Mac and cheese with bechamel and a little tomato
Butternut squash soup
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The chaos is my favorite part, the people. I am hosting so make the turkey plus a bunch of vegan sides because one kid is vegan and otherwise she gets not much. So for her a stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, roasted sweet potatoes with chili paste, green beans & mushrooms, "creamed" greens in coconut milk, confit of parsnips.
Now would I rather be putting butter in most of those,and eggs in the stuffing, and sausage? Fuck yes. But I'm her best chance at getting something that is delicious not just vegan, so I do only vegan sides. We have two grandmas attending and one insists on bringing a whole Thanksgiving no matter what I ask so there is all the regular stuff. Like sometimes she literally brings another turkey with her, it's ridiculous. I only want her to bring pies, I cannot pie.
Stuffing and deviled eggs. However my family is also full of deviled egg fiends, so mostly stuffing
Cranberry sauce from the can; is it mostly sugar? Yes. Is it yummy? Hell yes. Does it have cool little ridges? Absolutely.
Whatever I bring. Seriously, the ex gets my kids this year. Of course I’m going for them, but:
- no alcohol
- no soda
- low sugar
- no corn anything
- very little spice of any kind
- none of my family’s traditional foods unless I bring it
While they’re making my favorite pumpkin pie, somehow it can’t have any spices this year. Just pumpkin. So bland but might as well be mayo
Is this some kind of weird puritanical family or something?
Sure I tell them they’re weird all the time, but in this case it’s just understandable compromises adding up to wtf
My ex’s father came to live with her. He doesn’t drink, is diabetic, and is having digestive issues. He also had a bad food experience involving corn so can’t stand the smell. My ex has banned soda to improve her health. I can be understanding of any of these, but it adds up to too much
That does suck. The stuff with the Father I get. The soda ban I'd let slide, especially if it's a recent change.
But banning flavor is criminal.
The soda ban is actually the tough one: I wish they’d pick a ban: soda or alcohol. I’m fine without either but when your banning both, the number of tasty drinks goes way down
Dump some into a nontransparent water bottle; you get your soda, your ex doesn't have to see it and be "tempted" by it.
Not a bad idea!
Just be prepared for the yelling when she finds out and crys about it.
Stuffing. I would eat stuffing every Goddamn day of the year except I'd get fat as fuck. I have to literally limit myself to eating it once a year for Thanksgiving or I'll gradually work it into my regular dinner meal plans and even that is too much.
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Collards. I only recently discovered them as a transplant to the southern part of the country, and I love making them because they’re phenomenally tasty. Plus you can justify that they’re dark leafy greens (never mind the gratuitous pork fat).
Green bean casserole.
I was grossed out as a kid, but that stuff is the bomb.
I don't like mushrooms so I make what's basically cream of onion soup as the sauce and it's amazing. Also, stuffing. My mom doesn't really like either one and it's just us, so I get to eat all of it myself.
Nice! My family doesn't like mushrooms either, so my mom has always subbed in cream of chicken, but onion sounds pretty great too.
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The stuffing. I frickin love stuffing
I always have stuffing in my pantry because I'm not waiting around for 1 dinner a year to have it.
I wish it was a more common side. Like if a restaurant had that as a side I would totally get it on non holidays
Leftovers
Political discourse.
I ordered the Popeyes Cajun turkey and i make great stuffing so I'm looking forward to both of those.
Popeyes makes turkeys??
Yep. I've seen them advertised but never bought one before. It's $100 (which i though was kind of a lot) and says it feeds 8-10 people. Arrives frozen, fully cooked - thaw for 3 days and then heat.
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Always mashed potatoes. I am a freak for some potatoes.
Also my wife's grandma always makes Mac and cheese and usually 2 different kinds. I'm a big Mac and cheese fan so I'm hoping they have that but maybe not since she's getting pretty old now. Maybe I'll have to make them this year!
Candied yams from a can with toasted marshmallows is all I need! Everything else is details.
Stuffed mushrooms, my aunt's scratch made wheat rolls, and bacon wrapped asparagus.
Deep fried turkey. We have used the Butterball electric frier for over a decade and it turns out awesome every year.
I’m far from family, so probably my vegan tater tot casserole. I don’t live in the Midwest anymore, but for some reason on Thanksgiving I crave this very heavy food along with my wife’s Mexican green pasta recipe (to die for!).
Stuffing and mashed potatoes. I make the mashed potatoes, and I am really good at it. I am not sure why, since it's just ordinary yellow (or russet, depends on what they have) potatoes, milk, salt, and butter. I don't even peel them, but it gets all the rave reviews.
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Not Peking duck unfortunately. For a couple of years instead of a turkey my brother would get Peking duck. Last year they didn’t do it because we didn’t have as many people coming so they got a turkey breast thing from Trader Joe’s (it wasn’t good, I gave my portion to my dog). This year my mom is insisting on getting thanksgiving stuff from Costco so no Peking duck this year either. Oh well, at least there’s going to be stuffing.
Just polished off the trial run of the dressing and gravy, happy to have them again next week.
I normally make stuffing (we don't stuff but have always just called it that) this week for my coworkers but my new boss sucks and i don't cook for people i don't like, so i just bought a small ham for the luncheon instead. Can't wait to have the stuffing next week!!
A giant slice of Costco pumpkin pie with a gallon of whipped cream on top. Anyone who expresses disapproval is secretly envious.
Envious? No, I pity the fool who prefers pumpkin pie over the other delicious options!
I'm making Bizzle's Sticky Wieners, which I'm sure already have a name but holy cow I couldn't pass up that joke. It's lil smokies wrapped in bacon and topped with brown sugar, then baked. It's pretty decadent though so I only make them for thanksgiving, I've been looking forward to it all year.
Nothing in particular. It will all be food.
ITT: People who don‘t give two shits about indigenous people
Not surprising coming from settler americans.
What should they be saying in response to the title question, that would be more caring towards indigenous people?
Just about everything, minus the green bean casserole I'm pretty sure my sister-in-law is making. That's one thing I just don't like.
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