If it's for the kids, why not?
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As a family, nobody serves yeast rolls anymore since my Nana died. Apparently I was the only one with the recipe and uhm I lost it during a move. Massive oops. Tried to make it up by recreating the receipt from memory but the best I could get from the gathered assembly was "nice but not Nana's". Recently found an Edna Lewis method that reads much like Nana's and they both came from the same part of VA so I've hopes.There is NEVER not enough room for a good fresh hot bread and butter.
Fake crescent rolls... ummmmm, not so much.
But nothing beats a good hot fresh yeast roll with unsalted butter that has been doused with salt!!!!
OMG....
Nope, I def. do not allow myself to indulge in rolls and butter, except for an occasion like Thanksgiving.
And, that is one of the things that makes Thanksgiving SO good!!!!!
Ham on Thanksgiving- blasphemy Easter ok, Thanksgiving NO!!!!!!!!!!!!
It would be a "no" from me, but only because I'm super-rigid and my holiday dinner menus are sacrosanct.
If somebody else brought it though, I'd politely put it on the table {{sigh}}. Remember that fun thread about the noodle salad, Red?
OP back. DD says she'll make the mac & cheese that's in my Barefoot Contessa cookbook. I've made it about a dozen times over the years. A different version than that in post #84. No tomatoes.
They stopped making the margarine I’ve used my entire life. After many trials we permanently made the switch to butter year round. If they started making my margarine again I don’t think I could go back. The real thing or nothing now.We'll likely have Instant Pot Mac and cheese on our Thanksgiving table. DD22 is a vegetarian, so I like to have a couple sides that'll really fill her up. Plus, DD14 and DS11 love it. I'm doing it in the Instant Pot because I have a really small oven that will be put to better use.
What better use, you say? Well, we go for the Rhodes rolls. These are sold as frozen dough balls--they do take a few hours to thaw and rise, but they taste AMAZING!!! If I don't have Rhodes rolls, I'll have a mutiny on my hands. And don't even think about serving them with anything less than real butter. In fact, there's no place for margarine, anywhere, on Thanksgiving. Real butter, or maybe lard (or vegetable shortening) in your pie crust.
OTOH, no green bean casserole here. Nobody would touch it--whether I make the standard cream of mushroom soup variety, or fancied it up and made it fresh. We're going with glazed carrots and sweet potato casserole with a streusel topping, because I HATE sweet potatoes with marshmallows.
I make that recipe without the tomatoes.
My younger kids hate homemade Mac & Cheese. It’s boxed or none for them.
That’s weird that you like broccoli with cheese but not Mac & Cheese. The sauce is essentially the same thing.
We've never had it for Thanksgiving but I would be totally open to it. My sister makes my grandmas recipe and it wins first place at the local fair every year. It's that good. Definitely deserves a place on the Thanksgiving table .Aye or nay?
Not as the main course, but as one of the sides.
DD says she wants it, but I've never served it before on Turkey Day. Nor have I ever been to anybody's house who served it.
I know it's popular in some areas.
DD can bring it over. Hopefully she'll make a "real" one, not Kraft from a box.
I think also some people lose their minds with the cheese in Mac & Cheese thinking more is always better. IMO that’s not true and can ruin it. You may be experiencing people going overboard because it can’t be the pasta, pasta is always a good thing.I know, it is weird. Maybe it's the pasta. I'm not very big on pasta.
Why not!
Everything doesn't have to be the classic, American, turkey and dressing.
I know I'm in the minority but I am not a fan of homemade mac and cheese. I'm not a huge fan of boxed either but if I had to choose between the two, I pick the boxed.
For some reason, I find homemade mac and cheese to be very greasy and if you're not eating it when it's piping hot, it turns in to a ball of gritty, cold cheese and pasta. No matter who makes it, I never like it...
I bet there are major differences between holiday menus based on where you live and the surrounding weather. Most of my immediate US family lives in the NE so we are quite ready for comfort food by the time Thanksgiving comes around.IMHO mac and cheese can be a winner around holidays, if it is truly a well done version. But as for having it for Thanksgiving, my sense is it fits better as a cold weather comfort food item for a casual pre-Christmas (or perhaps Christmas Eve, for those like yours truly that reserve the big feast for Christmas Day) meal.
Honestly, it's not just that I don't like it...it completely turns my stomach. The sight and especially the smell of it can make me gag. DH has to make it for the kids, last time I tried I nearly vomited. I can tolerate being near the homemade stuff, but I'm not going to have something that makes me feel like I'm going to vomit at my Thanksgiving dinner. I know it's weird. This is really the only food I have this bad an issue with.