Thanksgiving dishes -- favorites and grossest

[takeonyou]

So what is your favorite T-Day food?  What's the grossest one your family insists on making each year or you've ever tried?

I have to say that my favorite is ALWAYS the stuffing.

One year my aunt insisted my mom make mashed turnips and sent a recipie that included applesauce in them. Barf!

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Mashed turnips are among my most hated too. One year I confused them for mashed sweet potatoes and BLECH!

My favorites are my mom's stuffing and sweet potatoes. Unfortunately, MIL's stuffing and sweet potatoes are wretched, but everything else she makes is good.

[IrishBelle]

Fave is definitely my mom's stuffing. We all love it. There isn't anything that my mom makes that I don't like.

For DH's family it is the green marshmallow "salad" that SIL - yuck! In fact most of the food there is just average. Edible but nothing special.

[djc315]

Favorite? That's difficult. Mashed potatoes w/ gravy.

Grossest: I've never had a green bean casserole I've liked. Ever. I've made my own from scratch, and had many with cream of crap and canned green beans. They are all gross, I don't get the appeal.

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Favorite- Mashed potatoes and gravy. That is one of my favorite things all year long so I guess it isn't T-day specific.

Grossest- I don't like green bean casserole. DH's family makes it, mine doesn't...luckily. Other than that I pretty much love everything, including marshmallows on my yams.

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Nov 26, 2013 11:09:07 GMT -5 djc315 said:

Favorite? That's difficult. Mashed potatoes w/ gravy.

Grossest: I've never had a green bean casserole I've liked. Ever. I've made my own from scratch, and had many with cream of crap and canned green beans. They are all gross, I don't get the appeal.

Look at us, we're post twins.  How cute.

[womet]

Favorite: mashed potatoes or stuffing
Least favorite: the oyster dressing that grandma made one year or the southern style dressing I had at my friend's dad's place-- it had hard boiled eggs in it.

[rfs13]

Everything my mom makes is my favorite If I had to choose, I would say her cheesy potato casserole is my favorite!

My least favorite is stuffing -- I despise stuffing!!!!

[cajunmom]

Favorite: Oh my. Sweet potatoes. Mashed potatoes and gravy. My MIL's baked macaroni.

Grossest: I wouldn't say it's gross, but I don't like green bean casserole or any dressing or stuffing.

[Deleted]

Best: steamed rice and gravy, greens
Worst: mashed potatoes

[gt7301b]

Favorite - Mac and cheese

Grossest - Dh's family makes a jello salad with celery. Who puts celery in jello?

[ladygrey]

favorite - stuffing

least favorite - sweet potatoes with marshmallows baked on top (waaaay too sweet and runny)

[zelda25]

Nov 26, 2013 11:23:07 GMT -5 gt7301b said:

Favorite - Mac and cheese

Grossest - Dh's family makes a jello salad with celery. Who puts celery in jello?

My mother. She at least has the sense to never serve this shit to guests, but she loves her some lime jello with carrots and celery in it.

[carfar]

Favorite I love cranberry sauce. (Not from a can)

Least favorite- green bean casserole/sweet potato w/marshmallows. Ick ick ick to both. My family makes neither, though so I am spared.

[otowngirl]

Nov 26, 2013 11:09:06 GMT -5 IrishBelle said:

Fave is definitely my mom's stuffing. We all love it. There isn't anything that my mom makes that I don't like.

For DH's family it is the green marshmallow "salad" that SIL - yuck! In fact most of the food there is just average. Edible but nothing special.

MIL always makes some iteration of Waldorf salad, which I think is ick.

I like turkey fine (we're frying this year), gravy, stuffing, green beans (although I've never really had a GB casserole), and cranberry sauce (WITH. RIDGES.). I'm not all gung-ho about the traditional foods, though. Meh.

ETA: I could have sworn Waldorf salad had marshmallows in it. Maybe MIL's does. Lol.

[lb2006]

Favorite: dressing

Least Favorite: turkey

[SJ]

Favorites: Mashed Potatoes, Dessert, Green bean casserole,

Least Favorite: Stuffing, Turkey, Cranberries, Sweet Potatoes, Oysters

Thanksgiving is not really my thing.

[msmerymac]

Candied yams are my favorite. Least favorite... hard to say. None of it is my favorite type of food, really. I find the vast majority of the meal to be too dry.

I will say that my grandmother used to make an AWESOME jello salad that involved strawberry jello whipped with whipped cream before it set, along with mini marshmallows and strawberries. I loved that as a kid, although all of the other jello salads I hear people describe sound horrid.

[SJ]

Nov 26, 2013 11:40:14 GMT -5 msmerymac said:

Candied yams are my favorite. Least favorite... hard to say. None of it is my favorite type of food, really. I find the vast majority of the meal to be too dry.

YES. I fully agree that part of this is because we eat in Central Ohio with family members (grandmas mostly) who prefer to cook things the same way they have for 60+ years. When DH suggested brining the turkey you would have thought we were committing treason. Turkey is always dry, they hate spices (salt only), etc.

But I never really liked Thanksgiving food as a kid either and would fill up on rolls & mashed potatoes.

[aurora]

I adore stuffing. I could eat a whole meal of it.

I don't really get the point of mashed potatoes. I don't hate them or anything, but I think they're really boring.

Sweet potato casseroles are really easy to mess up by adding too much sugar. My recipe is essentially unsweetened but has a lot of butter and a pecan/coconut/butter crust. Mmmmm.

[Awkward]

Favorites: real stuffing, green bean casserole, homemade rolls

Least favorite: squash, dry white turkey breast

[ddi741]

My favorite is stuffing. I don't usually make it during the year so it's nice to get on Thanksgiving.

I never ate the 'yam-a-lo' as a my H calls it, The yams/sweet potatoes with the marshmellows on it. last year I made sweet potato crunch instead which everyone loved so that has replaced the yam-a-lo.

[Deleted]

favorite--stuffing-homemade, not stove top. cranberry-the stuff from the can
turkey & gravy, and the green bean casserole everyone hates

ick-sweet potatoes with marshmellows on top, pumpkin pie

[sa]

Favorite: Green bean casserole 9with extra fried onions on top) and jello mold. I know people hate these things, but I LOVE them!
Also, I'm convinced that my grandmother has the best version of jello mold. I served it once for a party after people cringed when I said I'd made it, but everyone went back for more and a few asked for the recipe.

Least Favorite: Turnips - blech.

[redheadk]

Best: southern style dressing or pineapple casserole if there is a ham

Worst: I really don't care for green bean casserole. I'm making it bc my dad requested it and it takes like 2 seconds to prep but ew.

[winnied]

Favorite: Mashed potatoes
Least favorite: Mom's stuffing. I know she loves it so I've never said anything.

[h]

Favorite -- mashed potatoes

Glossiest -- green bean casserole (both sides make this). If we are at the ILs, then canned cranberry sauce and something they call "green stuff" that seems to involve green Jello, cool whip, and God knows what else (cottage cheese, canned pineapple, marshmallows??) get added to the list. I am baffled by this as my MIL is normally a great cook and very into food.

Thanksgiving is not my favorite holiday.

[qwerty]

Favorite - sweet potato casserole with marshmallows
Grossest - canned cranberry sauce, green bean casserole made with canned beans and with cream of crap soup, sauerkraut (never had it on Thanksgiving until a few years ago but I think it's a Baltimore thing)

[mmmomof2]

Favorite - almost everything, but pumpkin pie especially

Least favorite - that nasty green bean casserole - yuck! Also corn bread stuffing is not my fave - too sweet.

[genet313]

Nov 26, 2013 11:09:06 GMT -5 IrishBelle said:

Fave is definitely my mom's stuffing. We all love it. There isn't anything that my mom makes that I don't like.

For DH's family it is the green marshmallow "salad" that SIL - yuck! In fact most of the food there is just average. Edible but nothing special.

This is exactly how I feel about my Thanksgivings, except we don't do marshmallow "salad" (thankfully, it seems).