My absolute favorite Thanksgiving leftovers are dressing/stuffing panfried or waffled with a fried egg on top. There wasn't a ton left, so I hid the leftovers from everyone else in the house so I can enjoy them without sharing when all of the extras leave tomorrow. People asked, and I told them I had no idea where they went.
Finally a bright side to no one ever being able to find anything in the fridge 🤷🏻♀️
Stuffing for me is only EVER Stovetop - sorry, not sorry. For special meals like Thanksgiving and Christmas I’ll kick it up by sautéing some onions and celery in butter to get it started, but Stovetop it will be.
Post by mysteriouswife on Nov 24, 2023 19:10:02 GMT -5
We thought we loved hosting, we haven’t hosted Thanksgiving since 2019. When we laid down at 2am we realized we don’t love it. We already booked our friends beach house for next year. We are going to travel on Thanksgiving from here on out. And as soon as DS realizes we are Santa we will travel on Christmas too
I help cook so I don’t have to talk to anyone. I love my family and having them all in one place, but that’s good enough for me, lol.
Oh, 100% this. I told people multiple times yesterday to please not feel obligated to help! Please go hang out with other relative you never get to see! (Get out of my kitchen!)
H hid the stuffing last night after my dad's THIRD helping of leftovers (and he had more today). I was totally on board and tried to get him to hide more. The leftovers are the best part and it's annoying to provide the entire meal and get few to no leftovers!
It just tastes like salt to me. I would cry if that was the stuffing at Thanksgiving. DS2 loves it, and told me the stuffing at school was better than mine. So to each their own.
The small town night parade was as charming as I’d imagined, and the whole town turned out and it was really lovely. My confession is that I really goofed booking the bed and breakfast. It’s an overstuffed Victorian and we are allergic to something here and the rooms are so close together that we are afraid to fool around. Plus we will see these people at breakfast tomorrow.
I booked the “jacuzzi suite” which basically a jet bathtub that takes up half the room and we are not going to use after all. Happily, H and I had a good laugh about it all.
There is a super cool restored historical hotel just down the block that I 💯 should have booked instead.
It just tastes like salt to me. I would cry if that was the stuffing at Thanksgiving. DS2 loves it, and told me the stuffing at school was better than mine. So to each their own.
I did have a love of instant mashed potatoes from the local Horn and Horn cafeteria as a kid. My mother was disgusted as she made mashed potatoes from scratch at least once a week lol
I haven’t been to that many people’s Thanksgivings and stuffing has always been something whatever family I was with was pretty serious about making from scratch. And it’s not something I’d think to buy and try just on a random day.
Post by chickadee77 on Nov 24, 2023 22:00:26 GMT -5
My brother has told me that my Thanksgiving meal is in his top five best meals of his life, and he's been wined and dined fairly impressively due to his expertise in his profession. It makes me happy and I think of it every year, even if he's probably exaggerating, lol.
I kind of don't really like Thanksgiving food, so I cook for two days and barely eat, but it makes me happy to feed others and make them happy, and I know I'm a decent cook, so 🤷♀️
I guess my confession is: I'm kind of internally vain when it comes to my cooking, lol.
candreco, I would have done the same. I asked my MIL to make a triple batch of our stuffing this year so there would be enough leftover. I ate some with gravy this morning. Totally trying it waffled tomorrow.
I love our Thanksgiving but it's so big that we never have leftovers 😭
All I ever want is an everything sandwich the next day.
Oh, everyone came over to our house tonight for leftovers sandwiches. Sourdough, herb butter, cranberry sauce, stuffing, turkey, and havarti cheese. Grilled and dipped in gravy. So freaking good.
I highly recommend making enough food so you have leftovers next year. Or setting aside enough for a couple of sandwiches before everyone digs in.
Post by Leeham Rimes on Nov 24, 2023 22:34:04 GMT -5
One of the supporting reasons I don’t do thanksgiving is bc my FIL eats like a starved animal. No matter the meal, he will eat enough for at least 5 people. It throws off my planning and it makes me so mad, I’m sure it seems irrational to everyone else. I just *hate* feeding him.
For example, the last time I had him over for a meal I cooked (several years ago) was tacos. I usually just make 1 pound of ground beef for the four of us (and before x turned into a teenager, we’d have enough left over for someone to make a lunch with it) but knowing fil was going to be there, I made 3 pounds of taco meat to ensure there was enough and also some leftovers.
I had NO left overs. NONE. That man ate over two pounds of ground beef and complained I didn’t have any more. H is equally annoyed so he has no issues with not hosting meals of any sort with any frequency.
I need ham like water Like breath, like rain I need ham like mercy From Heaven's gate Sometimes ham salad or casserole or ham that’s free range, all natural I need ham
I wish we had more leftovers. My confession is there is never enough leftovers from Thanksgiving. I see all these recipes for what to make with them and all we ever do is eat it again just like we had it on Thanksgiving!
I don't think I've ever had stovetop either. My husband and I both love stuffing. All we have left is the stuff cooked outside the bird and that's a distant second.
Growing up my mom didn't cook much, but she went ALL OUT for Thanksgiving. Everything was from scratch....except the stuffing. It was always Stovetop cooked inside the turkey. It's still my favorite and what I made yesterday.
You are my people, fellow Stovetop lovers. I’m irrationally annoyed when anyone tries to feed me other kinds of stuffing. I’m in the South, where cornbread stuffing is the thing, and it tastes like wet, slimy yet still gritty bread to me. But I could happily eat my own box of Stovetop over the course of a few days.
My confession is about sharing my leftovers. DH normally doesn’t eat leftovers except Thanksgiving. I love leftovers of any kind. Every year I forget he eats more than the turkey for sandwiches. Today I warmed up stuffing and mashed potatoes, and I had to share with him when he asked. I felt very salty about having to share. I guess I could have made him warm up his own, but that felt rude.
I love my mom's stuffing. Unfortunately no one can replicate it. She shared the recipe, in theory, but none of us can do it correctly. She must have done something different that she didn't write down.
Fortunately my second favorite stuffing is Stovetop, which DS and DH don't like. They are volunteering at church Sunday evening for almost 3 hours and I will be making Stovetop and enjoying turkey leftovers.
I love our Thanksgiving but it's so big that we never have leftovers 😭
All I ever want is an everything sandwich the next day.
Oh, everyone came over to our house tonight for leftovers sandwiches. Sourdough, herb butter, cranberry sauce, stuffing, turkey, and havarti cheese. Grilled and dipped in gravy. So freaking good.
I highly recommend making enough food so you have leftovers next year. Or setting aside enough for a couple of sandwiches before everyone digs in.
We try every year to make more and more but it never works out! Like we had 2 turkeys, 2 hams, a goat leg and a duck and I mean literally they were picked CLEAN at the end, lol.
I really just need to find a place in CT that makes a good Thanksgiving sandwich.
I feel guilty my kids haven’t experienced a big family Thanksgiving. Itself usually just the 4 of us. Sometimes my parents are in town. That’s it.
Aw I feel this. We don't live near family, but even if we did we're both only children and only my parents are alive so it would be an additional two people. I'm always torn on it, there's always so many complaints about the big holiday get togethers, and we do enjoy the time just the 4 of us. But, I feel like when people aren't complaining and things are good they're REALLY good in a big family thing. So ya it kind of sucks they don't experience that.
I also always get worried that when they grow up and if they marry into a bigger family we'll be the "boring" family they're obligated to stop at but try and get in and out as fast as possible. I also always read those complaints here of having to see inlaws and its just the two parents so not fun compared to the big family gathering.
We do a mini tgiving dinner once in a while (chicken instead of turkey), with lots of stovetop stuffing!
There was very little turkey stuffing leftover this year, I didn't get any on the actual day and my H tried to eat it for breakfast the next morning and I may have yelled at him 😂