Comments on: Around the Internet Kitchen: Books for You!

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:53:17 +0000

julie lied….her favorite is mashed potatoes. good thing she didnt win. it woulda been fraud

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:47:38 +0000

Thanks for the comments everyone! (Especially you Mr. President.)

The winners are #23 Niki and #40 Kenneth! I’ll be emailing you both with details!

By: B. Obama

B. Obama — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:37:15 +0000

My fellow Americans,
Every year around this time, our thoughts turn towards autumn leaves and the coming winter. From the streets of New York to the sandy beaches of California, we all take the time celebrate the bounty of the harvest. To celebrate a uniquely American tradition. A tradition that brings families together and teaches our children a value we hold dear: sharing.

And every year, when my family gathers around the table, there is one dish that will assuredly be there. One dish that, no matter what we tell Michelle’s mother, she still brings anyway: jello mold. Now, jello mold is an interesting dish. While I suspect it was not on the menu at the first Thanksgiving, I am nearly certain that it has been a staple at every Thanksgiving table since then.

And what is jello mold? Be it orange or cherry or lime, the flavor of the jello itself varies year to year and table to table. But every family has someone who, without fail, brings the jello mold. That aunt or Gramma who thinks that everyone just loves a lil’ jello mold with their turkey and mashed potatoes. And days later, as the leftovers get picked over, the jello mold remains. A staunch, jiggly reminder of our annual feast.

Malia and Sasha always thank Gramma for the jello mold, even though I have asked them not to. It’s a tradition, for better or worse, and one not soon to be broken.

God bless us all and God bless America.

B. Obama

By: Carolyne

Carolyne — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:44:32 +0000

M-m-m-m-m………
Roasted Root Veg: butternut, carrot, turnip, parsnip, rutabaga with fresh sage…..and
Roasted Brussels Spouts with toasted hazelnuts and fresh nutmeg……..and
Fresh Cranberry Relish with ‘roasted’ shallots and port…..
It’s gotta be the roasting that stirs the Thanksgiving senses.

By: Angie

Angie — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:19:17 +0000

I can’t get enough cornbread during Thanksgiving. I know it’s more of like a side dish, but to me, it’s just as awesome as the turkey or mashed potatoes.

By: peacefulbean

peacefulbean — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:09:26 +0000

my favorite would have to be some sort of spinach pie.

By: Lindsey S

Lindsey S — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:52:46 +0000

Hmm….

The dish I ALWAYS eat first is my own candied pecan sweet potatoes, so delish….

or the green beans with bacon and some spicyness.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:57:18 +0000

My "favorite" Thanksgiving dish is one I have never eaten, but it is so essential to my family: my grandma's mince pie. Every year in the second week of November, the "little old ladies of the Methodist church" get together and spend all day making a huge quantity of "mince." The recipe includes cranberries, cinnamon, dark rum, cloves, and – yes – heaps and heaps of beef. The resulting concoction is canned for use throughout the winter holiday season. It is used in desserts, and the older members of my family always save room for a slice of mince pie a la mode. I probably won't really sit at the grown-up table until I try some. Maybe this year…

By: priyanka

priyanka — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:25:06 +0000

My absolute favorite Thanksgiving dish is stuffing. I just can’t get enough of it. I know you have a recipe in the archives for a killer stuffing, which I am tempted to try this year. Anyway, thanks for a great website and for holding this contest. Hope I win!

By: KFF

KFF — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:11:54 +0000

My favorite dish is easily Spinach Madeline. It’s how I learned I liked spinach (I know, I know, it’s slathered in cheese, but still, the kid-cultural backlash against what’s now one of my favorite foods can take any means necessary to overcome) and for years now has been the dish my grandmother and I cook together – we take out the faded, handwritten-note-filled cookbook she helped create years ago with a society of women as a fundraiser for the symphony (and I wrote an anthro-ish paper about in undergraduate) and begin with sauteing onions in butter…that smell takes me right back to her kitchen, learning to cook for the first time. Of course, we always change things up a bit, but it’s always delicious – creamy with a punch of heat from cayenne pepper. mmm.

…and not that it’s a dish, but the sampler platter I concoct on my dessert plate from the array of desserts is quite stunning, to say the least. I’m a sugar addict and total chocoholic, and handily out-eat all the large men in my family when it comes to Thanksgiving dessert: pecan pie, caramel cake, chocolate cake, toffee trifle…