YA READY FOR YOUR TURKEY DINNER?

We're going over to a friend's tomorrow and making sides tonight, garlic mashed potatoes and Maddie's famed cranberry pudding.

That sounds good. I'm debating on making greek potatoes - boiled or baked roughly chopped red potato with feta and olives, dressed with lemon and olive oil.

That sounds awesome, I don't know why I've never thought of it before considering that I keep all of those things around the house.

original plan was to do a three-pasta medley: thai noodles, marinated pasta salad with balsamic vinegar, and regular garlic tomato sauce. but i was overruled by fate.

I'm going to my boyfriend's family since without my grandmother my family is doing nothing. Perhaps we can get it together in time for Xmas and I'll give her nana pudding a try.

this year i'm working and my loverly roomie has bought a turkey to cook for when i get home at midnight thirty (technically not even thanksgiving anymore). i'm kind of excited.

I go to Tommy's for a chiliburger

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i wish someone would cook me this sometime.

Why don't people respect yams more? Like, treat them respectfully and don't cover them in Kraft marshmallows. Can't they exist on a savory plane instead of sweet?

Friday - Fancy Turkey day turkey dinner at her dad's :-/

Saturday - My family comes over for roast beast dinner.

Three Thanksgiving dinners and only one of them is turkey! Yay! (Last year we fled to Paris and had goose.) By the time Monday rolls around, however, I will be quite fat, I'm sure.

The pilgrims ate venison though, so it's kind of unfeasible.

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Andy, I only like savory yams and sweet potatoes, and even then, not much.

Yes, I am still vegan, but I cheat when spinach lasagna is involved. (See also: cookies, birthday cake, raw eggs in a blender when I'm training to whoop Apollo Creed's ass, the hearts of my enemies, etc.)

SO I just went to Trader Joe's and bought (for t-giving): smoked salmon, smoked trout, muenster and gouda, crackers, olives, and six bottles of wine, including a nice French rose. I don't think the miserable pilgrims had access to Trader Joe's.

Yeah, I guess it could be. The only time I've had venison is when my dad used to go bow hunting and would sometimes bag a deer, so I just don't anticipate getting venison anytime soon.

When I make stuffing it takes hours and all the ingredients are mixed in a three gallon bucket.

mr veg is currently in the process brining a turkey breast, then to be smoked on the barbecue :D

tomorrow i’ll make a sugar-free cheesecake

day-of i will make brussel sprouts, green beans & cauliflower sides

and that’s it! just the two of us this year

I am in charge of the Szechuan green beans, and have been ever since I swapped for those instead of green bean casserole three or four years ago

i’m making mary berry’s chestnut stuffing which is v easy apart from shelling the fucking chestnuts ffs

I've also grown into the habit of having a whole Greenberg smoked turkey delivered each year to the house that is specifically used to just make a lot of soup and stock and chili on my end to put into the freezer for down the road in winter. (But I'll make a bunch of stock from the actual dinner turkey too, just over at that house for folks there.)

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I just peel and lift stuff, and clean up. My wife and daughter in law are the kitchen geniuses. It's an effective division of labor.

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It's only the core four of us (and one of us is sick, and another one is a vegetarian), so we, per tradition, just pick something up. But I'm about to bake a pie and make a sweet potato souffle.

I will bake a corn casserole to take to my cousin's, who has duck on the menu.

i sure am!!!!!

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ready for quorn, that is

I’m never really ready

I have dressing and sweet potato casserole (grated not mashed, This Is the Way) in the oven at the same time, loving the competing sweet/savory smells coming out.

I'm almost more excited to make the stuffing waffles tomorrow morning

"Stuffing, that is!"

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I say I say I say

i'm a thanksgiving freeloader, i cook at xmas

Chilling at the kitchen table chatting with others. My role comes after when it’s time to make stock and soup, the mirepoix is ready to go.

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that’s brunswick stew

Great dinner, stock mode activated, chilling.

Fuck American Thanksgiving, I had a Greek feast with Avgolemono soup, tiropitos (cheese in phyllo dough), dayboat scallops with risotto, and rice pudding with raisins.

I made a chicken stew with chili paste, rio zape beans, and pesole.

brined & smoked turkey breast might be my favorite food

always the goods

I put so much time into the dressing and sweet potatoes that I went the quickest route for the protein, just browned and Instant Potted a turkey breast, and it turned out great.

As fate would have it, we signed up for going to a family Thanksgiving dinner about 100 miles from here at my brother-in-law's place, but we had to back out at yesterday morning. Because we'd already shopped for the week, tonight's dinner had to be improvised from whatever was in the fridge, the pantry and the freezer.

After careful thought I decided to make baked polenta with boneless chicken breast, both topped by a tomato-based sauce full of chopped onion, garlic, mushrooms, celery, red bell pepper, basil and oregano with grated Gruyere on top. This was accompanied by a chopped raw broccoli salad with dried cranberries, toasted almonds and a dressing of buttermilk, apple cider vinegar, mayonnaise and minced red onion.

Dessert will be pumpkin custard and vanilla ice cream. It worked out great. But the wine was pretty cheap stuff.

Did smothered turkey legs this year; may never roast a whole bird again

my cheesecake turned out a bit disappointing this year: still learning sweetness levels now that i’m using sugar substitutes. and i overcooked the crust :(

When I'm cooking or baking for an occasion and for other people I get more invested in the outcome and more easily disappointed if my efforts fall short of my hopes. I'm sure the cheesecake was delicious VG, even if it didn't quite hit your expectations or desires.

Venison tenderloin, pierna, pumpkin soup, assorted sides (including my corn casserole). A good time until I edged out of a conversation about the greatness of Gen. MacArthur.

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In my quest to convert Americans away from gross orange sweet potatoes, I brought a dish of roasted Japanese sweet potatoes (they were a big hit), as well as lemony shredded roasted Brussels sprouts and StevieD’s vegan gravy.

A couple weeks ago I mentioned to my MIL how excited I was for the next Jewish holiday involving brisket, so she made brisket (so fucking good) as well as turkey.

My friend throws a Hanukkah party and he makes the most amazing brisket!

i made an apple tart— my family didn’t even consider the sad store bought pies as legitimate desserts after they ate it.

still, it was my first tart and so there is room for improvement!

no talkin bad bout orange sweet potatoes

I'm not a cook - or rather I'm a ridiculously slow cook which is why I normally don't cook - but someone made an amazing ham that made me wish it became the traditional Thanksgiving dish over turkey. On the other hand, if it wasn't for the turkey, we wouldn't have had the amazing stuffing, which was actually cooked in the turkey and also included some chopped bits of sausage inside. Brussel sprouts were also amazing, cooked with thick, chopped bits of bacon. I usually don't eat much meat, so that may have enhanced my appreciation for this one-off splurging.

that’s brunswick stew

The calzones (sweet potatoes, potatoes, quorn, walnuts, brussel sprouts, cheese) turned out amazingly. Mushroom gravy, cranberry sauce, kale salad. The sprouts and kale were from the garden. Possibly the best meal?

Did you go all the way and put in squirrel meat?
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland),

A nutty suggestion.

it can be made with pretty much anything but sadly no squirrel meat (this time)

I had turnips

thanksgiving was just the two of us this year - we were supposed to meet up with ilxor map and his partner out in utah for the weekend but my stupid body decided to get sick so we had to cancel :(

nevertheless, we made all the stuff we were going to bring anyway - mac n' cheese, brussels sprouts, roast carrots, cranberry sauce, plus my guy made a super-delicious roast chicken. and i made the pumpkin cheesecake that we had for dessert (which honestly could've used another couple of minutes in the oven but still tasted great). so all was not lost :)

had a really nice thanksgiving at my cousin’s house, for the first time in forever most of my extended family on my dad’s side were in town (that town being reno) and it was wonderful to see them. by necessity i came out to a few members of my family bc i will probably be changing my government name next year and also i’m tired of being in straight drag around family. everyone i told was very supportive, and i found out a second cousin of mine is nonbinary and going by a new name

for the first time in a while they forgot i was vegetarian but the thing about thanksgiving is that vegetarians can live quite capably off of side dishes. the mashed potatoes were fucking excellent

Four days of Thanksgiving calzones were capped off by Thanksgiving ramen *fire emoji*

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ILE-branded ramen to pay for hosting, would support

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step 2: somehow tie in w everything bagel seasoning
step 3: profit