Anonymous wrote:I hate yam and sweet potato concoctions. My old WASP family didn't serve them. (Though I like a sweet potato pie.)

One thing I love at Thanksgiving that hardly anyone seems to like is Indian Pudding. We always had that.

What's Indian Pudding?

Anonymous wrote:Cherry coke ham? Dear gods. Ick.

I dislike sweet potatoes with marshmallows and such, but pumpkin pie? Try making it without nasty condensed or evaporated milk, in a real butter crust, with real pumpkin that you roast and then purée. So much better!

It sounds weird but it's delicious. You boil the ham in it for a few hours then bake it. Gives it a lovely flavor and the leftover pot liquor is good for braising red cabbage. I've found a recipe for Ginger Glazed Ham done in ginger ale that I might do for Christmas.

I hate yam and sweet potato concoctions. My old WASP family didn't serve them. (Though I like a sweet potato pie.)

One thing I love at Thanksgiving that hardly anyone seems to like is Indian Pudding. We always had that.

Anonymous wrote:I cannot stand cranberry sauce from a can. I always make it fresh and it takes 5 minutes max. How hard is it?
I also hate casseroles and prefer sauteed veggies.

I love love love cranberry sauce from a can. It's got to be opened on both ends so that it slides out in a red log and then sliced into perfect discs. Yummy on leftover sandwiches! I am a serious foodie and excellent cook. But there is something so nostalgic about the stuff that just transports me back to the Thanksgivings of my childhood in a special way. I can't walk past the supermarket shelves without grabbing a can.

Turkey. And I'm from a WASP family that has been in the USA for...ever.

I detest gravy, too.

Oh, and I can't stand all of the cooking smells; by the time dinner rolls around, I'm queasy from smelling food all day long.

My MIL turns into a bitchy and vocal food critic and will be talking about the food before, during and after, most especially if she's not in charge of the meal.

I'm lots of fun, I know!

Cherry coke ham? Dear gods. Ick.

I dislike sweet potatoes with marshmallows and such, but pumpkin pie? Try making it without nasty condensed or evaporated milk, in a real butter crust, with real pumpkin that you roast and then purée. So much better!

I've seriously have never heard of oyster anything for thanksgiving (or marshmallows in potatoes ever!), and I was born here, albeit to immigrant parents.

Cranberry sauce
Stuffing

Anonymous wrote:green bean casserole with the funions on top. Gross!!

Me too! Who THOUGHT of this? Its gross.

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Anonymous wrote:Turkey

Pumpkin pie

What do you substitute instead?

Not the PP, but instead of turkey you can get ham, Cornish game hens, chicken. Some people might even do fish.

Instead of pumpkin pie, you can do pecan.

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

That sounds delicious and would be great for Christmas. (I'm a traditionalist on Thanksgiving!)

- Stuffing in the bird is vile and a health hazard. It also makes the turkey dried out and disgusting since air can't circulate in the cavity and cook the bird more evenly.
- Pumpkin pie
- Sweet potatoes with marshmallows except for my great aunt's recipe
- Oyster dressing, which DH's family always insists on making along with stuffing in the bird.

I do love my grandmother's dressing recipe (note: dressing, which means it hasn't been stuffed into the bird for cooking) that has homemade cornbread and biscuits and would love to make it for DH's family, but they insist on the crap you buy in the store and ruin it further in the bird or with oysters.

i love it all. seriously.

I love sweet potatoes but the mashed ones with marshmallow are an abomination. Too sweet and the texture of baby food. We do candied yams and I far prefer those.

Other than that all thanksgiving food is a okay with me!

Anonymous wrote:Hate to sound like such a Scrooge, and I'm a white American, but I dislike all thanksgiving food. Turkey is bland, my sil insists on makIng the stuffing and adds oysters and nuts-so she essentially ruins it, and all the other stuff grosses me out too. I don't like any of the pumpkin stuff or savory type spices and I dOnt like pie so this holiday is just a pain for me. Plus my in laws treat my sil and me like a catering staff so I pretty much dread the whole thing.

Make your own stuffing! My MIL insists on making stuffing in the turkey which is a total health hazard so I make my own and bring it for anyone not wanting to get food poisoning.

Turkey. It tastes bland and gross to me no matter how it's made. My dad's done a brined turkey and a deep fried turkey. Whatever he does to it doesn't change the fact that its turkey. When I host I don't even make it; my mother does the turkey and I make a Cherry Coke Ham.

Green Bean Casserole. I tried it a few different ways. Not even Alton Brown's recipe moved me. And then I'm stuck eating those stupid crispy onions out of a can because I have no self control.

Pumpkin Pie. We're a Sweet Potato Pie family.

Oyster Dressing. My DH has this family recipe that serves a ridiculous number of people and he refuses to make a smaller amount. It's got a nice flavor, but the texture is wet and gross. No one will eat it but him and me and my mother trying to be nice. I think I've still got a giant container of it in the freezer from last Christmas.