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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP - here are some reasons why it’s so annoying…

1. The person requesting a special diet isn’t a friend or someone you like enough to hang out with if you weren’t related. The problem with relatives is that many are just not people you would ever choose. We traveled once to help BIL and his partner host Thanksgiving. The attendees were all all family they chose ..ie long time friends and their spouses/kids. Wow, it was so much fun and so different in a good way compared to all the Thanksgivings with extended relatives that we’ve hosted and attended. It really opened my eyes how I am working my butt off for people who are at best meh and many unlivable.

2.[b] Thanksgiving food is pretty easy to make but overall it sucks. It’s a blah menu so you have to step it up to make it better. Homemade brines for days, cooking times exact, upping the fat and seasoning ratios etc etc. [/b]There is a reason no one ever serves Thanksgiving food at dinner parties or orders it from a restaurant outside of Thanksgiving.

So when a special diet request comes along from someone you don’t really like it really throws a wrench in things.

What I have done is to embrace the special requests to make something really good and just go on autopilot for the traditional food. The hogs and hog let’s that looove traditional Thanksgiving food don’t care if it’s the best it can be or just meh. They are like the obese people at an all you can eat buffet loading their plates with room temperature food under a sneeze guard because it’s free! It’s about gluttony for them and bland is fine. Use the vegan or gf diets to make some really amazing and creative dishes. [/quote]

Well yes if you do that it will suck. I guess you are using your brines on the turkey? I never understood brining a turkey.  It makes the meat way too salty. If your turkey is dry you cooked it at too high a temperature for too long. [/quote]

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