Ok everyone, I thought it might be nice to get in the COTH holiday spirit and do a collective Thanksgiving thread.
For my part, I’m hosting Friendsgiving for fellow Buffalonians who can’t make it home to family or who are having their family holiday on a different day. At least one person I have never met is coming as one of my friends knew he’d be flying solo for the holiday otherwise and asked to bring him.
Anyway, I’m normally a cook capable of creating nuanced dishes with layered flavors, but for T-day it’s going to be trash comfort food all the way.
First and most important: We all know that some store bought staples are better than homemade so cranberry sauce complete with the can ridges will have a place of honor at the table.
See also: “jar gravy”
Also on the menu is this “Holiday meal crockpot” travesty/ambrosia which involves putting chicken breasts in first, then a bag of box stuffing over it, then a blend of canned mushroom soup and sour cream schmeared over that, and then frozen green beans to finish, cook on high for 4 hours. The Best.
Add some additional sauteed green beans with caramelized onions, plus a roast beet and feta salad side, leftover routabaga/leek/garlic/miso puree that I made for a dinner party yesterday for which I actually cooked things not from boxes or cans,and Wegmans pumpkin pie, and ta da.
The plan is to elevate all this trash comfort food with red wines that significantly outclass the rest of the offerings and are probably embarrassed to be seen next to the ocean spray logs. Too bad so sad for them.
Also getting out the good silver and doing a formal place setting for the final touch.
I hope others join the thread and also post pics of their set tables tomorrow!!
Happy Thanksgiving!!