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Post by cooktocook on Nov 21, 2018 11:35:43 GMT -5
Saw this on the news this morning--the popular side dishes for the holiday in different regions. Will you be eating your region food?
Southeast--Mac and Cheese New England--Squash Great Lakes--Rolls/Bread Midwest--Green Bean Casserole Texas and central southern states--corn bread Western states as well as Hawaii and Alaska--salad
I will be having two Thanksgivings this year--Cuban-style on Thursday and American on Friday; neither meals will be at my own home. Although I don't know for sure what the families are serving, I'm 100% certain that mac and cheese will not on the menu either day even though we live in the south.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all! Lori
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Post by tamaralynn on Nov 21, 2018 12:33:30 GMT -5
Our immediate family will be going to Great Wolf Lodge in Fort Worth for the Thanksgiving weekend. This is our Christmas gift to them since we will not see them at Christmas. We have been doing something similar for the past 6 years and it seems to work well. We have a huge range of ages with grandkids-from 21 to 1. We don't live close enough to really know their likes, or what they might have/need, so it works to plan an event we can all enjoy. Traditionally, since we are from Oklahoma/Texas, we do love our cornbread dressing. We have turkey, mashed potatoes, usually no gravy because we make homemade noodles and cook them in the turkey broth, and serve that over the potatoes. Most of us like the green bean casserole too. It is a toss up between pecan pie or pumpkin pie. I usually throw in a chocolate pie also.
Hopefully next year we will be settled in our new home and be able to host a wonderful Christmas with everyone.
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Post by nybirder on Nov 21, 2018 13:16:28 GMT -5
Hmm--I guess I'm New England loosely but NY isn't considered part of it because we were originally settled by the Dutch instead of the English. So we are included in the mid-Atlantic states and also the Great Lakes states. Doesn't much matter--we don't consider squash a must and rarely have bread or rolls because there's so much already on the table.
Green bean casserole, however, does show up most of the time. My niece's MIL always contributes a jello cranberry salad with apples, celery, and walnuts which shows up a lot here. She also makes a killer dressing outside the turkey which uses Italian hot sausage--part of her family heritage. It is not unusual for many tables here in town to have lasagna or baked ziti alongside the turkey and an Italian cannoli cake or ricotta pie for dessert.
Birdy
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Post by pippin3 on Nov 21, 2018 14:00:31 GMT -5
Birdy, that dressing with Italian Sausage sounds like it would be great any time of the year...can you get the recipe and share it?
I grew up not too far from where Birdy lives in upstate NY...always had bread stuffing...in the turkey;mashed potatoes, gravy and Apple and Pumpkin Pies for dessert. Married a Texan and had to learn to make cornbread dressing...first attempt was a big loser...didn’t read the recipe right and used cornMeal, instead of cornBread...can you say glue? Have learned a lot over the years and now get the dressing, not stuffing right! I do stuff the turkey even though my MIL made hers in a baking dish. Also learned to make pecan pie for Thanksgiving but Apple for Christmas. We do like the green bean casserole but this year asparagus is on sale so will have either an asparagus salad or roasted asparagus.
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Post by nybirder on Nov 21, 2018 14:34:14 GMT -5
Pippin--I'll try but I have a hunch it's "classified". I'm not sure if her DIL (my niece) even has it. LOL! It's worth a try.
Love the story about the corn"meal" dressing! LOL!
Birdy
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Post by pippin3 on Nov 21, 2018 17:25:25 GMT -5
Birdy...have a recipe for Cornbread and Sausage casserole that was sent to me yesterday...was from one of the sites I signed up for. Will just post the link because it is much too long (IMHO) to post it all here. Let me know if this comes close. I had put it on my computer to try. www.onceuponachef.com/recipes/cornbread-and-sausage-stuffing.htmlThat first experience with Cornbread was about the worst cooking experience I have had🤭. |
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Post by nybirder on Nov 22, 2018 8:22:43 GMT -5
Nope--sorry. Not even close. It sounds good, though. I do not believe hers has cornbread in it at all--probably Italian bread as well as hot Italian fennel sausage. It's very moist--almost like a pudding--not even sure if there are eggs in it. I'll see if I can get the recipe today.
Those cooking disaster stories can be fun to recall--once the trauma is over, of course! My brother and his FIL Stash told my SIL they were going to handle stuffing the turkey one year. She was suspicious something was wrong when one of them made an emergency run for more bread because they didn't have enough! So, when it was time to take the stuffing out of the bird at dinnertime, they were having trouble getting it out. Turns out, they had just rammed that stuffing into the bird so tight that when it cooked it swelled into something with a texture like a bowling ball! It was the only stuffing I ever saw that you could thinly slice with a knife and it held together. LOL!
Birdy
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Post by wilderness on Nov 22, 2018 8:24:07 GMT -5
I'm with Birdy, not sure just where NY fits into the regions of the US. I do know our Thanksgiving dinner was always the same and I still do the same food today. Of course Turkey and sage bread stuffing in the bird, lots of good rich turkey gravy made from the dripping in the pan, mash potatoes, butter nut squash, canned cranberry jelly, a relish tray of homemade pickles, celery, and both green and ripe olives, mince meat pie, chocolate pie and pumpkin pie. I don't do the mince pie. The chocolate pie was for my brother as he didn't eat anything else. Since his passing I don't do the chocolate pie anymore.
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Post by emr on Nov 22, 2018 8:58:25 GMT -5
We do cornbread dressing but not macaroni & cheese, although it is a holiday staple for most folks around here.
Sweet potatoes are a must, though. A customer told me yesterday, "All you need for Thanksgiving is loved ones and sweet potato souffle" and I think that is just about right. :)
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Post by pippin3 on Nov 22, 2018 12:20:02 GMT -5
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
Birdy, maybe we need a Cooking Disasters thread!🤗
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Post by nybirder on Nov 23, 2018 12:02:34 GMT -5
I bet that would be a hoot!
Birdy
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Post by pippin3 on Nov 23, 2018 12:15:05 GMT -5
Birdy...you mentioned having a number of cookbooks..Do you have the Fannie Farmer Cookbook? My husband gave me that one 40 some years ago and I still use it. If you have it, there is a recipe for Mincemeat Cookies that I will try if I can find the Mincemeat next time I go to the store. I can post it if you want.
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Post by nybirder on Nov 23, 2018 12:23:57 GMT -5
I think I have a paperback version but have no idea where it is at the moment. Rather than typing it up yourself, I bet there's an online copy somewhere. I see the old Fannie Farmer recipes quoted a lot. Found it! www.knittingparadise.com/t-112758-1.html Is that the one you are talking about? Birdy I'm going to post a copy to save you the work. It sounds good--it's been around a while! Mincemeat CookiesFrom my old Fannie Farmer cookbook. It says you may add 1/2 c. more mincemeat or a teaspoon of cinnamon or a pinch of other spices to pick up the flavor. 1 c. shortening 1/2 t. vanilla 1 c. honey or 1 1/2 sugar 3 eggs 3 1/4 c. flour 1 t. salt 1 t. baking soda 1 c. chopped nuts 1 1/2 c. mincemeat Preheat the oven to 350*. Lightly grease your cookie sheets. Cream the shortening, then beat in the vanilla, honey or sugar, and eggs. Mix the flour, salt and baking soda together and add to the first mixture, blending well. Stir in the nuts and the mincemeat. Arrange by teaspoonfuls on the cookie sheets. Bake until light brown, about 8 - 10 minutes. (I always leave my cookies on the sheet for a couple minutes so they can finish cooking.) |
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Post by pippin3 on Nov 23, 2018 13:27:58 GMT -5
Yes, that is the one, Birdy. This iPad is crazy...didn’t want me to post your name. I love my cookbooks but won’t tell you how many I have. You would think I am nuts! With all the traveling as a Military family, I collected a lot. I do go back to the old ones a lot though. There is a lady here that runs a Bindery and she has done a number of them.
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Post by nybirder on Nov 23, 2018 13:34:21 GMT -5
Pippin--the spell checker on my Android tablet drives me nuts. It comes up with the most inane substitutions for words that are spelled correctly that it doesn't think belong there for some reason!
By the way, I was promised that dressing recipe. We were all surprised to learn that what we thought was in it . . . isn't! I'll just leave it like that until I post the recipe. LOL!
Birdy
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