Mac and Cheese as Thanksgiving staple?

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Anonymous wrote:Mac n cheese is for Fridays during Lent if you are Catholic. Not for Thanksgiving.

Haha, this is so true. And typically the main dish, not a side. Unless, of course, your mom also made fish sticks to go with it.

I’d forgotten about that! We always had one mac n cheese made with milk and one made with tomato sauce. I always thought of it as white people food since it was so bland. And who can forget Friday fish sticks?

I’m AA and Catholic. We never had Mac and cheese for Lenten Fridays. It was a “feast food” and not for fasting days. Ditto for anything else with tons of butter and cheese. Too indulgent for Lent. My mom made pancakes on the Tuesday before Ash Wed and then we didn’t see butter again until Easter! Lots of fish sticks though!

lol

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To the poster talking about no mac and cheese during Lent. My mom was the same. She thought mac and cheese was too much of a special treat. Her Friday menu: baked sole with lemon, no tartar sauce, green beans, baked potato with no butter, and a roll with no butter. At least we got fruit for dessert.

Yeah, no butter and cream, even no cheese is pretty old school Lent. Orthodox Christians have an even stricter Lent. No meat at all for the entire season.

Jeez, don't let my mom know she didn't do it hard core enough. She might try to make us go back and re-live the experience.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:FYI, if you want a proper thanksgiving mac and cheese recipe, try Patty laBelle's. She also has a good sweet potato pie.

Another really good option is Edna Lewis's mac and cheese. It is awesome.

Here is a link to Edna Lewis's recipe. She was a stand-out Southern Chef and a woman breaking barriers left and right. https://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Southern-Style-Macaroni-and-Cheese/

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Anonymous wrote:my very white ILs have it because everyone likes it-- I don't understand why you would put stuffing, mashed potatoes, and mac n cheese on the same table. To me a meal can have potatoes, rice OR pasta, but never more than one. Cheese and chocolate are not flavors I look for on Thanksgiving. There are a lot of things I like but don't want to eat on Thanksgiving. But their mac n cheese means more other stuff for me, so ... shrug

Sorry, we can never be friends. I could totally go for a plate of stuffing, mashed potatoes, and mac n cheese right now.

I mix all three into one delicious bite.

[Anonymous]

Mac and cheese, mashed potatoes, possibly some rolls/bread, stuffing.....seems like wayyyyyy too many carbs if you include mac and cheese. Mashed potatoes and stuffing are about enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mac and cheese, mashed potatoes, possibly some rolls/bread, stuffing.....seems like wayyyyyy too many carbs if you include mac and cheese. Mashed potatoes and stuffing are about enough.

You weren't raised right.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Mac and cheese, mashed potatoes, possibly some rolls/bread, stuffing.....seems like wayyyyyy too many carbs if you include mac and cheese. Mashed potatoes and stuffing are about enough.

You weren't raised right.

You're right, I was raised by an immigrant parent who didn't subscribe to the typical terrible western diet that makes people obese in this country.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To the poster talking about no mac and cheese during Lent. My mom was the same. She thought mac and cheese was too much of a special treat. Her Friday menu: baked sole with lemon, no tartar sauce, green beans, baked potato with no butter, and a roll with no butter. At least we got fruit for dessert.

Yeah, no butter and cream, even no cheese is pretty old school Lent. Orthodox Christians have an even stricter Lent. No meat at all for the entire season.

Jeez, don't let my mom know she didn't do it hard core enough. She might try to make us go back and re-live the experience.

I tried it once in the Republic of Georgia. Plenty of beans and nuts. I started dreaming about meats and cheeses.

[Anonymous]

I have never had mashed potatoes at a family dinner. We just don't eat that. Mac and cheese is what we do and I would never choose mashed potatoes over that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mac and cheese, mashed potatoes, possibly some rolls/bread, stuffing.....seems like wayyyyyy too many carbs if you include mac and cheese. Mashed potatoes and stuffing are about enough.

You weren't raised right.

You're right, I was raised by an immigrant parent who didn't subscribe to the typical terrible western diet that makes people obese in this country.

NP
What's your ethnic heritage? I *guarantee* there are not-perfectly-healthy staple celebration foods for those of your background, too.

Come on. Give it up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mac and cheese, mashed potatoes, possibly some rolls/bread, stuffing.....seems like wayyyyyy too many carbs if you include mac and cheese. Mashed potatoes and stuffing are about enough.

You weren't raised right.

You're right, I was raised by an immigrant parent who didn't subscribe to the typical terrible western diet that makes people obese in this country.

NP
What's your ethnic heritage? I *guarantee* there are not-perfectly-healthy staple celebration foods for those of your background, too.

Come on. Give it up.

i have no problem with mac and cheese for thanksgiving. but it seems like an excessive amount of carbs if you also include mashed potatoes and stuffing. mashed potatoes and stuffing are required.

[Anonymous]

How can Mac and Cheese be for Friday Lent? It has cheese in it! There is no animals products to be eaten, apart in some cases fish, on Good Fridays.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have never had mashed potatoes at a family dinner. We just don't eat that. Mac and cheese is what we do and I would never choose mashed potatoes over that.

I hate to break it to you, but mashed potatoes are a staple food item in most countries around the world. Mac and cheese is not. Heck, most people around the world don't know what mac and cheese is. So, all in all, you must be from some red neck family and have no idea what normal families eat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mac and cheese, mashed potatoes, possibly some rolls/bread, stuffing.....seems like wayyyyyy too many carbs if you include mac and cheese. Mashed potatoes and stuffing are about enough.

You weren't raised right.

You're right, I was raised by an immigrant parent who didn't subscribe to the typical terrible western diet that makes people obese in this country.

NP
What's your ethnic heritage? I *guarantee* there are not-perfectly-healthy staple celebration foods for those of your background, too.

Come on. Give it up.

This. My Indian coworker goes on and on about how she stays slim because she never eats American food as if in the US, we only eat Deep Fried Oreos all day and India doesn’t have lots of sugary, fatty special occasion foods.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have never had mashed potatoes at a family dinner. We just don't eat that. Mac and cheese is what we do and I would never choose mashed potatoes over that.

I hate to break it to you, but mashed potatoes are a staple food item in most countries around the world. Mac and cheese is not. Heck, most people around the world don't know what mac and cheese is. So, all in all, you must be from some red neck family and have no idea what normal families eat.

You really need to travel. The US didn’t invent Mac and cheese. A version of this dish of pasta and cheese is served in many parts of Latin America and Europe. I ate it in Iceland!
DP.