Concerning cornbread: if you're not using Lamb's or a similar stone-ground cornmeal, stop it. You're ruining it. If you're using one of those just-add-water kits, give up and just take the family to a Luby's. They'll be less depressed.
Hard boiled eggs (for deviled eggs or cornbread dressing). Set the eggs in a pot, cover with a 1/2 to one inch of tap water, add a splash of vinegar & pinch of salt, and bring to a boil, uncovered. As soon as it hits a rolling boil, get it off the heat and slap a lid on it. After 13 minutes, not 12, not 14, rinse in cold water until cooled.
Sweet potato casserole, get a 5th of bourbon and a couple pounds of sweet taters and bake 'em (the taters, not the bourbon) at 400 for an hour or so. Pull 'em and let 'em come to room temp and then stick 'em in the fridge overnight. Next day, peel 'em and mix the guts with however much butter and brown sugar you can tolerate with a little bit of cinnamon in a bowl. Add a splash of bourbon as you're mixing. Once mixed, spread in a casserole dish or a foil pan, top with chopped pecans and stick it in a 350ish oven until it's heated to your liking. Drink the rest of the bourbon to cope with that extraneous mess you married into. If you really dislike 'em, throw some marshmallows on top with the pecans.
If you have cool in-laws, brine some quail legs and grill them over a mesquite fire. Once they've sufficiently cooled, shred the meat and mix it in with the cornbread dressing before you heat it up. Just be forewarned that doing so may cause an in-law or 3 (especially if they're 40+ and single and you were dumb enough to share some of your bourbon with them) may offer up an inappropriate thank you gesture.
Turkey, smoked or fried. 'Nuff said.
Pumpkin pie. Don't. Pecan or buttermilk. Pumpkins are for carving at Halloween or a flavor additive for overly plump white chicks at the Starbucks drive thru.
Oh, and adding bacon to any of the above is never a bad idea.
Enjoy your Thanksgiving everyone.
Hard boiled eggs (for deviled eggs or cornbread dressing). Set the eggs in a pot, cover with a 1/2 to one inch of tap water, add a splash of vinegar & pinch of salt, and bring to a boil, uncovered. As soon as it hits a rolling boil, get it off the heat and slap a lid on it. After 13 minutes, not 12, not 14, rinse in cold water until cooled.
Sweet potato casserole, get a 5th of bourbon and a couple pounds of sweet taters and bake 'em (the taters, not the bourbon) at 400 for an hour or so. Pull 'em and let 'em come to room temp and then stick 'em in the fridge overnight. Next day, peel 'em and mix the guts with however much butter and brown sugar you can tolerate with a little bit of cinnamon in a bowl. Add a splash of bourbon as you're mixing. Once mixed, spread in a casserole dish or a foil pan, top with chopped pecans and stick it in a 350ish oven until it's heated to your liking. Drink the rest of the bourbon to cope with that extraneous mess you married into. If you really dislike 'em, throw some marshmallows on top with the pecans.
If you have cool in-laws, brine some quail legs and grill them over a mesquite fire. Once they've sufficiently cooled, shred the meat and mix it in with the cornbread dressing before you heat it up. Just be forewarned that doing so may cause an in-law or 3 (especially if they're 40+ and single and you were dumb enough to share some of your bourbon with them) may offer up an inappropriate thank you gesture.
Turkey, smoked or fried. 'Nuff said.
Pumpkin pie. Don't. Pecan or buttermilk. Pumpkins are for carving at Halloween or a flavor additive for overly plump white chicks at the Starbucks drive thru.
Oh, and adding bacon to any of the above is never a bad idea.
Enjoy your Thanksgiving everyone.
