GIS for "Whipped Fish""

"Bearbufcowlamturduckcaten." It's a small cat, steamed and stuffed with broccoli casserole, stuffed into a boneless chicken This is rubbed with garlic and oil, and stuffed into a boneless duck. This is smothered in barbecue sauce and stuffed into a turkey. The turkey is deep-fried, sprinkled with pepper, and stuffed into a boneless marinated lamb. The lamb is then doused in Tabasco sauce and stuffed into a boneless cow. The cow is then stuffed into a boneless vietnamese water buffalo. The water buffalo is then stuffed into a live bear. The bear is then wrapped with bacon.

This is served with a garnish of parsley.

Would somebody explain to me what chess pie is? I googled it without a clear answer.

Cut Up Snickers bars with red and green grapes red and green apple pieces all smothered in Lots of Whipped Cream.

Chess pie? Isn't that a matrix of jello and whipped cream? How about Coke Salad? What's the difference between all of these and jello salad?

Let's see. Nothing overtly odd here.

Fried turkey - It's been a family tradition for over 20 years now.
Candied Yams - yams and brown sugar baked in the oven, then covered in marshmallows.
Cornbread dressing.
Turkey gravy.
Mashed potatoes.
Various pies - apple, cherry, chocolate and pecan.
Fruit Salad - fruit cocktail, sliced applies, mandarin oranges, and bananas mixed together with cool whip.
Buttermilk Jello - Strawberry jello mixed with crushed pineapple, buttermilk, and coolwhip which is then topped with crushed pecans. It sounds gross, but it's really really good.

Remember the Alamo, and God Bless Texas...

My grandpa's girlfriend has always brought something disgusting. It is almost always mouldy or rotten, but always disgusting. Once I heard her talking about how she had had her son over for an early Thanksgiving dinner since he couldn't be there for the full meal. She said she had made a "nice" cornish game hen instead of a turkey since it was just the two of them. She then said how she had sent the leftovers home with him since she would have plenty of turkey. Leftovers from two people eating a game hen?!!! It must have been just as bad as everything else she makes.

More recently I have been eating MREs on Thanksgiving. Mmmmm MRE turkey!!!!

This year I think I will go with a little Boston Market and a whole lot of Vodka.

fnord

a winnar is yuo!

Don't forget grandma's famous "green death" jello.. :P I think my mom's the only one who still likes that stuff. If you can't see through it, it's not jello. Doesn't matter how many chopped walnuts are in it, I won't touch it.

Who said cheese whiz in celery was weird? What the hell else you gonna put it on?

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.... Is it Thursday, yet?


/loves Canned Cranberries
//buys them year-round

we have cream cheese covered in green pepper jelly on crackers. It's the yum.

It's not gross but since having the holidays away from home for the past 13 years I have yet to find a holiday cookie tray with snowball cookies or black walnut cookies.

karion: Water chestnuts, wrapped in bacon, covered in....

Try it with those L'il Smokies sausages instead of water chestnuts, and covered in brown sugar... Extra special good!

For the record. I ALWAYS put canned olives on my fingertips when they were served. One company has incorporated this into its logo.
http://i3.peapod.com/c/FM/FMZTG.jpg

Thanksgiving is always
1. mix of 1/2 white and 1/2 sweet potatoes mashed together.
2. pickled beets
3. lime jello salad with shredded carrots and celery
4. NO canned cranberry sauce, marshmallow sweet potatoes, or green bean casserole. My mother insists on this
5. Brussel-farking-sprouts
6. Dry turkey
7. Awesome stuffing
8. No, you know we never have pumpkin pie. We are having lo-cal pumkin filling baked in a dish without a crust or whipped cream because pumpkin pie is fattening and you don't need to put on any more weight little piggy. Why, no wonder you aren't married yet. You don't even have a boyfriend. I can't get any grandchildren until you can trick a man into marrying your fat, fat behind. I ran into Karen Black's mother...you used to go to school with Karen, remember? She's got FOUR kids now. Her husband makes over 100,000 dollars a year...

and so forth.

//I eat the stuffing and the pickled beets
///I also drink a whole lot.
////Not just at dinner.
/////I hate her.

Actually, I'll be bringing my Jones soda holiday pack. I figure if I serve them before the meal, I'll have more leftovers to take home.

NoleFarker
We never have it (luckily) but my grandma always puts the giblets and hard-boiled eggs in her gravy. YACK.

I agree. The least they could do, in the kitchen, is strain it. The gravy's good but the giblets, any of them, are hideous.

Pecan pie . . . would die for it.

Uncle Gary. We like to brine him first, then fry.

KNORR SPINACH DIP

PREPARATION TIME: 10 Minute(s)
CHILL TIME: 2 Hour(s)

INGREDIENTS
1 package (10 oz.) baby spinach, chopped or 1 (10 oz.) frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed dry (thaw over night in a collinder in the sink and then sqeeze out all the water the next day with paper towels...
1 container (16 oz.) sour cream
1 cup Hellmann's Real Mayonnaise
1 package Knorr Vegetable recipe mix
1 can (8 oz.) water chestnuts, drained and chopped
3 green onions, chopped

Mix all the shiat except the spinach the night before.
let it sit in the fridge.
when ready mix in the spinach the next day.
let it cool in the fridge for an hour or so.

Get a sheppard bread from the store cut out the middle and make a bowl.
spoon all the spinach dip in the bread bowl.
Eat with like corn chips, califlower, brocoli, carrots, celerey bread from ther middle of the bowl.
make a double or triple batch becuase everyone will love it and eat it all.

marbled rye bread.

2005-11-22 12:41:01 PM theding0

Chopped pork and potatos, which are then stuffed into a pig stomach, sewed up, and baked.

"Hog maw"? Haven't had that in many years.

White Castle Stuffing and Drunken Turkey (AKA beer can turkey)

Followed by shots of Wild Turkey

This year, I'll be spending my first Thanksgiving with my fiance's family. I understand there are two hams and a turkey on the menu. I am vegetarian. Therefore, I've decided to make a faux chicken pot pie. Since we're all friends here and there are other vegetarians out there, I will share. It's really very good!

In a deep dish pie pan or casserole dish, layer:
- fake "chikin" strips, not breaded (I used Quorn brand)and still frozen
- Most of a can of french cut green beans
-1/2 bag of shredded potatoes (I used Simply Potatoes)

Then, grab a bowl and combine the following:
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1/3 c. milk
whisk. It will still be really thick and gloopy. Begin to add white wine until the mixture is smooth and thick - around a milkshake consistency.
Add a bunch of herbs, as you wish: herbes de provence, thyme, basil, oregano. Fresh ground pepper. Stir again.

Pour mixture over the layers in your dish, and stir around to combine everything.

Over the top, throw a prepared pie crust (the one that is already rolled out for you - I use Pillsbury). Seal the edges. If you feel fancy, draw a turkey or some leaves or something on there with the knife.

Stick in oven and bake at 425 for 45 minutes.

Even you non-vegetarians will love it, I swear!

This thread reminded me of a childhood treat we used to have. I emailed my mom and asked about her Minced Meat Pies, with hard sauce...

She replied.

I used to go to the grocery store and buy a large jar of "Nonesuch" brand mince pie filling. For the crust we buy the store bought variety that comes in the refrigerator case, one double crust. I think its Pillsbury brand and it's already made up and you simply unfold it and line the pie tin with it and then put it in the oven and bake it at 400 degrees for about 20 minutes until it is cooked....then take it out and let it cool off. Put the jar of mince pie filling in a pan and add 2 or 3 tablespoons of espresso to it, you don't have to, but it tones down the sweetness a little. Mix it up and then pour the concoction into the pie shell that you have already baked a little. Now put the top crust in place over the filling and crimp the edges. Take knife and cut a leaf design into the top crust so it can vent while cooking. Lightly butter the top crust and then sprinkle with sugar. Then put it in the oven and bake it according to the directions on the jar, I think it was about 400 for 40 minutes or so. till it is bubby hot and the top crust is a nice brown.

For hard sauce, take 1 box of confectioners sugar and empty in bowl, ad 1/4 lb of land of lakes butter (presoftened) and cream the two together. then add a couple of tablespoons of milk until it is the right consistency (creamy but very stiff). add one tablespoon of nutmeg to the concoction and stir. sprinkle nutmeg over the top until it tastes like you want it to. chill and serve over the mince pie.

food_eater

I'm convinced that during the holidays, Mothers are possessed by pure evil. I'm also convinced that the evil can be exorcised with enough alcohol.

/alcoholic
//but only when I visit home

beanish

recipes, please??

So my poor mother slaves away all day to make a vegetarian version of everything: gravy, stuffing, green beans (no ham added)

Oh, boo hoo. What is wrong with people such that they even have to have meat in their damned vegetables? No wonder people get to be such fatasses. Green beans rock all on their own. That being said, as a vegetarian, I've never required family members to prepare special food. I always offer to bring my own.

Apparently, we're relatively normal. My mother-in-law gives us all cups of fruit salad with a vinegar sauce (tasty) with our meals. That's about it. Oh, and my mother makes these chocolate-mint squares with Creme de Menthe. But, those are really good.

Here's my family's 2 twisted Slovakian Christmas food entries.

1. Boiled pigs feet in garlic flavored gelatain (Actually it's heaven on earth, believe it or not!)

2. Drippings from the roast pork mixed with vodka and sugar and served in a shot glass. Just plain evil and nasty, but we drink it for a "healthy" new year!

I live 3000 miles from my family now and do miss these 2 items along with the family...

Cheese whiz in celery
Peanut butter in celery
Bloody beer (red beer made with bloody mary mix.

FOOD OF THE GODS!

heirloom_tomato
I don't like meat in my green beans just bacon drippings! YUM!

It's not a holiday in my family if all the casseroles don't have at least one of the following in them, usually multiples...
butter
creamed soup
cheese
mayonnaise
And my mother is best enjoyed (or tolerated) with at least two glasses of wine or beer.

Octopus. For some reason, my mother always makes Octopus and a turkey.

/would you like white meat?
//dark meat?
///tenticle?

Whoops, forgot the most important part of the pork dripping, vodka, sugar drink. It's served hot. I'm guessing because the pork would congeal and you'd end up chewing the drink instead of drinking it if served chilled...LOL

and I thought this was gonna be strange and weird posts...

ok, Good: Mom makes her own cranberry sauce ... Bad: what's in the cranberry sauce:

orange rind flakes(flakes are larger than you think)
apple chunks
pear chunks
some sort of nuts
and, obviously, cranberry sauce, made by some local place nearby

Mom eats it
Dad eats it
they had 7 children, counting me
they have 2 grandkids
my brother-in-law eats like he has a bottomless stomach
so do I

... that stuff lasts forever in the fridge after thanksgiving

/has never met a cranberry he didn't hate because of that stuff
//been seven years since I've been forced to eat that stuff

fried pickles here. deeeeeelicious

/late

The wife and I don't do Thanksgiving as we host Christmas dinner every year. That way the whole family once a year for 8-10 hours and done!

My sweet mother-in-law has started a tradition of cooking us a turkey and trimmings. We run by her house, we don't even get out of the car and she runs dinner out to us. Not some or slices of turkey, the whole thing, gravy, spuds, cranberries, carrots, green bean casserole, yams and a pie. It's way better than catered! We run home, eat a hot no-hassle meal and then in to pajamas and on the couch for a movie or two. It all comes in foil containers. What doesn't fit in the fridge goes outside for the little starving Thanksgiving cats, squirrels, possums and raccoons. A quick step outside in the morning to collect the shredded foil and done. The best holiday EVER!!11onetwo11!!11

That marshmellow salad is known as Ohio Salad in our family. The only place I had ever seen it was in Ohio at my dad's side of the family. Then I ended up moving to the midwest (MN, WI) and dang there it was.

/still call it Ohio Salad
//still won't eat it
///first slashies

I would just like to thank you all for sharing. It is nice to know that my MIL is not the only one who makes the green bean casserole and the marshmallow ambrosia, which I secretly love, but find so 1950s cliche.

My parents' house is a festival of mashed root vegetables: mashed potatoes, mashed carrots-and-parsnips, mashed turnips.

I see there are others with Germanic roots. Thank god, we only do yummy red cabbage. The rest of you are nuts.

Happy Thanksgiving, Farkers!!!

I think I have you all beat! My MIL always makes Shrimp Aspic Salad. It's a Jell-O salad, but instead of fruity Jell-O you use unflavored Jell-O, tomato juice, green onions and shrimp. Now that I think about it, imagine a chunky Bloody Mary Jell-O shooter with shrimp and minus the vodka, of course. It's awful.

Green Bastard
I've had apple salad, only the one I tried had cider vinager, peanut butter, and Miracle Whip in it. Now, I'll eat almost anything, but that was just vile.

/likes thymus, tongue, and liver
//and Del Taco
///newbie with slashes

I still eat about a bite worth of lutefisk every year to make sure I still hate it... I think I will either have to develop a taste for it myself or prepare myself for a little twinge of sadness every year when it's Christmas and the relatives who do like it aren't around anymore.

My brother-in-law owns a winery and vineyard. Makes the greatest Cranberry wine (actually the only I've ever had) in the universe.
Goes with anything. Doesn't taste a lot like cranberry.

all you people who think Deviled eggs are odd must not be from the south. Where I come from deviled eggs on Thanksgiving is about as "odd" as Turkey and Gravy. However no but my family has ever to my knowledge served canned pear slices with sharp shredded cheddar cheese on top. Which is delicious by the way.

dadburns wins...

karion
It sounds horrible, but covered in....ketchup.

Yes, you wrap thick sliced bacon around a whole water chestnut, secure with toothpick, cover with ketchup, bake for 45 minutes.

I swear to FSM, it tastes much better than it sounds. Everybody usually fills up on those damn things.

Try that biatch smothered in a little of Sweet Baby Rays BBQ sauce instead of the ketchup and oh baby...oh...ohhhh. That recipe just made me make the "0" face!!

/crap I need a towel now
//for my hands
///and face
////okay, okay and the nether regions
/////man is that good
//////almost as good as slashies
///////slashies with BBQ sauce
////////I cant wait to try it

hanshotfirst:

my grandma makes the same thing. we call it corn casserole. my mom's picked up the recipe because my dad loves it so much. never heard of the oyster variation, though - my dad's family is from iowa, so i don't think oysters are much of a diet staple there.

i think it's pretty vile with or without oysters, but hey.



this thread is making miss those iowa thanksgivings something fierce.

-deli tray from Hy-Vee
-green bean casserole
-mashed potatoes whipped to perfection with milk and butter
-stove top stuffing
-two gigantic, juicy turkeys, cooked all afternoon in grandma's basement
-cheap, store-bought rolls
-canned cranberry sauce
-assorted other side dishes provided by relatives
-apple, pumpkin and cherry pies (all courtesy grandma)
-beer, wine, whiskey, diet mountain dew and milk as beverage selections
-about 30 irishmen and -women milling about

*snif!*

think it's too late to book a ticket?

pickled herring is pretty good! I had it with my Norwegian in-laws for Xmas. I also made them make Lutefisk; nobody liked me after having to eat that jellied, boiled, mass. They didn't even serve it with aquavit!!


As for my family's Turkey Day stuff, I think we're pretty normal; your usual crudite, turkey & giblet gravy, stuffing, perhaps some raviolis or stuffed canneloni (its like another appetizer course), and maybe a ham.

However the stuffing is worth noting: roasted chestnuts, White Wonder Bread ripped up, Celery, LOTS (at least 2-3 sticks) of butter, salt/pepper. melt the butter, mix it all up, bake it. SO BAD FOR YOU but its good.