F5

Try making a mornay sauce. Shake specifies that it's a mix of cheddar and pepperjack, so use those.

Roasted butternut squash soup of course using vegetable stock instead of chicken, faggot. Add some sage and thank me later with your best on the knees technique.
geniuskitchen.com/amp/recipe/chiarellos-roasted-butternut-squash-soup-440035

I know it's easier and results in better-tasting meat to do it this way, but half of the joys (in my opinion) of having turkey for thanksgiving is to see the enormous bird laid out in the middle of the table and carved like in a movie.

He's making stock out of like half a bird.

What things hold up to being prepped the day before? For reference this is what I plan to serve: turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, green beans, mac n cheese, rolls.

I thought about cutting the potatoes and letting them sit in water overnight but I figured they would absorb too much water.

Stuffing and gravy handle advance prep pretty well. Mashed potatoes that have a lot of cheese and cream in them can be prepped, put in a baking dish, and warmed in the oven without too much harm to their texture, but you have to go heavier on the fatty enriching ingredients than you might want.

I'm just contributing to the family gathering by making a peanut butter pie.
I'll take a photo and post it tomorrow.
>Peanut butter + half and half + pudding mix+ whipped cream
>Oreo crust.

Make the mac & cheese the day before and finish it in the oven the day of. Also gravy if you're not planning on using the turkey drippings or are ok with just dumping them in after the fact.

Cheddar's a must, but should I be worried about using the pepper jack just for the risk of clogging the needle. Not that I've tried.

maybe plain jack cheese for the sauce and season it generously with a jalapeno hot sauce? Either that or use a really wide needle.

I had a frozen turkey thawing in the fridge for 3 days. I took it out today to pre-prep and I learned that there was a giant chunk of ice in the cavity. I chipped most of it away and out with a chopstick and put it back in the fridge to that until tomorrow morning.

Am I fucked?

>No thanksgiving thread

Did that guy who deconstructs the turkey and then then reassembles it in unusual ways ever make a new thread?

Any tips on convincing the family to prepare the bird in a different way without being offensive? For 30 years my mom's basically put a turkey in a cooking bag on a tray with some flour in it, and boxed stuffing.

There's really no seasoning, no brining, nothing on top of it. The turkey comes out surprisingly moist and well cooked, but I always look at what people are doing and imagine it's bland as all hell compared to others.

if the innards didn't look freezerburned you should be ok

take a flashlight to it and see if it is though, i'd be considering your options if this is the case

>ctrl F
>27 instances of 'thanksgiving'

Fuck off, you didn't even check before making this garbage thread

Tell her she's a fucking pathetic cunt, and a man is here to actually get shit done.

Throw her shit in the trash and walk in with youre own perfectly prepared bird on thanksgiving eve.

One more question... how do most people carve up the turkey after it's prepared? My family basically takes off and sections the breast, legs, and thighs, but I did a Thanksgiving with friends and got ripped on by a dude who insisted you have to carve off slices of the whole bird instead of breaking it into sections.

We do thigh, leg, or chunks of breast meat as the choice for people at the table.

This would be all well and good if I actually knew what I was doing any better than her. The two years I prepared a turkey for anyone, I did it her way.

Fucking pathetic

If you don't have anything to bring to the table, don't step up to the plate

your a pleb

you take the legs off then cut one slice down the back for a starter (alpha male gets a leg, followed by guest who makes highest salary), then everyone takes a slice

Dont do this

>Grandmother is cooking the turkey this year
>Going to be inedibly dry
>Sides will be shitty frozen things reheated and left to dry out for hours
Don't let anyone tell you that elderly Southern woman = good cooking

same for me but its better than nothing at all for thanks giving

Looked alright, I'm just worried it won't de-thaw in time.

This is what I get for buying a butterball frozen turkey even though everyone told me to buy fresh

Various tips for turkey...

Slather butter and herbs inside the skin, stuff with citrus fruit and onions

cook breast side down

roast in cheesecloth for crispy skin

dry brine is best

My aunt dismantles the raw turkey and cooks the different parts for different times. (seems like a royal pain in the ass, but the meat IS cooked to perfection)

You can start prepping 2-3 days in advance. I prep my dressing the night before, and is ready to pop in the oven on T-Day. Make your sauces and gravies 1-2 before. Cook your veggies the night before to firm al dente, so its not mushy when served and a quick prep the next day.

K. My whole point is that maybe next year we can all approach making the turkey a different way, as a family. I don't want to roll in with a completely separate bird for three to five people and make a power move. I'm not a world class cook, but I try. Still open for ideas.

I always get the leg, but people seem to love white meat. I don't do a lot of big events, but I'm also the 2nd highest salary maker besides my dad in our extended family, probably the highest among my friends. How does slicing down the back even work from there? Just everyone gets breast meat and the thighs are leftovers?

Been dry brining a 9lb bird since yesterday with kosher salt, black pepper, fresh sage, fresh thyme, and orange peel.

Going to attempt to grill/smoke it on my 22" weber tomorrow.

Happy Thanksgiving

I kinda hate thanksgiving
theres so much Id rather eat than thanksgiving food, and I dont want to be around extended family
there's a reason we only talk to each other once a year

I'm supposed to make something but I don't now what to make

My mom got a free turkey voucher from her job. She almost didn't pick it up because she doesn't really care. I picked it up and it came frozen of course, so I just put it in my freezer when I got home. How long would I need to let this thaw in my fridge? Like 3 or 4 days? She wants to spatchcock it and then cook half of it in a smoker. I guess separating all the parts and putting them on the smoker individually would be the smartest thing to do, but I don't know. Anyone ever do turkey in a smoker? Not wrapping it in bacon or any of that gay shit.

My mom/wife makes all the good stuff.

>9 lb

I'm glad ethiopia gets to celebrate thanksgiving too!

---Gravy---
Pour away fat from drippings
Make sure trivet is black/golden and very soft
Mash up leftovers through siv
Add two heaped tablespoons of plain flour
Top with 2 litres of boiling water
(Optional, add a spoonful of cranberry jam/sauce or blackberry jam/sauce)
Add juices from rested Turkey
Simmer for half an hour
Pour through coarse siv

who /brine/ bros here?
best turkey
so juicy

Only 4 people here for dinner this year. Should be plenty.

AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAH

>water
>not chicken stock

To be fair, most if not all of those threads are either about specific Thanksgiving topics rather than Thanksgiving in general. Take a guess how eager I am to post in the thread by some faggot asking how to make something other than bachelor chow.

I've got a tip

Most Pumpkin Pie recipes are shit.

pumpkin pie filling:

2 cups mashed winter squash ( not from a can if possible)
3 eggs
1 tbsp flour
1c brown sugar
1 cup evaporated milk or half and half
1.5 tsp ground ginger
1.5 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp salt, more to taste
3/8 tsp ground nutmeg
3/8 tsp black pepper
3/8 tsp ground cloves
1/4 tsp ground cardamom

It really does make a big difference if you can get a pumpkin or butternut squash, roast it and use the flesh right out of the oven. A small butternut squash is the perfect size for this.

how to cook the pumpkin, butternut etc:

just cut the fucker in half, put the halves flesh-down on a baking sheet lined with foil (juice will come out) bake at 375 until fork tender with a little resistance from the skin. you'll be able to scoop the flesh out with a spoon, and the skin should stay intact unless you've cooked it too long. ( if it starts to deflate, you've gone too long btw )

now take your pumpkin, liquid, eggs, sugar, flour and put in blender to make sure the flesh is nice and pureed. add spices and whisk or blend.

>WHAT SIDE DISH WHAT SIDE DISH MY FAMILY SUCKS WHAT SIDE DISH MY FAMILY SUCKS Thanksgiving Thread MY FAMILY SUCKS
Yeah, great selection of Thanksgiving threads.

cont

if you don't like cardamom very much, consider dropping that to 1/8 tsp. i personally think it adds nice bite to the finish

Guys, I'm making creamed corn for the first time. I'm making it by cutting up bacon into small pieces, removing it, adding in cut pieces of red pepper and yellow pepper and cut up jalapeno and then adding in the sweet corn and heavy cream with S&P.

Is there anything else I should be doing? Should I be finishing this up in the oven?

That sounds more like that mexi corn stuff with cream added, oven finish is fine but unusual, try a topping that can brown if you're baking this. I can't think of additions myself. I don't plan, I cook whatever I have into whatever I can.

Thank you, as if there isn't already enough fat on these dino-birds. If you want a bacon-like turkey, smoke it or mail-order a frozen smoked turkey.

Cook your turkey on a low heat, then turn it up to crisp the skin.

Like 200 degrees for hours until a thermometer reads 155-160 in the thick part, then take it out to rest. Crank the oven up to 500+ and put the turkey in, keeping an eye on it not to burn. Remove when golden.

>siv

wala!

oh, also, remove the spine and carcass and make stock. Fuck carving the turkey tableside unless you're in a very old school setting, it's better to have the turkey stock so you can make a god-tier gravy.

i've been cooking my turkey sous vide since last week.

How long does it take? Also how big a vessel is it in? And how many circulators are you using or are you using a giant circulator?

I think a lot of people hate thanksgiving. You cook all fucking day for a bunch of ungrateful assholes and all you get is them bitching about not cleaning up fast enough after the meal is over. Fuck you dad.

Anyways just make something easy like cornbread. You can find a mix in the store add a bit of cheddar cheese to it and it will taste good enough without having to actually put much thought into it.

How are you gonna finish it off to get crispy skin out of curiosity?

boasting in ebin bread xD

y'all getting ready?

why is this black culture?

...

I dabble in bread baking, and my family has decided on me being in charge of dinner rolls. Any recipe recommendations Veeky Forums?

Because niggers successfully memed themselves into believing that white people only know how to cook with mayonnaise.

Let them have the delusion. It's all they've got.

Fucking awesome.

>Let them have the delusion. It's all they've got.

That's not true, they have thousands of other delusions.

Ignoring the text that reminds me does anybody know a really good baked mac and cheese recipe?

What diameter is your buttplug?

Why wasn't there a thread in October? Thanksgiving was a fucking month ago.

I use pasta noodles and cheese personally

Go be Canadian somewhere else.

Yes. It's just Mornay sauce and macaroni. Here's a good basic recipe: youtu.be/coYqrXsDPdU

The nigger variant is just macaroni, Velveeta, and hot sauce.

Hot sauce with Mac and Cheese is good tho

fuck you

Damn that looks good I think I'm gonna try it out.

You have deboned your turkey, right Veeky Forums? You're not falling for the whole roasted turkey meme are you?

>ginger snap pie crust for pumpkin pie

Best pumpkin pie recipe coming through

First off get yourself a real ass nigga pumpkin. If you're gonna use canned pumpkin or some shitty jack o lantern pumpkin from walmart just buy a premade pie instead you filthy degenerate.

2 cups pumpkin
3 eggs (seperated)
1 1/2 cups sweet condensed milk
3 tbs dark rum (bourbon is also fine)
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup brown sugar
1 tbs cornstarch
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ginger
1/2 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
1/2 tsp salt

You can roast or stew the pumpkin, but roasting is better so just google how to do that shit, then when it's done scoop out the flesh and puree it.
Add pumpkin puree, beaten egg yolks, brown sugar, cornstarch, salt and spices together and gradually add in the condensed milk and mix thoroughly
Now fold in stiffly beaten egg whites and pour the shit into your pie crust (you made pie crust right?)
Bake at 425 for 10 mins then reduce temp to 350 and cook until the shits done should take 30-45 minutes

Turkey like a boss PROTIP
>Dry brine overnight
>Roaster oven (40 bones on Amazon)
>High heat of 450 or so for 30 min
>Turn down to 325
>Don't open roaster, use external thermometer, cook white meat to 325
>bastes itself if you don't open the roaster
>???
>Profit!
This shit's porno tits good

Sorry, correction
>cook white meat to 165

I forgot to mention to add the rum and vanilla extract in so don't forget that shit

My sister made this cheesecake from scratch but the egg flavor is too strong.
How to remedy this?

Use less egg, more cream cheese.

A bullet

Make the dough in a bread maker and let it rise twice. Once as a dough and once as rolls. Should be fluffy as balls

I'm vegan and anti-Trump.

*Exits thread*

>tfw Grandmother making morok pollaw

Candied yams
Collard greens or sauteed chard with shallots
Cornbread

seriouseats.com/recipes/2015/10/the-food-labs-ultra-gooey-stovetop-mac-cheese.html

really cool mac and cheese, comes out looking like delicious cartoon food.

I am realizing that all my life my mother has been overcooking literally every meat dish ever. I'm doing the turkey this year and watched a video and saw how damn juicy a turkey done right could be and almost wept for my lost childhood.

This baby is going in the collard greens right now

>accidentally get people sick -ONE- time by undercooking something
>just once
>still getting shit for it
>text messages telling me not to cook anything this year

it was ONCE.

Tell them to back the fuck off????

>tfw got IBS that lasted a little over a year thanks to food poisoning
FUCK YOU

Is marshmallows and sweet potatoes a meme or does it actually worth making?

absolutely