Thanksgiving Food - 2016
I figured I would start a thread specifically for Thanksgiving food. Pictures, recipe help, and whatnot.
I am not sure what my final menu will be - probably Turkey (duh), salad, asparagus, rolls, and one type of potato. I am trying to decide between mashed potatoes and scalloped. Pretty sure I am going to go with scalloped though.
And brownies for dessert. Because I like brownies and I am the only one attending the wonderful dinner.
Whatcha all doing?
Going to the In-laws for prime rib, mashed potatoes and gravy, and green bean casserole. We are making the green bean casserole. YUM!!!
So please to explain to the furriner - what is a green bean casserole? Recipe?
@limey - from wikipedia - "Green bean casserole is a casserole consisting of green beans, cream of mushroom soup, and french fried onions. It is a popular Thanksgiving side dish in the United States" I don't eat it, personally. I don't like beans or mushrooms - lol
This is the one I like. Of course I substitute my self-foraged wild mushrooms. :)
So please to explain to the furriner - what is a green bean casserole? Recipe?
@limey - from wikipedia - "Green bean casserole is a casserole consisting of green beans, cream of mushroom soup, and french fried onions. It is a popular Thanksgiving side dish in the United States" I don't eat it, personally. I don't like beans or mushrooms - lol
I like green beans. I like cream of mushroom soup. I like french-fried onions.
I do not like green bean casserole.:greenface
Why cook?
NYC restaurant, Old Homestead, is offering up a specialty item-laden Thanksgiving feast that exemplifies decadence, extravagance and overindulgence. So what does one get for $50,000?
A 20-lb roasted free-range, organically raised $85/lb turkeys, seasoned with a proprietary exotic spice mix of spices imported from the Middle East, basted with imported $17/oz extra-virgin olive oil from Italy.
A rich stuffing - the operative word is rich because it consists of $465/lb imported Japanese prized Wagyu beef, $54/lb foie gras, and $46/loaf sourdough bread imported from the U.K.
Whipped sweet potatoes topped with $1,600/oz caviar from Caspian Sea.
Green beans not exactly like the ones the first Pilgrims and Native Americans shared - these are prepared with chunks of imported $90/lb ham from pigs fed a special root diet.
Homemade pumpkin ice cream with $4,200/bottle rum-infused eggnog sauce.
Purchasers also receive four tickets to an upcoming Giants game, one night at the Waldorf with room service and breakfast in bed, limousine transportation while in NYC, a Fifth Avenue shopping spree and a horse-drawn carriage ride through Central Park.
Why cook?
Just give me the $50,000. I'll take the $49,900 and spend it on things that are actually worthwhile instead of one dumb ass meal.
I wish I'd found this sooner.
Did you pull that off the internet, Bruce? Dierbergs is a STL-based chain.
I like green beans. I like cream of mushroom soup. I like french-fried onions.
I do not like green bean casserole.:greenface
Y'see I think I'm with you here. I mean, I can imagine that green beans in a mushroom sauce might be ok. But, but ... French fried onions? Isn't the point that they are crunchy? Do they stay crunchy after this treatment? Surely they just add gloopiness to an already gloopy thing?
You put the onions on in the last few minutes of baking.
You put the onions on in the last few minutes of baking.
OK. that would make sense. Who knows, I might give it a whirl some time ...
Making a combination traditional and plant-based feast. Small turkey with stuffing, potatoes, gravy, etc. Squash-miso soup. Roasted vegetables, winter squashes stuffed with savory brown rice/cranberry/walnut stuffing, kale and cranberry salad, homemade cranberry-orange relish, traditional and vegan pies (pumpkin, key lime). Looking forward to it. :)
I hope you're not alone today, Bruce. I'll raise a glass in your direction tonight. I'm glad I know you. And all Yall
Yeah, home alone like every holiday, but that's OK, I enjoy my company. :blush:
My aunt is making the turkey, basted with coconut oil instead of butter. We can't eat anything else she's making. Minifobette still can't eat the turkey no matter what it's basted with, so we're bringing a single duck leg for her.
Other than that, I'm bringing:
Deviled eggs (duck eggs, duck egg mayo, some seasonings)
Cranberry sauce (cranberries, fresh squeezed OJ, honey)
Roasted carrots (carrots, salt, cinnamon)
Stuffing (coconut flour buns, onion/celery/seasonings, duck broth, duck eggs)
Banana Cream pie (almond flour crust, bananas, coconut milk & duck egg vanilla pudding, tiny almond flour cookies that look like Nilla wafers, duck egg meringue)
Gluten-free cherry pie I bought at Whole Foods (because no one actually likes pumpkin and sweet potato pie, and they always eat the shit out of the dessert I brought for the kids and see no problem with the fact that now there is nothing left they can eat and 2.5 pumpkin pies left sitting in my aunt's fridge. The kids still can't eat the cherry pie, but maybe it will throw everyone else off the scent.)
I do something similar in making sure that everyone at the Thanksgiving dinner table has something individually suited to them ... only with the wines.
I do something similar in making sure that everyone at the Thanksgiving dinner table has something individually suited to them ... only with the wines.
Sign me up!
Making a combination traditional and plant-based feast. Small turkey with stuffing, potatoes, gravy, etc. Squash-miso soup. Roasted vegetables, winter squashes stuffed with savory brown rice/cranberry/walnut stuffing, kale and cranberry salad, homemade cranberry-orange relish, traditional and vegan pies (pumpkin, key lime). Looking forward to it. :)
Sounds amazing. I had a great recipe for kale salad but I lost it. No mater ow much you made it would disappear, There was literally never enough, sort of like the reverse of a bottomless bowl... I should try to find that recipe again.
Happy Thanksgiving to you, foot, Bruce, everyone! Thankful to be here with family and friends.
Just made a plant-based gluten free key lime pie and it tastes amazing. Way better than I'd anticipated. :yum:
J's sister hosting this year so all we had to make was sweet potato casserole and brussel sprouts gratin side dishes. S'all good eatin' in about a hour and a half
Holiday feast is over. Home again and waiting for the Cowboys to start playing. I hope the other team makes a wowser play so I can call LJ and go yaneh yaneh.
tarheel
Got the game on in the background now. 3 - 7 Dallas.
My dinner. It was marvelous. Now, I am drinking wine in a giraffe onesie
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To hell with the food, I want to see the Giraffe onesie. :blush:
For Bruce. Only because it's awesome
Outstanding! Thank you! You made my day. :hugnkiss:
Welcome :D Happy Thanksgiving!!
Vegan gluten-free pumpkin pie was awesome. Family officially preferred it to Wegmans pie. Ditto for the key lime pie. Who'd a thunk?
And no tofu or weird stuff in either pie.
Ortho, your awesome. :thumb:
Your awesome what?
Perfect....:cool:
Sorry, just excited about how good the recipes were. :blush:
I expected the neck to be a bit longer...
I expected the neck to be a bit longer...
Me? I'm a mutated giraffe. You should see how low my crotch hangs - lol
:right:
What the hell has happened in this thread?:eyebrow:
Thanksgiving should always have spice. :joylove:
OMG, now you wanna see her pie?!?!?!?!??!
Bruce - Go to your room! Oh wait.
What the hell has happened in this thread?:eyebrow:
Giraffe onesie......
Giraffe onesie......
maybe.
either that or the image of a low hanging crotch.
maybe.
either that or the image of a low hanging crotch.
In the giraffe onesie!! It's not my actual crotch!! It's the giraffe crotch!!
Like a mutated giraffe
you look into my past
well maybe you're just to blind to - see
I'm up in the spotlight
ohh does it feel right
ohh the altitude
seems to get to me