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Yes, the canned ones aren't so bad especially for once a year. It does give me a jolt though, because I don't usually eat things like that. Or maybe they changed that recipe too.
They are very salty - I like them in moderation for the one or two times a year I use them but only the brand name. My grocery brand is just gross. I tried doing the fried shallots and they were amazing but so much work!
It wouldn’t be thanksgiving without “the dreaded green bean casserole”. I was about to eliminate it until my son married a girl from Puerto Rico who had never had it. She loved it, so it gets to stay. It’s just hubby and I this year, so we will skip it.
I’m fine with candied sweet potatoes, but never marshmallows. Got no problem with canned cranberry sauce either.
Things I would never make for Thanksgiving, although I don’t hate them in general are Hashbrown casserole, macaroni and cheese, or pasta dishes……anything the pilgrims couldn’t have had, I don’t want.
It wouldn’t be thanksgiving without “the dreaded green bean casserole”. I was about to eliminate it until my son married a girl from Puerto Rico who had never had it. She loved it, so it gets to stay. It’s just hubby and I this year, so we will skip it.
I’m fine with candied sweet potatoes, but never marshmallows. Got no problem with canned cranberry sauce either.
Things I would never make for Thanksgiving, although I don’t hate them in general are Hashbrown casserole, macaroni and cheese, or pasta dishes……anything the pilgrims couldn’t have had, I don’t want.
I once asked my DIL to bring a side dish thinking she might want to bring something traditional from her family and she brought mac and cheese made with that processed cheese loaf. Needless to say I don't ask her to contribute anymore.
All of my lie, I thought I hated sweet potatoes, because of that sugar laden, marshmallow topped, goopy dish that tasted of gooey sugar mixed with dirt. My mother made it with canned yams. But surprise, once I discovered a freshly baked yam with just butter, I love them.
There are a few things I don't eat but not because I hate them, more like I prefer something else and one must have a little discrimination about what goes on the plate when there is so much to choose from.
Cream of Mushroom soup used to taste really good with a very distinctive and attractive flavor. The recipe has been changed so it isn't even the same product any more, and that put an end to any of the once lovely dishes that used to be made with cream of mushroom soup. So that puts and end to green bean casserole, as far as I am concerned
One thing I learned the hard way is that it needs the original cream of mushroom soup. Don’t buy low fat, or low salt or gluten free or whatever kind of varieties they sell now.
- Turkey. i I could do without then and could do without now.
- Candied yams. We had these growing up and I hated them. It became a joke to see if my mother was going to catch the marshmallows on fire, AGAIN, by toasting them in the toaster over. I love sweet potatoes now, usually roasted chunks, but for Thanksgiving I make a lightened version of a casserole in homage to my mother who started making it in her later years because my kids liked it.
- Stuffing, if flavorless and dried out. If fixed properly, it can be heavenly.
You're reminding me of the year I tried making a couscous stuffing for Thanksgiving. I thought I was going to be so clever. Blech. It turned out terrible. I was so irritated! It was dry and flavorless, like you said. Never again. It was even cooked inside the turkey! I like couscous, but not as a Thanksgiving stuffing. You're right, made properly it can be heavenly.
Not a fan of candied sweet potatoes, "wet" stuffing/dressing or (strangely enough) any of the pie flavors that my family prefers on Thanksgiving: pumpkin, apple, and usually chocolate silk.
I'm totally fine with the green bean casserole and cranberry sauce.
Friends that used to host a HUGE gathering (now that the kids are growing up in the family, not anymore) - one person brings a broccoli casserole (similar to the green been casserole) - nobody EVER ate it but every year... there it was.
While I like green bean casserole, I'll pass on the candied yams and cranberry sauce.
That said, their existence does not bother me in the slightest. I'll simply have more of something else - mashed potatoes, stuffing, corn, etc.
I have to agree. I love green bean casserole if it's made right using real green beans instead of canned.
I do have a hard time eating something sweet and full of sugar as part of the main meal especially the candied yams and cranberry sauce or anything ambrosia. That said, homemade cranberry sauce is worlds apart from the canned stuff.
I'll have something sweet afterward for dessert like cherry pie or even a slice homemade cheesecake.
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Needless to say I don't ask her to contribute anymore.
