Recipes

[ECBG]

@Icegoddess 

You and I are very similar in our Thanksgiving preferences!

All I really want is the turkey, dressing, a little gravy and cranberry sauce.  I prefer pumpkin pie and love lemon meringue and key lime, but in the summer, lol!

The best lemon meringue was Edwards but they dropped it!  Their lemon fluff is a few lemon discs in a bunch of whipped cream.  I bought it once, never again!

[ECBG]

@pupwhipped 

Have you ever had sweet potato pie?  I loved it as a child.

[pupwhipped]

---

@ECBG wrote:

@pupwhipped 

Have you ever had sweet potato pie?  I loved it as a child.

---

Oh, YES! Delicious!! That's all we had in my family, @ECBG. I never had pumpkin pie growing up. It was always sweet potato pie and also lots of pecan pie for the Holidays. I'm not a bad cook at all but I look back on the fabulous food that my mother and grandmother made and my mouth waters...probably many of us feel that way. Great memories!  

[ECBG]

---

@pupwhipped wrote:

---

@ECBG wrote:

@pupwhipped 

Have you ever had sweet potato pie?  I loved it as a child.

---

Oh, YES! Delicious!! That's all we had in my family, @ECBG. I never had pumpkin pie growing up. It was always sweet potato pie and also lots of pecan pie for the Holidays. I'm not a bad cook at all but I look back on the fabulous food that my mother and grandmother made and my mouth waters...probably many of us feel that way. Great memories!  

---

@pupwhipped 

Of course, there were family recipes handed down, but the Betty Crocker cookbook from the late 40-early 50's was also highly popular!  I have one!

[Trinity11]

---

@Zhills wrote:

do people serve Dressing/Stuffing and mashed potatoes at Thanksgiving? 

---

Anyone with a gluten intolerance or Celiac disease cannot eat stuffing. However, mashed potatoes make an excellent choice. Actually, two starches on the table is a thoughtful approach to the holiday where even if just once a year someone wants to splurge.

A lot of holidays I have seen people avoiding the desserts but piling their plates with stuffing and mashed potatoes.🥰

[Nonametoday]

---

@tiny 2 wrote:

@Nonametoday, Ok I understand. I make my dressing in a couple of large pans one regular and one oyster and bake. When I cook the birds, (sometimes I have had to do 3 turkeys) I also load the cavity with similar items celery onion citrus etc. We call those aromatics to flavor the bird(s) not something we eat at the meal but I have 3 siblings that call dibs on the onion.LOL every year.

---

@tiny 2 

Those aromatics also tenderize the turkey.  I find that a stuffing made of bread will usurp some of the turkey's moisture.  So, I make dressing separate and I put some of the bread, stock and onion mixture in my giblets to make gravy.  So we have plenty of that kind of thing.  I usually make more than one bundt pan of dressing.  In fact, I have one jello-mold, one bundt pan and what I use for making pound cakes that I use.  I did not want to do a plethora of instruction as I was just trying to make the idea of how I do it.  Sometimes, I put oysters in my dressing and especially if I already have purchased oysters for oyster stew.  My husband loves oyster stew as a preamble to his Thanskgiving dinner. 

[Trinity11]

---

@ECBG wrote:

I have stuffing (dressing depending on where you live) and rice because it's a grain and a different texture.

Since I taught nutrition, I would never serve dressing and potatoes, and corn, or any combination of the two.

---

Actually rice and stuffing are both starches. Rice escalates blood glucose just as quickly as dressing. A lot of my diabetic classes emphasized that.Also because so many cannot eat gluten, it is thoughtful to serve corn and potatoes at the table for Thanksgiving @ECBG .

[ECBG]

@Trinity11 

I eat only one starch (stuffing).  The others can do what they want.  No bread (or butter) I could care less!

[ECBG]

@Trinity11 

All I want is turkey, derssing, a little gravy, and cranberry sauce with a glass of white zin.

I am happy. 

I serve the other from the standpoint of nutrition.

[Trinity11]

---

@ECBG wrote:

@Trinity11 

All I want is turkey, derssing, a little gravy, and cranberry sauce with a glass of white zin.

I am happy. 

I serve the other from the standpoint of nutrition.

---

But what if someone at the table cannot eat bread stuffing because of gluten intolerance? Potatoes or corn would be thoughtful to serve @ECBG .

Sorry, but if you have nutrition on your mind...alcohol, sugary cranberry sauce, high fat dressing, gravy ? That is definitely not healthy.