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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
Thanksgiving foods do not work together. It really is the worst meal of the year. A professional chef can not make this combination of food work.

This isn't even that controversial because I know so many people who agree. Every year the non-traditional dishes like pumpkin sage ravioli, great spinach salad, tasty appetizers and ham is all gone and there are mountains of left overs of turkey, gravy and stuffing. Every year, the host has to put out the same foods that most of the family doesn't like because one or two porker relatives wants to pack a plate with turkey, stuffing, potatoes and drown it in gravy and then giggle while filling up Tupperware with this gloopy mess.

I don’t understand why the combination is so objectionable:

Turkey 
Potato 
Green beans 
Gravy 
Cranberry sauce

Plus whatever extra sides. What doesn’t go?[/quote]

These are all very, very bland foods and its very starchy, heavy with very little variation in textures. [/quote]

I guess it depends on how you make them...
Bland and starchy with no variation in texture is not how I do thanksgiving.

Dry brined turkey with crispy skin
Garlic mashed potatoes 
Crisp tender green beans with almonds 
Turkey gravy and mushroom gravy 
Citrus cranberry conserve

I also add several other sides depending on my mood that year, including a simple massaged kale salad and pickled vegetables. Nothing seems all that starchy except mashed potatoes. If you have mushy bland flabby skinned turkey with overboiled potatoes, gloppy jar  gravy, gloppy canned cranberry sauce, sweet potato casserole, and boiled to death green bean baked in casserole, then yeah. But thanksgiving has changed since we were kids I think! [/quote]

I've had Thanksgiving prepared by multiple professional chefs and...even done your way? It's a boring meal. Like a PP said, if it were so awesome, why don't we eat this stuff multiple times a year? Why don't we order it out routinely at restaurants? Because it is boring, boring food. Nothing you listed above sounds at all appetizing to me. I'd eat the kale salad, pickled vegetables, and maybe a turkey wing and be like, "uh, ok. That was fine, which is about the best you can expect from Thanksgiving."[/quote]

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