A pure celebration of foods others sneer at

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: These little pastry cups with undisclosed pasty mushroom filling that appear at work events

Tater tots


YUM!

I’ll add my weird stuff—basically I am stuck in an auberge in the 1970’s:
- Bavarois (an old French dessert of gelatin (!), whipped cream and custard, “inspired by Bavaria”)
- Coquille St Jacques, I mean it’s seafood with a cheese cream sauce served in a clamshell, why is everyone sneering and/or gagging
- Dry sherry in the tiny glass
- Grand marnier or a cognac after dinner

Also:
Eel. I love it and you’ll never tell me anything different

Ritz crackers with peanut butter and bacon as acceptable cocktail fare

ALL OF THE STREET FOOD

Avocado toast

Snickerdoodle cake cookies from Safeway

For a sweet version, Ritz crackers with peanut butter and a square of Hershey's milk chocolate

[Anonymous]

5 cup salad!

a cup each of sour cream, crushed pineapple, sweetened coconut flakes, canned mandarin oranges, and mini-marshmallows

(Serve from a green Tupperware bowl, obviously.)

[Anonymous]

Jello mold...on our TG every year
Dip made from veg soup mix and spinach.

[Anonymous]

Elio's pizza
yes the rectangle pizza

[Anonymous]

Tater tots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lipton french onion dip and ruffles!

Also saltines with pb and j with soup or paired with chili.

I second all the ruffles with onion dip. By Lipton you mean the soup pouch plus sour cream? So good

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love ruffles and Lipton onion dip. I once tried making a “fancy” version with caramelized onion, and it wasn’t as good.

Deviled eggs, too. And pigs in a blanket.

Love all of these! And I also attempted a fancy version that took forever to make and the end result wasn't nearly as good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Actual Stove Top Stuffing, instead of potatoes. There. I said it. No, I don't like your grandmother's recipe. I like the boxed $hit.

Why do you have to choose? Stove Top + mashed potatoes is the entire point of Thanksgiving dinner IMO.

[Anonymous]

That sweet potato dish with marshmallows on top

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Elio's pizza
yes the rectangle pizza

I have some in my freezer right now. I ate it as a kid and my kids like it too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Actual Stove Top Stuffing, instead of potatoes. There. I said it. No, I don't like your grandmother's recipe. I like the boxed $hit.

I don’t disagree that the boxed stuff is glorious but you need some of those little canned potato balls fried in butter till they are crispy brown next to them.

Thanksgiving is not about choosing between carbs. It’s about ALL the carbs.

[Anonymous]

Strawberry pretzel salad. The kind make with jello and - i think? - cool whip. LOVE. This is a traditional family food and I (the hippie nerd salad eater of the family) intend to fall face first into a plate full on Thursday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: These little pastry cups with undisclosed pasty mushroom filling that appear at work events

Tater tots


YUM!

I’ll add my weird stuff—basically I am stuck in an auberge in the 1970’s:
- Bavarois (an old French dessert of gelatin (!), whipped cream and custard, “inspired by Bavaria”)
- Coquille St Jacques, I mean it’s seafood with a cheese cream sauce served in a clamshell, why is everyone sneering and/or gagging
- Dry sherry in the tiny glass
- Grand marnier or a cognac after dinner

Also:
Eel. I love it and you’ll never tell me anything different

Ritz crackers with peanut butter and bacon as acceptable cocktail fare

ALL OF THE STREET FOOD

Avocado toast

Snickerdoodle cake cookies from Safeway

That was my grandmother’s post dinner drink every thanksgiving!


I am serving a complete retro cocktail hour on Thursday. Pigs in a blanket (crescent rolls, lil smokies, no homemade nonsense), ruffled chips with onion dip (store bought, no ina garten nonsense) and pub cheese with ritz! Can’t wait!

[Anonymous]

Grasshopper cocktails, either the ones made with cream or the ones made with ice cream; I am not picky.

The original Chex Mix recipe, which has Cheerios in it. In a pinch, I will simply melt butter in a bowl, pour some Cheerios in, and enjoy warm buttered Cheerios. If you sneer at that, ask yourself if you’ve ever had a bowl of buttered popcorn.

[Anonymous]

Warm buttered cheerios. You are my kind of person, PP.

I am a cocktail weenie in that grape jelly based sauce kind of gal this time of year.