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MIL did a turkey, oyster dressing, sweet dressing, Moroccan carrots, cauliflower braised in coconut milk, cranberry relish, an obligatory can of cranberry, plus provided wine and cheese plates (she hosted, and entertaining is kind of her thing so cool). We live about a mile away so I cooked in my kitchen and brought over a full ham, yeast rolls, kale/pumpkin/pomegranate salad, roasted chestnut soup, and cranberry pecan pie. Other folks brought yams, pies, more wine, etc. We served about 40 people, and it was great like it always is. Thanksgiving rules.
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Sometimes around this time of year I feel a bit bummed because I doubt I'll ever be able to host a big family Thanksgiving - my wife and I are the kids who moved away, and while my parents come from big families, they're pretty thoroughly fractured. My mom's family hardly speaks and The Tantrum a couple years ago likely ended the tradition on my dad's side. Hearing poo poo about guests being that ungrateful makes me want to flip tables on your behalf. I am grateful that my Greek immigrant MIL (and late FIL) have never been anything but gracious and are generally over the moon that I cooked for them at all, even when I ventured outside their comfort zones. Mr. Wiggles posted:oyster dressing I've never had oyster dressing and probably never will because everyone else in my family thinks oysters are disgusting ocean boogers. Which they are, but delicious also. I can't quite picture how it fits together, flavor-wise. Does it just give an umami kick or can you really taste oyster?
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It can go either way depending on the recipe, but I stopped making it when I realized it was even better to just keep the oysters live and on ice and snack on them throughout the whole day of cooking.
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mom got the turkey exactly right this year. juicy meat crispy skin. all i had to steer her on was letting the drat thing rest for ten minutes before carving also the way to get people off the simplistic stuff is to just make it for normal sunday dinners. the american turkey dinner isn't a uniquely thanksgiving thing, at least traditionally. if you're using box stuffing and canned cranberry jelly it isn't much trouble to bang out a roast turkey and some mashed potatoes in an afternoon. and if that's the stuff they like, they'll like it, while also kind of lessening the feeling of them being obligatory parts of thanksgiving. if you just had a stovetop-stuffed bird a month or two ago you're more apt to try something different than if the only time you eat them is once a year in november
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Not in America so no Thanksgiving story but I just spent 3h working on a big pot of pork and beef meatballs in gravy seasoned with a bit of juniper and 100% made from home made stuff served over bulgar and it's delicious and I'm happy.
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CommonShore posted:Not in America so no Thanksgiving story but I just spent 3h working on a big pot of pork and beef meatballs in gravy seasoned with a bit of juniper and 100% made from home made stuff served over bulgar and it's delicious and I'm happy. 
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I went to a Friendsgiving with cider-braised Turkey, homemade everything. One of our friends keeps kosher so we made it all from scratch and without dairy to ensure that the meal was parve. tart and lovely cranberry sauce, stuffing rich with hand-made Romanian sausage from the local butcher, sides of garlicky sautéed green beans and broccoli rabe, gingery butternut squash soup, and apple galette, pumpkin cheesecake and pecan custard pie for dessert. I brought the pecan pie and homemade pull-apart yeast rolls- the latter were so simple that they are all I want to eat now! ...and the day after we drove up to Thanksgiving with the in-laws, where my MIL patted me on the stomach before dessert and asked if I was sure I had room in there. (...the gently caress, lady?)
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Hung out with Suspect Bucket, their significant other, and Doggy Bucket. All three were lovely folk, and so much fun to hang out with. Mr. Bucket makes food from Kerala, which is amongst my favourite ever. It's the neighbouring state to Tamil Nadu, where my people are from, so even if we do have some similarities in general spicing and such, the actual food itself is gonna be vastly different. I learned yesterday that the reason so many Keralites understand Tamil is because a TON of our movies, songs, and other cultural stuff ends up in Kerala, but not the other way around. Their biggest export is their excellent recipes, which Tamilians never get /quite/ right, whereas Tamilians apparently export their media to the surrounding states. The food was excellent, the wine was great, the company was hella fun, and the dog was a side-eyeing little scamp who knew exactly what faces to pull so that she got a steady stream of treats from the humans. The funny thing is that even though we'd never met in person before, we started chatting almost immediately, and didn't STFU until it was time to go our separate ways.
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My wife and I did Thanksgiving the weekend prior as both sides of our families had people that had to work on Thanksgiving (medical and hospital maintenance, not retail, thankfully. That chaps my rear end, but that's another topic). I got to skip my inlaws because my BIL has gone from idiot maga chud into a fash rear end in a top hat comfortable throwing racial and homophobic slurs around me and I told him I'd beat him into a pile of goo next time I heard that poo poo come out of his mouth, so I was excused lol. My family Thanksgiving was a fairly small, quick affair as my wife had to work that evening. The food was mostly bought already made and nothing to write home about, but it was nice to see those who could make it. On actual Thanksgiving, I had to drop my wife off at the airport in boston and it was the easiest time I've ever had, so I gave thanks for the holiday, then cursed the hotel she was staying at for charging $37 to park for 70 minutes to hang out with her ahead of a 3 week trip to do medical work out of the country for school. Dicks.
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dino. posted:Hung out with Suspect Bucket, their significant other, and Doggy Bucket. All three were lovely folk, and so much fun to hang out with. Mr. Bucket makes food from Kerala, which is amongst my favourite ever. It's the neighbouring state to Tamil Nadu, where my people are from, so even if we do have some similarities in general spicing and such, the actual food itself is gonna be vastly different. I learned yesterday that the reason so many Keralites understand Tamil is because a TON of our movies, songs, and other cultural stuff ends up in Kerala, but not the other way around. Their biggest export is their excellent recipes, which Tamilians never get /quite/ right, whereas Tamilians apparently export their media to the surrounding states. We had a wonderful time! Dino is amazing company, a marvel of a man. I highly recommend having a Dino in your friends collection :p. I will put together the recipes for the vegan thread some time this week. Today I am hunkered down, watching the Jags suck, and making more cookies. edit: Yom 
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EVG posted:I went to a Friendsgiving with cider-braised Turkey, homemade everything. One of our friends keeps kosher so we made it all from scratch and without dairy to ensure that the meal was parve. tart and lovely cranberry sauce, stuffing rich with hand-made Romanian sausage from the local butcher, sides of garlicky sautéed green beans and broccoli rabe, gingery butternut squash soup, and apple galette, pumpkin cheesecake and pecan custard pie for dessert. I brought the pecan pie and homemade pull-apart yeast rolls- the latter were so simple that they are all I want to eat now! Parve cheesecake?
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bob dobbs is dead posted:Parve cheesecake? Dessert was later, and no longer subject.
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OMGVBFLOL posted:was the sausage beef or something else? It was the famous Romanian kosher sausage.
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My crazy aunt flew in from Minneapolis for Thanksgiving. She's three months past her last chemo treatment and signs are pointing to remission, so we had a lot to be thankful for this year. Mom and I did the cooking; every year she gets a little slower, and I do a little more of the heavy lifting. It's like the world's slowest baton passing, and I hope we have a decade or two more to finish it. She's been cancer free for four years as of August. 20lb turkey got broken down into hind quarters and breast, dry brined for two days, and roasted, with the back, neck, and giblets simmered for gravy. As is tradition, we cooks shared the heart just before pulling the bird out of the oven. Celery stuffing (which we call stuffing despite none of it going into a bird), raw cranberry salad with black walnuts, mashed potatoes, and roasted butternut squash with pecan praline topping were our nods to tradition. I made a lemongrass brown butter and poured it over wok-seared green beans with almonds for something new. Cherry, apple custard, pumpkin, and lemon cream pies for dessert. We did most of our prep in the week running up to T-day, so the day of was mostly visiting, babysitting ovens, and feeding Mom and Crazy Aunt (and myself) Manhattans, which Mom hadn't had since she was in her 20s. A couple of friends came up from Phoenix to see Crazy Aunt after the holiday, and we've spent the last couple of days going to some of my favorite restaurants, starting Christmas candy-making, and having a nice, long visit. Those friends headed home this afternoon, and the parents/aunt decided to have a night at the casino. So here I am, alone and at home for the first time in more than a week, eating turkey sandwiches and stuffing I crisped up in a frying pan while drinking a Manhattan from a pint glass (always keep your vermouth in the fridge, and use it within two weeks of opening!). Sorry some of your relatives suck, folks. So do some of mine. Thankfully they stayed away this year.
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Ah, I always loved the Thanksgiving updates in this thread! Food was fantastic, but the family dynamic was weird this year. My sister bought a tiny turkey this year, and it turned out amazing. Every bite on the bird was perfectly cooked, even the breast meat. Granted, this was a super fresh local bird, but still, I can highly recommend getting a SMALLER bird, it cooked fast and it cooked perfectly. As for why it was smaller, this year was a, um, fun one. I always thought my BIL was a great guy, but it turns out he was a secret drunk who secretly spent all their money on whores and sugar babies. Ooops. Like, had secret loans out on the house, carved out the life insurance, has shady personal loans... On the other hand, he left a wide electronic trail for my sister and her forensic accountant. Things can only get darker from here, folks! Oh, and the nephew is now my niece. Which is cool, except they made her wait three years before telling everyone? And we can't tell my grandmother? And my mom, despite her best intentions, keeps slipping up with the old name and pronouns. She's trying, but it's awkward as gently caress. On the other hand, no MAGA chuds in my family, so we don't have any of that political strife. And, the soon-to-be-ex BIL had bought himself a Big Green Egg with ALL of the accessories, and when they sell the house it will be MINE. MINE MINE MINE.
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The Big Green Egg is the prefect example of something so stupid expensive that I would never buy one for myself. But a free one? Yes please.
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Maybe you should consider selling it to help with your sister’s financial problems?
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He can use it first, and then consider selling it if his sister seems to be struggling It’s already used right?
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Steve Yun posted:He can use it first, and then consider selling it if his sister seems to be struggling He incinerated several pizzas and ruined a few briskets, yes. Chemmy posted:Maybe you should consider selling it to help with your sister’s financial problems? Don't worry, once she hits bottom she can come work for me in the candy shop. Until then, overpriced smoker for me.
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Squashy Nipples posted:Oh, and the nephew is now my niece. Which is cool, except they made her wait three years before telling everyone? And we can't tell my grandmother? And my mom, despite her best intentions, keeps slipping up with the old name and pronouns. She's trying, but it's awkward as gently caress. Good on you for not being a shithead to your niece. Better than I ever got from my family, but that I’ve even seen my extended relatives for a decade. I expect your siblings’ family was afraid they’d be rejected and abandoned for having a transgender child. Same reason i left my family, except with less Guatemalan flags and Catholicism.
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Wow, I really killed this thread. Did you guys know that there is a new apple? Well, about 10 years old, but I just started seeing them at my local supermarket, and YUM. Juicy and crunchy, a great eating apple. https://sweetango.com/ (try and ignore the gimmicky name. trust me, they are good.)
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I was at sprouts last weekend and they had some crazy honeycrisps the size of pomelos. I'm certain there is dark magic going on there.
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Squashy Nipples posted:Wow, I really killed this thread. Every food podcast has been going on and on about these things for the last few months but nowhere around here carries them. Your marketing doesn't work if I can't find your product!
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Squashy Nipples posted:Wow, I really killed this thread. I had those a bit ago, they are quite good. We've had a lot of Kanzi showing up recently, and those have turned out to be pretty tasty as well.
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Squashy Nipples posted:Wow, I really killed this thread. There was a goon in TFLC that went on and on about those a couple years ago. They are quite good.
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Why would I want to buy an apple that brags about how loud the crunch is. I don't want to listen to people eat a loving apple
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I don't think anyone wants a stealth apple.
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Why not get an apple you can forget about for a loving year in the fridge? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50619281
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Why would I want to buy an apple that brags about how loud the crunch is. I don't want to listen to people eat a loving apple Fits the theme of buying Apple products to show off / as a status symbol vs practical use.
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Hey so some of you have soda streaks I think. I need suggestions (this is for a gift) of premium syrups or fruit flavors to get for it.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Hey so some of you have soda streaks I think. I need suggestions (this is for a gift) of premium syrups or fruit flavors to get for it. MINT SYRUP
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Hibiscus syrup is awesome. PM me an address and I'll send you or your recipient some we made from our harvest 
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Hey so some of you have soda streaks I think. I need suggestions (this is for a gift) of premium syrups or fruit flavors to get for it. How do you know about soda streaks?! If I drink too much soda I get diarrhoea, and if I don’t get to the toilet in time I get “soda streaks” in my underpants. It doesn’t really matter what flavour syrup or soda it is. In other news, after not cutting myself in the kitchen for years my santoku got my thumb on Thursday. Luckily my nail bore the brunt of it, and because the knife is sharp the cut isn’t particularly painful.
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Oh man thanksgiving was good, even though like every year I neglected to bring good knives and still work off my aunts ancient cutco shenanigans. My only contributions to the feast proper were the miso Brussels sprouts- I’ve been working away from the ol’ “bacon in everything” short cut, both for personal development, and to accommodate my cousin’s husband who is veggie, and the gravy. In theory I’m going more meat-as-a-condiment, but a feast is a feast. This year the smoked turkey was perfect, but I went ahead and made gravy even though we aren’t traditionally a gravy house. Turkey bits (neck, heart, liver, gizzards) browned with oil, a handful of herbs from the backyard (mostly rosemary and oregano), celery and shallots.  All that into a regular brown roux with a bit of Worcestershire sauce. Blood simple, but when I went to make leftover Sandos the next day...welp. As with any year, you make something good and it becomes the normal, not the exception. Oh well- apparently the miso Brussels is the dish my 80 y/o great uncle looks forward to every year. Next day my mother and I and my partner cooked for everybody who was still around, much more low-key. Mac and cheese went from optional to a partial main (aforementioned veggies) and a pork loin with paprika and garlic studs. My partner rocked a kale salad that went real fast also. Very easy, though this time I made the gravy with the smoked turkey drippings. Not nearly as intense as the night before, but still welcome (just smoked droppings and a blonde roux- have to go deeper on the browning next time). Braised red cabbage, braised leeks, roast sweet potatoes to round out. I don’t get a lot of opportunities to cook for 19 people, so it’s a fun way to spend the day while I have the knees for it.  Bonus smoked turkey content: I am pitching this flavor extension to my friends at Pernod- absolut gravy.  Hope y’all had a happy holiday, jerks.
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I think I got my xanthan turkey gravy down perfectly. Roast bones and veg, make stock, reduce to 1/3 or 1/2. Add xanthan gum a quarter teaspoon at a time, blend in. Check to see if it needs more. Once it gets silky, that’s enough, it will thicken up more as it cools. Salt to taste.  Vegan gravy: simmer a quarter ounce of dried porcini and one palm sized sheet of konbu in a quart of water. Xanthan and salt as above. Try not to boil, I think it loses some of the porcini flavor. Tastes beefy!  I did a good job! (Punches air wildly)
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Steve Yun posted:I think I got my xanthan turkey gravy down perfectly. Roast bones and veg, make stock, reduce to 1/3 or 1/2. Add xanthan gum a quarter teaspoon at a time, blend in. Check to see if it needs more. Once it gets silky, that’s enough, it will thicken up more as it cools. Salt to taste.
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In theory flour dampens the flavor. Some other recipes have pushed cornstarch as a thickener that also doesn’t dilute the flavor and can be used in smaller quantities than flour to get the same effect The xanthan recipes I’ve seen also mix in some lecithin but it’s a chore to find and store lecithin. Xanthan has the danger of turning into jello if you put in too much so just dose a quarter teaspoon at a time
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BrianBoitano posted:Hibiscus syrup is awesome. PM me an address and I'll send you or your recipient some we made from our harvest Carbonation doesn't really appeal to me, so I don't have a Soda Streaks, but drat, I do love me some hibiscus syrup. Properly diluted and iced, so good on a hot day.
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