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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just make regular mashed potatoes without the skins. If people like mashed potatoes, they like mashed potatoes. Mashed potatoes with skin does not equal adventurous eating by the way. I'd keep the kale salad and serve it along with whatever traditional items the elderly like.[/quote]

Mashed potatoes with skin and pepper would be adventurous for the older in-laws.
Is cornbread or dinner rolls "safer"? 
Part of the problem here is that I grew up eating non-american food (parents are immigrants) so I'm not sure what is "standard." But I know the inlaws will not want to eat anything "different."[/quote]

Presumably you know how to Google, and you still can't figure out what a "standard" American Thanksgiving meal typically entails? [/quote]

You kinda can't, though. I've been in the US 20+ years. The stuff that "everybody knows" is the stuff that nobody mentions. I just read a thread on here where someone was asking about adding sour cream to sweet potatoes, which seems so utterly unremarkable to me (why wouldn't you?) but obviously was outside of the culinary grammar of several folks on that thread. [/quote]

Yes, you can. It’s all variations on a theme.

Some type of turkey
Some type of potatoes (mashed, or sweet potato casserole, or au gratin—just some type of some type of potato)
Some type of stuffing/dressing (some type—oyster or sage or cornbread or whatever)
Some type of cranberry (boiled, ground with orange, or out of a can)
Some type of gravy
Some type of rolls
Some type of green vegetable (asparagus, green salad, or yes the dreaded green bean casserole)

Other additions that are typical:
Macaroni and cheese
Corn casserole
Creamed onions (older folks)
Roasted vegetables like Brussels sprouts or roasted root vegetables

Like I said, variations on a theme, “some type of.” [/quote]

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