Your Thanksgiving Table

[shetuck]

Anybody else have an inexplicable fondness for instant mashed potatoes?

I just can't enough of the stuff. Maybe it's all the effort that goes into making good mashed potatoes from scratch, but the instant stuff is very satisfying for routine occasions.

 

[jwinslow]

I loathe them.

 

[CCI]

Obviously the centerpiece is going to be the Turkey. I grilled one a few years ago. The fact that it was snowing outside made it that much more fun. It was very tasty... much better than any oven-roasted bird I've ever had. Made it on a gas grill, but added smokey flavor by throwing some wet hickory bark into an aluminum tray on the bottom of the grill. Can't remember anything else about it, but it seemed pretty straight-forward at the time. I think I just left it low-and-slow and made sure to keep an eye on the meat thermometer.

What are you looking forward to having / making / seeing on your TGiving table?

Anybody else out there grilled a Turkey before? Suggestions for marinades or basting sauces for the grill?

Sounds good bro, which I'd like to try grilling a turkey. The CCI family is coming to your pad for Thankgivin

 

[BUCKYLE]

Anybody else have an inexplicable fondness for instant mashed potatoes?

I just can't enough of the stuff. Maybe it's all the effort that goes into making good mashed potatoes from scratch, but the instant stuff is very satisfying for routine occasions.

School mashed potatos were the greatest things ever made in a kitchen, besides pizza.

 

[BuckNutty]

Anybody else have an inexplicable fondness for instant mashed potatoes?

I just can't enough of the stuff. Maybe it's all the effort that goes into making good mashed potatoes from scratch, but the instant stuff is very satisfying for routine occasions.

My sister makes these instant mashed potatoes she doctors up and they are second to none. My favorite thing at Thanksgiving...well, that and the booze.

 

[shetuck]

School mashed potatos were the greatest things ever made in a kitchen, besides pizza.

Yep. No question. The gravy was to die for. And I've never been able to duplicate their meatball sandwiches.

What also comes in on my top five was the meatloaf they used to serve up at the North Commons. I've never been able to replicate that at home.

We need to have a "All-time greatest school lunch items" thread.

 

[BUCKYLE]

We need to have a "All-time greatest school lunch items" thread.

Mini Sub
Pizza Lasagna


I saw my nephews school lunch menu, and one day, for lunch, they were having:

Salad
Fruit
Yogurt

I would have started a riot.

 

[BigWoof31]

TWICE BAKED POTATOES!
Now there's something that'll make me excited.

 

[Best Buckeye]

nothing from frozen or has the word "instant" connected to it. Everything fresh and made from scratch.
Turkey,
Ham
Mashed potatoes
sweet potatoes
green beans
carrots
home done corn
Dinner rolls
Bread stuffing
Oyster stuffing
Pumkin pie
Banana cream pie
Chocolate pie
Beer

 

[BuckNutty]

Mini Sub
Pizza Lasagna


I saw my nephews school lunch menu, and one day, for lunch, they were having:

Salad
Fruit
Yogurt

I would have started a riot.

No shit.

The best lunch at my school was Veal Parm on a bun.

 

[shetuck]

My sister makes these instant mashed potatoes she doctors up and they are second to none. My favorite thing at Thanksgiving...well, that and the booze.

One of my favorite fish recipes calls for using instant mashed potatoe flakes as the dry-coat on cod / roughy / pike fillets. Fry the things up in a cast-iron skillet using peanut oil. Diced pickles and onions mixed into Helman's mayo on the side... Money!

 

[BigWoof31]

nothing from frozen or has the word "instant" connected to it. Everything fresh and made from scratch.
Turkey,
Ham
Mashed potatoes
sweet potatoes
green beans
carrots
home done corn
Dinner rolls
Bread stuffing
Oyster stuffing
Pumkin pie
Banana cream pie
Chocolate pie
Beer

???

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

Anybody else have an inexplicable fondness for instant mashed potatoes?

I just can't enough of the stuff. Maybe it's all the effort that goes into making good mashed potatoes from scratch, but the instant stuff is very satisfying for routine occasions.

No, no, no.

 

[NFBuck]

We need to have a "All-time greatest school lunch items" thread.

Fiestada Pizza.

 

[shetuck]

No, no, no.

Let me see if I can couch this in terms you'd be able to relate to better... How do you feel about a picnic table molded out of instant mashed potatoes?