Do Americans really do this?

Green bean casserole is one of those dishes that just can't be improved even if you use fresh green beans. Like you, my family considers it a Thanksgiving staple, and my wife and I love making shit with fresh ingredients so we offered to make it to see if we could add some non-disgusting flavor to it. No dice, even with fresh ingredients it just came out a disgusting mess.

As an aside for Thanksgiving, is there any goddamn way to turn cranberries into a worthwhile side dish? I'm so fucking sick of the out-of-can cranberry jelly, it tastes fucking terrible.

Cranberries with some lemon zest is pretty good.

Make your own cranberry sauce bro. Add them to stuffing. Not a whole lot I've ever discovered to do with the things

Use fresh green beans, make an actual roux with mushrooms instead of disgusting canned cream of mushroom, and top it with bread crumbs and bake. Comes out much, much better.

As for sweet potato casserole, fuck marshmallows. Put some streusel on top instead. USE FRESH INSTEAD OF CANNED GOD DAMMIT

Holy shit Americans are fucked in the head

I wish I was American so I could eat these fantastic examples of American cuisine.

You sir have just been eating crappy green bean casserole. Chef John has a recipe so it's similar to the flavors of French onion soup. It's bretty gud

My now-wife from Pennsylvania introduced me to this. I unironically enjoy it. We have it maybe twice a year. Browned marshmallows are good, buttered mashed sweet potatoes are good, brown sugar is good. Why so mad? Is only food.

>is there any goddamn way to turn cranberries into a worthwhile side dish?
I think not. My sister always makes her homemade cranberry sauce, and it's much better than canned, but still shit. Cranberries are just a shit fruit.

I only put it on the left over turkey sandwiches. I'm not sold on it either

Why bother? The dish was invented to sell frozen green beans, canned condensed soup and canned fried onion. That's the reason it exists. It's 1950's food gore. There's no reason to try to upgrade it. The premise is shit to begin with. I have no interest in eating something developed in the Campbell's Soup test kitchen by a home economist in the 1950's. Not my jam at all.

>Why bother?
Why not just drink Soylent for every meal, you fucking faggot?

Fuck me running, that looks great

Because I like food that tastes good. Mid-20th Century food gore does not.

>bread crumbs
I admit I hadn't considered just using bread crumbs in lieu of the fried onion, and now that I'm thinking about it I think we did use canned mushroom soup (we love cooking with mushrooms but my family tends to be on the "if I can see mushrooms anywhere in the dish it's automatically disgusting, even if it's just during preparation because ew fungus" side of things).

>As an aside for Thanksgiving, is there any goddamn way to turn cranberries into a worthwhile side dish? I'm so fucking sick of the out-of-can cranberry jelly, it tastes fucking terrible.
I made a jello mold. I use 2 boxes of small or 1 large of raspberry jello, make to the thicker set recipe for each bag of fresh cranberries, plus 1 navel orange. Whirl up the cranberries and whole skin-on orange in the blender in batches. Optional: pecans or walnuts.
Pour into glass mold or decorative ring mold. The bitter peel and pitch cuts the sweetness of the jello and counters the lovely sourness of the fresh whole cranberries. This mold has a lot of chunky texture and the nuts add some rich fattiness when you add them. AMAZING synergy.

I have a relative who likes a savory cranberry chutney that is good last minute prep. To a chilled can of Ocean Spray Cranberry whole berry "sauce" which is the chunkier cranberries, she adds 1Tbsp or so of raspberry white balsamic vinegar (modena and alessio both makes one), and a tsp of Chinese 5 spice powder. There's a nice acidity and funk from the anise in the spice powder. I usually put both on my plate, but I can devour the cranberry orange casserole for the next 4 meals of leftovers and it's awesome on top of yogurt in the morning too.

pic is not mine, but it represents how chunky it is from blending in the blender. The jello is just a binder

I do it, but I only serve it as a dessert with a little bit of maple syrup.
My Canadian friends love it

The best green bean casserole is just to avoid the cans.

Go ahead saute some copious amount of fresh mushrooms and make a cream roux with garlic and lots of black pepper. Fold into blanched or else frenched green beans. Gourmet bagged fried onions aren't horrific on their own, and aren't that much improved when homemade either. But, one of the main issues with the dish is that you need to double the amount of them to get a significant amount on top, and half should be folded into the green beans, so you can sub real red onion into that part. Tobacco onions are the name for the good homemade topping onions.

>Make fresh mushroom soup
>make fresh green beans
>make fresh onions
There you go its just green beans in soup man.

I know, I know. I always underestimate how important the mushroom soup is.

>There you go its just green beans in soup man.
And you want to eat green beans baked in soup because? That's really the question. I understand the idea of it was to sell more canned soup a half century ago, but why eat this now?

Thinkin' bout replacing mashed potatoes with this shit this year, it's mighty tasty.

Its nice to have some fiber in your mushroom soup

That looks pretty good. I should make some later today.

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American here, and those things are disgusting they make me fucking gork

Which is exactly why we're changing the recipes and ingredients used so drastically. :)

Or orange.

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I always make it for thanksgiving. But I add pecans too. God, it's so fucking good. I like it better cold.

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It seems like throwing good effort after bad. The recipes developed in Betty Crocker and Campbell's test kitchen weren't designed to be good. They were designed to fill space in little recipe books that were given away to sell more convenience food products. The people coming up with them weren't trained cooks or chefs, they were home economists. It's not impossible that lightning could strike and they came up with something that was actually good. I'm just saying it's a longshot, because good food wasn't their goal. Their goal was finding creative ways to use shit like canned condensed soup. And they were doing this at a particularly grim time for American cuisine. Housewives were open to all manner of awful food mash ups in the interest of being modern.

I'll just pass on dishes from that era.

Toast sandwich is abhorrent, but addings sweets to potato for dinner is normal

OBSESSION

We usually have candied yams which may or may not have marshmallows on top.

You're not wrong, but people these days enjoy challenges and remixing old recipes. Plus, Thanksgiving isn't going away, and our older relatives would complain if certain dishes weren't there. Some of these older relatives are enough of a pain without having something to complain about. The solution is to "have" those dishes, but severely alter them.

Not defending the dish, but if you don't know the difference between a potato and sweet potato, please do your shitposting on another board.

I'll throw another of my family Thanksgiving traditions in the mix: Carrot Mashed Potatoes. Classic mashed potatoes, little more pepper than usual, and blend in steamed sliced carrots. Fucking delicious and don't knock it till you try it

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>our older relatives would complain if certain dishes weren't there

Related to this, I have wanted to do away with the turkey for fucking years now, or at the very least cook it some other way than just throwing it in a fucking turkey bag and letting it roast in the oven all day. Why do family members never fucking realize how goddamn dry that makes the turkey meat? Nobody likes dry bland poultry.

Holy shit, that sounds tasty as fuck. I love carrots with mashed potatoes but I never thought to combine the two.

Smoked turkey is amazing. Very tender and loads of flavor.

>older relatives would complain if certain dishes weren't there
It's kind of funny how some of these "traditional" dishes were only adopted when those older relatives were children. Their parents sure as shit didn't grow up with them.

In my family my mother (now in her 80's) used to make some of those home ec recipes she'd find in gaveaway recipe books in the 1970's. No one liked them. So they never became part of our tradition. Which always made it amusing when an extended relatives would join us for Thanksgiving and bring something like green bean casserole of candied yams with marshmallows on top, because beyond everyone taking a little taste to be polite they'd be he only ones eating that stuff.

These dishes are an interesting window into what people thought was good eating in mid-@0th Century America, but the biggest thing they show us is how good we have it now.

do you mash the sweet potatoes?

Seconding smoked turkey. It makes game-changing sandwiches.

I personally do because it creates the preferred texture.

Do you even know how to communicate without using memes you fucking DONKEY

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Sweet potato casserole is delicious, though I prefer it with pecan crumble on top rather than marshmallows.

yep, and sometimes I leave the skin in

I go for pecans and brown sugar. It's very sweet and satisfying with a good mix of textures.

Do Europeans really do this?

Yes. US murricans do it more cleanly with drones. There isn't even a body left. We're slightly more effecient. Eat your heart out Nazi Germany.

It's specifically a thanksgiving dish, maybe Christmas. I've only had a few times at thanksgiving; it's not bad, really. I don't know why so many people are repulsed by it; I can see it as an odd combination but it's not a crazy one.

I can understand why people don't like this, but I personally love it. It's the only way I've ever like canned green beans (though in recent years we've used fresh green beans).

lol, drones are not nearly the same thing as ethnic cleansing
Sure they kill some innocents, but its absolutely absurd to compare it with Europe's history of mass killings

common where?

definitely not on the west coast

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West coast is a hellhole and barely counts as america.

Probably flyover states.

Lived in CA my whole life. Never was a thanksgiving or christmas where we didn't have toasted marshmallows over warm yams.

where's your family from? is your last name erikksson?

It's been tradition on both sides and beyond actually. Both sides are strictly European though my brother recently got married to some hispanic cunt. Not looking forward to their disgusting contributions to the family dinners.

One of the only good things to come from this election is the possibility of a caliexit. Honestly when I heard that, it made me want and go vote for trump.

I'm all for at least splitting California into two states, one for Northern California, and one for Southern California. The split seems fitting.

America would be even better if California fell off into the ocean

Most true

Whatever Californians that it is that leaves California cause Muh high taxes and socialist views to move to other states and vote for the same shit, yeah. Gtfo. I'm assuming socal people but it's annoying

Dubs of truth. Californication is a real thing. California was a mistake. Their food culture isn't even good.

DUDE MEXICAN FOOD LMAO

>tfw your family software business is stuck in this hellhole and you'd find no stable walk of life if you decided to up and leave

I hate it here. Mexican food is overrated garbage. At least we have nice sushi places.

I feel your pain. Stuck here too for now. Thinking of moving off to Texas. Love their food and people.

And not that I care for In n Out. But they have some in texas now so if I ever want I can have.

Texas is pretty awesome

You know it.

i know the feel, lads

Texas is the shit. We have whataburger, which demolished in n out. We also have food trucks with actual Mexican food, not that white Mexican bullshit

Man. I haven't had Whataburger since I was a kid. Forgot what it tastes like. I'm going to have to get some when I head to San Antonio this winter.

What's good?

literally just fucking make it an try it

Not outside of hollywood movies

>innocents

Maynard James Keenan spotted

come on over to thanksgiving, user. this is literally my mom's favorite thanksgiving dish.

this is cancer. I absolutely abhor it. I asked someone to please make sure we had green beans for Thanksgiving and apparently they thought I meant this shit... I literally washed off the gunk and ate pure green beans.

Agreed. I've said it again and again here, but the truth is the 2oth Century was really hard on cuisine in America. Odds of an American dish being total garbage correlate strongly with whether the recipe came out of the 20th Century.

It looks kind of ok for a dessert, I'd rather have ice cream though

excellent

>20th century.

Really just the post WWII part of it.

>turkey bag

Wtf burgers?

I work at a Texas Roadhouse (Steakhouse) and they offer a "sweet load" which is a caramel cinnamon sauce and marshmallows on a sweet potato. Just know that if you EVER order it I judge you very severely. Just put butter cinnamon and brown sugar on it if you want it sweeter.

>I judge you very severely

That's fine because I'm sure my salary doubles yours

I find the sugar really pairs well with the sugar.

I mean, if there is one thing sweet potatoes need, it's more sugar.