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Thanksgiving Menu

My sister hosts Thanksgiving. She's got home cookin' potential, but between her McDonald's loving husband and picky three kids, her reps aren't as high as they would be if she she had a more adventurous family.

With that being said, her simply prepared (salt, pepper, no stuffing inside) turkey is solid and mashed potatoes (she uses full fat almond milk creamer for her lactose intolerant daughter) are solid. Most sides are store brought from a local market.

To help ease her tension of timing with food, my wife and I are in charge of the apps, which is a mix of my Italian side (various cheeses and olives, plus cured meats) and her Scandinavian side (smoked salmon, crisp toast and lefsa).

Her husband liked canned cranberry sauce, but my wife brings her homemade version (cranberries, orange juice, brown sugar, cinnamon sticks). No one ever eats her amazing homemade pumpkin pie (my birthday is in July and she makes me a pumpkin cheesecake for my cake) so she makes a pie for us to keep at home while the savages eat the store-bought crap.
 
I'm responsible for wine and pies, which I pick up at Grandma's Pie Factory in East Hartford

Nobody wants me in the kitchen
 
Kitaman said:
I put a lil smoked paprika, salt and pepper in my butter before injection.

Smoking just a turkey breast after wet brining.
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Try combining butter with brown sugar … trusts this is how a turkey browns amazingly
 
Hey Adrien! said:
My sister hosts Thanksgiving. She's got home cookin' potential, but between her McDonald's loving husband and picky three kids, her reps aren't as high as they would be if she she had a more adventurous family.

With that being said, her simply prepared (salt, pepper, no stuffing inside) turkey is solid and mashed potatoes (she uses full fat almond milk creamer for her lactose intolerant daughter) are solid. Most sides are store brought from a local market.

To help ease her tension of timing with food, my wife and I are in charge of the apps, which is a mix of my Italian side (various cheeses and olives, plus cured meats) and her Scandinavian side (smoked salmon, crisp toast and lefsa).

Her husband liked canned cranberry sauce, but my wife brings her homemade version (cranberries, orange juice, brown sugar, cinnamon sticks). No one ever eats her amazing homemade pumpkin pie (my birthday is in July and she makes me a pumpkin cheesecake for my cake) so she makes a pie for us to keep at home while the savages eat the store-bought crap.
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Right on with the homemade cranny. i just made mine and used manuka honey instead of brown sugar but to each their delicious own!
 

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CL82 said:
One wonders what you were doing that made her feel creating this rule was necessary. 😉
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I'm sure I really don't know. But, then, she often will ask me with I was thinking when I said/did one thing or another in some social setting.

What I do know for sure, though....since we moved into this house, I can't have a basement anymore.
 
Oven-roasted turkey
Amazingly mashed potatoes
Tasty creamed corn casserole
Vegetal brocolli au gratin
Slow-cooked Buffalo chicken dip for football watching.
Canned cranberry sauce 2 ways
3 pies
Beer, wine, Honey Jack and lemonade
 
Dove said:
Oven-roasted turkey
Amazingly mashed potatoes
Tasty creamed corn casserole
Vegetal brocolli au gratin
Slow-cooked Buffalo chicken dip for football watching.
Canned cranberry sauce 2 ways
3 pies
Beer, wine, Honey Jack and lemonade
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What makes the mashed potatoes amazing?
 
Deepster said:
I’d rather try something new than that marshmallow monstrosity someone mentioned above.
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In that vein, I'd rather have the monstrosity than any of these homemade cranberry sauces. Cranberry sauce is not cranberry sauce unless you can see clear through and has indentations that match the can it came in.
 
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Roasted whole turkey and two bone in breasts
Homemade cranberries (just berries, water and sugar)
Mashed potatoes and gravy
Sage Stuffing with lots of ground sausage in it
Sweet potato casserole with brown sugar crumble topping
Green bean casserole (homemade from individual ingredients and fresh green beans)
Salad
Rolls and butter
Apple pie
Pumpkin pie
Peanut butter buckeyes

The ladies’ tradition for a drink is various sparkling wines. All generations, including the not quite 21 enjoy it.

For the men, the cocktail of the day at my bar will be a Woodford Reserve Old Fashioned sweetened with real maple syrup.

Beers are Miller Lite, All Day IPA and a hazy IPA from my local micro brewery just down the road. (and a bunch of stragglers of different kinds)

Nutrl, White Claw

Assorted mixers with whiskey, vodka, rum etc.

***I copied this post into my notes and now I have a checklist for the morning. 💪🏻
 
Hoophound said:
Roasted whole turkey and two bone in breasts
Homemade cranberries (just berries, water and sugar)
Mashed potatoes and gravy
Sage Stuffing with lots of ground sausage in it
Sweet potato casserole with brown sugar crumble topping
Green bean casserole (homemade from individual ingredients and fresh green beans)
Salad
Rolls and butter
Apple pie
Pumpkin pie
Peanut butter buckeyes

The ladies’ tradition for a drink is various sparkling wines. All generations, including the not quite 21 enjoy it.

For the men, the cocktail of the day at my bar will be a Woodford Reserve Old Fashioned sweetened with real maple syrup.

Beers are Miller Lite, All Day IPA and a hazy IPA from my local micro brewery just down the road. (and a bunch of stragglers of different kinds)

Nutrl, White Claw

Assorted mixers with whiskey, vodka, rum etc.

***I copied this post into my notes and now I have a checklist for the morning. 💪🏻
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You’re the MVP of the thread here for me. The perfect blend of tradition and new twists. Cocktails on point. Just throw a can of the jellied cranberry on and it’s a perfect score.
 
Does anyone else here not like sweet potatoes? I think they're fairly gross. I know they're not potatoes but they're often a substitute for potatoes, which are awesome. I remember years ago when there was a craze for sweet potato fries and they were being offered up all over in lieu of actual fries, that was a horrible time.

I love just about any food but the only two foods I can think of that I don't like are two foods associated with Thanksgiving- sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie.
 
superjohn said:
Does anyone else here not like sweet potatoes? I think they're fairly gross. I know they're not potatoes but they're often a substitute for potatoes, which are awesome. I remember years ago when there was a craze for sweet potato fries and they were being offered up all over in lieu of actual fries, that was a horrible time.

I love just about any food but the only two foods I can think of that I don't like are two foods associated with Thanksgiving- sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie.
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I had sweet potato fries cooked in beef tallow at new restaurant recently. Unbelievable. Like a whole new food. I need to go back and try the regular fries now.

The sweet potato fries smelled like McDonalds did in the 80’s. IYKYK. The flavor was amazing. But I agree, sweet potato fries generally suck.
 
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Dove said:
UConn gold potatoes. 2 sticks of butta. 2 cups of 1/2 + 1/2. Salt, pepper and smidge more butta.
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Sounds great. Outside your need to try and make every post schtick with “butta”. Butter would have sufficed.
 
prankster said:
My wife has a rule that you are not allowed to experiment on guests.

Gotta be a proven recipe.
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Been there. Done that.

Uncle Steve: "Whats in the stuffing?"

Dove: "I added grape jelly and tumeric."

Mom: "Dove, I never really liked you."
 
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