Does anyone do stuff really out of the ordinary for Thanksgiving dinner? I know a handful of families that cook something than Turkey as their main course, but I’m mostly interested in what sorts of side dishes your family/friends prepare that are out of the ordinary. Let’s share unique recipes and salivate over the catatonic gluttony of tomorrow.
Some interesting turkey and thanksgiving factoids after the break…
- Did you know that the president officially pardoned the turkey in 2001?
- In the US, we’ve doubled our per capita consumption of turkey since 1970 to about 17.5 pounds per person.
- 271 million turkeys will be raised (and slaughtered) in 2008!
- Virginia is the fourth largest produces of turkeys. We produce over 21 million turkeys per year.
Thanksgiving Dinner More Expensive Due to Turkey and Cranberry Prices
[stats] [pic from xybermatthew]
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Did you know the President has officially pardoned a turkey every year since 1989.
@1, no, because i have the brain the size of a pea.
So does GWB… make your point Thor.
If he pardoned THE turkey as opposed to A turkey, then we’re all in trouble. Since 2001.
I like green bean casserole, stuffing, biscuits, oysters on the half-shell, shrimp cocktail, mashed potatoes, ham biscuits, gravy, Pinot Noir and taking off my trousers after it’s all done.
I read the entire label on the deep-fry-your-turkey kit at Kroger. The kit consists of one 3 gallon jug of cottonseed oil. Luckily, the oil can be re-used after Thanksgiving (optional filter not included), because “cottonseed oil does not absorb the flavor of foods cooked in it.”
So, people, more proof that cottonseed oil is NOT FOOD. It is clothing. Do not eat your shorts.
Deep fried turkey is great. Deep fried snickers are even better!
Deep fried
snickersknickers are even better!FTFY
Don’t support the turkicide. Eat a Turk’y instead.
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2653.shtml
http://www.quorn.us/cmpage.aspx?pageid=462&productid=146
http://www.mercyforanimals.org/HOR/
@9: So you’re saying we shouldn’t eat the turkey we kill? Well, there’s a pile of bird carcasses going to waste. Can we still give the gibblets to the hounds?
shen, Sarah Palin would not approve. Without turkey killing she wouldn’t have a backdrop to talk about the economy.
Sarah Palin can go drink a Crystal Pepsi and STFU.
It’s at about 4:00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYxn2vlhtWo
but it has all the banality of evil, not really worth watching.
colfer, I got to 2:32 and paused the video. Since I will be eating turkey tomorrow, would it be wise for me to go passed this point?
Don’t be a pussy, echo. If you’re gonna eat it, you should see how it gets to your table.
I watched it. It’s not nearly as bad as they made it sound.
That’s cause you can’t hear the turkeys screaming.
Shen, the worst part of Thanksgiving is the turkey… it’s all the other quality food items that makes me happy!
The YouTube I linked to fuzzes out the worst parts, and that place is not even a factory farm.
The last vegetarian Tgiving I went to was great, but we had to peel tiny legumes for about four hours beforehand. Chai was actually introduced to a big city via our home kitchen. My roommate distributed it in liquid form back then. Tranks for the meowmeries.
To each their own, but that’s only because you all have never raised your own meat before…
/Waiting for it…waiting for it… Don’t disappoint me, ya’ll. I know it’s killing you to not say something.
The president is on track to pardon many turkeys before his term expires.
My mother has enslaved me in the kitchen this afternoon to prepare our Thanksgiving feast: honey-brined turkey, stuffing (which yes, we bake in the turkey), mashed potatoes, roasted butternut squash, green bean casserole (the one with French’s onions!), Waldorf salad, and cranberry sauce. Oh, and a pumpkin pie, an apple pie and a serious load of pumpkin cookies. Let it never be said that Italians eat wop food on the holidays.
omfg, i want pumpkin cookies!!
omfg, i want pumpkin cookies!!
(see, i want pumpkin cookies really badly.)
Salted the turkey today, will roast it tomorrow. We also will have sweet potatoes baked with bourbon, brown sugar and butter. Mashed potatoes. Brussel sprouts sauteed with turkey bacon. Yeast rolls. Stuffing both with and without oysters. Pecan and pumpkin pies. Cranberry sauce from the can and fresh cranberry relish. Corn pudding with roasted chantrelle mushrooms. Sage gravy.
Mostly, I’ll have a little turkey and a lot of oyster stuffing with lots of gravy a roll or two and a fair bit of both potato dishes. Then a big slice of pumpkin pie later in the day. My favorite part is the hot turkey sandwiches on Friday which I always have on toasted sourdough bread because when I was a kid my mom’s parents lived in San Francisco and would bring fresh sourdough with them when they came to visit for Thanksgiving every year. My mom always made hot turkey sandwiches on the sourdough the next day and it stuck.
ok, only because all the “old” ladies in my family died, I have “inherited” all the holiday dinners from my mom’s side of the family. Therefore, cooking for 20, we are having roasted turkey with dressing (INSIDE the friggin’ bird), mashed potatoes, sauteed fresh green beans, harvard beets, squash casserole, yeast rolls, jellied, whole and fresh with orange cranberry sauces, corn pudding, pumpkin pie, chocolate pie, carrot cake and some sort of extremely exotic apps brought by my foodie cousins, usually involving some sort of seafood like smoked salmon or crab. I plan to be comotose tomorrow night, but only because of the combination of rich foods with too much alcohol consumed because of relative stress… as opposed to too much alcohol consumed because of usual stress…
All I care about today is a green bean casserole getting IN MY BELLY! Along with pie. Must. MUST have pie.
This might be the first food thread that does not mention that rancid kitty cat semen called Aioli. Looks like jerked off dolphin.
Thurston….are you the guy that got arrested at Seaworld a few years ago?
My mom has banned the green bean casserole (I’ll make one for myself when I get home) but we use 2T browned butter, 2T soy sauce and 2T balsamic vinegar for sauce on green beans and it is way yummy. My family is uber-traditional for this holiday. Have a good one y’all!
@34: I am sad to hear that green bean casserole has been banned by your mother, wish we could share ours.
Luckily, since I’ve been cooking, I’ve been force-fed screwdrivers and champagne, so I am really excited about pie! Also, I named our turkey Sviatoslav, and everyone thinks I am out of my mind. Apparently telling them that I am a grad student is not a sufficient response.
@23 HAHA. I just got that.
The movie shown above says that Thanksgiving dinner for 10 costs $45? My turkey alone cost that.
Everything’s traditional up here at chez-of-the-parents-in-law. I did make a gluten-free/soy-free coconut cream pie, bittersweet chocolate tart, and wild mushroom/gf sourdough dressing. And in a few, I’ll go down and make myself some gravy.
The turkey is brined and smoked. Buttered corn, garlicky green beans, roasted yams and apples, mashed potatoes with extra garlic and herbs . . . typical fare. The rest of the group will have the traditional sausage and italian bread dressing, along with a very rich turkey/bacon gravy.
In the past, I’d provide vegetarian entrees, but I eat the turkey these days.
Soon, very soon, the drinking will start. Wooohah!
i had aquila d’oro chianti and a pint of chocolate ice cream for thanksgiving dinner.
i have too much to be genuinely concerned about
(not me) for being so full.
@37 – we started with bloody marys at 11:30 am. Why wait?
The best part about thanksgiving is the football. Oh and the sausage dip (Hot sausage, Rotel and cream chesse with melted cheddar on top) to go with it.