Cooking & Baking

5X

(3,972 posts) Fri Nov 29, 2019, 01:57 PM Nov 2019

Anyone do any online reviews of their family meals?

Would have to be anonymous, I would think.

We ate at my brother's house this year again and I have had better
turkey dinners from the frozen dinner section of my local quicmart.

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Anyone do any online reviews of their family meals? (Original Post) 5X Nov 2019 OP

This year I made a recipe with cornbread dressing from Martha Stewart Living. Ugh, waste of effort. Shrike47 Nov 2019 #1

as usual, my gravy was too thin Kali Nov 2019 #2

For once the turkey was not dry! Freddie Nov 2019 #3

Karma is a.... 5X Nov 2019 #4

Not online!... Phentex Nov 2019 #5

Shrike47

(6,913 posts)

1. This year I made a recipe with cornbread dressing from Martha Stewart Living. Ugh, waste of effort.

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Fri Nov 29, 2019, 02:12 PM

Nov 2019

My patient family puts up with annual experiments. The turkey was OK, the potatoes were great, the cranberry relish was pretty good, the leeks were blah, the green beans too al dente, the galette pretty good.

Kali

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2. as usual, my gravy was too thin

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Fri Nov 29, 2019, 02:28 PM

Nov 2019

everything else was pretty good. I have a phobia of really thick pasty gravy (not to mention fear of not having enough) and always overcompensate.

Freddie

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3. For once the turkey was not dry!

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Fri Nov 29, 2019, 03:06 PM

Nov 2019

Put the 20 lb turkey in the tabletop roaster at 11:30, ate at 5:30. Did nothing at all to it except remove the extra parts (neck etc). Totally ignored it for 6 hours and it was the best turkey ever. Plus free, store promotion at Giant.

5X

(3,972 posts)

4. Karma is a....

Reply to 5X (Original post)

Fri Nov 29, 2019, 10:08 PM

Nov 2019

after my comments above, the controller board for our oven went out, can't even use the stove top till I fix it.

Phentex

(16,334 posts)

5. Not online!...

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Sat Nov 30, 2019, 07:49 PM

Nov 2019

But lots of de-briefing as we like to say. However, now that we do all of it, there isn't much to complain about. We have a very different approach from my sister who used to do it and there's no stress now. Years past, we had dry, overcooked or undercooked turkey, gummy mashed potatoes, etc. plus a whole lot of REALLY good stuff too. Now? It's all good stuff.

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