cooking and baking primitives discuss Thanksgiving tricks

[dandi]

I avoid canned green beans and use raw ones from the produce section.  That way I get the consistency I like and it's not like drinking your food through a straw.  That is one thing I've noticed about "southern" cooking... it's all soft and doesn't require a whole lot of chewing.

Well you know we don't have many teeth down here...

[GOBUCKS]

Try crushed cranberries, crushed pineapple, and chopped walnuts in raspberry jello. The rest of the dinner isn't so important.

And turkey dressing has gotta have lots of oysters in it.

[Chris_]

Well you know we don't have many teeth down here...

I didn't mean it as an insult, only an observation.

I may have been born in New York but I've lived in the south since I was old enough to walk and talk.

[Bodadh]

I'm making the green bean casserole again, it's OK, it's easy to make though.

We're going to my MIL's this year for Thanksgiving, and we always take so many leftovers that she never has much left, and I got a free turkey from Shop Rite, so I'm kind of cooking a Thanksgiving dinner  for us to have as leftovers so we won't have to take any of her leftovers, she gave me the family recipe for the stuffing and this is the 1st year I'm going to make it. The darn free turkey I got is 20 pounds, so I googled to see if you can freeze turkey and you can freeze it up to 4 months, so we'll probably freeze some of it.

Oh, and I love whole berry cranberry sauce, but we buy both because my husband loves the jelly cranberry sauce.

Iused to work for company that gave us turkeys at Thanksgiving. My mom still cooked back then so my room mate at the time would make Brunswick (sp?) stew out of it. It was pretty good. My family prefered the jelly cranberries too.

[dandi]

I didn't mean it as an insult, only an observation.

I may have been born in New York but I've lived in the south since I was old enough to walk and talk.

LOL No insult taken. And you're right of course. Southerners tend to cook their vegetables soft, if not all to pieces. It's the way I've always known them and liked them, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if it started just because it made them easier to chew.

[Chris_]

You could probably slice up an entire turkey and string it out over a couple months.  There is this great tomato-basil turkey breast they sell at the Wal-Mart deli.  Everything else would work great fried in individual batches.

[vesta111]

About the same as the green beans in a casserole, kind of soft and tender. If you like your vegetables more on the al dente side I guess you could just cook the broccoli a little less before mixing it with the rest of the ingredients.

My generation grew up in the pressure cooker age the new found gizmo's for cooking.

Nothing but nothing is to some of us as great as whole green beans steamed to perfection and a pat of butter.

I know of no other bean that is eaten raw and crunchy.    What a hard time I have understanding why Buffets have those under cooked green beans, I like raw peas ,yes I know they are a kind of bean, but those half raw  green beans drive me nuts.