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Stuffing.
Every Thanksgiving I eat stuffing and remember:
- This stuff is great
- There is nothing stopping me from making this year round
and then i immediately forget
I love other people’s stuffing. I made stuffing and gave myself food poisoning.
By putting it inside a turkey or just somehow with stuffing?
Yeah, I put it inside the turkey. I used a friend’s recipe, but it must have been a bigger bird and took too long to cook or something.
Okay, I just Googled it:
When you place stuffing inside a turkey, it comes into contact with raw meat and juices that may contain harmful bacteria such as salmonella.
Yeah, it’s fallen out of fashion because if you leave it there overnight especially bacteria can grow in it. Well, sorry to hear that. I like making homemade stuffing but I just bake it in a pan… i guess that’s called dressing.
Try microwaving it on high for several minutes (until it’s basically too hot to handle) before stuffing the bird.
It also helps if you don’t pack it in. It should get to 165°F to be considered safe.
When I make it rather than “mashed potatoes made of bread” it’s more like “slightly moist croutons”. Breaks my heart.
Pick up a box on sale and put it in the cupboard. It’s a useful base for some chicken pieces, or to make some vegetables into a casserole. Excellent with mushrooms. (Take into account the liquid that will be released by the cooking veggies, or else saute them first, before mixing with the stuffing)
This year, instead of a whole bird, I made Turkey Balls using 2 lbs ground turkey, 2 raw eggs, stuffing mix, then sauteed onion, celery, apple, mushrooms, (let cool before adding) Chardonnay, and cool broth. I added the usual spices, keeping in mind there’s already some in the stuffing. I piled them in a lidded casserole, but you can also bake them on a sheet pan and serve with dips.
The turkey balls sound really good. Like a good way to get a whole Thanksgiving experience in a more compact package
Plus there’s the opportunity for jokes
In fairness, it’s not like you see it at the store all year round to remind you. Maybe get a couple boxes to have throughout the year? It’s certainly on sale right now, or at least will be at the end of December.
Perhaps a bit of a tangent: I’m pegnant and have been craving something all day but couldn’t work out what I wanted. I tried pico de gallo, bacon, mango. No luck. Eventually I realised: it was tap water with ice. That’s all I’ve wanted all day
pregante
Perganat.
Pergola
Gregnant
Picante
It’s an absolute classic.
A classic!
tbf this is common behavior for me and i’m not pegnant
Is there a hydrohomies here?
Yes. I’ve definitely seen it, but don’t remember which instance it’s on.
Gonna be honest, I still don’t know how instances even work
An “instance” is a techie way of saying it’s a copy of that thing
(disclaimer: I’m not a lemmy expert, just techie.)
A Lemmy instance is just the server where accounts and set of communities lives. e.g, Lemmy.world or Lemmy.ml, etc. Each instance can “federate” content from other instances, which is a way of publishing content to servers you otherwise wouldn’t see. You can see content and communities from other instances as well as comment on those other instances even though you don’t have an account on each one.
You are probably looking for
But there are also:
and
You could subscribe to all three, or just the one on your home instance, or whatever.
Thanks, that was a really clear ELI5
Fruits. I don’t have the habit of eating any fruit. It’s super unhealthy and when I do remember to buy fruit when grocery shopping, I am always surprised how good it tastes, only to forget about it for a couple more months…
I’m basically a toddler when it comes to fruit. It can sit around on the counter looking all pretty for days and I won’t touch it. But the moment my wife cuts some up, I’ll devour it.
Maybe you just need a wife who likes to chop things 🤔
Especially oranges for me, every time I’m like " damn I should buy this mf more often"
Pulled pork. And then I wonder why I don’t do it more often, and then remember that I prefer homemade one, and then I realise
ain't nobody got time for that :(
Instapot, just as good, 90 minutes
Someone who can do a “pull the pork apart” robot attachment for a crock pot could probably make a pile of money.
Although now I’m imagining a little robot treading in the crock pot like old timey winemaking, where they stomped on the grapes.
Stand mixer with a paddle attachment will shred meat in about 30 seconds.
A handheld mixer works great.
Honestly, even just doing a whole shoulder with two forks only takes a few minutes. Though I don’t shred mine down all the way.
Also, if you have a crock pot or oven, the cooking process is very simple and hands-off as well.
Brie. I never buy it on my own free will, but I am an absolute goblin when I see it at a party
The French secret for brie - leave it out before you eat it. I’m talking like a day or two. It’s bland otherwise but takes on a camembert quality as it rapidly ages
I ONE TIME bought a Camembert with the plan to bake it. I very seriously thought that something was rotting in my kitchen and actually cleaned out the fridge. When I discovered that it was the cheese, I put the whole thing into a sealed container and the kitchen STILL smelled rotten.
Don’t get me wrong, that baked Camembert was amazing. But not worth the smell lol.
TJ’s triple cream is sinful and basically the same price as normal cheese.
Indian food mostly, but only because the best places are a drive away.
What’s your favorite Indian dish?
I like a big bowl of Rogan Gosht with some chicken biryani (my wife’s fav) and loads of naan. I’m not refined lol, just like that lamb and that chicken saffron yogurty stuff.
I frickin’ love lamb dishes, and I get so grumpy that lamb/mutton is unpopular in the US, so it’s hard to find. It’s tasty!
I frickin’ love lamb dishes
If you ever get a chance, try goat curries. They will rock your world.
Goat is even harder to find in the US.
hardcore Mexican places make it… birria.
Most Indian places will have a goat curry.
I go on Indian food kicks sometimes, where I’ll end up eating once or twice a week for months then I’ll go years without thinking about it again.
Sweet potatoes. So yummy, just baked with butter and salt. I’m not sure why we don’t have them as a side more often.
I’m the exact opposite with sweet potatoes. I always forget that I don’t like them. I want to like them so badly, I mean come on, bright orange mashed potatoes! But Everytime I try to eat one I just can’t finish it. It’s weird .
Same here. I think they’re just too sweet for me, somehow? Which is odd, because I’ll eat things like acorn squash which get kinda sweet when cooked. ::shrug::
Possibly the texture. Potatoes have a different texture than squash.
I can see that - some foods looking way more appealing than they actually are.
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I like them with a little miso. Or miso butter. Damn, now I’m super hungry.
Oh yeah, good call. That would be delicious.
Green olives. None of my cooking use them as an ingredient, so once in a blue moon I remember that I like them, so I eat an entire jar with a toothpick.
I throw them in my salads
My “salads” are technically that due to having cucumber in them. But other than that it’s mostly just cheese which I don’t like with olives.
Have you tried Sicilian olives specifically? They almost have an umami flavour
I may have, I don’t know enough about olives to tell. I usually just buy the biggest jar of castrated green olives that I can find here in scandinavialand.
… I’m guessing Castelvetrano! Ha. Those are my favorite olives too.
I make sure I always have an unopened jar. As soon as I open it, I put another jar on the shopping list. Check out some Puerto Rican dishes. Arroz con Gandules, etc. Great use of green olives in those.
So there’s this amazing Chinese deli in San Francisco. We eat there like twice a year and every time we say we need to eat there more. It’s not like we forget, it’s just that we’re busy. They were our main course Thursday. And then leftovers until yesterday. Godsdamn amazing char siu pork. Best I’ve ever had. I gotta order their bacon and their ribs next time.
What is the deli called? I’d like to check it out.
Go duck yourself
I had to Google it to believe it 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah me too. Short line, great pork. I haven’t had the duck yet, but it smells awesome.
Care to share name.
Go duck yourself (yes that’s the name)
Falafel
From the House of Anárion? (Jk, I had never heard of this food and sounds like either a warrior or a place in Middle Earth)
It’s like fried chickpea patties or nuggets. Sort of like if you made fried hummus bread. Super good with tzatsiki (yogurt/cucumber) or tahini (sesame) sauce. Sometimes it’s served in a pita with lettuce, tomatoes and sprouts.
I was at the Del Mar Fair once and got some super green falafel. It was awesome. I’ve spent 30 years chasing that high.
I don’t strictly forget about them, but I never think to buy them myself. Brussels sprouts.
Idk what it’s called but my wife makes this chicken and pasta that uses parm garlic sauce and its 10/10. I know my issue is we make it then I over eat it which results in me hating it for a while and then the cycle repeats
Sounds like chicken alfredo
Nah, the chicken is slow cooked with the parm garlic sauce, cream cheese, some other kind of cheese, then some rigatoni. She adds a few other things as well.
Here’s a link be warned though it’s loaded with ads so have a blocker on
https://therecipecritic.com/crockpot-parmesan-garlic-chicken-pasta/
Red cabbage!
Absolutely. I’ll just go through quarters of that stuff without a second thought, but I never remember that when I’m at the store.
Unfrosted Blueberry pop tarts
This… Toasted and slathered in butter
Strawberry or gtfo aha. You ever try freezing first, glass of milk to dip optional but recommended
Edit: + break them in half vertically to optimize dipping
My stepson does that
He’s right ;) Its funny cuz i know its all fake but strawberry is best flavor, in real life prefer others but they got it right here
I gotta go blueberry. I’ve never been a big strawberry fan
Try yoir stepson’s trick tho, best is with homogenized milk or the highest fat you can stomach
Eggnog. Probably best for my health that it’s only readily available for a few weeks of the year. We make our own but still, we don’t do that but til we’re reminded it’s eggnog season.
Eggnog is really easy to make and is way better than store bought. Ingredients are readily available year round. ✨️
