s/o: Popular Thanksgiving foods you cannot stand

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate just about all of Thanksgiving. I pretty much like the stuffing/dressing.

I LOATHE the sweet potato stuff with marshmallows and other sweet stuff. I hate pecan pie (also too sweet). I hate brussels sprouts. I got food poisoning off of a turkey sandwich one year, and don't like to look at turkey (it was bad mayo, but my brain still hates the turkey). I didn't grow up with the green bean casserole stuff, but it doesn't sound good.

Of course, I cook whatever needs cooking. I try not to host, but go somewhere else and bring some sides that I do like. This year, I'm making a broccoli and breadcrumbs dish that my grandmother used to make, mac and cheese for the kids, and my mother's sausage stuffing. I usually come home the next day and cook some chicken breasts with a poultry-seasoning flavor to have our own "leftovers" of stuff we do like.

Could you share the broccoli and breadcrumbs dish?

[Anonymous]

I hate the layered jello salad. Yuck!

[Anonymous]

Turkey!

[Anonymous]

I actually really love the sweet potatoes with marshmallows. Love so much.

What I can't stand is that green bean/fried onion casserole. Thank goodness no one else in the family likes it either. And I don't like any kind of white bread stuffing, esp. if it has sausage in it. And, don't tell my grandmother, but I'm not the world's biggest fan of her oyster dressing.

[Anonymous]

Yes the creamed onions, yuck!
I have a Cuban friend whose mom does a big pork roast and they play dominoes all afternoon-I should just go to their house, not a fan of any of our food

[Anonymous]

Oh I loved creamed onions! And I like canned cranberry sauce too, even though we always make fresh - we serve both.

Hate HATE the green bean casserole with the soup/fried onions. EW. We do green bean almondine.

Also despise marshmellows on sweet potatoes or candied yams or anything too-sweet sweet potato dish. We do it with butter and salt, or with a touch of maple syrup and top with candied pecans and craisins.

[Anonymous]

^ also pretty much hate anything topped with ritz crackers or with cream-of-anything soup. Or velveeta. Gross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^ also pretty much hate anything topped with ritz crackers or with cream-of-anything soup. Or velveeta. Gross.

LOL. My favorite Thanksgiving dish growing up was broccoli casserole my mom made- frozen broccoli, minute rice, cream of mushroom and CHEEZ WHIZ. I know how it sounds but I LOVE that stuff.

I dislike the sweet potato mush with marshmallows on top. We do candied yams and they are SO much better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Last year I made Beef Wellington instead of turkey and dark chocolate/pecan pie instead of pumpkin-it was amazing!

Oh, wow. Would you mind sharing your recipes?

I used this Beef Wellington recipe. It is a lot of steps, but not difficult. I didn't do the sauce or sides.

I use the chocolate pecan pie recipe from joy of cooking. It is very rich, but tastes less sweet than regular pecan pie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Last year I made Beef Wellington instead of turkey and dark chocolate/pecan pie instead of pumpkin-it was amazing!

Oh, wow. Would you mind sharing your recipes?

I used this Beef Wellington recipe. It is a lot of steps, but not difficult. I didn't do the sauce or sides.

I use the chocolate pecan pie recipe from joy of cooking. It is very rich, but tastes less sweet than regular pecan pie.

Sorry, forgot the link
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/tyler-florence/the-ultimate-beef-wellington-recipe2/index.html

[Anonymous]

I actually really love the sweet potatoes with marshmallows. Love so much.

What I can't stand is that green bean/fried onion casserole. Thank goodness no one else in the family likes it either. And I don't like any kind of white bread stuffing, esp. if it has sausage in it.

I'm with you 100 percent.

[Anonymous]

I love the green bean casserole! So much so that I make it at other times during the year. Sometimes I had chicken and pasta to it to make it more of a meal.

[Anonymous]

I love the green bean casserole....when I make it for Thanksgiving, always wonder why I don't do it another time or 2 in year.

But I hate anything with sweet potatoes / yams (used to tell my mom I didn't like orange food)

And hate all forms of cranberry sauce too

[Anonymous]

sauerkraut. (Traditional if you are from Baltimore)

The only people who eat it are my mom and her sisters, and I suspect they are doing it out of fondness for their childhoods. Everyone else takes a small spoonful and pushes it around on their plates.

[Anonymous]

Hate pumpkin pie. I never made it, except now my 4-year old is obsessed with pumpkin pie, so I'll probably bite the bullet and make one. Although I see her taking one bite and hating it, so it will probably go to waste. Maybe I'll make a mini pie