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Time for a Drink: Bloody Mary
My cousin's husband used to make mine with Clamato juice. I was surprised at good that was! Horseradish, pickled okra and/or pickled green beans and Frank's hot sauce if no horseradish make it tasty to me. Personally, cilantro is too bitter for my taste.
My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal...
Melitons stuffed with shrimp. It's a New Orleans thing. Melitons are vegetable pears.
Healthy & Delicious: Spinach and Cannellini Bean Dip
Sorry, it's looks too green and healthy for me. I rather my own invention while a young wife and mother whose friends had weekly parties. Philadelphia Brand Cream cheese, tons and tons of fresh diced garlic with a smidge of milk to make it "dippable".
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Thanksgiving Leftovers: Turkey Gumbo
I fix this all the time and prefer it over "turkey day" eatings. I'll buy a breast just so I can make the file' gumbo. I like to use hot sausage like my mother did. She would also add diced leftover roast and ham, but I make mine with only the turkey and hot sausage. Of course she had a houseful to feed everyday so I guess it went further.
Time for a Drink: Bloody Mary
My cousin's husband used to make mine with Clamato juice. I was surprised at good that was! Horseradish, pickled okra and/or pickled green beans and Frank's hot sauce if no horseradish make it tasty to me. Personally, cilantro is too bitter for my taste.
My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal...
Melitons stuffed with shrimp. It's a New Orleans thing. Melitons are vegetable pears.
Healthy & Delicious: Spinach and Cannellini Bean Dip
Sorry, it's looks too green and healthy for me. I rather my own invention while a young wife and mother whose friends had weekly parties. Philadelphia Brand Cream cheese, tons and tons of fresh diced garlic with a smidge of milk to make it "dippable".
Your Clever SE Name
Y'all have made me laugh so hard through this great thread!!!!! I feel close to each of you. Simply using my initials and birth month and date help to get me where I need to go in my "old" age. BABY BOOMERS ROCK!!!!!!!
Stupid to Make Homemade Halloween Treats?
Regarding KarynMC:
You can NEVER say that only a family member would try to poison a child. Get real, there are sick people out there who get off on doing their dirty deed.
Also,please let me know where those chocolate chip cookies are being handed out so that I'll miss that house. :)
Pleas, tell me what to do with this ham.
Dice it into quarter pound pieces and use it as a flavoring in pea soup, a pot of any sort of dried beans. Golly I have so many ideas but I'm so excited by your gift that I can't even think straight right now. You can also use a good piece (depending of you and your hubby's appetite) as a meat to go with snap beans, snow peas, yams or use your own ideas.
What's your favorite food when drunk?
This must be the dumbest question I've ever seen on this site. Get serious.
Taste Test: Mustard
I feel your pain when judging yellow mustard. I'll stick with my French's, thank you anyway. I am really sad to see that you can't find anything good to eat with Zatarain's, how about frying some tasty ham, melting a slice of Kraft American cheese and then placing it between 2 slices of toast with a leafy piece of lettuce? YUMMY!!!!!!
jazzing up white rice
Since I only like white rice, I like to sautee finely chopped onion, bell pepper, garlic and parsley in a quarter stick butter and then add chicken stock and stir well. Bringing it to a boil and then I place it in an ovenproof casserole dish and bake it in a 350 degree oven for 30 minutes until done. You may want to cover it the last 10 minutes so it doesn't brown too much. It's my version of rice pilaf. Any rice can be used but I like unhealthy foods more than healthy ones.
Paying for someone else's party?
I think the party ought to be a get together where everyone can bring a dish and maybe some booze. It's very inconsiderate to think that everyone can afford this sort of thing. If the people, who you don't know anyway, want to have a party, I think they should foot the bill.
Egg in Toast: What Do You Call It?
Never saw them till I married my ex when he used to fix them for our kids. He called them Toad in the Hole.
How do YOU make a tomato sandwich?
I just don't get the Hellman's and Miracle Whip fascination.....
Take a creole tomato fresh off the vine. Use very fresh or toasted white bread. Sunbeam's not good since they started batter whipping it years ago, so I stick with Bunny Bread. Blue Plate mayonaise (a thin layer), salt and pepper. OMG!!! I gotta go make one now!
What's Your Favorite Ice Cream Flavor
Vanilla & chocolate both Bell Bell. Strawberry Haagen Daaz. And homemade Creole Cream Cheese or Peach. I won't go anywhere else as far as ice cream is concerned.
Summer BBQ - How to deal with something tactfully
On second thought, it's a barbeque, bring an ice cold watermelon!
Summer BBQ - How to deal with something tactfully
You asked and she said no. Go with what you want to bring or don't go and if she asks why, tell her she's no friend.
What’s Your Favorite Weird Snack Combo?
Fresh oranges with yellow mustard and at a different time devils' food cookies with pink lemonade.
Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 62: What Does a Serious Eater Do with Restaurant Leftovers?
I usually order an appetizer knowing how limited my eating capaticity is.
At what point does a recipe become your own?
I think if it's made with love and from memory, it's yours.
Weird Ingredients In Recipes?
Apple pie with red hots sounds tasty to me.
Favorite Cheap Homemade Meal?
That's kinda easy. Usually any kind of simple soup, ex: bean, potato, split pea, cheddar cheese. Pasta with sauce. Any dried beans with ham seasoning, tacos, burritos, shepard's pie, cheeseburger surprise casserole and my favorite, stewed okra with tomatoes.
It's not worth it to make _______ when I could just buy it
I love pasta sooooo much, but there is so much of a difference when it's fresh versus dried. If you try it you'll see what I mean.
Southern Food - What's your favorite?
My favs would be for the moment, boiled shrimp & crabs, stewed okra, fried catfish and creole tomatoes always. Born, and will die in New Orleans.
Dinner Tonight: Bubble and Squeak
This is new to me, but right up my alley. Thanks so much. I know my daughter will be delighted with this one also.
Time for a Drink: Bloody Mary
The best Bloody Mary I ever had, bar none was in a restaurant in St. Helena, Ca. Can't remember the name but the secret ingredient was
cocktail sauce, not a lot, just a little, try it!
My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal...
@julea
I'm with you - all my friends know that I'll be bringing the "shape of the can" - it has become a minor competition to see who can dump the cranberry sauce out in perfect "can" shape. However, my favorite part is the other thing no one else I know likes but me - mincemeat pie.
My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal...
Stuffing(!), cranberry sauce-- don't hate me, I love the canned stuff--, pumpkin pie, pearl onions, and of course, a little turkey is mandatory.
Everything else is meh.
What I REALLY love is the leftover turkey/cranberry sauce sandwiches.
Godly.
My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal...
Another creative leftover suggestion: pumpernickel bread, cream cheese on bread, avocado, mashed and spread, thin slices of breast, stacked and lettuce. This was the best sandwich I ever had. LA, 1978 at some restaurant. They had named it The" Martha Raye" , after the actress.
My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal...
My own favorite thing about Thanksgiving is seeing most of the people that I love. As the oldest sister of a family of eight children, it is the one day of the year that almost all of us are together, along with assorted friends and satellite family. We always eat at my youngest sister's house and last year there were forty-eight people there. There was a roast turkey, a deep-fried turkey, a whole ham, and a whole huge brisket, along with side dishes too numerous to mention. My personal favorite(s): GRAVY - made by me, and a strange creamed corn casserole that is very sweet and was actually my grandmother's original recipe. Oh yeah, I almost forget the praline pecan cheesecake. That's not too bad to end a huge meal with. Then we all play "Guitar Hero" after consuming immoderate amounts of wine and beer. Great! My favorite day of the year. PlanetChaos, the dog fart reminder is hilarious. Thanks for making me laugh on a Monday morning.
My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal...
The crispy part of the stuffing smothered in hot gravey! And the perfect sandwhich after everyone goes home. The part I Don't look forward too is the Dog Farts...what part of "don't feed the dog" do people not understand?
My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal...
Creative left-overs--- A pizza crust, thin sliced turkey, cranberry sauce, peas, small slices of sweet potatoes, maybe a little bit of ham chunks and mozzarella cheese all over the top. - Bake and enjoy! Dave
My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal...
Oh geez, I can't even choose. Actually no, that's a lie. Hand's down, it's gotta be sweet potato casserole. My aunt makes THE BEST sweet potato casserole. It's equipped with marshmallow, pecans, and a buttload of buttah. (I specifically used the word buttload cause that's exactly where it goes...that's ok though. More to love)
My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal...
My family's meal is quite versatile; we always have more than one meat. For those not fond of turkey, we may do a ham and have even included barbecued ribs!
My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal...
Southern cornbread dressing with gravy and the requisite chocolate pie for dessert.
My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal...
I marinate my turkey in soy sauce, sparkling apple cider, season salt, and black pepper so it has this wonderful sweet-savory flavor and the meat is so juicy it falls off the bone. I especially love the skin, neck, and tail.
I also love the stuffing which consists of bread crumbs, dried sage, apple, almonds, and onions.
For dessert my family and I forgo the pies and cakes and have a Filipino-style fruit salad, which is basically canned fruit cocktail mixed with Nestle cream, condensed milk, young coconut, and pineapple gel. It's a light and refreshing way to end a heavy meal.
Time for a Drink: Bloody Mary
Here is mine:
2 oz Vodka or Gin
Worchestershire Sauce to taste
A Few Dashes Celery Seed
Fresh Ground Horseradish to taste
A Few Dashes Salt and Pepper
Three Dashes Tobasco
A Few Dashes Ground Mustard
1/2 oz Guinness or other Stout
Lemon and Lime Juices From Muddling
Three Dashes Angostura Bitters
Tomato Juice
In the bottom of a mixing glass, put two lemon and two lime wedges, salt and pepper. Muddle to extract all the juice from the Citrus.
Add the remaining ingredients and fill with ice.
"Roll" the mixture back and forth from mixing glass to shaker tin and back again a few times.
Fill a tall glass or Collins glass with fresh ice and strain mixture from mixing glass into serving vessel.
Garnish how you see fit. I like a pickled green bean and Lemon wedge.
My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal...
Stuffing, for sure.
My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal...
The stuffing, hands down. Second best is the crispy piece of skin that goes over the stuffing. And then the turkey sandwiches at about 7 pm with lots of full fat mayo. They have to have lots of salt and pepper too. Can't wait!!!!
My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal...
stuffing doused in gravy!
My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal...
Oh...I love me the turkey butt. I would forgo any remaining meat from the turkey If I got that fatty morsel of turkey butt and the neck (provided it was roasted alongside everything else) to gnaw on with dressing and a gallon of gravy.
My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal...
Oh, I am all about the dressing/stuffing and gravy. I add the boiled neck meat to the stuffing and the giblets to the gravy and I am a happy lady. Even though I live in the South, I still make Northern dressing: no cornbread allowed! Though I do like cornbread by itself.
And it is all about the family. I love it when I can cook for mine.
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My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal...
I'm a vegetarian, and I have to say I don't miss the turkey. My favorite part, for some reason, is the cranberry jelly - NOT cranberry sauce. It has to be the kind that slides out of the can gelatinously and jiggles on the plate with the little can ridge-marks still in it. :] I am also a huge fan of my grandmother's blueberry pie - pumpkin is fine, but blueberry is awesome.
My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal...
The golden turkey, (dark meat for me!) and lots of gravy and mashed potatoes!
My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal...
Cranberry sauce:
Blanch three 3-inch strips of zest from two large navel oranges for one minute and mince. Peel the oranges, cut them into quarters and add to a bag of cranberries along with the zest and whirl in the food processor until very finely chopped. Remove from processor and add 3/4 cup honey and 1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger. Allow to macerate for at least one day.
My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal...
@BrewMaker... LOL @ "Sangwich." I looooove that Friday after T-Giving mini-feast. I worked for brokerage for 8 years and that was the LONLIEST day to work. Anticipating that Friday night leftoverfest was the only thing that got me thru a very boring day.
I don't know if anyone else does this - but when I host T-Giving, I make it a point to get plastic containers and offer all my guests a crack at the leftovers. I always make plenty and have never been left without enough for my own family. It seems so bogus that you don't get the Friday post-T-Giving meal if you don't host.
My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal...
I like the "Thanksgiving" sangwich on Friday afternoon (no shopping for me!). Turkey, stuffing, cranberries, sweet potatoes, and anything else from the day before that I can fit on a roll, or between two slices of bread is fair game! God, I can't wait...
My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal...
Stuffing and gravy! Basically, everything on the plate except for the sweet potatoes takes a bath in gravy, which is just fine by me. And this year I'll be 7 months pregnant when Thanksgiving rolls around, so I feel like my gluttony will be slightly less frowned-upon
My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal...
@gizmosma- try sprinkling a bit of fresh nutmeg on those mashed turnips - delicious!
My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal...
My brother and I loved Thanksgiving. We would eat so much that my mom would make us lay on the floor and stretch our body out to help the pain in our side from overstuffing, ourselves. Now some family members thought we were just trying to get out of doing the dishes, but mom always gave us the KP duty OFF on thanksgiving, anyway. We just loved her TG food and loved it from beginning to end. We still love it, but do offer better control. ThankGod. coco
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I fix this all the time and prefer it over "turkey day" eatings. I'll buy a breast just so I can make the file' gumbo. I like to use hot sausage like my mother did. She would also add diced leftover roast and ham, but I make mine with only the turkey and hot sausage. Of course she had a houseful to feed everyday so I guess it went further.