Friday OT #1 - Disposable Darling

[cyclones500]

Within common/typical Thanksgiving staples … if I’m guesting. (If I host, I have a lot more control).

Musts:

• Turkey dark meat
• Stuffing with gravy
• Mashed potatoes/gravy (can do without if stuffing is available)
• Biscuit/dinner roll with butter (bread slice if no other option)
• Vegetable option should include at least 1: glazed carrots; broccoli-cheese casserole; corn
• Bonus: relish tray options (olives, dill pickles)

Wouldn’t miss:

• Cranberry sauce (irrelevant for me)
• Sweet potatoes. Don’t like regardless of theme
• Macaroni-and-goddamn-cheese (I have 364 other days for that). It's homemade? Good for you.
• Pumpkin pie (almost any dessert in this context, actually)

Sometimes I'll eat a bit of pie (pumpkin included) but sometimes it involves succumbing to pressure. “Don’t you want some PIE?!” … Me: "I just ate 7 pounds of food, I’m kinda full and it’s nap time. I’ll have some later” (I rarely keep this promise).

 

[jbindm]

Within common/typical Thanksgiving staples … if I’m guesting. (If I host, I have a lot more control).

Musts:

• Turkey dark meat
• Stuffing with gravy
• Mashed potatoes/gravy (can do without if stuffing is available)
• Biscuit/dinner roll with butter (bread slice if no other option)
• Vegetable option should include at least 1: glazed carrots; broccoli-cheese casserole; corn
• Bonus: relish tray options (olives, dill pickles)

Wouldn’t miss:

• Cranberry sauce (irrelevant for me)
• Sweet potatoes. Don’t like regardless of theme
• Macaroni-and-goddamn-cheese (I have 364 other days for that). It's homemade? Good for you.
• Pumpkin pie (almost any dessert in this context, actually)

Sometimes I'll eat a bit of pie (pumpkin included) but sometimes it involves succumbing to pressure. “Don’t you want some PIE?!” … Me: "I just ate 7 pounds of food, I’m kinda full and it’s nap time. I’ll have some later” (I rarely keep this promise).

You forgot the booze. If you can't drink your way through the holiday then why even bother?

 

[jbindm]

Mashed potatoes are a tough road. If they are skin-on, with sour cream and cream cheese, they're great. If they're too mushy or bland, why bother?

I'd much rather have oven roasted potatoes but even those can somehow be screwed up pretty badly in the wrong hands.

 

[JMA1125]

C

Mashed potatoes are a tough road. If they are skin-on, with sour cream and cream cheese, they're great. If they're too mushy or bland, why bother?

Costco refrigerated mashed potatoes are amazing!

 

[Angie]

C

Costco refrigerated mashed potatoes are amazing!

I've never tried those! My mom is going to Costco before Thanksgiving, I'll have her grab some! She always used to make Potato Buds when I was growing up, and that **** is nasty.

 

[Buster28]

Mashed potatoes are a tough road. If they are skin-on, with sour cream and cream cheese, they're great. If they're too mushy or bland, why bother?

You gotta know how to make them correctly. Too mushy? Add potato flakes. Too bland? Add salt and other seasonings (and butter or margarine). You can't just peel, boil, mash, and serve. Yuk.

 

[isukendall]

Irrelevant. I'll eat anything.

 

[CloniesForLife]

My mom does Ham and Turkey. I much prefer the Ham so I would not miss Turkey one bit.

Get rid of mashed potatoes. Pretty much any other potato option is better.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

Sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, canned cranberry sauce, apple crisp, homemade rolls are where it's at.

You sad, sad child....

 

[pulse]

Are beets a Thanksgiving thing outside of Russia?

Unfortunately my mom thinks so, and she’s not Russian.

 

[BuffettClone]

It's all in the texture. What you're describing sounds kind of like a chutney.

 

[WhatchaGonnaDo]

Don't waste time with that nasty ass texture of pumpkin pie.

Apple desserts, all day.

 

[WhatchaGonnaDo]

Also everyone hating on mashed potatoes clearly has never had them prepared properly.

 

[discydisc]

Also everyone hating on mashed potatoes clearly has never had them prepared properly.

I'm wondering if people are using skim milk and a blender to prepare these, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills with all these people shunning mashed potatoes and pie.

 

[jcyclonee]

Turkey. And I'm not alone here. It's been off the in-laws' Thanksgiving menu for almost a decade now and nobody misses it.

@cowgirl836 agrees with you and it's been well established that she hates Thanksgiving.

 

[jcyclonee]

Within common/typical Thanksgiving staples … if I’m guesting. (If I host, I have a lot more control).

Musts:

• Turkey dark meat
• Stuffing with gravy
• Mashed potatoes/gravy (can do without if stuffing is available)
• Biscuit/dinner roll with butter (bread slice if no other option)
• Vegetable option should include at least 1: glazed carrots; broccoli-cheese casserole; corn
• Bonus: relish tray options (olives, dill pickles)

Wouldn’t miss:

• Cranberry sauce (irrelevant for me)
• Sweet potatoes. Don’t like regardless of theme
• Macaroni-and-goddamn-cheese (I have 364 other days for that). It's homemade? Good for you.
• Pumpkin pie (almost any dessert in this context, actually)

Sometimes I'll eat a bit of pie (pumpkin included) but sometimes it involves succumbing to pressure. “Don’t you want some PIE?!” … Me: "I just ate 7 pounds of food, I’m kinda full and it’s nap time. I’ll have some later” (I rarely keep this promise).

The vegetable option that I'm becoming fond of is roasted brussel sprouts.

 

[jcyclonee]

Unfortunately my mom thinks so, and she’s not Russian.

Have you considered that she could be a sleeper agent?

 

[ImJustKCClone]

So, cowgirl opened the floodgates and all of the turkey haters poured out!

I'm gonna follow 500's lead.
Must haves:
Turkey (also prefer dark meat, most of the fam likes white meat so I'm golden!)
Cornbread pecan stuffing
REAL mashed potatoes (not that potato flakes in water crap) and homemade gravy
Green bean mushroom casserole with french fried onions on top (take THAT, @Angie)
Whole black olives (so the grandkids...and kids...and yeah, us...can put them on our fingers and wave at each other)
Pillsbury croissant rolls
Pecan pie. Pumpkin pie would be a distant second, and all others way below that.

Can live without:
sweet potatoes in any way shape or form
cranberries in any way shape or form
green olives and any pickles (the fam love 'em, I can't stand them)
soggy-ass whitebread & sage stuffing YUCK

One of the biggest disappointments in my childhood Thanksgiving experiences was going to an Aunt's for the dinner. She was a lousy cook so most everything was burnt or undercooked. My sisters and I soldiered through on promises of pie for dessert. The pumpkin pie looked decent. Took a big bite...SQUASH PIE. WHAT AN ABOMINATION!!!

 

[urb1]

Pecan pie, Jello with vegetables in it, and any dish containing marshmallows.

 

[NickTheGreat]

I could just eat Turkey, Mashed potatoes and gravy, and pumpkin pie and be satisfied.

There's a lot of communists in this thread.