Thanksgiving dinner is cooking

[conuly]

I put my chicken in the oven and fried up the chicken skins and - listen, I gotta say, of all the food items I've tried because I read about them, fried chicken skins are fucking amazing. I don't mind saying that they are, hands down, the most brilliant thing Jews have contributed to the world, and I do hope my various Jewish friends take that in the spirit it's intended, because omg. I don't care if I find out later that you guys invented the wheel, this is better. I am very thankful.

Anyway, we've got chicken, creamed spinach, possibly creamed corn, maybe beets of some sort, maybe couscous, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes (with marshmallows, contributed by a guest), stuffing, cornbread, cranberry sauce, and pies. I'm debating making some soup as well, buuuuuuut I think we may have enough food and not enough bowls. Oh, and there's green beans. Oh, and brussels sprouts and a salad.

(Maybe I should've made baked beans? I wonder if I have time to make baked beans. Oh, but the chicken is in the oven. Hm. Can you make not-baked baked beans? Is that a thing?)

Comments

[siderea]

I didn't know that was ours. But, uh, you're welcome!

I once read a passing mention that one of the reasons given by a contemporaneous writer for why Jews were expelled from France on one early medieval occasion was that their food was too seductively delicious, and posed a dangerous temptation to the faithful.

I wish I had the cite, and I wish even more we had the recipes.

[conuly]

I didn't know that was ours.

It’s a byproduct of rendering chicken fat for cooking, that is, in lieu of lard or butter in places where people don’t grow olives.

that their food was too seductively delicious, and posed a dangerous temptation to the faithful

That’s… well, yeah, I’d want those recipes too!