Almost everyone is going to pick stuffing, it's so damn good. Even if you make it quick and cheap with Stove Top.

:hmmm:

Root vegetables are perhaps the most underrated food in America. A mix of roasted turnips, parsnips, and carrots is hard to beat.

Goose (never a turkey) and sauce
Stuffing
Pecan pie

Ham, mashed potatoes with butter, chocolate for desert.

Turkey/gravy, mashed potatoes, stuffing. Without a doubt.
Turkey is not my favorite thing but I’ve learned to love making creative stuff with the leftovers

Turkey
Green Chili Mac N Cheese
Mashed taters with gravy

Thread mash up: pick a location and weapon to kill your Thanksgiving mains.

Brined slow roasted turkey w/ homemade gravy.
Bourbon mashed sweet potato casserole.
Broiled bacon glazed green beans and carrots.

Just never heard of that before.

I'll buy turnips at the farmers market and just eat them raw. Just trying to imagine what it would be like. Definitely be different, and probably better to me than mashed Taters, for me at least.

Smoked turkey, sweet potatoes (candied), pie (any and all)

I would take a flamethrower to a green bean casserole in front of the George Brett statue.

It better. It's what we do.

Mom would always make me cook the turkey. And I put in effort and figured it out. End up with a pretty good smoked turkey. I never got the super crispy skin down right, it wasn't a floppy mess, skin was good not great the rest was excellent. Then some how or another mom asked me about it, and I told her I didn't really like turkey. She was like totally shocked.

"WHAT You don't like turkey?"

"Nah, not really. I mean it's not the worst thing ever, but if I'm going to spend all day cooking I'd like to end up with something better than friggin turkey."

"How can you not like turkey?"

"Who actually likes turkey?"

"Well... I do?"

"More than something really good?"

"...

Why didn't you say anything?"

[thinks to myself, I do a mountain of shit I don't want to do for the holidays] "It's Thanksgiving I figured I'd get yelled at."

So then the next year she went and bought a ribeye roast (thinking it was a prime rib). Dry brined it for 36 hours, put it on the smoker to medium and if it wasn't the best thing I've ever turned out, it's gotta be right there. It was ****ing incredible.

So I've got some morons in my family that absolutely can't eat anything with pink, so I lopped the end off to give to a couple of them, and the others are all up there ****ing microwaving this ridiculously expensive piece of meat that is the pinnacle of my culinary skill. And to top it all off my sister is over there being the biggest **** imaginable, making puking noises and shit. Just being insufferable in the loudest possible way. All this incessant bitching because my mom spent ridiculous money to feed us all the best thing I've ever done.

I figured that was the end of that. So I asked my mom if she wanted to do something else because all the dumb****s that are too good for science (It's BLOOOOOOODY!!! :deevee:) just bitch incessantly. It was tough for me to listen to and I didn't drop the cash. But apparently she liked it because we're doing it, and apparenlty my nephew is doing a turkey for those that can't do actually food.

So yes. It counts.

Prime rib. Roasted Brussell Sprouts with some hate and fury. Home made dinner buns.

We aren't doing the sprouts or buns because it won't scale but it's the answer.

We've done the ribeye roast (and prime rib) for Christmas, providing we don't have to get approved for a loan. ;)

Like that's gonna happen......