Good luck with the deep fry. Don't nuke the ****er when you first dip it in, lol.

And step your ass out of line for the rest of us to tear into some gbc.

Go back to Canadia!

I learned to smoke a turkey a few years ago, and it really is the way to go for me. I love both smoked and fried turkey, but I'm much more comfortable with the smoking. Prior to trying it those two ways, I was never excited about eating turkey for Thanksgiving.

Mac and cheese is always the go-to for me as well, if it's there, but I'm also big on mashed potatoes. I also think most folks could up their game if they made homemade bread or rolls. Seems a lot of people just buy the pre-made rolls and call it a day.

Wouldn't even **** one with Lewdog's dick.

Glad to hear it. We’ll be foregoing the ham altogether this year so it’s smoked turkey or bust.

You make a good point on the bread/rolls, though I have to admit, I am a sucker for those Hawaiian sweet rolls! Slap a couple of those bad boys on my plate and I’ll never complain.

It'd have to be a super unique recipe for me to change my stance.

This year's Turkey Day menu;

- Roasted Turkey, brined for 24 hours
- Fresh Green Beans, while I am a fan of a good GBC most of my family is not so I acquiesce to them
- Homemade Cranberry Sauce
- Homemade Cheddar Biscuits
- Roasted Sweet Potatoes, with Maple Syrup & Bacon
- Mashed Potatoes
- Homemade Pies, Pumpkin & Chocolate Cream

I only need 4 things for Thanksgiving dinner - but I need each in massive amounts:

1. White meat turkey (I'm racist when it comes to turkey and chicken)
2. Light brown gravy
3. Stuffing
4. Mashed potatoes

Mix them all together on the plate, dowse them in ground black pepper and go to town. Shocking how much of this I can eat. Only 185lbs, but I can eat like a 400-pounder. Could put away 3 full plates of this with zero effort.

I did too, and my answer is YES!!!

I'm down for some trashy GBC, no regrats.

The must-haves for me though are homemade noodles, similar to spätzle, and key lime pie.

Man, I love Thanksgiving. Including the green bean casserole. I'm a bigger fan of a glazed ham than turkey. But a brined and smoked turkey can be pretty good too. Pies. Add in all the football and naps. Usually a pheasant hunt. Always a huge selection of wine and whiskey. Mmmmmmhhmmmmmm...

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I made version from scratch a couple years ago and it was awesome, but I'm fine with all canned as well

Its not Thanksgiving without it in my family

But you do you :p

Yeah, I have the smoked turkey pretty much down, I will say find a way to brine it, which is harder with a giant ass bird, but I just went and bought a cheapie big cooler and said, this will be used for nothing because I'm not confident it will ever be clean again but that's how I do it.

In order for it to be pretty right, you have to keep it <40 degrees. Which is fine if you can get it in some container and in the fridge like all these sister****ers that are doing it with 10 lb birds and saying SUPER EASY HERPDERP. But yeah, don't know how many you are serving, but brining is worth the time and effort.

That being said, I ****ing hate turkey. I knock out a good one and it's fine, good even, but I do have a cursory understanding of microeconomics and I can't get around the opportunity cost concept and if I'm going to fire up the smoker, at least let me cook something I want to cook. Ya ****s. But NOPE nobody ever gives a **** what I think.

And that's probably part of the reason I hate turkey is I'm a miserable son of a bitch for the holiday get togethers. I genuinely cannot stand my **** sister. Wifes sisters all treat me really good, but that fiasco has 35 people at it and getting them all fed with 5 girls with 10 peoples worth of ADD floating around, is just a nightmare.

So yeah, giant holiday get togethers just don't trip my trigger.

If I could do something with the wife and kids and my parents and then maybe another one with wife and kids and her parents, there would probably be much less baked in resentment regarding the food, but when I'm starting from a position of, "I'd rather eat a bullet than this meal." It's hard to come up with happy thoughts.

All that being said, fresh bread is fantastic. My **** sister found some pumpkin rolls with cream filling in there (I'm sure my mom is buying them now) that are wonderful.

Home made whipped cream (don't be bitches, just take the 5 minutes to whip cream sugar and vanilla and do the shit right) make whatever desert better (not a big pecan or pumpkin pie fan).

I'm a sucker for proper mashed potatoes - I never make them any more, because frankly, I need to spend those calories elsewhere, and it takes FOREVER to cut and boil potatoes, then mash them then gravy - blah blah blah - but they're good on occasion.

Stuffing, with whatever they put in it to make it good is legit.

Green beans are delicious. GBC is vile, disgusting shit.

Spatzle and key lime pie? What the **** kind of thanksgiving menu is that?