November 12, 2009
Fill in the Blank Friday: Favorite Dish?
If you’re my Twitter friend, you might be following the game I’m playing with myself called something like: How Many Pumpkin Pies Can I Eat by the End of the Year? As I write this, I am baking my FOURTH pumpkin pie of the season. FOURTH. Truthfully, it would have been my fifth but I was in NYC last week and cooking a pumpkin pie in my hotel room presented some challenges.
And very soon, Thanksgiving will be here, which could be renamed The Day When We Eat All of May’s Favorite Dishes at Once. Except for a few gross-out classics (Jell-O mold, anyone?), Thanksgiving is one of the most delicious days of the year.
So for this Friday, here’s your prompt: The best Thanksgiving dish is______________
And just to keep things lively: The grossest Thanksgiving dish is ______________
Best: Stuffing. Love. It.
Grossest: Not sure…not too fond of the green beans with bacon bits, but that’s only ’cause I hate bacon
Everyone else in the family raves about it.
Best: Turkey of course! Green bean casserole and scalloped potatoes come a close second.
Worst: Stuffing. The problem may be due to the fact we use Stove Top and don’t do anything else to it. It’s always the last side dish to get eaten as a leftover. Silver medal goes to Pumpkin Pie. sorry i can’t stand the stuff
Best: Stuffing - made with cornbread, onions, breadcrumbs and all sorts of other goodness…they are best when drenched with gravy. Mmmmmmmmm
Worst: A turkey and vegetable ASPIC (ie: jello) served by a student at one of our last Thanksgivings here in Oxford. DISGUSTING!!!
Mashed potatoes!
Grosses…. anything with jello or cool-whip.
“Hey, ya’ll,” as Paula says. I am from the South, but my parents are(decidedly) not, so it was not until I married a Southerner that I met broccoli casserole.
Mayo? Cream of Something Soup? Frozen Broccoli? Cheese-Its?
Thank you, but no.
Best: a tie between green bean casserole, turkey, & mashed potatoes (what can I say, I like tradition)
Worst: The jello with the pieces of fruit “floating” in it (it’s a texture thing) and pumpkin pie (sorry)
I think aspic is gonna win this contest.
I think the aspic definitely wins the prize for WORST.
Best Thanksgiving dish: Sweet potato casserole - which is really more like a dessert - topped with brown sugar and pecans. Heaven. It’s not Thanksgiving unless that’s on the table.
Worst: Canned cranberry sauce, especially with the rings still on it. Eeeeeewwwww.
Best? Pumpkin pie! I’m with you, May. We eat pie after pie and call it a vegetable.
Grossest? No question. Brussel sprouts.
I’m so happy no one has said mine yet. I learned once that actually not everyone even eats this with thanksgiving. But the best for me is definitely the noodles. Homemade noodles placed into the turkey broth with flour and such to thicken at just the last moment before we eat. I could eat a bowl of that and be really, really happy and done. Turkey is the thing I get the smallest portion of. I’m a sides girl. I don’t have a grossest. I don’t eat cranberry sauce and I could do without the broccoli casserole (which weirdly enough is the one I always make, but it does NOT have mayo or cheez-its), but I wouldn’t actually call them gross.
Best: Anything with a REAL potato (sweet potatoes are not real potatoes, FYI. At least not to us Irish folk).
Worst: I’ll jump on the cool whip bandwagon.
best: turkey WITH cranberry sauce of any kind (even with rings!)
worst: stuffing - just can’t get into it
I was never much of a turkey girl until I tried Alton Brown’s turkey recipe here: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/good-eats-roast-turkey-recipe/index.html. It involves soaking the turkey in a brine overnight. But I promise you if you follow the recipe religiously you will NOT have a dry turkey and you will NOT be sorry. There’s even a video called Best Ever Holiday Turkey on there.
There was never a bad dish to grace my mother’s Thanksgiving table. No jello. But grossest on my Grandma’s was Oyster Dressing. Anything with Miracle Whip in it taking a close second.
My answer is exactly the same as Katie’s @ cake, tea and dreams! We should exchange recipies for sweet potato casserole.
The cranberry in a can-shape makes me want to gag.
I live in Salt Lake City, the jello capital (I’m not kidding, Bill Cosby comes here every year to award us for consuming the most jello), and unfortunately aspics are a big part of Utah diet.
Ew.
Best: Stuffing with cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie
worst: Ambrosia salad (that one with the pinapple chunks and coconut flakes, etc. immersed in sour cream and cool whip combined….ick.
Serenity, those noodles sound amazing!
Katie, that sweet potatoe casserole must be to die for!
Please post recipes!
Best: turkey, bourbon-cinnamon sweet potato casserole, lemon pound cake, pumpkin pie, and stuffing.
Worst: oyster stuffing (gag), cranberry sauce from a can, and potato salad
So-bad-it’s-good: pretzel-cream-cheese-strawberry-Jello “salad”, broccoli-rice-cheese casserole, and green-bean-onion-cream-of-something-soup casserole.
Best: Where do I start? I love dressing and anything pumpkin. And for some reason I’ve always loved cranberry jelly from can.
Worst: Homemade cranberry jelly (I’m just not a fan!) and greenbean casserole.
The best: southern style sweet potatoes
The worst: giblets
Best hmmm…I’d say turkey yum! with mashed patotos and Squash! Oh Pumpkin pie come to me! (love pumpkin pie!!!!)
worst…Defently STUFFING! Boy I hate that stuff! Not that I tell my parents that…*smirk* Pretty much love Everything! Just occasonly someone brings somthing that tastes and looks afaul!