IMPORTANT THANKSGIVING POLL QUESTION!!!

FrancescaK...

I guess we all had to have one minor *burp* (excuse the pun) in the menu works...LOL

We love *jellied* cranberry sauce, but somehow I managed to grab 2 cans of whole cranberry sauce ... :S unspeakable HORRORS! Well... not one person even noticed, and it was inhaled by all without one comment. Funny how we get certain *must have* things in our head - it mattered not to one person.
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Jellied

:B

Funny thing is, in my circle at least, most of us only like GBC around the holidays. I wouldn't think of making it any other time. I think it's a classic "memory food"- without the right occasion/surroundings, it just doesn't taste right!

Sad news to report:

I made the mistake of buying an "off-brand" of (jellied) cranberry sauce- and it wasn't the bright red color of Ocean Spray! :M

I'm still trying to recover from the shock/disappointment...

Ok.. yesterday I was ashamed of myself after bashing the ol' traditional "green bean casserole" so badly. We had a great time at a large gathering yesterday and people were diving in the LARGE casserole dish of GBC and carrying on talking about how they wait alllll year just for that (?). I was eying the 28# turkey in the smoker with a mahogany colored skin glaze worthy of a photo shoot! But...but.. to each his own. There are clearly people who LOVE GBC!

I agree, we like both. Which just reminds me - we forgot this year!

Well, because I am cooking for and serving upwards of 250 local folks, my cranberry sauce will be a huge bowl of both, mixed together. Green bean casserole will be drained whole beans cooked to death with added onions, stewed tomatoes and limp bacon....Not MY druthers, for sure....just following directions :O

At least the hungry folk will leave full :)

Jellied, might as well have a canned chicken in place of your turkey.

20 to 6 in favour oops favor of jellied turkey ?

Francesca Knowles wrote:

The Dung Beetles wrote:
The original recipe has the appearance and flavor of something "pre-digested" (scene cuts to the movie THE FLY as Jeff Goldblum physically disintegrates his dinner)..... buuuhahahahahahaa....

In the interest of Historical Fact, I'd like to take this opportunity to point out that...brace yourself...

:E !!! The real, true "original recipe" is different in critical ways to that which survives today !!!:E

For one thing, it calls for fresh beans...but perhaps the most important present omission is that of the traditional celery salt. I refer of course to the First Known Incident of anyone ever having been aware that green beans, whether fresh or canned, could be combined with canned soup of any kind.

On purpose, I mean.

And it was served to no less a personage than THE QUEEN of IRAN!!!

I here refer you to the following account published on April 22nd, 1955, and immortally entitled:
"American Homemaker serves beans to Queen". (The winning recipe is reproduced therein.)

If it's good enough for a Queen, who are we to argue? :B

Soooooooooooooo what's your point Francesca? :p Just kidding of course - I believe we are mostly having fun! I guess it's a matter of taste, and perhaps I have unrefined taste buds. I will gladly give the Queen ALLLL the "green bean casserole" casserole that could EVER be lurking in my future. I'd rather go out and graze on the front lawn with the resident deer then eat that "goo".

Us out West wrote:
Menu is set...pick up the 'side stuff' tomorrow.

Close camping couple coming over for the feast.

All easy, I do the bird and stuffing, the guests are doing desert, which is going to be a homemade chocolate ganache! The girls do the sides and the guys play cribbage with an eye on the football games.

Forgot...there will be homemade ice cream.

:p