Top Four 22: Thanksgiving Side Dishes
00:00:00
◼
►
hi everybody welcome to top for the
00:00:02
◼
►
Thanksgiving Black Friday leftover a
00:00:04
◼
►
special extra bonus show that's kind of
00:00:07
◼
►
amazing Thanks I love that like we're
00:00:09
◼
►
like this is the leftover show because
00:00:11
◼
►
we're recording our Black Friday slash
00:00:13
◼
►
Thanksgiving episode after Thanksgiving
00:00:15
◼
►
and at almost the end of Black Friday
00:00:17
◼
►
and we just ate a whole bunch of
00:00:19
◼
►
leftovers so we decided that this
00:00:21
◼
►
episode we would talk about our favorite
00:00:24
◼
►
American Thanksgiving side dishes and I
00:00:28
◼
►
think there should be two judging
00:00:29
◼
►
factors I think the first one should be
00:00:32
◼
►
the the factor of it being the day of
00:00:36
◼
►
how much you like it
00:00:38
◼
►
and then how good it is as a leftover
00:00:41
◼
►
and then on a smaller scale you know
00:00:45
◼
►
we're dropping down the chart level here
00:00:47
◼
►
what's that called we're indenting we
00:00:50
◼
►
have a small a it is the sandwich or
00:00:53
◼
►
plate factor on its leftover ability so
00:00:57
◼
►
that's what we're going to be talking
00:00:58
◼
►
about that is pretty good yeah I mean I
00:01:00
◼
►
think a lot of this will ride on you
00:01:03
◼
►
know for the dear listeners a lot of us
00:01:04
◼
►
will write on whether you are a leftover
00:01:06
◼
►
consuming family or not who isn't why
00:01:09
◼
►
who mad not like there has to be left
00:01:11
◼
►
for leftovers at Thanksgiving there
00:01:12
◼
►
always is so whether you begrudge
00:01:15
◼
►
initely eat them or you lovingly eat
00:01:18
◼
►
they are there for you I will say that
00:01:20
◼
►
like if if you if you either host
00:01:22
◼
►
Thanksgiving at your house or if you are
00:01:25
◼
►
staying like with your family for a
00:01:27
◼
►
multi-day thing at their house it
00:01:29
◼
►
dramatically increases your chances of
00:01:30
◼
►
having to eat leftovers like if you are
00:01:32
◼
►
just in and out that same night then I
00:01:35
◼
►
feel like you can probably escape
00:01:36
◼
►
without any leftovers or with minimal
00:01:38
◼
►
leftover well someone's definitely gonna
00:01:40
◼
►
push it to go box on you I mean yeah and
00:01:42
◼
►
you have to eat the leftovers otherwise
00:01:44
◼
►
you're a wasteful monster exactly
00:01:45
◼
►
because there's a lotta so and and I
00:01:47
◼
►
think like it's interesting when you
00:01:48
◼
►
think about it as we're gonna talk about
00:01:49
◼
►
it when we think about like which which
00:01:52
◼
►
parts of Thanksgiving meals are better
00:01:54
◼
►
or worse including their ability for
00:01:57
◼
►
leftovers it figure like you're only
00:01:59
◼
►
eating the the fresh hot version for one
00:02:02
◼
►
meal and you're also like during that
00:02:05
◼
►
same meal you're eating so much other
00:02:07
◼
►
stuff that the the individual amount of
00:02:10
◼
►
any particular side that side dish that
00:02:12
◼
►
you might take any
00:02:13
◼
►
for that one fresh meal where they're
00:02:15
◼
►
all hot could be really small and that's
00:02:17
◼
►
just one meal whereas if you then eat
00:02:19
◼
►
leftovers you could be eating a lot of
00:02:22
◼
►
something for one meal or you could be
00:02:24
◼
►
eating these things for like two or
00:02:25
◼
►
three or four more meals after the
00:02:28
◼
►
initial dinner so I feel like the
00:02:29
◼
►
leftover factor for many of these things
00:02:30
◼
►
is almost more important than how good
00:02:32
◼
►
it is on that first that first dinner
00:02:34
◼
►
mm-hmm yeah probably but you could also
00:02:36
◼
►
depending on what time you eat your
00:02:39
◼
►
Thanksgiving dinner you could be
00:02:40
◼
►
essentially having leftovers that same
00:02:43
◼
►
day like if you are a two o'clock dinner
00:02:45
◼
►
family at seven o'clock you're ready for
00:02:48
◼
►
a pilgrim sandwich you know like you're
00:02:50
◼
►
ready to get it going put it on some
00:02:51
◼
►
bread or some rolls if you could find
00:02:53
◼
►
them the rest of the country since New
00:02:55
◼
►
York has the best rolls and they're
00:02:57
◼
►
apparently nowhere else to be found
00:02:59
◼
►
other times when we've had Thanksgiving
00:03:00
◼
►
other places and we have not been able
00:03:02
◼
►
to find rolls just a tragedy tragedy
00:03:04
◼
►
anyway so yeah let's uh let's list some
00:03:09
◼
►
things and then we can pick from them
00:03:11
◼
►
because we didn't prepare yeah TIFF
00:03:14
◼
►
decided to not let me prepare her for
00:03:16
◼
►
this and just basically let's plow her
00:03:18
◼
►
into it record our thought process so
00:03:19
◼
►
yeah so uh I think for me I'm gonna have
00:03:23
◼
►
to start with stuffing you know stuffing
00:03:27
◼
►
which I some people call dressing but
00:03:30
◼
►
it's not the kind of stuff you put on
00:03:31
◼
►
salad is the kind of stuff that you
00:03:32
◼
►
theoretically stuff a large bird with
00:03:34
◼
►
but I don't know if anybody actually
00:03:35
◼
►
does that or if you just serve it on the
00:03:37
◼
►
side these days I think there's two ways
00:03:39
◼
►
to do it depends on how long you want to
00:03:40
◼
►
cook your turkey if you wanna cook your
00:03:41
◼
►
turkey for a very long time or you're
00:03:43
◼
►
not doing one of the new trendy hipster
00:03:46
◼
►
cooking methods of smoking or
00:03:48
◼
►
deep-frying your turkey then I believe
00:03:51
◼
►
you you can stuff it or not but
00:03:54
◼
►
stuffings tricky stuff it or not
00:03:57
◼
►
so stuffing it's tricky because it's
00:04:00
◼
►
very particular it's like it's like red
00:04:02
◼
►
sauce right you you have your stuffing
00:04:05
◼
►
that you like there's also vegetable
00:04:06
◼
►
stuffing which tastes totally different
00:04:09
◼
►
than the delicious sausage stuffing
00:04:11
◼
►
I think so wet soggy croutons we've also
00:04:14
◼
►
had oysters dressing at one point so
00:04:20
◼
►
there's lots of different things out
00:04:21
◼
►
there that people have for their
00:04:23
◼
►
different family traditions but yeah I'm
00:04:26
◼
►
gonna say my mom
00:04:27
◼
►
stuffing which is made with breakfast
00:04:30
◼
►
sausage kind of meat I don't know yeah
00:04:33
◼
►
it's very good
00:04:34
◼
►
what is a special sausage she always
00:04:36
◼
►
uses she talks about all the time I
00:04:37
◼
►
think it's just like regular brioche no
00:04:40
◼
►
there's like no it's not just regular
00:04:41
◼
►
breakfast it's not like links it's Anna
00:04:43
◼
►
it's in a tube okay it's like loose
00:04:46
◼
►
sausage meat yeah things and you crumble
00:04:49
◼
►
it up oh it is just there's one
00:04:51
◼
►
particular brand
00:04:52
◼
►
I think it's Jones's or something like
00:04:54
◼
►
that who knows I don't know but there's
00:04:55
◼
►
one brand that's like super good that
00:04:57
◼
►
you put in the stuffing and you mean the
00:04:59
◼
►
Turkey drippings and all that business
00:05:01
◼
►
but it is the best stuffing I have ever
00:05:04
◼
►
ever ever had regardless of having to
00:05:07
◼
►
grow up with it everyone who has it
00:05:08
◼
►
thinks it's amazing and everyone who had
00:05:11
◼
►
it this Thanksgiving thought it was
00:05:12
◼
►
amazing so stuffing is pretty high on my
00:05:14
◼
►
list it might even be my number one I
00:05:16
◼
►
think it's my number one two because it
00:05:18
◼
►
is it is not only you know it from a
00:05:21
◼
►
from a pure like you know first day
00:05:22
◼
►
taste perspective it's just awesome like
00:05:24
◼
►
and and you know and it really helps
00:05:26
◼
►
that your mom makes really good stuffing
00:05:28
◼
►
but even when I've had less good
00:05:30
◼
►
stuffings I still love them because it's
00:05:33
◼
►
you know usually the stuff like if it
00:05:35
◼
►
starts from one of those big bags of
00:05:37
◼
►
stuffing mix at the grocery store is it
00:05:38
◼
►
those are basically crew tights like a
00:05:40
◼
►
bag of croutons basically I know like
00:05:42
◼
►
add butter and stuff and so it's
00:05:43
◼
►
basically saturated bread cubes with
00:05:46
◼
►
butter that are then squished down into
00:05:48
◼
►
something else with lots of other
00:05:49
◼
►
delicious things where the record is not
00:05:51
◼
►
from any kind of bag situation
00:05:53
◼
►
sure okay that's fine but I'm just
00:05:55
◼
►
saying like it's pretty hard to make a
00:05:57
◼
►
stuffing taste bad you know like your
00:06:00
◼
►
mom's is exceptional and I and I it is
00:06:02
◼
►
by far my favorite however I've I've
00:06:04
◼
►
almost never had a bad stuffing nope and
00:06:06
◼
►
it's so good as leftovers it's the best
00:06:09
◼
►
leftover food and you know what there is
00:06:11
◼
►
nothing like a cold fistful of stuffing
00:06:13
◼
►
after a Thanksgiving meal and I don't
00:06:16
◼
►
know about cold oh my gosh the morning
00:06:18
◼
►
after the Fistful of tea just grab some
00:06:21
◼
►
stuffing out of the bowl I need to eat
00:06:23
◼
►
it it is just the best
00:06:25
◼
►
I'd rather crumble it up a little bit
00:06:26
◼
►
and put the toaster oven for a few
00:06:27
◼
►
minutes hey I got you over to the side
00:06:29
◼
►
of leftover pizza in the morning for
00:06:31
◼
►
breakfast nice cold slices you like it
00:06:33
◼
►
now you will come over to the side of
00:06:36
◼
►
the cold fist full of stuffing the first
00:06:38
◼
►
thing the morning after Thanksgiving
00:06:39
◼
►
maybe a few more years
00:06:41
◼
►
you can work on me a few more years on
00:06:42
◼
►
that but yeah and I agree like a toe it
00:06:44
◼
►
reheats very well you know and it's as
00:06:48
◼
►
you mentioned like the reheat ability is
00:06:49
◼
►
very important for this ranking yeah
00:06:51
◼
►
it's it's good hot or cold mm-hmm it is
00:06:54
◼
►
good as a plate it is great on a
00:06:56
◼
►
sandwich hmm a little disc and yep it's
00:06:59
◼
►
one of the layers of the sandwich the
00:07:01
◼
►
turkey sandwich so it is an overall
00:07:05
◼
►
yeah there there is never a Thanksgiving
00:07:07
◼
►
meal or a leftovers meal in which I
00:07:10
◼
►
don't want stuffing like that is always
00:07:13
◼
►
part of it and I will eat it until
00:07:15
◼
►
there's no more all right so a pretty
00:07:17
◼
►
firm on stuffing as both are number one
00:07:19
◼
►
yeah definite Art in hi
00:07:20
◼
►
all right let's let's move down the
00:07:22
◼
►
ranks here this is top four we got to
00:07:24
◼
►
pick four yeah not the stuffing episode
00:07:26
◼
►
and then we have to consider the turkey
00:07:27
◼
►
itself no we don't its side dishes
00:07:29
◼
►
everyone is Turkey everyone cooks it
00:07:31
◼
►
different it's fine it's Turkey no one
00:07:33
◼
►
cares but we'll see and I think it's
00:07:35
◼
►
interesting to note that the dish that
00:07:37
◼
►
Thanksgiving is known for which is the
00:07:39
◼
►
turkey even if you were to permit it on
00:07:42
◼
►
this list I bet it would be on very few
00:07:44
◼
►
people's top four and I believe it take
00:07:46
◼
►
it or leave it Turkey I don't really
00:07:47
◼
►
mind busy and I actually really enjoy a
00:07:49
◼
►
nicely cooked turkey which is not all
00:07:51
◼
►
not all turkeys of course but I really
00:07:53
◼
►
when a turkey is cooked well I really
00:07:57
◼
►
enjoyed I really do like Turkey a lot of
00:07:58
◼
►
people who just don't like it and I
00:07:59
◼
►
understand that I really do like it but
00:08:02
◼
►
but it's rare to get it well made
00:08:05
◼
►
unfortunately we have we have good cooks
00:08:07
◼
►
in the family so ours usually are well
00:08:09
◼
►
made so we look at in that department I
00:08:11
◼
►
might rank the turkey somewhere in that
00:08:14
◼
►
list near the bottom maybe but the
00:08:17
◼
►
problem with turkey is that it really
00:08:18
◼
►
does not reheat very gracefully like you
00:08:20
◼
►
if it's if it's cooked well and with
00:08:22
◼
►
skill you can get it to be nice and
00:08:25
◼
►
moist and juicy and amazing on that
00:08:26
◼
►
night when it's when it comes out but
00:08:28
◼
►
the second you reheat it it becomes very
00:08:30
◼
►
dry well not even dry it just has that
00:08:32
◼
►
strange reheated turkey taste yeah it
00:08:35
◼
►
gets it gets I don't know what that is
00:08:37
◼
►
wait a sec it's altered slightly and not
00:08:40
◼
►
in a good way
00:08:41
◼
►
I don't know science happens overnight
00:08:42
◼
►
and it just doesn't taste good yeah
00:08:45
◼
►
all right moving on what would you think
00:08:47
◼
►
I'm thinking I'm debating between mashed
00:08:50
◼
►
potatoes and sweet potato casserole
00:08:52
◼
►
they are both potatoes but extremely
00:08:54
◼
►
different one
00:08:55
◼
►
practically a dessert the other is just
00:08:57
◼
►
delicious mashed potatoes and gravy it
00:08:59
◼
►
has of the gravy so I should point out
00:09:01
◼
►
we should point out what sweet potato
00:09:03
◼
►
casserole is for any of our listeners
00:09:04
◼
►
who don't know because I've actually
00:09:05
◼
►
found that fewer people that I expect
00:09:07
◼
►
have have heard of this dish though it
00:09:09
◼
►
might be regionally think maybe or
00:09:11
◼
►
anyway so this is basically mashed sweet
00:09:16
◼
►
potatoes if you're lucky canned if
00:09:18
◼
►
you're not but mashed potatoes which are
00:09:20
◼
►
yams to some people I think there's a
00:09:22
◼
►
difference but nobody cares and they're
00:09:24
◼
►
interchangeable as far as this dish is
00:09:26
◼
►
concerned yes orange sweet potatoes it
00:09:28
◼
►
depends on how orange you want your
00:09:29
◼
►
casserole to be depending on which yummy
00:09:32
◼
►
product you decide to pick yeah anyway
00:09:34
◼
►
whatever your local version of that is
00:09:36
◼
►
you basically make a mashed version of
00:09:38
◼
►
that so it's full of like you know
00:09:39
◼
►
butter and maybe maybe cream or is there
00:09:42
◼
►
butter yes sugar yes you had brown sugar
00:09:47
◼
►
usually a regular sugar or both so you
00:09:50
◼
►
basically make a really good sweet match
00:09:52
◼
►
base you could put eggs in it that's
00:09:54
◼
►
right yeah tooth and then you put it in
00:09:56
◼
►
a baking dish like a big rectangle
00:09:57
◼
►
baking dish and you sprinkle on top of
00:10:00
◼
►
it either brown sugar crumbles
00:10:03
◼
►
marshmallows or both well the brown
00:10:06
◼
►
sugar crumbles are like the same topping
00:10:08
◼
►
that you'd have on a coffee cake yeah um
00:10:10
◼
►
cake yeah so it's a crumb cake
00:10:12
◼
►
essentially toppings basically it's like
00:10:14
◼
►
sugar and butter and yeah balls with
00:10:15
◼
►
with pecans chopped pecans in it yeah
00:10:18
◼
►
optionally chopped be yeah absolutely
00:10:20
◼
►
guys yeah I'm not a huge pecan fan but
00:10:23
◼
►
actually do like this dish with them it
00:10:25
◼
►
does add something but yes so you know
00:10:28
◼
►
this is very very sweet potato mash base
00:10:31
◼
►
that has added sugar in it already then
00:10:34
◼
►
you add a sugary crumb topping to it and
00:10:37
◼
►
then you bake that so the sugary crumb
00:10:39
◼
►
topping kind of like caramelized yes get
00:10:41
◼
►
hot then you put the marshmallows on the
00:10:43
◼
►
last like last five minutes yeah so they
00:10:46
◼
►
post right on top so you have like a
00:10:48
◼
►
crunchy layer of marshmallow with the
00:10:50
◼
►
gooey marshmallow underneath yeah yeah I
00:10:53
◼
►
mean yeah it's basically a hot ice cream
00:10:55
◼
►
sundae like it there's like everything
00:10:57
◼
►
everything about it is Sunday yeah
00:10:59
◼
►
everything about it is like incredibly
00:11:00
◼
►
sugary but it's delicious and it reheats
00:11:04
◼
►
really well yes that's another thing
00:11:06
◼
►
about this like it's in most casserole
00:11:09
◼
►
old-type dishes do reheat well and this
00:11:10
◼
►
one is no exception this ruthless
00:11:12
◼
►
religious reheat very very well and so I
00:11:14
◼
►
think I might put this as my number two
00:11:17
◼
►
because I really enjoy it it it sounds
00:11:21
◼
►
like a vegetable even though it's far
00:11:23
◼
►
from it but it sounds like a vegetable
00:11:25
◼
►
so it has some kind of tastes like
00:11:27
◼
►
dessert yeah it's delicious
00:11:29
◼
►
that's why I think it's falling down my
00:11:30
◼
►
list is because it tastes like dessert I
00:11:32
◼
►
don't care desserts good oh yeah that's
00:11:34
◼
►
not a side dish no number two and it's
00:11:36
◼
►
another one we're like every
00:11:38
◼
►
Thanksgiving meal and reheated meal
00:11:40
◼
►
afterwards I always want some of this as
00:11:42
◼
►
part of that meal so sweet potato
00:11:45
◼
►
casserole is my number two all right I'm
00:11:46
◼
►
gonna put it at my number three actually
00:11:48
◼
►
because I'm filling in my number two
00:11:51
◼
►
slot with mashed potatoes and gravy
00:11:52
◼
►
because you know I love my mom's mashed
00:11:55
◼
►
potatoes again it's all about like what
00:11:56
◼
►
you grew up with my own SMAP mashed
00:11:57
◼
►
potatoes has a whole bunch of onion salt
00:12:00
◼
►
in it mm-hmm oh they are just so
00:12:02
◼
►
delicious no little lumps at all
00:12:04
◼
►
anywhere in them they are wonderful with
00:12:07
◼
►
some nice gravy on them with onion
00:12:09
◼
►
pieces in the gravy oh it's just divine
00:12:12
◼
►
see I'm not sure I'd put my fuse in my
00:12:14
◼
►
list at all maybe because I will see how
00:12:17
◼
►
what I get when it when I get down to
00:12:18
◼
►
three and four but the problem with
00:12:21
◼
►
master Cato's is that they are really
00:12:23
◼
►
good but you could not only do you have
00:12:24
◼
►
those all year round you're like you can
00:12:26
◼
►
get mashed potatoes any time and I love
00:12:28
◼
►
them every time I do too but I'm
00:12:31
◼
►
Thanksgiving there's so much stuff that
00:12:32
◼
►
you can only get on Thanksgiving really
00:12:34
◼
►
that you don't really cook the rest of
00:12:35
◼
►
the year and so like it's against the
00:12:37
◼
►
law you can cook this stuff the rest of
00:12:38
◼
►
the year but nobody does so basically
00:12:41
◼
►
like I feel like mashed potatoes are
00:12:42
◼
►
kind of drowned out by the the novelty
00:12:45
◼
►
and and like the wow factor of other
00:12:47
◼
►
Thanksgiving side dishes because the
00:12:49
◼
►
master haters are kind of they're kind
00:12:52
◼
►
of an everyday thing no for me when
00:12:53
◼
►
we've had Thanksgiving dinner without
00:12:55
◼
►
mashed potatoes I sorely missed them no
00:12:58
◼
►
I can get that also one more but you
00:13:01
◼
►
need a break so like everything is so
00:13:03
◼
►
rich and every I just I like that's what
00:13:05
◼
►
the Turkish for yeah yeah they're very
00:13:09
◼
►
filling and on Thanksgiving you you kind
00:13:12
◼
►
of you really have to control what
00:13:14
◼
►
you're eating that is very filling
00:13:15
◼
►
because you could very easily get
00:13:16
◼
►
carried away and all of a sudden you're
00:13:18
◼
►
full of mashed potatoes and you don't
00:13:19
◼
►
have room for anything else no I like I
00:13:21
◼
►
like a good May
00:13:23
◼
►
mashed potato lots of flavor I like it
00:13:26
◼
►
it's my number two number three sweet
00:13:29
◼
►
potatoes it's so deserty
00:13:30
◼
►
it's just so dude it's so deserty yeah I
00:13:33
◼
►
mean I get that so I don't know what my
00:13:36
◼
►
number three would be I mean I really do
00:13:37
◼
►
enjoy the green bean casserole that's
00:13:39
◼
►
one so we should also describe this for
00:13:41
◼
►
anybody who does not who's unaware of
00:13:42
◼
►
this green bean casserole wait before
00:13:45
◼
►
you get into green bean casserole I want
00:13:46
◼
►
to go back mashed potatoes have great
00:13:49
◼
►
reheat ability and they are also
00:13:51
◼
►
necessary as a layer in the sandwich
00:13:54
◼
►
yeah you do not you do not put the sweet
00:13:58
◼
►
potatoes into the sandwich no they use
00:14:00
◼
►
out you can't do that you're right they
00:14:01
◼
►
only have plate ability for leftovers
00:14:03
◼
►
that's true I will say though that the
00:14:05
◼
►
that a layer of a of a disk of stuffing
00:14:09
◼
►
can serve the same purpose it can do
00:14:12
◼
►
both but why why wouldn't you that's
00:14:14
◼
►
fair I mean you can do both and that's
00:14:15
◼
►
fine I like the distinct layers that's
00:14:17
◼
►
fair okay so yeah green bean casserole
00:14:20
◼
►
this is another dish that I don't know
00:14:23
◼
►
how many people know about so I will
00:14:24
◼
►
describe I forgive me if you already
00:14:25
◼
►
know but basically also called string
00:14:27
◼
►
bean casserole sometimes yeah right yeah
00:14:29
◼
►
whatever those beans are called french
00:14:31
◼
►
beans are they said the same I've never
00:14:32
◼
►
heard it called French bean casserole
00:14:34
◼
►
but yes there it is they're just
00:14:35
◼
►
skinnier versions of green be long green
00:14:37
◼
►
beans that you all hated as a kid but
00:14:39
◼
►
it's an adult you realize hey there
00:14:40
◼
►
aren't too bad just like most vegetables
00:14:42
◼
►
so anyway green bean casserole is an
00:14:45
◼
►
excuse to eat crispy fried onions that
00:14:47
◼
►
are that you buy in a can you sprinkle
00:14:49
◼
►
on top everything below that is less
00:14:51
◼
►
important so what why don't you doesn't
00:14:55
◼
►
have your side dishes crispy fried
00:14:57
◼
►
onions I'm okay I do eat them straight
00:14:59
◼
►
from the can when they're around I
00:15:01
◼
►
always like kind of sneak some some
00:15:02
◼
►
handfuls of him but it's more that
00:15:04
◼
►
nobody would really accept that as a
00:15:06
◼
►
valid side dish choice
00:15:08
◼
►
so my valid side dish choice is green
00:15:11
◼
►
bean casserole because it's I like it
00:15:13
◼
►
you know it's perfectly good perfectly
00:15:15
◼
►
good but so describe for the people what
00:15:17
◼
►
the what makes it a casserole you put it
00:15:21
◼
►
in the oven and then you put something
00:15:22
◼
►
delicious on top which is crispy fried
00:15:23
◼
►
onions no you you're missing an entire
00:15:25
◼
►
chunk of the ingredients here okay so
00:15:28
◼
►
the bottle oh the crispy fried onions
00:15:30
◼
►
you're supposed to have a layer of some
00:15:33
◼
►
kind of combination of green bean
00:15:34
◼
►
mushroom soup all right here
00:15:36
◼
►
talking about I made this so I will talk
00:15:38
◼
►
about it you have green beans and you
00:15:41
◼
►
boil them so that you know they get
00:15:42
◼
►
bright and green and cooked then you
00:15:44
◼
►
make kind of like a mushroom cream soup
00:15:47
◼
►
type of sauce for it so you have like
00:15:51
◼
►
the mushrooms and cream and it becomes
00:15:55
◼
►
soup yes and the magic and cooking and
00:15:59
◼
►
some garlic and you know you're good and
00:16:01
◼
►
you get some magic and some cooking and
00:16:03
◼
►
garlic that's all it takes to cook it's
00:16:05
◼
►
not that hard that's true
00:16:07
◼
►
cooking you're a grown person you should
00:16:09
◼
►
learn how to cook so you put the salt
00:16:11
◼
►
you put the the green beans then into
00:16:15
◼
►
the sauce and kind of like mix it up
00:16:16
◼
►
kind of like you would a pasta and then
00:16:18
◼
►
you dump all of that into the casserole
00:16:21
◼
►
dish and then you top it with crispy
00:16:23
◼
►
onions you can make the onions yourself
00:16:25
◼
►
by deep-frying some very thin sliced
00:16:27
◼
►
onions after you dip them in flour and
00:16:30
◼
►
some like panko breadcrumbs and some
00:16:32
◼
►
salt and pepper and then you can fry
00:16:34
◼
►
them up in like a canola oil something
00:16:35
◼
►
that can tolerate a high heat and then
00:16:38
◼
►
you can put that on top and it all kind
00:16:40
◼
►
of crisps and bubbles up together and
00:16:42
◼
►
it's delicious so here's what I like
00:16:44
◼
►
about green bean casserole which is or
00:16:46
◼
►
you can make it all from canned goods
00:16:48
◼
►
exactly green beans you can mushroom
00:16:52
◼
►
soup yeah and see the great thing of and
00:16:54
◼
►
you can and you can get the canned you
00:16:56
◼
►
know the little tub of crispy fried
00:16:58
◼
►
onions and you just sprinkle the top set
00:16:59
◼
►
and so it's an easy dish to make it as a
00:17:02
◼
►
filler so you have something green on
00:17:03
◼
►
your plate or you can kind of it acacia
00:17:05
◼
►
cameras greenish greenish yeah but it's
00:17:08
◼
►
okay I mean like it's still a thing
00:17:09
◼
►
right like there's a whole bunch of
00:17:11
◼
►
different ways to make all of this stuff
00:17:12
◼
►
well this is like one of the reasons
00:17:14
◼
►
first of all one of the reasons why I
00:17:15
◼
►
think this is a popular dish in this in
00:17:17
◼
►
at least in this part of America I've
00:17:19
◼
►
had all of America who knows but this
00:17:20
◼
►
and and these people tuna casserole are
00:17:23
◼
►
both able to be made basically as
00:17:26
◼
►
freshly and as skilled as you want or as
00:17:29
◼
►
canned and unskilled as you want like it
00:17:32
◼
►
doesn't really I wouldn't say it doesn't
00:17:34
◼
►
matter at all but you can have a green
00:17:37
◼
►
bean casserole it's made of canned green
00:17:39
◼
►
beans and Campbell's mushroom soup and
00:17:40
◼
►
just mix together with you know whatever
00:17:42
◼
►
Frank's just frightened is it are
00:17:43
◼
►
sprinkle on top and it's delicious it's
00:17:46
◼
►
absolutely delicious and like so and
00:17:47
◼
►
it's this year you actually made all
00:17:50
◼
►
stuff like basically from scratch I did
00:17:52
◼
►
it's my dream it has yeah he's like you
00:17:55
◼
►
know growing up like you know I would
00:17:56
◼
►
had these dishes almost every
00:17:57
◼
►
Thanksgiving we didn't have a lot of
00:17:59
◼
►
fancy cooking happening in my household
00:18:01
◼
►
we had you know the basics happening in
00:18:02
◼
►
my household so we had all you know the
00:18:05
◼
►
can versions of these things I I like
00:18:07
◼
►
them then too
00:18:08
◼
►
like these kind of dishes work whether
00:18:11
◼
►
you use fancy ingredients with like
00:18:13
◼
►
skilled cooking methods or whether you
00:18:15
◼
►
just dump things from a can into the
00:18:17
◼
►
oven and sprinkle stuff on top that's
00:18:18
◼
►
the beauty of these dishes well and it
00:18:20
◼
►
also depends on - how much of the meal
00:18:22
◼
►
you're cooking right like if you're one
00:18:23
◼
►
person and you're trying to cook this
00:18:25
◼
►
tremendous elaborate meal for people
00:18:28
◼
►
sometimes you just need a you know a
00:18:31
◼
►
dump side dish that you just like take
00:18:33
◼
►
some things and you put it all together
00:18:34
◼
►
and then you can focus your culinary
00:18:37
◼
►
efforts on different parts of the meal
00:18:39
◼
►
to me and so it depends on what you
00:18:41
◼
►
yourself are happy cooking right to
00:18:44
◼
►
clarify using the term dump there as
00:18:46
◼
►
like the method not like the
00:18:47
◼
►
classification ya know like you know you
00:18:49
◼
►
open a can and you put it in add say
00:18:52
◼
►
yeah you can add anything and stuff to
00:18:53
◼
►
to heighten the experience but in
00:18:57
◼
►
general it keeps that dish simple so you
00:18:59
◼
►
can then focus on something else yeah
00:19:01
◼
►
and I would say really you know like
00:19:03
◼
►
that your freshly made ones this year no
00:19:06
◼
►
question they were better than the
00:19:07
◼
►
canned stuff but I would say my
00:19:09
◼
►
enjoyment of the canned one it's only
00:19:12
◼
►
maybe you know 60 or 75 percent as much
00:19:15
◼
►
as I enjoy your fresh one well I'm good
00:19:18
◼
►
I only made a couple dishes other people
00:19:20
◼
►
made dishes and then some exact like we
00:19:21
◼
►
split the cooking between three families
00:19:24
◼
►
so we were all able to focus our efforts
00:19:26
◼
►
on our like couple dishes that we were
00:19:28
◼
►
making and then make them really good so
00:19:30
◼
►
I think that that's why this
00:19:30
◼
►
Thanksgiving turned out so delicious
00:19:32
◼
►
my fingers still smell like the smoked
00:19:34
◼
►
turkey is pulled apart no it just smells
00:19:38
◼
►
really good cuz it's not it's not like
00:19:39
◼
►
smoked turkey we've had leftovers
00:19:42
◼
►
leftover dinner like right before
00:19:44
◼
►
recording this yeah our friends you can
00:19:46
◼
►
wash your hands a few times and the
00:19:47
◼
►
smoke smell so doesn't come off had a
00:19:49
◼
►
nice ring around it to the turkey yeah
00:19:51
◼
►
delicious anyway okay so you're number
00:19:54
◼
►
three is sweet potato casserole all
00:19:57
◼
►
right look is mostly a delivery
00:19:59
◼
►
mechanism for crispy fried onions yeah
00:20:01
◼
►
so crispy fried onions is earrin
00:20:04
◼
►
I also discovered over dinner of course
00:20:08
◼
►
we still have the can of crispy fried
00:20:09
◼
►
onions because TIFF made her own so I
00:20:11
◼
►
bought the can as a backup just in case
00:20:13
◼
►
they didn't turn out yeah I also bought
00:20:14
◼
►
mushroom soup as a backup and myself
00:20:16
◼
►
didn't turn it exactly and so now we
00:20:19
◼
►
have is all these extra crispy fried
00:20:21
◼
►
onions are around every I don't know why
00:20:23
◼
►
we don't normally have using the cabinet
00:20:24
◼
►
all year round with maybe a try that you
00:20:27
◼
►
did that before you had that in
00:20:28
◼
►
Larchmont and you would always just
00:20:30
◼
►
sneak in there for like a fist they're
00:20:32
◼
►
it's like it's just like salt but bigger
00:20:34
◼
►
I think we're both into eating fistfuls
00:20:36
◼
►
of food like randomly
00:20:38
◼
►
yeah that's we walk path sir okay so I
00:20:40
◼
►
discovered tonight that so basically we
00:20:42
◼
►
we've reheated our plates of leftovers
00:20:44
◼
►
and I took the can of fried onions and
00:20:47
◼
►
kind of sprinkled some extra ones on top
00:20:48
◼
►
of my green beans and I thought you know
00:20:49
◼
►
I wonder so I went over and sprinkled
00:20:51
◼
►
someone on the mashed potatoes too
00:20:53
◼
►
so we had mashed potatoes with with
00:20:54
◼
►
gravy and crispy fried onions and I'll
00:20:56
◼
►
tell you what that works that really
00:20:58
◼
►
works parently you can just crisp fi
00:21:00
◼
►
onion everything whenever yep and then
00:21:03
◼
►
everything you eat will just taste like
00:21:04
◼
►
crispy fried onion they're really good
00:21:06
◼
►
at least ours were from Whole Foods so
00:21:08
◼
►
you know yes it's organic junk food we
00:21:12
◼
►
are good little hipsters exactly all
00:21:15
◼
►
right we each have one left or our
00:21:17
◼
►
number four slot mm-hmm what do you
00:21:18
◼
►
think yours or do you have any in mind I
00:21:20
◼
►
do it's kind of maybe controversial
00:21:25
◼
►
we'll see it between us I guess because
00:21:27
◼
►
we're the only ones that can dispute
00:21:29
◼
►
each other controversy I'm going with
00:21:32
◼
►
cranberry sauce with mandarin oranges in
00:21:35
◼
►
okay I'll give you that I love the
00:21:38
◼
►
cranberry sauce that I've learned how to
00:21:40
◼
►
make from my mom
00:21:41
◼
►
it's pretty much you take whole
00:21:43
◼
►
cranberry sauce it's from a can and then
00:21:45
◼
►
you dump another can of mandarin oranges
00:21:48
◼
►
into it and if you do or do not like
00:21:51
◼
►
walnuts um you choose to put them in hey
00:21:54
◼
►
Pete a lot of people like nuts and nuts
00:21:56
◼
►
on Thanksgiving are big things lot of
00:21:58
◼
►
people have bad taste
00:21:59
◼
►
oh come on so that's really one that's
00:22:01
◼
►
are terrible people like them you can
00:22:03
◼
►
tell they're terrible to us but people
00:22:05
◼
►
like them so anyway I love the cranberry
00:22:08
◼
►
sauce I think it is the perfect side
00:22:10
◼
►
dish compliment on Thanksgiving and has
00:22:12
◼
►
that brings that tart element to the
00:22:14
◼
►
plate that a lot of the other dishes
00:22:15
◼
►
don't because there's just so much sweet
00:22:17
◼
►
and there's so much buttery richness and
00:22:20
◼
►
when you bring in the freshness of the
00:22:24
◼
►
citrus from the mandarin oranges and the
00:22:27
◼
►
tartness from the cranberry sauce it
00:22:29
◼
►
really balances everything out and it is
00:22:31
◼
►
absolutely necessary for leftovers
00:22:34
◼
►
because not only does the cranberry
00:22:35
◼
►
sauce help the turkey taste better the
00:22:36
◼
►
second day with it's like weirdness that
00:22:39
◼
►
happens to it but it is also the main
00:22:42
◼
►
moisture delivery device for a sandwich
00:22:44
◼
►
I do not put any mayonnaise on my turkey
00:22:47
◼
►
sandwiches my leftover sandwiches I only
00:22:49
◼
►
use the cranberry sauce so it's
00:22:52
◼
►
necessary then delicious and yeah it's
00:22:55
◼
►
just that's why it has to be my number4
00:22:57
◼
►
you know what I'll give you that that's
00:22:59
◼
►
a really good pick and you know and I I
00:23:02
◼
►
wasn't that into it this year because
00:23:03
◼
►
the turkey was so good but like if you
00:23:05
◼
►
have like an overcooked turkey at dry
00:23:07
◼
►
for here just a bland turkey then it
00:23:09
◼
►
really does help a lot and I agree with
00:23:13
◼
►
you they're like having that extra
00:23:14
◼
►
element that that like tart that nothing
00:23:18
◼
►
else in the plate tastes like that right
00:23:20
◼
►
right so yeah I actually might agree
00:23:23
◼
►
with you I might go number four on that
00:23:24
◼
►
- really awesome so I think about
00:23:26
◼
►
everything else that you have you know
00:23:27
◼
►
you have the turkey which I do like
00:23:29
◼
►
turkey I like Turkey a lot well it's
00:23:32
◼
►
kind of a side let's face it it's it's
00:23:35
◼
►
really not the star of the show
00:23:36
◼
►
it's the sir of the show like out of
00:23:38
◼
►
obligation but nobody actually cares
00:23:39
◼
►
about that much but if I were able to
00:23:42
◼
►
put it on my list I might put the turkey
00:23:44
◼
►
at number four because we do tend to
00:23:46
◼
►
have really good turkeys in this family
00:23:47
◼
►
and I really do enjoy Turkey when it's
00:23:49
◼
►
when it's done well yeah we've had a lot
00:23:51
◼
►
of different turkeys over the years
00:23:52
◼
►
we've had like the standard baked type
00:23:53
◼
►
we've had a maple brined turkey we've
00:23:56
◼
►
had a beer turkey some sort of beer can
00:24:00
◼
►
turkey there was a beer can up its butt
00:24:01
◼
►
or something and it was cooked we just
00:24:05
◼
►
had smoked turkey mm-hmm
00:24:06
◼
►
I don't think we've had a deep-fried
00:24:07
◼
►
turkey yet III at least no I haven't
00:24:10
◼
►
have you know I haven't I've seen it on
00:24:12
◼
►
Instagram a lot but it was lit and it's
00:24:14
◼
►
like insanely dangerous dick well yeah I
00:24:16
◼
►
love like the Alton Brown Alton Alton
00:24:18
◼
►
Alton Alton Brown setup with the ladder
00:24:20
◼
►
to drop it in for safety reasons oh my
00:24:23
◼
►
god yeah that's that just seems like a
00:24:26
◼
►
nightmare like the whole logistics of
00:24:28
◼
►
deep-fried Turkey it's like no but yes
00:24:30
◼
►
we've had a lot of
00:24:31
◼
►
different types of turkey so yeah where
00:24:35
◼
►
are we going with this I got lost I was
00:24:37
◼
►
think about whether to put Turkey as a
00:24:39
◼
►
number four or cranberry sauce gotcha
00:24:40
◼
►
there's really nothing else in the meal
00:24:42
◼
►
that I think is like a star you know
00:24:44
◼
►
like there's like bread and stuff but
00:24:46
◼
►
you know I you're pretty good
00:24:49
◼
►
no yes you your rolls that you made from
00:24:51
◼
►
scratch are really good thanks
00:24:53
◼
►
but again that's not just for
00:24:55
◼
►
Thanksgiving no and pretty much
00:24:57
◼
►
everything else you know almost
00:24:59
◼
►
everything else that we would have on
00:25:00
◼
►
the on that plate or on that table you'd
00:25:02
◼
►
also have a different other parts of the
00:25:03
◼
►
year I would like to try a homemade
00:25:06
◼
►
cranberry sauce it just doesn't seem
00:25:07
◼
►
worth it it's like making your own jam
00:25:09
◼
►
yeah I've had it before it's fine but
00:25:11
◼
►
it's it's not worth the effort you can
00:25:13
◼
►
add homemade cream sauce yeah it's it's
00:25:15
◼
►
fine but you know you could like the K
00:25:17
◼
►
it's one of those it's one of those
00:25:18
◼
►
things were like just get the canned one
00:25:20
◼
►
because it's just as good nobody knows
00:25:22
◼
►
the difference nobody cares about the
00:25:23
◼
►
difference in many ways it's actually
00:25:25
◼
►
better and it's just no effort
00:25:27
◼
►
whatsoever and a canned version is you
00:25:29
◼
►
know if you want to get super cool
00:25:31
◼
►
organic with whole cranberries in it
00:25:32
◼
►
like we do you can if you want to get
00:25:34
◼
►
the one that cost 40 cents that is just
00:25:36
◼
►
like a big you know jello cylinder okay
00:25:39
◼
►
fine okay I don't like the jello a
00:25:41
◼
►
cylinder one but I do think funny funny
00:25:43
◼
►
I don't like that jellied
00:25:45
◼
►
version I like the whole berry one that
00:25:47
◼
►
you like smoosh up and it's like puffy I
00:25:50
◼
►
don't know what would you call that it's
00:25:51
◼
►
just like uh it's like a like a Jambi
00:25:52
◼
►
yeah it's more like a jam or and but
00:25:55
◼
►
know that the cylinder ones you can you
00:25:56
◼
►
can like serve as a disc you like stick
00:25:58
◼
►
a note I was gonna say it's so great is
00:26:00
◼
►
that the ridges of the inside of the can
00:26:02
◼
►
show you where to cut it you guys cut it
00:26:05
◼
►
on the ridge line wow that's a life hack
00:26:07
◼
►
right there that's awesome I never
00:26:11
◼
►
thought of that
00:26:11
◼
►
yeah I still don't know how you get it
00:26:13
◼
►
out of the can with those lines I like
00:26:15
◼
►
that I think you have to open up both
00:26:16
◼
►
sides like for those old juice
00:26:18
◼
►
containers where you had to punch two
00:26:19
◼
►
holes to get some air in it yeah yeah
00:26:21
◼
►
maybe mm-hmm and is that white cranberry
00:26:23
◼
►
cans are usually upside-down leave it
00:26:25
◼
►
like the label on the minute like it's
00:26:26
◼
►
they're cut they're aligned upside-down
00:26:27
◼
►
compared to other cans I think so it's
00:26:29
◼
►
so that it sits right side up so when
00:26:31
◼
►
you cut it no that doesn't make any
00:26:33
◼
►
sense it's upside down right yeah there
00:26:35
◼
►
whatever reason I was a Fadel it's
00:26:37
◼
►
probably so that the air pocket of it is
00:26:40
◼
►
at the top so when you open it because
00:26:42
◼
►
it's upside down
00:26:43
◼
►
the cranberry sauce is already at the
00:26:46
◼
►
precipice of escaping so you can open it
00:26:49
◼
►
and then it slides right out that makes
00:26:51
◼
►
sense I bet you're right because the air
00:26:52
◼
►
is behind it well for all of our
00:26:54
◼
►
listeners who work in the cranberry
00:26:56
◼
►
sauce canning industry please write in
00:26:57
◼
►
and explain this to us I'm sure at least
00:26:59
◼
►
one of you like science that you're
00:27:01
◼
►
probably right but I would love to hear
00:27:03
◼
►
it from an audience member in case
00:27:04
◼
►
they're in the business okay the canning
00:27:06
◼
►
the Canon cranberry sauce for
00:27:07
◼
►
Thanksgiving business so again you're
00:27:09
◼
►
the member of the cranberry cartel let
00:27:11
◼
►
us know yeah so I I am gonna pick turkey
00:27:14
◼
►
at number four unless it isn't allowed
00:27:15
◼
►
in which case I'll pick cranberry sauce
00:27:17
◼
►
okay I think that's legit yeah as long
00:27:19
◼
►
as you have a backup yeah that's me
00:27:20
◼
►
that's my backup in case just in case
00:27:22
◼
►
turkey was excluded from this from this
00:27:23
◼
►
classification all right cool well
00:27:26
◼
►
thanks everybody for joining us for this
00:27:28
◼
►
episode of top four I'm sure you wanted
00:27:31
◼
►
to hear more about Thanksgiving food
00:27:32
◼
►
right now you're tired of these dishes
00:27:37
◼
►
already by now yeah because my time is
00:27:39
◼
►
to get release will be like two days out
00:27:41
◼
►
from Thanksgiving yeah exactly
00:27:42
◼
►
super planners we are we are awesome at
00:27:45
◼
►
podcasting uh yep cool you want to go
00:27:48
◼
►
have some pie yeah pie all right thanks
00:27:51
◼
►
everybody for listening and I will talk
00:27:52
◼
►
to you next time ala mode or not well
00:27:55
◼
►
come on I mean if I screws available if
00:27:57
◼
►
you take it okay heated or not depends
00:28:00
◼
►
on the pie apple pie yes most most apple
00:28:03
◼
►
like pausing other fruit pies heated
00:28:05
◼
►
with ice cream what do you mean just
00:28:07
◼
►
nothing ice cream no why would you do
00:28:08
◼
►
what wait so you would have cold pie
00:28:10
◼
►
with cold ice cream oh no you you you
00:28:13
◼
►
heat the pie first yeah then you take it
00:28:15
◼
►
out of the heating instrument then you
00:28:17
◼
►
put your ice cream on it I need it but I
00:28:18
◼
►
all scream my self is not getting heated
00:28:19
◼
►
no no no I mean you know slowly melting
00:28:22
◼
►
from the but slowly getting heated from
00:28:24
◼
►
the pie yeah just yeah I just had to
00:28:26
◼
►
quiz you had to see ad to see where you
00:28:27
◼
►
stood I mean I know you but just
00:28:29
◼
►
checking yeah
00:28:30
◼
►
now maybe the question is like other
00:28:31
◼
►
kinds of pies things like pumpkin pie or
00:28:34
◼
►
it's more of like a moose style
00:28:35
◼
►
I don't heat those normally no an ice
00:28:38
◼
►
cream is probably the wrong choice with
00:28:40
◼
►
cream probably a better choice for those
00:28:41
◼
►
alright shout-out to my best friend
00:28:43
◼
►
Tania's pumpkin pie which is the only
00:28:46
◼
►
pumpkin pie I have ever truly really
00:28:49
◼
►
liked Thank You Tonya be my eyes I mean
00:28:53
◼
►
she is my soul mate so she makes your
00:28:55
◼
►
soul mate put my ladies on me that makes
00:28:57
◼
►
you tell me thanks alright how many
00:29:04
◼
►
Thanksgiving Day after two days after