Most of my cooking is BBQ related but for those of you who do BBQ for Thanksgiving I'll post my go-to favorite sides. As always if you don't use a smoker these can be made in an oven/gas grille Beans Spoiler 3 or 4 slices bacon, diced 2 (27 oz) cans Bush's Baked Beans 1/2 c. Blues Hog BBQ Sauce (or other sweet-spicy favorite) 1 lb. smoked leftover smoked pork or beef, more or less, or 1 lb crumbled cooked pork sausage 1 can apple pie filling, pieces somewhat chopped up 1 medium onion, chopped 1/2 green pepper, chopped 1/2 c. brown sugar 2 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce 2 Tbsp. Mustard (prepared) 1 tsp chipotle or cayenne powder (optional, to taste*) 1 tsp barbecue rub (Plowboys Yardbird is my favorite) Brown bacon, and saute onion and green pepper in bacon grease. Mix in remaining ingredients. Bake at 325ยบ for 1 hour, or simmer on stovetop in large pot for 30 minutes if you don't have time to do them in the oven. Redneck Caviar (No cooking needed) Spoiler 2 cans black eyed peas, drained 2 cans shoe peg corn, drained 2 cans Ro-Tel tomatoes, drained 2 lg bell peppers, chopped 1 can black beans, drained 12 sm. green onions, chopped 3 ripe tomatoes, chopped 1 tsp garlic powder 1 tsp garlic salt 1 tsp parsley flakes 16 oz bottle Zesty Italian Dressing How to make it Mix peas, beans, corn, tomatoes, bell peppers, onions and tomatoes with garlic salt, garlic powder, parsley flakes and Italian dressing. Refrigerate at least 12 hours before serving. Moink Balls Frozen Italian meatballs Bacon Wrap meatballs with a half strip of bacon and dust with BBQ rub Smoke until bacon is crispy and then brush on BBQ sauce
You white people eat funny. I won't be cooking shit, but I know what the meal will be. Sweet potatoes Deep fried turkey (not breaded) /w gravy cornbread muffins cornbread stuffing /w gravy collard greens string beans potato salad mac and cheese sweet potato pie pumpkin pie maybe peach cobbler
The wife just had her second sonogram today. You can now see the baby's legs and arms, healthy heart beat, and the doctor said he is a little bigger than average (which doesn't surprise me, as I'm 6' 1", my wife is 5'11", her brother is 6'5", and her grandfather is 6'10"). Not to get all mushy and crap, but now I have an actual reason to celebrate thanksgiving. Or maybe this should have gone in the drunk thread.... Since that's obviously how I'll be doing it. Gotta get all this final boozing outta the way before mini me prevents me from being able to sleep it off.
How early is too early to start drinking tomorrow? I'm thinking I may crack open the bourbon with my pb&j tomorrow morning.
So this will be my sweet potato casserole tomorrow: Spoiler It's from a local cupcake shop. I am not making a whole casserole that 80% of will get thrown away, so this is perfect. If it is anywhere as good as the pecan pie cupcake from the same shop that I wolfed down earlier, it will be amazing. Alas, I did not have success with getting a single slice of pumpkin pie, and I absolutely refuse to get a whole pie that 75% of will get thrown away. The place where I had gotten the slice in years past only had variations - a pumpkin with a pecan topping and a sweet potato pie with struesel topping. So the above cupcake will be my sweet fix for the day. Edit: I only got one cupcake, the pic is from their facebook page.
Slept in late, had some amaretto in my coffee, and a screwdriver with my bacon and eggs. In my Ron Swanson bacon and eggs cup, of course.
I'll tell you what I'm NOT thankful for: all of these hippies clogging up my newsfeed with posts about Native Americans and the horrors of the turkey industry, amirite??
We don't have to leave for my in-laws until around 2. So that means around 1:30 there will be 5 of us fighting over 2 showers and 50 gallons of hot water. What's that? Shower now? Why do now what I can put off until the last possible minute? It's a holiday, dammit!
You better help her out if you don't want the house to burn down! That does give me an idea, though. Since I can't have pumpkin pie, I will do the next best thing. <a class="postlink" href="http://www.barnonedrinks.com/drinks/p/pumpkin-pie-3991.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.barnonedrinks.com/drinks/p/p ... -3991.html</a> I'll even spritz it with some whipped cream.
So my strange mom just came downstairs to tell us about the transexuals in the Macy's Parade...Yea, my mom is special.
Any demographic that begins with the letters h-i-p are going to do whatever it takes to make others feel guilty during days of celebration or Remembrance. It won't be long before you see hipster twitter posts on 9/11 saying things like "Before you remember 9/11 don't forget about those poor terrorists who were brainwashed-- against their will-- to fly planes into buildings."