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Anyone else dread Thanksgiving because of bad cooks in the family?
Posted on 11/19/14 at 1:22 pm
Posted on 11/19/14 at 1:22 pm
Yeah, yeah. Shitty thoughts from me. Should be grateful for family and food and yada yada.
The turkey is dry. ALWAYS dry. Make any recommendations for a different kind of cooking method? Shot down. "The turkey's fine the way it is!" Sure, if you like eating stringy, flavorless jerky.
Dressing shouldn't feel like smooshed white bread that's been slathered in butter and gelatin.
No, tasting a little burnt crust in a pecan pie is not the way it's supposed to taste.
And no, I don't want to talk about how good the fat free "this" or "that" is this year that you found on sale at the store. You know why? Because it isn't good. And buying fat free/sugar free cool whip isn't going to make this 4,000 calorie festival suddenly be healthy.
And yes, when I did Thanksgiving at my place that one time, it was delicious, as you admitted. It wasn't too time consuming for me, which you claimed. But most of all, it was enjoyable even though it wasn't "how we usually cook things, which is how I (the family) like it."
/vent
The turkey is dry. ALWAYS dry. Make any recommendations for a different kind of cooking method? Shot down. "The turkey's fine the way it is!" Sure, if you like eating stringy, flavorless jerky.
Dressing shouldn't feel like smooshed white bread that's been slathered in butter and gelatin.
No, tasting a little burnt crust in a pecan pie is not the way it's supposed to taste.
And no, I don't want to talk about how good the fat free "this" or "that" is this year that you found on sale at the store. You know why? Because it isn't good. And buying fat free/sugar free cool whip isn't going to make this 4,000 calorie festival suddenly be healthy.
And yes, when I did Thanksgiving at my place that one time, it was delicious, as you admitted. It wasn't too time consuming for me, which you claimed. But most of all, it was enjoyable even though it wasn't "how we usually cook things, which is how I (the family) like it."
/vent
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Posted on 11/19/14 at 1:22 pm to StringedInstruments
Nope, quite the opposite really.
Posted on 11/19/14 at 1:23 pm to StringedInstruments
No. The people that can cook cook the food. The non cooks stay out of the way
Posted on 11/19/14 at 1:24 pm to StringedInstruments
Where do you live?
If Arkansas, I can understand.
If Arkansas, I can understand.
Posted on 11/19/14 at 1:24 pm to StringedInstruments
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Dressing shouldn't feel like smooshed white bread that's been slathered in butter and gelatin.
Posted on 11/19/14 at 1:26 pm to LSUBoo
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Nope, quite the opposite really.
Posted on 11/19/14 at 1:26 pm to Jones
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No. The people that can cook cook the food. The non cooks stay out of the way
Well, y'all are lucky.
The issue really is that the women in my family (wife's mother, my mother) are not very good cooks. They can produce food on a plate, which is great year round. Thanksgiving and Christmas, in my opinion, should be taken up a notch.
Other issue is that my brother-in-law and I are REALLY good cooks. It's our hobby. I like to research cooking methods, try new recipes, fix what doesn't work.
But they go into parent-mode and tell us to worry about setting the table and other bullshite. Sometimes we get to make one thing each.
But they like their green bean casserole from a can, their cranberry jelly from a can, and their dried out turkey that "needs the gravy, that's why it's dry."
Posted on 11/19/14 at 1:26 pm to StringedInstruments
Thanksgiving's a made up holiday that I don't recognize, I just go hunting
Posted on 11/19/14 at 1:28 pm to StringedInstruments
So are you angry you're not heading up the Thanksgiving feast? I feel some tension. 
And not an issue here either. My grandmother insists on doing it all herself, help be damned. And I love it.
And not an issue here either. My grandmother insists on doing it all herself, help be damned. And I love it.
Posted on 11/19/14 at 1:29 pm to StringedInstruments
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heir cranberry jelly from a can
Who doesn't?
Posted on 11/19/14 at 1:30 pm to BluegrassBelle
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So are you angry you're not heading up the Thanksgiving feast? I feel some tension
Haha yep. Had just gotten off the phone with my mom after asking if I could do the turkey. She said it was her house, and that meant she gets to do the turkey.
Posted on 11/19/14 at 1:30 pm to StringedInstruments
Sounds like you need to break out the irony, and tell the women to get the frick out of the kitchen.
Posted on 11/19/14 at 1:31 pm to Jones
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No. The people that can cook cook the food. The non cooks stay out of the way
Non cooks do the dishes and start the coffee after dinner. That's it.
As long as I cut the bird I'm happy. Turkey will stay much much juicer and tender if you let it rest, then take the entire breast off the bird and cut perpendicular of the grain into medallions like you would a pork tenderloin. I learned this from selling hundreds of fried/rotisserie turkeys in BR on thanksgiving day.
Posted on 11/19/14 at 1:32 pm to StringedInstruments
No problems here.
Posted on 11/19/14 at 1:32 pm to yellowfin
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i just go hunting
There's some irony in that.
Posted on 11/19/14 at 1:45 pm to StringedInstruments
I''l give you the answer you are looking for YES!!!!!
I have taken matters into my own hands, and am hosting this year. I'm going to fry the bird after injecting him with enough creole butter to stop the hearts of everyone eating it
We have some good cooks in the family, but the wrong people have been in the way for a long time. This year, I got in touch with the cooks in the family and knew who was making what when I sent out the notice that dinner would be at my house.
Needless to say, I feel your pain brother
I have taken matters into my own hands, and am hosting this year. I'm going to fry the bird after injecting him with enough creole butter to stop the hearts of everyone eating it
We have some good cooks in the family, but the wrong people have been in the way for a long time. This year, I got in touch with the cooks in the family and knew who was making what when I sent out the notice that dinner would be at my house.
Needless to say, I feel your pain brother
Posted on 11/19/14 at 1:46 pm to CoachChappy
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I''l give you the answer you are looking for YES!!!!!
I have taken matters into my own hands, and am hosting this year. I'm going to fry the bird after injecting him with enough creole butter to stop the hearts of everyone eating it
We have some good cooks in the family, but the wrong people have been in the way for a long time. This year, I got in touch with the cooks in the family and knew who was making what when I sent out the notice that dinner would be at my house.
Needless to say, I feel your pain brother
They let me host one year and admitted that the food was better. But they didn't like it because they missed the "traditional" Thanksgiving foods.
Sucks being an only child. I have no allies.
Posted on 11/19/14 at 1:47 pm to CoachChappy
There's a special place in Hell for anyone who brings a "sugar free" anything dessert for Thanksgiving.
Posted on 11/19/14 at 1:49 pm to StringedInstruments
only on my wife's side...the turkey and dressing will be fine (cooked by GIL), but everything else... 
my MIL is one of the worst cooks I've ever seen
my family generally just makes gumbo for Thanksgiving, we don't really do anything traditional
my MIL is one of the worst cooks I've ever seen my family generally just makes gumbo for Thanksgiving, we don't really do anything traditional
This post was edited on 11/19/14 at 1:55 pm
Posted on 11/19/14 at 1:53 pm to StringedInstruments
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Haha yep. Had just gotten off the phone with my mom after asking if I could do the turkey. She said it was her house, and that meant she gets to do the turkey.
So why don't you and your brother in law just cook your own damn turkey?
I don't understand these family dynamics, my mom would have absolutely no issue with me bringing my own food if for some reason I didn't like what she was making.
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