My family is squarely in the green bean casserole mold.
Timex
3882
lol you guys on the west coast suck balls at food. Seriously, salad? Lame.
Amen to that, @Timex. West Coasters clearly hate Thanksgiving and also all good things.
The correct solution is to do green beans, rolls, cornbread, and mac n cheese, by the way.
Skipper
3884
WTF. My family squarely falls in several of those zones.
Where is the, “we drink on Thanksgiving so we don’t kill each other,” zone?
nKoan
3885
Salad may be the most popular (I’m sure it is on the west coast) but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other sides there too. They just are more varied so they don’t show up in a survey.
Back from Costco with a brisket checking in at nearly 17 lbs.
How in the hell can sweet potatoes or yams not be ANYWHERE on that map? Or stuffing? I call shenanigans.
CraigM
3889
Pity those of us who must spend Thanksgiving at an alcohol free family gathering with a decidedly low information Trumpist bent.
Those are pretty common everywhere, so they won’t show up in a map of disproportionately popular things.
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Sounds like an opportune time for a hip flask. Or a brazenly brandished 1.5L bottle of cheap vodka.
Man I wish I could drink away my problems! Instead, I’m just avoiding them entirely by not going home :)
Trump doesn’t drink, that means you can drink twice as much! :D
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! We are starting a brisket tradition this year:
Had to cut the slices thick because they were falling apart.
Well, we had turkey, homemade cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing, and the role of the veggies was played my sister’s amazing spinach salad with red onions, feta cheese, kalamata olive oil, balsamic vinegar and maybe some other ingredients I can’t remember. Other years we’ve had a second veggie like sautéed green beans with bacon, but it was kept simpler this year.
Gendal
3895
I had 1/3 the crowd this year so I dialed things back from last year. I went with Chef Steps 24ish hour sous vide turkey and it was fantastic. Even the die hard turkey haters love it. Much easier than the serious eats porchetta of course and really just as good, if not as impressive.
Tomorrow is a repeat left overs day and I am very much looking forward to it. Ug, so good. Then saturday I think I will take a crack at the Chef Step’s double crusted Turkey pot pie. I am a sucker for pastry & meat.
Nesrie
3896
I went to a friend’s house this year for Thanksgiving an introduced them to sweet potato pie. They say they were really surprised with it and it was nearly all eaten. My twin actually taught me this since she loves to bake, cakes mostly, but wanted to experiment years ago.
None
3897
I attended a dinner with 23 other folks where we all brought a few things. Started cooking yesterday and made two sweet potato pies along with a deep hotel pan’s worth of sweet potato casserole, one half of which was topped with the traditional marshmallows and the other half topped with a brown sugar pecan streusel. Today I roasted off some carrots, parsnips, beets and butternut squash and threw in some roasted poblanos and cooked off a 16 lb. turkey. I spatchcocked it so the whole thing only took almost exactly 75 minutes at 450 degrees. I also made some brown sugar whipped cream to go with the pies. I ate way too much and still managed to bring home a nice to-go plate.
Will be doing something similar on Saturday with some other friends who’re in town for the weekend.
Weird little Thanksgiving “trickle” for us here.
Wednesday night, I popped a pre-sliced honey ham thing into the oven alongside some frozen rolls and corncobs (basted with garlic-butter), and actually put some effort into a sweet potato casserole topped with the far-superior pecan streusel @None mentions above. It was a kinda simple meal, but it made the gf happy. . .
. . . cuz for the first time in a hot minute, we were neither driving to TN to see my parents, nor were they driving out to see us. In the absence, we’d been invited to my old 4E GM’s place for Friendsgiving. Dude’s a professional cook, currently operating at one of the better Food Trucks in the region, so we were pumped. . . but the potluck nature of things fell short when one of the four couples canceled. Fearing for my gf’s Thanksgiving Dreams, I upped my contribution to include Bacon Mac n Cheese, Cheddar-Herb Beer Bread, and Green Beans Almondine. Another couple brought a Winter Panzanella with red kale, apples, beats, white cheddar, onions, and croutons, while the hosts provided a turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, and an absurdly awesome brown-bottom cashew-butterscotch pie.
Overall, it was a pretty damned decent supper, though I wound up not making the green beans because the other non-host couple stopped at some local joint and bought a big tub of green beans to bring in (poor organization hoooooo). I think mine woulda been better. . .
And that pie was incredible. Holy gee. Yes.
Man, while I’m in the south for Thanksgiving (well, south-ish…DC area), I need to see if I can finagle my way into a banana cream pie somewhere.
Timex
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