Thanksgiving

[prunesquallor]

Matthew Yglesias dares to say that "turkey doesn’t taste good." Amen, brother, amen! That's why I always roast a duck for Thanksgiving instead. Dark fatty delicious duck-flesh versus bland dry white turkey? It's no contest.

I also made a few side dishes this year. The cranberry-orange sauce was very easy, if messy. The whipped and honeyed sweet potato with pecan & brown sugar topping was good even though I left out the roasted bananas called for by the recipe. I also prepared some chestnut dressing. (Note to self: next year, make the same dressing, but skip the chestnuts. Now I know why my father always left them to rot on the ground in the orchard. Shelling and mincing them is too much work for too little reward.)

Comments

[bethzebra.livejournal.com]

My position is that I can take or leave turkey meat, but dark-roasted turkey SKIN is totally worth all the trouble.