the primitives tell us about their Thanksgiving menu

[franksolich]

This was posted before Thanksgiving, so don't mistakenly think the primitives actually dined on what they were planning; this is only what they hoped to dine on.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/115776046

spinbaby (12,441 posts)     Mon Nov 19, 2018, 11:09 AM

Tell me about your Thanksgiving menu

And how much leeway do you have to change things up? I usually cook Thanksgiving dinner and my family is neurotically attached to having it the same every year. My menu:

Turkey, Butterball, roasted unstuffed
Stuffing, Pepperidge Farm herb, made with celery and onions and baked in a casserole
Mashed potatoes, plain
Gravy, nothing fancy
Rolls, white
Green bean casserole, the classic recipe
Sweet potato casserole, I have recently convinced the family they do not require marshmallows
Peas, plain
Cranberry sauce, from the can. Homemade sauce almost caused a mutiny one year.
Pumpkin pie, must be from the recipe on the pumpkin can
Pecan pie

The thread's pretty long, so only primitives of any importance or prominence are quoted.

Ms. Vanderbilt-Astor, the NJCher primitive, is on it, but off-topic.

The primitive who's pretty fat:

gopiscrap (18,355 posts)    Mon Nov 19, 2018, 12:39 PM

17. 15 of us will be here

24 lb turkey
Home made mash potatos
Home made yams
green bean casserol
fresh garden peas
home made stuffing and dressing
green salad
pumpkin and aple pie
cranberries out of a can

and various assorted snacks

spakling water and apple cider

Damn.  Actually, that's it. Out of 38 comments, nearly all of them were made by primitives who are nonentities, primitives nobody's ever heard of.

[DumbAss Tanker]

NJCher, was it not she who concocted the infamous vomit stew?

[franksolich]

NJCher, was it not she who concocted the infamous vomit stew?

Yeah.

I wish I still had a picture of it.

[franksolich]

https://www.democraticunderground.com/115776219

elleng (86,363 posts)     Sat Nov 24, 2018, 04:20 PM

The Thanksgiving Leftovers Everyone Forgets

'What to do with the extra ingredients we stuff into our refrigerators before Thanksgiving.

Even if my shopping is planned with military precision, the days leading up to Thanksgiving always require emergency trips to the store. Once I’m there, the single bunch of sage I came for somehow turns into yet another full bag of groceries.

Surrounded by ingredients, I am seized by both anxiety and ambition. Did those Georgia pecans I ordered back in September ever arrive? Do I really have enough squash now that I’m tripling the recipe? Shouldn’t I make a third pie this year?

The answer to these questions is always the same: Better buy more. And that’s how I end up with masses of leftovers. Not the celebrity Thanksgiving leftovers like turkey and stuffing. After all, you can just eat those.

But leftover bags of raw cranberries, extra squash that have served their purpose as centerpieces and the bunches of parsley and bags of onions I find stashed all over the house are harder to get rid of. No one wants to eat cranberry sauce once the turkey runs out. Everyone is sick of pumpkin, sweet potatoes and all things sweet and starchy.

So at this time of year, I go on the hunt for recipes that show off those ingredients, but without repeating the tastes of Thanksgiving.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/16/dining/thanksgiving-leftovers-recipes.html?

irisblue (15,203 posts)      Sat Nov 24, 2018, 04:52 PM

1. Cranberry sauce

Cover pork chop/roast, chicken boneless thighs/breasts bake or in a crockpot = easy meal.

NRaleighLiberal (46,815 posts)      Sat Nov 24, 2018, 04:56 PM

2. Cranberry orange walnut bread...

And curry squash soup.

And Turkey tortilla soup. ( that's tonight's dinner!)

flotsam (1,361 posts)      Sat Nov 24, 2018, 05:50 PM

3. Cocktail meatball or sausage sauce

1 eight-ounce can jellied cranberry sauce
¾ cup chili sauce
1 Tbsp brown sugar
1½ tsp lemon juice
Hot sauce, optional

csziggy (26,112 posts)      Sat Nov 24, 2018, 06:36 PM

4. As a test recipe I made a sweet potato cranberry bake

Cranberries, sugar, spices, orange slices, pecans and chunks of sweet potatoes, baked together. The original recipe used canned Bruce's yams (which are really sweet potatoes). I used fresh raw ones. I forgot to get an orange but had some snack cups of mandarin orange segments so I used them. It is great. I will make that to take to a holiday dinner next year!

Original recipe: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/230825/sweet-potato-cranberry-bake/

As per the comments I cut the sugar in half and used double the spices.

Here's the thing - I don't even like cranberries.

I could see making this with extra sweet potatoes and leftover cranberry sauce.

ETA - since I was using raw sweet potatoes I simply mixed everything together and baked it for 45 minutes.

[Wineslob]

Crow.......enjoy it DUmbasses.

[Mr Mannn]

our friend shoe quoted this thread at DI:
https://www.discussionist.com/?com=view_post&forum=1015&pid=1878279
shoe thinks DUmies are great Americans.

[franksolich]

our friend shoe quoted this thread at DI:
https://www.discussionist.com/?com=view_post&forum=1015&pid=1878279
shoe thinks DUmies are great Americans.

Yeah, I saw that, and there's the usual malcontent grousing about what "purpose" this thread has, why I posted it.

That's not for them to worry about; it wasn't posted for them.

Gawd, I dislike it when these people run around thinking we were created to impress them.

[BannedFromDU]

Yeah.

I wish I still had a picture of it.

    You have two fingers and a toilet.

[BadCat]

Doesn't that little creep have an account here?  He really is a coward.