Well, I'm not sure he's a "rockstar", but he's done a lot to help home cooks and this is good advice.

Nina_Hartley's_Ass: One more requirement.

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Mam? Is that you?

You...you shut your filthy whore mouth, Kimball!

America's Test Kitchen probably does more for the sale of culinary gadgets since Julia Child. Good show, too.

ginandbacon: Well, I'm not sure he's a "rockstar", but he's done a lot to help home cooks and this is good advice.

He's like the anti-Bourdain.

RexTalionis: America's Test Kitchen probably does more for the sale of culinary gadgets since Julia Child. Good show, too.

I met the product tester guy, he's AWESOME!

The sides ARE the meal.

Turkey's just there to glue them all together.

markie_farkie: The sides ARE the meal.

Turkey's just there to glue them all together.

I'd agree...I really don't care for turkey, but the stuffing/potatoes/veggies/etc. are what make the meal. Plus a gallon of gravy.

Thanks subby for bringing this to our attention.

Now I'm starving for some of this:



robmilmel: Plus a gallon of gravy.

At least a gallon. With some buttery flaky biscuits to sop it up!

So apparently, the perfect Fark Thanksgiving is mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, a green bean casserole, pie, stuffing, and I'm guessing yams? And a bucket of gravy.

And no turkey.

Whoops! And biscuits! Can't forget the biscuits!!

ginandbacon: Whoops! And biscuits! Can't forget the biscuits!!

I get my drum of them at Costco! 125 lbs for $5!!!

ginandbacon: So apparently, the perfect Fark Thanksgiving is mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, a green bean casserole, pie, stuffing, and I'm guessing yams? And a bucket of gravy.

And no turkey.

The last time I celebrated Thanksgiving, my father prepared a nice filet mignon, paprika shrimp, a rack of roasted lamb with his own spice rub, and butter-baked and stuffed lobster tail.

Beats mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and casserole and turkey by a mile.

ginandbacon: And no turkey.

Maybe just a little turkey, to slather the cornbread, hard-boiled egg, gizzard, liver, and bacon stuffing over.

markie_farkie: ginandbacon: And no turkey.

Maybe just a little turkey, to slather the cornbread, hard-boiled egg, gizzard, liver, and bacon stuffing over.

I like stuffing. Can we skip the egg though?

robmilmel: ginandbacon: Whoops! And biscuits! Can't forget the biscuits!!

I get my drum of them at Costco! 125 lbs for $5!!!

I make them from scratch and they cost way more than that. Real butter?

ginandbacon: I make them from scratch and they cost way more than that. Real butter?

"I Can Believe It's Not Edible!"

/$3/drum

robmilmel: ginandbacon: I make them from scratch and they cost way more than that. Real butter?

"I Can Believe It's Not Edible!"

/$3/drum

Read me the ingredient list, wouldya?

ginandbacon: Read me the ingredient list, wouldya?

Formaldehyde, Polymyxin B, Polysorbate 80, Sucrose, Sodium chloride, Potassium dihydrogen phosphate, Disodium phosphate dehydrate, Potassium chloride, virus antigens, Magnesium chloride hexahydrate, Diethylether.

It's the formaldehyde that gives it that Real Butter taste!

robmilmel: ginandbacon: Read me the ingredient list, wouldya?

Formaldehyde, Polymyxin B, Polysorbate 80, Sucrose, Sodium chloride, Potassium dihydrogen phosphate, Disodium phosphate dehydrate, Potassium chloride, virus antigens, Magnesium chloride hexahydrate, Diethylether.

It's the formaldehyde that gives it that Real Butter taste!

Nom nom nom?

robmilmel: Formaldehyde, Polymyxin B, Polysorbate 80, Sucrose, Sodium chloride, Potassium dihydrogen phosphate, Disodium phosphate dehydrate, Potassium chloride, virus antigens, Magnesium chloride hexahydrate, Diethylether.

That's only a few chemicals away from being a floor cleaner!

markie_farkie: That's only a few chemicals away from being a floor cleaner!

COMBINATION floor cleaner/buttery spread!

markie_farkie: The sides ARE the meal.

Turkey's just there to glue them all together.

Thanksgiving is the only time of year that I make 10 sides for a meal. So fark him. If I want a sparse meal, I'll have mac'n'cheese in front of the TV.

I love Cook's Illustrated and America's Test Kitchen, but Christopher Kimball's first-page editorial in every issue of Cook's Illustrated is one of the most bizarre, pathetic cries for help I ever seen in print.

Fark you, Kimball. If I want to cook 20 things for any dinner - Thanksgiving, Christmas, Arbor Day or whatever - that's my own farking business. I like small portions of many things. That's part of the fun of Thanksgiving - all the foods that you never cook otherwise.

markie_farkie: Now I'm starving for some of this:

sporeflections.files.wordpress.com

yes yes yes for the love of god YES!

I LOVE that stuff!

What's wrong with lots of food? Food is love. :)

SilentStrider: markie_farkie: Now I'm starving for some of this:

sporeflections.files.wordpress.com

yes yes yes for the love of god YES!

I LOVE that stuff!

As do I, although the one pictured needs another two cans of Durkee onions on top.

/either that, or that's pictured after came by

Oh, and........ the best way to eat turkey, regardless of holiday:

We did Thanksgiving with my in-laws and my best friend last year.

I made French onion soup for each as an opener.

Individual stuffed Cornish game hens for each.

The sides were mashed potatoes and roasted asparagus (with diced garlic, tomato, and black olive).

Nobody complained about not having 17 side dishes. I also had a cheese and cracker plate and some stuffed mushrooms and mini chicken pesto meatballs as appetizers, so nobody went home hungry.

I wish we cooked all the holiday meals!

I'm thinking of having an all-appetizer Thanksgiving this year.

Stuffed mushrooms, yes please!

My mother's Thanksgiving: ham, turkey, potato casserole, yams, biscuits, gravy, beets, stuffing, deviled eggs and way too farking much sauerkraut.

markie_farkie: The sides ARE the meal.

Turkey's just there to glue them all together.

I could leave the turkey and just eat sides but we'd still have to cook a turkey for leftover turkey sandwiches the next day (and perhaps later Thanksgiving evening after my nap).

GAT_00: My mother's Thanksgiving: ham, turkey, potato casserole, yams, biscuits, gravy, beets, stuffing, deviled eggs and way too farking much sauerkraut.

Sleep with the windows open?

Christopher Kimball is wrong.

This is our Thanksgiving menu (13 people, so far, which I'm thankfully not cooking. I am bringing made-from-scratch chocolate cake.

Turkey
Dressing
Mashed potatoes
Gravy
Corn on cob
Salad
Deviled eggs (4 dozen, that will last an hour if we're lucky). Our hostess makes awesome deviled eggs.
Dinner rolls
Pies (pumpkin, apple, peach)

One of the guests may be bringing chocolate pie.

This year's menu:

Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, au gratin potatoes, cranberry sauce, "pink stuff", "white stuff", rolls, green beans (not in a casserole).

Pumpkin pie, mince pie, cherry pie, apple pie. Ice cream or whipped cream on top.



Fark this guy and his minimalist crap.

3dougnight: That's all you really need



And this paddle thing.

markie_farkie: GAT_00: My mother's Thanksgiving: ham, turkey, potato casserole, yams, biscuits, gravy, beets, stuffing, deviled eggs and way too farking much sauerkraut.

Sleep with the windows open?

I don't eat the crap. I leave that part of the German heritage alone.

This year at my home for Thanksgiving...

but it's such a great opportunity to turn your life into