What To Expect Hosting Thanksgiving

Well, I'm going to give moons recipe a trial run... I got the ingredients yesterday. How long do the potatoes have to boil usually until they get soft?? I'm also going to be making my own pumpkin pie!

Nope, I never learned to make mashed potatoes. My mom used to use the flakes. I know how to make spaghetti, grilled cheese, french toast (this is my specialty).. and that would be the extent of my cooking. I make a mean fruit salad though.

 

Wow, so you are going to try the garlic mashed potatoes....? Wonderful...Potatoes take about 20 minutes to get soft, if you quarter them....longer if you leave them whole....Just use a fork to fork them every so often to see if fork finds them soft all the way through.....and depending on high high your heat is....start testing them with the fork after about 15 minutes.....
I forgot to mention one of my favorites on my menu yesterday...whole Cranberry sauce. I buy ocean Spray.....the whole berries.....some people like the jelly one by them, but I like the whole berries in it.....
Some people make their own, too, but I don't go that far with cranberry sauce....

good luck and have fun!

 

Made them!

 

Looks perfect, Rainy-quick learner, and did you like them?
Are you still cooking for your family on Thanksgiving?

 

everyone that likes chicken also likes turkey. people have chicken for thanksgiving if they have a smaller family and 90% of a turkey would go to waste.

 

My family is dysfunctional and makes the damn turkey anyways.
Then I get to get drunk and sit at the table and snarl "TURKEY'S DRY" followed by a burp while my mother cries softly into her hands.

 

Or buy just a turkey breast and listen to people who didn't have to cook complain about not liking white meat.

Mom used to by a whole turkey and a turkey breast some years.

 

Why would one do that to people one invited over for a holiday?

 

I don't.

 

Which one dont you like ?
For when you come over to ours for your Dinner

and I cant believe some people cant cook mashed spuds !! (they teach it at school for fucks sake )

her'es a tip if you cant pick the taters up with a fork they are boiled enough

 

OK, it was a bit of humor. Some of us have more dramatic families than others.

 

I'm still waiting for Kentucky Fried Turkey and Popeye's Turkey!

 

You mean never.

 

I am disappointed !
I was going to cook you something nice

 

We don't learn how to cook mashed potatoes in U.S. schools. We learn reading, writing, and arithmetic.

 

How long did that take ? surely not all your school life , What about history ,Geography , woodwork , metalwork , scriptures , English literature , cooking , Etc

Just teasing rainy ! if you didnt then you Didnt but we did :scholar:

 

I already practiced making them and they turned out great, posted a pic earlier in the thread...
I just used a fork to mash

 

I hand mash potatoes. http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQt2xHRjej4xIQBS6bksowsPhnLFNmjKrP8a3o0DDU9KYtiPrbkjA:bakerette.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Potato-Masher-1.jpg with one of these / I make them similar to moon but sliced not squared. used to square them but old hands its easier to peel and slice them, boil for about 1/2hour but I too let them sit in cold water for a while. dont really know what that does. little splash of milk some butter and salt.

I dont like turkey..