/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>15067497
Nope, never heard of anyone doing it and never even occured to me no I highly doubt I would ever consider it but would gladly try it if I ever visit the states again and at that time

>>15067497
Amerrkan here,
I doubt any euro would intentionally subject themselves to our crappy Tgiving food.
I would never cook Haggis or Eel Pie, just to taste how desperately awful British cuisine is.

>>15067638
What's wrong with roast turkey, mashed potatoes, green beans, and pumpkin pie with loves ones?

>>15067693
It's very similar to traditional German boomer food, so it's not that special. If we want to eat 'American', we cook burgers. Mashed potatoes and green beans are a regular side dish in Germany anyway. Turkey is definitely rare, as we eat goose in autumn and winter, chicken all year round and occasionally duck. Pumpkins are dipping into everything over the last decade, to the point where EVERYONE is eating Hokkaido soup and at least one pumpkin variety.

>>15067638
Speak for yourself nigga my Thanksgiving dinner always rocks

>>15067497
No, it just looks like Christmas dinner to me

>>15067638
Rent free

>>15067638
Someone here described British cuisine as something a 10 year old would make if they were on their own for dinner

>>15067638
haggis and eels are delicious you poof

>>15067497
No OP, no other country in the world ever cooks roasts

I have never even thought about doing this. Not that I wouldn't try it, but I've never thought about making it myself.

>>15067497
why would anybody try to do it?
>roasted turkey/chicken
common thing in europe
>mashed potatoes
same
the only thing i would want to try is pumpkin pie

>>15068842
Sometimes I forget that euros don't have Turkeys. I almost hit one with my car today. Wonder how they compare with goose. Can't imagine they taste that different.

Australian here, I want to try pumpkin pie.
it looks delicious.

>>15068963
My parents raise geese and we have them every couple months.
They are really the best bird.

>>15068963
They taste completely different, goose is so much better than turkey. Turkey is the worst thing you can roast, it's way too lean and has little taste to something like duck or goose. The only good thing about turkey is that it's crazy cheap, so even poor people have a big roast.
Side dishes are the best part as long as no one fucks things up and puts marshmallows on the yam, makes gluten free stuffing, or some other stupid shit.

>>15068877
>>the only thing i would want to try is pumpkin pie
My friend from the US sent me all the ingredients for pumpkin pie a few weeks back.
I tried it and it turned out great. I would definitely recommend.

>>15067497
no

>>15067638
do brits really eat this?

>>15068850
a lovely garbage plate
>>15068963
yeah turkey sucks. its dry. its bland. my least favourite meat

>>15068995
No, it's literally a meme at this point

>>15069028
You have to smoke turkey for it to be good. But a 24 hour brined then hickory smoked turkey with a good rub is great. Stuffed with a quarter onion, celery, carrot.

>>15068963
>Sometimes I forget that euros don't have Turkeys.
wut
i'm a russian and we do have turkeys, idk if americans call us euros though

>>15068995
yes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TTGrN4W8nQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68m8nFupThI

Australia has turkeys just running through the streets.

>>15069038
Turkeys were part of the Colombian exchange anon. The Americas are responsible for pretty much all good food from potatoes to chili peppers.

>>15068963
>I forget that euros don't have Turkeys
but we do?

>>15069054
well, then it'd be like saying "euros don't have potatoes" which would be true a few centuries ago but not now

>>15067497
Nah. Turkey doesn't excite me and some side dishes seem like poverty food, who eat bread rolls with dinner unless you're having soup? Biscuits? Green beans are the lowest tier of green vegetables. Nope, I won't be imitating their outdated food.

>>15069132
lets goooo. green bean are poverty-tier food. thanksgiving platers always look like very bad buffet-style

>>15067497
BR. Never. As some have already said, sounds like Christmas to me.

>>15069140
>>15069132
>>15067497
In America, thanksgiving tends to not be... very well prepared. This is simply a matter of averages, with so many households home cooking, 90% of it is sure to suck. christmas tends to fare a bit better because it's not as tied to 1950's americana norman rockwell bullshit.

It's true that roast turkey isn't very exciting, especially with american birds (which are tasteless shit bred for breast size and idiocy, probably the biggest victim of factory farming) where American thanksgiving can and does shine is in the trimmings and side dishes which will have tremendous regional variance.

ex. New England stuffing w/oysters and clams
hasty pudding
frog-eye salad
cornbread (spoon & regular)
Okra Pickles
Sweet Potato & Pumpkin Pies
Derby Pie
Sourdough Stuffing
Creamed Onions
Turkey Manicotti, Tamales, Spaghetti, etc

Thanksgiving is one of those times you'll see the actual roots of America on display (at least in the sides), in local ingredients native recipes and an unholy amalgamation of various european dishes passed down from immigrants

>>15069132
>>15069140
Thanksgiving food looks like the rejected dishes from the Christmas Menu

>>15069179
An interesting and meaningful post on /ck/, coming from an american? im baffled.
your rhetoric about the side dishes, their origin, and cultural significance makes sense. thanks anon

>>15067497
no but who knows maybe someday i might, what is a typical full course thanksgiving dinner anyway, what are the most traditional dishes? turkey, pumpkin pie, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce what else? is there any specific way to cook the turkey

I'm British but live in Germany with an American wife. We make Thanksgiving every year. No friends over this year though :<

>>15069038
are they wild? America has flocks of wild turkey everywhere.

>>15067638
Haggis is actually alright.

>>15067497
I always wanted to try Pumpkin pie. I love pumpkins but we don't use them much here in the mediterranean

>>15068963
they taste completely different
goose is my favorite poultry meat, it tastes a bit like duck but better, the taste is pretty characteristic and it's nothing like chicken

meanwhile turkey just tastes like more dry chicken

>>15069253
no idea, i don't know much about them, i've never seen one except on pics but what i do know is that somebody in my grandma's village has a few, and that's how i got turkey meat a few times

>>15069209
Roast it too long in the oven and then let it sit on the counter covered with foil for an hour to simulate traveling.

>>15067497
>thanksgiving food
absolutely nothing is unique to thanksgiving, why even bother. It's just a sunday dinner

>>15069179
what's' the point in a bowl of tomatoes and whole uncooked corn? I understand the squash being at the table for decorations but those two items seem so nonsense

>>15069209
did they really have to label the roasted turkey?

>>15069283
But I like it dry.

>>15069708
more decorations.

>>15069861
there's already corn at the table. it's so crowded

>>15068995
i've never even seen it, brit food unironically looks more like this >>15068850 or that meme with plain boiled potatoes & mince in gravy

>>15067497
Eating eel and to a lesser extent (outside of Scotland anyway) haggis are quite niche these days. It isn't 1950 anymore. Where do people get these ideas from?

I like the sound of 'pumpkin' pie, but i already make that with squash i grow here in the UK. Nothing special. Same goes for corn on the cobb and 'dressing' (basically stuffing?) Dressing in the UK means the sauce you pour over salads. Potential for hilarity with that one, as well as 'biscuits'. I can't get the image of savoury sauce being poured over custard creams out of my mind.

Turkey we tend to have at Christmas and it's not nice enough to have more often. A good organic chicken/goose/anything is far better imo. So Americans have Turkey for both Thanksgiving and Christmas?

>>15070053
I eat haggis pretty regularly and i'm not even that patriotic

I ate eel once, only cause i caught it by accident whilst fishing, it was pretty tasty. Eating eel is a bit of a novelty, hark back to the olden times.

t. scotsman

>>15070053
Dressing in America also means the sauce you pour over salads, dressing and stuffing are typically used interchangeably here, or regionally one may be used more prominently than the other.

>>15067497
We do, on Christmas day. The only thing we don't do is pumkin pie, and all the other sides.

>>15068982
>>15069028

Turkey is good if it's good quality - organic, properly prepared and cooked - 90% of the time it's not any of those.

>>15069132
Green beans are delicious, the only reason people don't eat them is because they don't taste good next to their fish fingers and spaghetti hoops. With a roast, or some salmon, green beans are perfect.

>>15069690
This. Roast bird, cauliflower cheese, gravy, roast potatoes, mash, veggies. Crumble or apple pie instead of pumpkin pie. A good Sunday Lunch.

>there are people who don't know how to cook turkey
I cooked my first one two years ago and it came out juicy and delicious, used the carcass to make stock for turkey noodle soup and used the remainder to boil turkey-flavored rice after the holiday had passed.

>>15068850
this looks like someone got sick onto their plate and then forgot about it

>>15069717
>did they really have to label the roasted turkey?
maybe one of their college-age children browses /b/?

>>15067497
I have never heard of anyone cooking thanksgiving food or even celebrating it.

leaf thanksgiving is in october which is a much better time to do it since it gives you more than one month to have to do another one for jesus mass