatos n gravy
-green bean casserole
-apple pie

I have 4 roommates but I have the most cooking experience so I just have everyone chip in like 20 bucks and do it all myself

Shadowfire

I don't love Thanksgiving dinner. Turkey is the okay-est meat, mashed potatoes are mostly a vehicle for gravy, never liked cranberry sauce or pumpkin pie. But I will destroy a plate of stuffing, especially homemade.

Jedoc

I love my big dumb extended family, but one of my cousins has captured Thanksgiving for the next generation. And unfortunately they live in rural cotton country at the peak of cotton gin season, and I pretty reliably end up with bronchitis every year.

For now, I'm doing big dumb extended family Christmas in the high desert where nothing can hurt me, and inviting my parents to OKC for a small Thanksgiving. I make a hell of a good Moroccan pot roast with nine-day potatoes and sweet potato casserole and some nice garlicky spinach and an overnight pumpkin cheesecake for dessert, and we watch a lot of movies and have a good time.

Shadowfire

We're going to see my parents for Thanksgiving this year. It will be the first time we've seen them in a couple years, and our first holiday with them in about twenty years. Now that I'm finally out of retail, taking a holiday off is actually possible!

Going to see them, conservatives, a couple weeks after the election might be interesting though.

Bandumb

We're going to my In-laws for Thanksgiving, and the last time we were there my partner's mom said that she stopped watching Fox News.

Because NewsMax was more accurate.

There's "supposedly" a moratium on talking politics, but i think next week will decide if that actually exists.

Rhesus Positive

That's probably a moratorium on challenging their dumb opinions framed as statements

Good luck

Bedigunz

I've been tasked with making an alternate to turkey this year by half of my family.

Does anyone have a lean cut of beef recipe (i.e. a roast or Chateaubriand or something?

As an fyi, I usually make Kenji's turkey porchetta, but now I I need to do that AND another meat dish

Blake T

I mean I’d suggest a beef Wellington if you want a show stopper.

Otherwise if it’s just a salt the meat then cook until the Good Temperature and serve with Good Sauces (you’d already have a gravy I guess so I would suggest a sour cream and horse radish sauce)

Xaquin

beef bourgionon or however it's spelled

smof

Jedoc wrote: »

I love my big dumb extended family, but one of my cousins has captured Thanksgiving for the next generation. And unfortunately they live in rural cotton country at the peak of cotton gin season, and I pretty reliably end up with bronchitis every year.

For now, I'm doing big dumb extended family Christmas in the high desert where nothing can hurt me, and inviting my parents to OKC for a small Thanksgiving. I make a hell of a good Moroccan pot roast with nine-day potatoes and sweet potato casserole and some nice garlicky spinach and an overnight pumpkin cheesecake for dessert, and we watch a lot of movies and have a good time.

What the heck do you do with potatoes that takes nine days?

Depressperado

beef bourgeoisie

Shadowfire

crzyango wrote: »

We're going to my In-laws for Thanksgiving, and the last time we were there my partner's mom said that she stopped watching Fox News.

Because NewsMax was more accurate.

There's "supposedly" a moratium on talking politics, but i think next week will decide if that actually exists.

My mom said they don't watch Fox News anymore either and this is exactly what I'm afraid of. Though in her most recent conversation she said she prefers to just load up the Hallmark streaming and put on Christmas movies which is a kinder form of death, I suppose.

Xaquin

Brovid Hasselsmof wrote: »

Jedoc wrote: »

I love my big dumb extended family, but one of my cousins has captured Thanksgiving for the next generation. And unfortunately they live in rural cotton country at the peak of cotton gin season, and I pretty reliably end up with bronchitis every year.

For now, I'm doing big dumb extended family Christmas in the high desert where nothing can hurt me, and inviting my parents to OKC for a small Thanksgiving. I make a hell of a good Moroccan pot roast with nine-day potatoes and sweet potato casserole and some nice garlicky spinach and an overnight pumpkin cheesecake for dessert, and we watch a lot of movies and have a good time.

What the heck do you do with potatoes that takes nine days?

buy them 8 days ago and then cook them?

Jedoc

I have no idea why they're called that, they're just mashed potatoes mixed up with sour cream and chicken stock and then baked in a casserole dish with shredded cheese sprinkled over the top. Given that I got the recipe from a bunch of old church ladies from the geographical heart of the Dust Bowl, I imagine there's some deeply tragic Depression-Era etymology that I've never tracked down.

Bedigunz wrote: »

I've been tasked with making an alternate to turkey this year by half of my family.

Does anyone have a lean cut of beef recipe (i.e. a roast or Chateaubriand or something?

As an fyi, I usually make Kenji's turkey porchetta, but now I I need to do that AND another meat dish

You might check out the aforementioned Moroccan Pot Roast recipe. The sauce tastes special and it goes really well with traditional Thanksgiving sides. Best of all, it's one of those "the leftovers are even better than the first time" kind of dishes, so you can make it the day before and just pop it in for the last 45 minutes or so of your porchetta.

tynic

I have a four hour fondant potato recipe, that always seemed like the outside window for potato cooking time.

ouzaru

We will probably do con gri, pork, and stuffing again this year, maybe some homemade bread, I unno, I’m sort of exhausted, and I have way less free time any more. We’ll see if we even have one this year.