I have prepared a complete Thanksgiving once - when I was 18 and my bff and I went to visit our other bff who was living in St. George Utah. I was intent on making a traditional Thanksgiving turkey dinner - but my friends would have been happy making bean and cheese burritos. I talked them into helping me make a turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy - and it was not good. None of it. The turkey was watery. I didn't know that in order for flour to thicken gravy, you had to first let it come to a boil - so I just kept on adding more and more and more flour. The stuffing was from a box. I decided to be fancy and make garlic mashed potatoes, and since I had no experience cooking, I just dumped in a ton of garlic salt. Ewwww. That Thanksgiving was not yummy. But now I'm 33, and I can cook! I don't want to make (nor do I think I could successfully pull off) a complete Thanksgiving dinner - but I can do my part and I can do a damn good job at it.
So this year I am making
this greenbean casserole from Pioneer Woman. Everything I have tried from her website has turned out amazing, so I know this will be good. I usually bring sweet potatoes, and man, do I have a good recipe for those. I'm going to miss those this year. My recipe is pretty similar to
this one, but mine has a little bit of orange juice concentrate in it.
So what are you contributing to your Thanksgiving feast this year? Do you have a signature dish that you prepare every year, or are you going all out and making everything yourself? Or are you going to bypass the whole thing and have a bean and cheese burrito?
P.S. Christmas makes me miss our little Sugarhouse bungalow. I love our modern house, but there is something so cozy about an old bungalow.
5 comments:
First of all, that is the fireplace of my dreams in that picture. Secondly, I am always the master of pies. Pumpkin, Apple, Pumpkin Cheesecake, and Pudding are the staples, then I throw in whatever sounds fancy and fun after that.
You'll have to share your sweet potato recipe. I thought PW's looked yummy, but pumpkin pie won this year. It was one or the other since I'm the only one in our little family who'll eat either one!
P.S. Your first Thanksgiving cooking sound like my first experience! Only Brad's entire family came over to eat with us! So embarrassing. The turkey was the only half way edible item. Yuk! I wish I could do it again to prove I can cook now!
Beth - your first Thanksgiving dinner was for your in-laws! That's not even fair. You deserve a do-over!
I love this memory. The dinner was definitely bad. Didn't we have orange juice for a drink? I have pictures of us. I was just so happy that my best friends came to see me. I also remember hiking up the red cliffs and swimming in tiny pools of water that came up to our thighs. Good memories!
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