We ate our meal at 2:00, and my husband just made himself a sandwich at 11:00 pm. That’s ok, since he will probably be up for another 3 hours before bed. I’m still too full.
Leftover turkey is the best part the next day! In Pennsylvania turkey sandwich with mayo and cranberry sauce! Yum! My husband from LA can’t even watch me eat this ! lol! 😂
In 1983, our family shared Thanksgiving with a Brit student who was surprised by some of the dishes. I'll never forget her comment: "We never mix sweet with savory." Perfect insight!
6:17 To be fair, James and Millie, there is a sweet potato pie that is also served as a dessert for Thanksgiving dinner, and it looks very similar in appearance to the pumpkin pie
As a US Navy veteran I remember the Holidays that I was away from home and dined with my shipmates , and the few times I dined with my family . I want to shout out to the military cooks that work extra hours to feed us a special meal during the holidays and for feeding us on a daily basis . Being a cook in the military is an underapreciated but vital job . How they work over and beyond normal duties to create a holiday meal for the troops and hands is commendable .
My mom makes a scrumptious sweet potato casserole, but instead of marshmallows she puts candied pecans all over the top. OMG! It's my favorite Thanksgiving dish. It tastes like dessert!
Sweet potato casserole is as different as the people who make it. My friend's mom puts in a large can of heavy syrup peaches, raspberries, and tiny marshmallows mixed throughout. It is like a dessert, but totally amazing.
It really is more or less a pallet saver. You have a lot of salty and savory on the table and there's only so much rolls and jam to go around and people only eat so much fruit before turning to drinks. You keep the savory theme, but you introduce a sweet flavor and suddenly the meal tastes "fresh" again. I'm not sure how to best put it, but it's like your pallet is rejuvenated from being bombarded with salt and savory for an entire meal. It's also something to do with all those yams harvested every year and those pilgrims sure as dimes didn't have sorbet on that first Thanksgiving.
For my Thanksgiving today, I ate with friends and they served: turkey, mashed potatoes, candied yams (sweet potatoes), "turkey dressing", cheese rolls, and gravy for pouring on top of the turkey, potatoes, and stuffing. For my parents' Thanksgiving they typically have turkey and ham in addition to all the previously mentioned dishes. Before the meal, lots of appetizers and other munchies and drinks. Egg nog too.
Housefication - Yams are not sweet potatoes. Yams have rough, dark brown skin that is often compared to tree bark, and their flesh is dry and starchy like a regular potato. Sweet potatoes have smooth reddish skin, softer flesh (when cooked), and a sweet flavor.
@@Nomad-vv1gk protip: it's used regionally to mean different veggies/tubers, which is EXACTLY why I parenthesized the specific type I meant. Instead of seeming wise, you demonstrate a lack of it. Ooops.
Tad Lincoln started the turkey pardon by asking his dad, Abraham Lincoln, to pardon the turkey that he wanted to keep as a pet. I think the turkey went to live on a farm I believe though.
Sweet potato casseroles are not always made with marshmallows though it does seem to be the most common. I hate marshmallows but thankfully the the most popular sweet potato casserole is topped with crushed pecans & spices, sometimes with brown sugar too.
You absolutely can make a sweet potato casserole. It's not difficult at all. So many ways to go about it too. I personally do care for the marshmallows and prefer pecan crumble topping.
The first time I had the sweet potatoes with marshmallows, I was about 12 years old at my aunt's house, and she added pineapple to the sweet potatoes. OMG, I fell in love immediately! As I got older, my taste buds matured and when my mother was no longer able to cook, I started cooking Thanksgiving dinner for up to 15 people. Yes, I love to cook. There are so many traditional dishes each year was a little different, but I learned how to cook so I could spend more time with my family and not beating myself up in the kitchen. That included hor d' oeurves and a stocked bar. It was tight for my small house but it was loud and funny and times I'll always remember.
That’s what I remember about my Grandmother Campbells house on Thanksgiving and Christmas. We were crammed in there, and it was so loud with laughter your head was ringing. Such wonderful memories.❤️🐝🤗
I tried everything in my power to make good cranberry sauce before realizing I just straight up dont like cranberry sauce. Way too tart for me. (and yes ive tried adding sugar, i added so much one time it was basically jam and i still hated it)
we were actually discussing that today... most of us enjoy cranberry juice, but only one likes the fruit as typically prepared for Thanksgiving. So she opened a whole can and ate some... the rest of us politely said no. Now if it was a glass of juice, I would have said yes please. :D
I make sweet potatoes with a bit of brown sugar and butter . . I don't make it a casserole...or use marshmallows . . so it all depends on how to like them. Either way they are a bit sweet but really good when you are having savory turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, green beans etc....it works...lol Yes, its true every President on Thanksgiving pardons a turkey from being killed and eaten.....kinda nice if you think about it. . . it's just a fun little tradition.
Fair-sized family get together today at a local Cracker Barrel. Only 10 of us, today. Mom used to go all out at our family farm, but she's in her mid-80s now and we try to keep things easy for her. My sister-in-law started doing a Christmas dinner, and sometimes Thanksgiving, several years ago. But Cracker Barrel is good, Southern home-style cooking, and Mom likes it, so that's our go-to when we can't have a get-together at home. I had turkey slices, cornbread dressing (the same as stuffing, but stuffing implies that it was in the turkey while it roasted), green beans, sweet potato casserole with diced pecans added (no marshmallows, though), cranberry sauce, buttermilk biscuits, cornbread muffins, with turkey gravy on the turkey & dressing. The mix of sweet and savory was perfectly balanced. Others had different veggies, yet others had deep-fried turkey slices with veggies, and several of us got a slice of pumpkin pie to take home with out leftovers. My wife bought a couple of small Christmas presents for her friends at her church from the restaurant's huge gift shop. As usual in the US, the meal portions were so huge that all of us had to get a to go box to take leftovers home. When I was a child, Holiday meals like this included dozens of relatives from several intermarried families, and featured baked ham, pheasant, quail, venison, salad, home-grown veggies, candied yams, boiled potatoes, boiled greens like turnip greens or collard greens to go with the turkey & dressing, with strong coffee to go with various pies and cakes for dessert. We were a huge, poor, Appalachian family--yet hunting and gardening, canning and preserving, and a few store-bought things allowed to eat like royalty--if not better, LOL! My grandparents were born in the late Victorian/early Edwardian era. They survived the Great Depression, WWI, WWII, the Kentucky coal mines, and lived/survived some interesting times of the US Smoky Mountains history. I've written down a bit of what I remember from my childhood. Someday, probably not soon, I'll have that published. LOL! No one will believe it--sounds too much like something Charles Dickens would write! --Dan
Happy Thanksgiving! Last year my daughter was in England, going to school north of Manchester, so we missed her on Thanksgiving. Today she's home, in CA with us. :-) BTW, I've never heard of anyone who puts stuffing on their turkey sandwiches. And store bought pumpkin pie can never taste as good as homemade. And, I don't bury my sweet potatoes under marshmallows. I prefer chopped nuts with brown sugar and butter.
Our family has replaced stuffing with fufú. But whichever we've used throughout the years, it usually doesn't survive long enough to make it into the leftover sandwich.
@@lovemesomeslippers We combine flour, light brown sugar, butter, and chopped pecans. It’s added as a crumble on top of the casserole. It adds a sweet caramelized and toasted pecan taste to the sweet potatoes or yams (you can use either).
Love that you have the fireplace background is perfect for Thanksgiving! You should try to have it for Christmas videos too! I wanna see you both try the apple pie, pumpkin pie, sweet potato pie, and the sweet potato casserole.
I agree that marshmallows belong on a stick! Lol I had baked sweet potatoes with our dinner today. They are sweet enough on their own. I know that many of my fellow Americans will disagree with my thoughts that they should be baked or mashed like regular potatoes. I put butter and gravy on my sweet potato and other veggies today. They were made equally unhealthy by the butter and gravy, but tasted great! I actually like the assorted veggies, stuffing and cranberry (not whole cranberries) from a can, more than the turkey! I did eat a slice of turkey, but the rest was the sides.
I've had Sweet Potato Pie, but not Sweet Potato Casserole. For my family's Thanksgiving meal (13 in attendance, 6 unable to come, from Ohio, due to illness), we had turkey, ham, dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, deviled eggs, jello with mandarin oranges and pineapple mixed in, green bean casserole, rolls, cookies, brownies, pumpkin pie, apple pie, and cherry pie (whipped cream to top off the pies) and milk or soda to drink.
This year was my forst thanksgiving post-divorce. It was relaxing without the ex causing drama. I invited my sister over and we celebrated being single and childless. I smoked a pork butt and shredded it. I also made candied yams, while she brought mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, and deviled eggs. Its a holiday the entire world should observe if for no other reason than the chance to gather and eat meals together like family.
That was a great video and a great reaction! I just had a reasonable sized meal six hours ago, but I got sent away with lots of leftovers to be snacking on for the rest of the evening. 😀 Happy Thanksgiving Beesleys! I'm thankful for you and the entertainment you bring me!
For Thanksgiving my family had turkey, mashed potatos, green bean casserole, fufu, and cider boiled sweet potatos with homeade cranberry jelly for the main course, then pumpkin pie, pecan pie, and flan for dessert.
Personally, My family just either has a 2nd, orange, mashed taters dish, or we go with huge chunks of sweet potato boiled in cider and spices like we did this year. So tasty... (and so many fewer calories)
those sandwiches and the sweet potato/marshmallow mess was God-awful! When I think of the many years I cooked Thanksgiving dinner, that would never have had a place at the table! Oh la la....the pumpkin pie and pecan pie were a nice departure from otherwise shameful! That looked acceptable. Finally, the presidential pardon of the turkey is indeed very real!
I have to say that my use for leftover turkey is a lot simpler than that odd sandwich they fed the kids. My sandwich just has bread, turkey, mayo and salt/pepper. It's not the time of year for decent tomatoes but if I had any, I might put some sliced tomato on it too.
The best thing about Thanksgiving dinner is the sandwiches made from the turkey left over. And I agree white bread, sliced turkey mayo and salt and pepper. Love tomatoes but, can't eat them anymore due to my bleeding ulcers. Love left over Thanksgiving turkey in a sandwich but don't care at all for deli turkey.
Mine is turkey with Brie, mayo, and homemade cranberry sauce. The ultimate is on croissants, but I’m usually trying to decrease my caloric intake by then and settle for regular bread!
Proper leftover Thanksgiving leftover sandwich is made open-faced as a smørbrød, and baked. You take a thick slice of bread, put mayo, a layer of mashed potatos, thin layer of green beans (if there are any left), white or dark turkey (according to individual taste), and a shmear or cranberry on top of everything. Then bake @ 300°F for 10 or so min. Serve on plate/in tupperware with knife and fork.
I detest marshmallows and would never put them on sweet potato casserole. We do brown sugar, pecans, a little flour and butter mixed up to a crumble. It forms a crust and is delicious!
When you make pumpkin pie, you can use a store-bought crust and mix the rest of the ingredients in a blender. It comes out just about the same as making the crust from scratch and mixing the rest of the ingredients in a bowl with a spoon before pouring into the crust. Pumkin pie with a crust. Pumpkin custard without a crust.
For the most part Thanksgiving & Christmas dinner are similar, except with Thanksgiving dinner there’s more Fall-specific foods Christmas dinner is more varied, I think… Lots of families have Turkey again but a lot also don’t want Turkey again just a month later. Ham, salmon or prime rib are common for Xmas dinner in a lot of homes
The basics are fresh roasted turkey, white and dark meat, turkey gravy, stuffing- seasoned bread crumbs stuffed inside the Turkey, mashed white potatoes or a sweet potato, and cranberry sauce. The rest of what was presented is rare, regional or just strange.
I've never heard of a Moist Maker. Our version of a turkey sandwich is throw leftover turkey pieces, mayo, and cheese onto a sesame seed bun and call it a day.
It's from a classic episode of Friends : the moist-maker is a piece of gravy soaked bread in the middle of the sandwich, and Ross Geller (the amazing David Schwimmer) has a complete psychotic break when someone at work steals it.
@@isoldejaneholland8370 Thank you for clueing me in on this. Somebody explained to me it's served in restaurants across the country, but I'd never heard of it until now.
You can actually make the leftovers into a wicked casserole by throwing all the leftover mashed potatoes, gravy, Turkey pieces & stuffing into a dish, then cover with melted cheese & breadcrumbs & quickly brown it in the oven Deeelish
As an American I can only say I agree with all of the boys on sweet potato casserole….its gross! I can’t believe they gave them a turkey sandwich instead of a plate of turkey, stuffing, potato’s & corn all covered with turkey gravy & green bean casserole on the side! (You can tell I’m also not a big cranberry sauce fan, but I would allow it on the plate too😉). That sandwich was not Thanksgiving! Happy Thanksgiving all! 🦃🍗🥔🌽🥧
@@tammierandall864 guess I missed that part….but still not a way I’ve ever seen a left over sandwich made. Maybe just not a Pacific North West thing 🤷🏼♀️
@5:37 they didn't doctor it up... it looks like they just had sweet Potato and marshmallows... in mine i do: Yams smashed, pure pumpkin, brown sugar, pumpkin pie spice, and butter... i mix it together and put in dish and top it with marshmallows or an Oatmeal, brown sugar and pumpkin pie spice Crumble. Put it in the oven till i see the potatoes bubbling then i put the oven on boil (about 1 min or less)/ til the marshmallows are toasted.
I'm from the south and sweet potato casserole is most definitely a desert.... I don't like the texture so I usually go with huge chunks of yam, cooked in butter, brown sugar and vanilla then topped with marshmallow
Having always had thanksgiving dinner outside of the south I’ve always seen sweet potato casserole served with the meal. Do you have sweet potato pie or the sweet potato casserole as dessert or both?
Hold on. I grew up in the south east. Charlotte, NC and Hilton Head Island, SC. We don’t eat sweet potato pie or candied yams or anything of the kind as dinner… you make a plate that consists of dinner, finger foods and sweets so you don’t get back up until you go for second supper. 😂😂
Quick thought....if you come to America over Thanksgiving you can enjoy that holiday with a real Thanksgiving dinner as well as catch a college football game.
Happy Thanksgiving from Eugene Oregon. Home of the ducks The thing with Thanksgiving dinner is everything has to be eaten during the meal . The basic meal has the same components but prepared differently depending on regions
The thing about eating a Thanksgiving meal is usually you mix the food on your fork based on your preference. For example, the turkey and and stuffing among other things on the plate are quite savory and the sweet potatoes with marshmallow are quite sweet. Mix the two together on your fork to your liking, it will give you a sweet and savory flavor. Sweet and savory in one bite...kind of like the sandwich, it's sweet and savory. To eat the food individually, like just the sweet potatoes with marshmallows may not be very pleasant. It's not always about the meal but how you eat it.
Sweet potatoes or yams ....basically is served with a little brown sugar on the top and melted butter. Same would go for squash. Marshmellows is something some people do. I like gravy over it. Pumpkin pie is best with a little whip cream on it. Pecan pie is really sweet and rich. Turkey sandwiches are basically just turkey on some bread with Miraclewhip or Mayonaise and a little salt. Not much on it but pretty good.
Sweet potatoes and marshmallows are awesome together. The Presidential pardon is a real thing it supposed goes back to President Lincoln’s son not wanting to see the Thanksgiving turkey killed for dinner. So he went and asked his father to do something about it. The President wrote out a pardon for the turkey. Them buying the title for the headmaster was awesome especially since it included free breakfast for all the students.
We had candied yams instead of sweet potato casserole. It's the same thing but with Yams instead of sweet potato and it's chunks of yam instead of it being purée'ed like the sweet potatoes are. Great as a side dish.
Im 73yrs old and I've never heard of 'sweet potato casserole".....sweet potatoes yes, but not a casserole. I know I don't know everything but this was new to me.
We had turkey,ham,mashed potatoes and gravy,sweet potato casserole, stuffing, three bean casserole, Mac and cheese, hominy casserole,cranberry sauce,rolls, grape salad, pistachio salad, applesauce cake, pumpkin pie, and cherry pie. My brother and I brought some home, aunt and uncle kept some and cousin and boyfriend took some. All of us will have leftover tomorrow. We will make up dinners and freeze them for later. If any turkey or ham left will be frozen in small bags to use for hot sandwich with gravy at another time. I eat 12 hours ago and finally had enough room about an hour ago for some pie.
While attending Thanksgiving dinner with friends I tried the Pecan Sweet Potato casserole that one of them had made. It was fantastic. Clearly the standout dish of all of the food there. I had never heard of it or tried it before but I hope to have it again.
Hope you had a great day. When we have candied sweet potatoes, there are less marshmallows and they are browned more, which is the way I like them. But pecan pie is really sweet. Love your virtual fireplace. I have a cd of that too.
Fun Fact: The "pumpkin" in pumpkin pie is actually pureed Butternut squash. The American FDA says that squash is close enough that youcan call it pumpkin. The reason they do this is because it tastes better than the orange pumpkins we use for decoration.
Baked or fried turkey, baked Ham, potato salad, baked beans, pecan pie, pumpkin pie, ..... Cranberry slices. Ohhh yeaahh... brown gravey over potato salad and/or turkey and ham pieces.
About 95% of a pumpkin pie's flavor comes from the spices. If you've ever had anything pumpkin spice flavored, you mostly know what pumpkin pie tastes like.
Hi guys! I've lived all of my life in the southern U.S., and I've never seen sweet potato pie served as a main course, it's always for dessert! I can't believe they left out turkey and dressing, I mean that's the most iconic thing one the Thanksgiving table! I, being from the South, am partial to cornbread dressing, and it's most likely what the Pilgrims ate. Another thing that made it into the Thanksgiving menu is green bean casserole. It started in the 50s, and consists of green beans with cream of mushroom soup and crunchy fried onions. It's actually very good. In our family, Thanksgiving reunions were an annual tradition. We would go to one of relatives house, and everyone would start drinking right after breakfast. It was one of those occasions where everyone who was 10 years and older would be permitted to indulge. God it was fun! Then me and my cousins who were into it, would partake in smoking some green, leafy herbs. Just to boost our appetites, of course. Then you could watch football, listen to music or just hang out until mid afternoon, when dinner was served. The next day, as we were all hungover, it was necessary to start drinking again as soon as you got up!
thanksgiving is always the 4th thursday in november,,, not everone does sweet potato casserole like the southerners do (marshmellows, yukky )..some do a crumble like top made on pecans, brown sugar, bit of flour and butter and some just make a sweet potato mash...yes, pardon of two turkeys every year . they are usually given cute funny names like DRUM and STICK , this year it was LIBERTY and BELL
I'm Southern, and Sweet Potatoe Casserole makes me want to throw it in the face of Whoever made it. I have always made Fried Sweet Potatoes like My Daddy who grew up very poor
There is a small North Eastern franchise called DiAngelo’s and the have a sub sandwich in a grinder roll with Turkey, Stuffing, Mayo, cranberry sauce on the side but I rather not have it on mine but the gravy is the thing that makes it sooooo damn good. The Grinder roll makes the sandwich less soggy but you get the gravy on the side to add.
Advice from Alabama. Just my humble opinion after consuming both versions my entire 66 yr lifetime. Ditch the marshmallows on the sweet potato casserole. Use a mixture of pecans and brown sugar instead its way better. I never eat the marshmallows its just too much unnecessary too sweet gooey mess. You get some nice crunch with the pecans and brown sugar. Recipes for either version should be easily obtainable.
I'm from Alabama and usually make the marshmallow version of sweet potato casserole but this year I made a version with the streusal topping and wished I hadn't. 😅
That pumpkin pie looked like it was made by a Brit. It was far too pale to have proper amount of spice. Also, yes it always has whipped cream ( though I would never use canned.)
Someone gave J & M the Betty Crocker cookbook in one of their parcels. Its recipe for pumpkin pie is what may family has always used. I always tell people to get canned pumpkin NOT canned pumpkin pie mix.
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I don't know anyone who has ever eaten a sandwich on thanksgiving day. That's how you get rid of leftovers.
We ate our meal at 2:00, and my husband just made himself a sandwich at 11:00 pm. That’s ok, since he will probably be up for another 3 hours before bed. I’m still too full.
They said the sandwich is made after Thanksgiving with the leftovers
I did! Perfer it over the whole meal. Less food to get rid of.
Toast with turkey and gravy, after Thanksgiving
Leftover turkey is the best part the next day! In Pennsylvania turkey sandwich with mayo and cranberry sauce! Yum! My husband from LA can’t even watch me eat this ! lol! 😂
In 1983, our family shared Thanksgiving with a Brit student who was surprised by some of the dishes. I'll never forget her comment: "We never mix sweet with savory." Perfect insight!
I'm thankful for the UK giving us Monty Python, Tolkien, Rowling and The Beesleys
Happy Thanksgiving to all! 🦃
6:17
To be fair, James and Millie, there is a sweet potato pie that is also served as a dessert for Thanksgiving dinner, and it looks very similar in appearance to the pumpkin pie
James....some day you'll start realizing Millie is right about 90% of the time when it comes to things done in America that you disagree about....lol
I agree !! 🤣
It’s true lol, Millie’s track record is impressive 🇺🇸
If he wants to have a long and happy marriage he needs to realize she is right 100% of the time.
I've been married 30 years come December 10th...
He's right, James and the other 10%..... she's also right... 30 years... just saying
WAIT, WAIT! (Joke) Men are always right, according to men.🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
As an American I absolutely LOVE the honest reactions by our "cousins" It's pure, it's honest and it's endearing. LOVE you guys!!
As a US Navy veteran I remember the Holidays that I was away from home and dined with my shipmates , and the few times I dined with my family . I want to shout out to the military cooks that work extra hours to feed us a special meal during the holidays and for feeding us on a daily basis . Being a cook in the military is an underapreciated but vital job . How they work over and beyond normal duties to create a holiday meal for the troops and hands is commendable .
My mom makes a scrumptious sweet potato casserole, but instead of marshmallows she puts candied pecans all over the top. OMG! It's my favorite Thanksgiving dish. It tastes like dessert!
That sounds amazing! 🤤
Yum!
For this Thanksgiving we had green bean casserole, cranberries, turkey, cornbread casserole, and corn casserole
Sweet potato casserole is as different as the people who make it. My friend's mom puts in a large can of heavy syrup peaches, raspberries, and tiny marshmallows mixed throughout. It is like a dessert, but totally amazing.
That sounds interesting. I made mine yesterday with yams, cinnamon, marshmallows, butter, and red hots for an extra cinnamon kick.
@@americansmark I'll have to try that for Christmas. A whole package? How many red hots?
It really is more or less a pallet saver. You have a lot of salty and savory on the table and there's only so much rolls and jam to go around and people only eat so much fruit before turning to drinks. You keep the savory theme, but you introduce a sweet flavor and suddenly the meal tastes "fresh" again. I'm not sure how to best put it, but it's like your pallet is rejuvenated from being bombarded with salt and savory for an entire meal. It's also something to do with all those yams harvested every year and those pilgrims sure as dimes didn't have sorbet on that first Thanksgiving.
For my Thanksgiving today, I ate with friends and they served: turkey, mashed potatoes, candied yams (sweet potatoes), "turkey dressing", cheese rolls, and gravy for pouring on top of the turkey, potatoes, and stuffing.
For my parents' Thanksgiving they typically have turkey and ham in addition to all the previously mentioned dishes. Before the meal, lots of appetizers and other munchies and drinks. Egg nog too.
Housefication - Yams are not sweet potatoes. Yams have rough, dark brown skin that is often compared to tree bark, and their flesh is dry and starchy like a regular potato. Sweet potatoes have smooth reddish skin, softer flesh (when cooked), and a sweet flavor.
@@Nomad-vv1gk protip: it's used regionally to mean different veggies/tubers, which is EXACTLY why I parenthesized the specific type I meant. Instead of seeming wise, you demonstrate a lack of it. Ooops.
Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday in November.
In Canada it’s the second Monday in October.
It’s nice for Canadians because being on a Monday it’s easy to make into a 3-day weekend
The date is defined to make it come just before Advent begins - without actually saying that they are scheduling it before Advent begins.
@@coyotelong4349 here in the U.S. many people take Friday off and make it a 4 day weekend.
Tad Lincoln started the turkey pardon by asking his dad, Abraham Lincoln, to pardon the turkey that he wanted to keep as a pet. I think the turkey went to live on a farm I believe though.
Sweet potato pie is also a staple of many Thanksgiving
Sweet potato casseroles are not always made with marshmallows though it does seem to be the most common. I hate marshmallows but thankfully the the most popular sweet potato casserole is topped with crushed pecans & spices, sometimes with brown sugar too.
Pecan pie is mostly what Brits called a treakle tart but thicker and covered in nuts.
You absolutely can make a sweet potato casserole. It's not difficult at all. So many ways to go about it too. I personally do care for the marshmallows and prefer pecan crumble topping.
The first time I had the sweet potatoes with marshmallows, I was about 12 years old at my aunt's house, and she added pineapple to the sweet potatoes. OMG, I fell in love immediately! As I got older, my taste buds matured and when my mother was no longer able to cook, I started cooking Thanksgiving dinner for up to 15 people. Yes, I love to cook. There are so many traditional dishes each year was a little different, but I learned how to cook so I could spend more time with my family and not beating myself up in the kitchen. That included hor d' oeurves and a stocked bar. It was tight for my small house but it was loud and funny and times I'll always remember.
That’s what I remember about my Grandmother Campbells house on Thanksgiving and Christmas. We were crammed in there, and it was so loud with laughter your head was ringing. Such wonderful memories.❤️🐝🤗
Pumpkin pie is my favorite! And yes whip cream is a must! You two really need to try it, it's delicious!
Pumpkin pie by itself is really good, but there does seem to be magic when the whipped cream is added and it becomes amazing!
@@RogCBrand and NOT Cool Whip. It has to be real whipped cream. Canned or make it yourself. I do the canned.
@@MarkM58 Exactly!
The things from this video that you made at home, were 10 times as good as what they fed those kids.
Cranberry sauce is my favorite side dish. I also like it over vanilla ice cream.
The sad thing is Cranberry Sauce is the most hate Thanksgiving side.
I tried everything in my power to make good cranberry sauce before realizing I just straight up dont like cranberry sauce. Way too tart for me. (and yes ive tried adding sugar, i added so much one time it was basically jam and i still hated it)
I never thought about putting it on vanilla ice cream. Will definitely try 👍
we were actually discussing that today... most of us enjoy cranberry juice, but only one likes the fruit as typically prepared for Thanksgiving. So she opened a whole can and ate some... the rest of us politely said no. Now if it was a glass of juice, I would have said yes please. :D
Wow! Vanilla ice cream with cranberry sauce. Never heard of the combination.
I make sweet potatoes with a bit of brown sugar and butter . . I don't make it a casserole...or use marshmallows . . so it all depends on how to like them. Either way they are a bit sweet but really good when you are having savory turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, green beans etc....it works...lol
Yes, its true every President on Thanksgiving pardons a turkey from being killed and eaten.....kinda nice if you think about it. . . it's just a fun little tradition.
pecans on top are pretty good as well.
The pardon of the turkey is a real thing. Every year! 😂😂
Fair-sized family get together today at a local Cracker Barrel. Only 10 of us, today. Mom used to go all out at our family farm, but she's in her mid-80s now and we try to keep things easy for her. My sister-in-law started doing a Christmas dinner, and sometimes Thanksgiving, several years ago. But Cracker Barrel is good, Southern home-style cooking, and Mom likes it, so that's our go-to when we can't have a get-together at home. I had turkey slices, cornbread dressing (the same as stuffing, but stuffing implies that it was in the turkey while it roasted), green beans, sweet potato casserole with diced pecans added (no marshmallows, though), cranberry sauce, buttermilk biscuits, cornbread muffins, with turkey gravy on the turkey & dressing. The mix of sweet and savory was perfectly balanced. Others had different veggies, yet others had deep-fried turkey slices with veggies, and several of us got a slice of pumpkin pie to take home with out leftovers. My wife bought a couple of small Christmas presents for her friends at her church from the restaurant's huge gift shop. As usual in the US, the meal portions were so huge that all of us had to get a to go box to take leftovers home.
When I was a child, Holiday meals like this included dozens of relatives from several intermarried families, and featured baked ham, pheasant, quail, venison, salad, home-grown veggies, candied yams, boiled potatoes, boiled greens like turnip greens or collard greens to go with the turkey & dressing, with strong coffee to go with various pies and cakes for dessert. We were a huge, poor, Appalachian family--yet hunting and gardening, canning and preserving, and a few store-bought things allowed to eat like royalty--if not better, LOL! My grandparents were born in the late Victorian/early Edwardian era. They survived the Great Depression, WWI, WWII, the Kentucky coal mines, and lived/survived some interesting times of the US Smoky Mountains history. I've written down a bit of what I remember from my childhood. Someday, probably not soon, I'll have that published. LOL! No one will believe it--sounds too much like something Charles Dickens would write! --Dan
Thanks for the laughs, smiles and grins. Have a great Thanksgiving.
my family usually does a pecan or walnut crumble on top of the sweet potato's instead of marshmallows
Happy Thanksgiving! Last year my daughter was in England, going to school north of Manchester, so we missed her on Thanksgiving. Today she's home, in CA with us. :-) BTW, I've never heard of anyone who puts stuffing on their turkey sandwiches. And store bought pumpkin pie can never taste as good as homemade. And, I don't bury my sweet potatoes under marshmallows. I prefer chopped nuts with brown sugar and butter.
I’m from the east coast and put stuffing on my whole life. I introduced my midwestern husband to it and that’s the only way he eats it now.
Our family has replaced stuffing with fufú. But whichever we've used throughout the years, it usually doesn't survive long enough to make it into the leftover sandwich.
We don’t do marshmallows on our sweet potato soufflé in this southern house. That would be sacrilegious. 😆
Do you do a streusel topping or just candied yams? I didn’t grow up with marshmallow on top and I was very disappointed when I tried it as a teen.
@@lovemesomeslippers We combine flour, light brown sugar, butter, and chopped pecans. It’s added as a crumble on top of the casserole. It adds a sweet caramelized and toasted pecan taste to the sweet potatoes or yams (you can use either).
Love that you have the fireplace background is perfect for Thanksgiving! You should try to have it for Christmas videos too! I wanna see you both try the apple pie, pumpkin pie, sweet potato pie, and the sweet potato casserole.
The sweet potatoes is used to compliment the rest of a large savory plate .
Every year my nom used to cook a 20+ pound Turkey. That's a lot of food with one bird.
New recording room setup and camera, looks crystal clear!
I agree that marshmallows belong on a stick! Lol I had baked sweet potatoes with our dinner today. They are sweet enough on their own. I know that many of my fellow Americans will disagree with my thoughts that they should be baked or mashed like regular potatoes. I put butter and gravy on my sweet potato and other veggies today. They were made equally unhealthy by the butter and gravy, but tasted great! I actually like the assorted veggies, stuffing and cranberry (not whole cranberries) from a can, more than the turkey! I did eat a slice of turkey, but the rest was the sides.
I've had Sweet Potato Pie, but not Sweet Potato Casserole. For my family's Thanksgiving meal (13 in attendance, 6 unable to come, from Ohio, due to illness), we had turkey, ham, dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, deviled eggs, jello with mandarin oranges and pineapple mixed in, green bean casserole, rolls, cookies, brownies, pumpkin pie, apple pie, and cherry pie (whipped cream to top off the pies) and milk or soda to drink.
A pecan crumble (chopped pecans, butter, brown sugar, cinnamon) on top of whipped creamy baked sweet potatos is my favorite.
Literally sitting under a pecan tree while watching this, I can pick them up and eat them. They are so common in my yard, at least.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Don't forget your stretchy pants.
Pecans are a very common nut in the USA, especially the south.
This year was my forst thanksgiving post-divorce. It was relaxing without the ex causing drama. I invited my sister over and we celebrated being single and childless.
I smoked a pork butt and shredded it. I also made candied yams, while she brought mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, and deviled eggs.
Its a holiday the entire world should observe if for no other reason than the chance to gather and eat meals together like family.
I love that the kids have uniforms in schools there! Im ALL for that!
That was a great video and a great reaction!
I just had a reasonable sized meal six hours ago, but I got sent away with lots of leftovers to be snacking on for the rest of the evening. 😀 Happy Thanksgiving Beesleys! I'm thankful for you and the entertainment you bring me!
Happy Thanksgiving everybody!!❤️🤗🐝🦃
For Thanksgiving my family had turkey, mashed potatos, green bean casserole, fufu, and cider boiled sweet potatos with homeade cranberry jelly for the main course, then pumpkin pie, pecan pie, and flan for dessert.
Pumpkin pie is THE BEST! But being born and raised in America, I don’t get the sweet potato casserole either guys!!🤣
Personally, My family just either has a 2nd, orange, mashed taters dish, or we go with huge chunks of sweet potato boiled in cider and spices like we did this year. So tasty... (and so many fewer calories)
Not everyone likes sweet potato casserole in one off the dozen variations. But my family does enjoy baked sweet potatoes.
You 2 are the best. I'm thankful that I get to watch your videos nearly every night.
those sandwiches and the sweet potato/marshmallow mess was God-awful! When I think of the many years I cooked Thanksgiving dinner, that would never have had a place at the table! Oh la la....the pumpkin pie and pecan pie were a nice departure from otherwise shameful! That looked acceptable. Finally, the presidential pardon of the turkey is indeed very real!
I have to say that my use for leftover turkey is a lot simpler than that odd sandwich they fed the kids. My sandwich just has bread, turkey, mayo and salt/pepper. It's not the time of year for decent tomatoes but if I had any, I might put some sliced tomato on it too.
The best thing about Thanksgiving dinner is the sandwiches made from the turkey left over. And I agree white bread, sliced turkey mayo and salt and pepper. Love tomatoes but, can't eat them anymore due to my bleeding ulcers. Love left over Thanksgiving turkey in a sandwich but don't care at all for deli turkey.
Mine is turkey with Brie, mayo, and homemade cranberry sauce. The ultimate is on croissants, but I’m usually trying to decrease my caloric intake by then and settle for regular bread!
Proper leftover Thanksgiving leftover sandwich is made open-faced as a smørbrød, and baked.
You take a thick slice of bread, put mayo, a layer of mashed potatos, thin layer of green beans (if there are any left), white or dark turkey (according to individual taste), and a shmear or cranberry on top of everything. Then bake @ 300°F for 10 or so min. Serve on plate/in tupperware with knife and fork.
I detest marshmallows and would never put them on sweet potato casserole. We do brown sugar, pecans, a little flour and butter mixed up to a crumble. It forms a crust and is delicious!
When you make pumpkin pie, you can use a store-bought crust and mix the rest of the ingredients in a blender. It comes out just about the same as making the crust from scratch and mixing the rest of the ingredients in a bowl with a spoon before pouring into the crust. Pumkin pie with a crust. Pumpkin custard without a crust.
Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner are the same type of foods, normally.
Not really. Turkey isn't a common bird over there.
@@AC-ni4gt yeah I think they eat smoked ham instead.
We have turkey for Christmas:D
We do ham or a good roast beef for Christmas, or sometimes steak and shrimp fondue. Just finally finished turkey leftovers from Thanksgiving!
For the most part Thanksgiving & Christmas dinner are similar, except with Thanksgiving dinner there’s more Fall-specific foods
Christmas dinner is more varied, I think… Lots of families have Turkey again but a lot also don’t want Turkey again just a month later. Ham, salmon or prime rib are common for Xmas dinner in a lot of homes
The basics are fresh roasted turkey, white and dark meat, turkey gravy, stuffing- seasoned bread crumbs stuffed inside the Turkey, mashed white potatoes or a sweet potato, and cranberry sauce. The rest of what was presented is rare, regional or just strange.
I've never heard of a Moist Maker. Our version of a turkey sandwich is throw leftover turkey pieces, mayo, and cheese onto a sesame seed bun and call it a day.
It's from a classic episode of Friends : the moist-maker is a piece of gravy soaked bread in the middle of the sandwich, and Ross Geller (the amazing David Schwimmer) has a complete psychotic break when someone at work steals it.
@@isoldejaneholland8370 Thank you for clueing me in on this. Somebody explained to me it's served in restaurants across the country, but I'd never heard of it until now.
You can actually make the leftovers into a wicked casserole by throwing all the leftover mashed potatoes, gravy, Turkey pieces & stuffing into a dish, then cover with melted cheese & breadcrumbs & quickly brown it in the oven
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You, maybe. Don't speak for we
@@cee8mee Why is there always at least one version of you in every comment section? I didn't speak for anyone other than me.
When I was a kid, I remember my Mom letting us eat pumpkin pie for breakfast the following Friday! So nice! Then Turkey sandwiches for lunch to follow
As an American I can only say I agree with all of the boys on sweet potato casserole….its gross! I can’t believe they gave them a turkey sandwich instead of a plate of turkey, stuffing, potato’s & corn all covered with turkey gravy & green bean casserole on the side! (You can tell I’m also not a big cranberry sauce fan, but I would allow it on the plate too😉). That sandwich was not Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving all! 🦃🍗🥔🌽🥧
They said after Thanksgiving with leftovers
@@tammierandall864 guess I missed that part….but still not a way I’ve ever seen a left over sandwich made. Maybe just not a Pacific North West thing 🤷🏼♀️
@5:37 they didn't doctor it up... it looks like they just had sweet Potato and marshmallows... in mine i do:
Yams smashed, pure pumpkin, brown sugar, pumpkin pie spice, and butter... i mix it together and put in dish and top it with marshmallows or an Oatmeal, brown sugar and pumpkin pie spice Crumble. Put it in the oven till i see the potatoes bubbling then i put the oven on boil (about 1 min or less)/ til the marshmallows are toasted.
I'm from the south and sweet potato casserole is most definitely a desert.... I don't like the texture so I usually go with huge chunks of yam, cooked in butter, brown sugar and vanilla then topped with marshmallow
Having always had thanksgiving dinner outside of the south I’ve always seen sweet potato casserole served with the meal. Do you have sweet potato pie or the sweet potato casserole as dessert or both?
@@dayeti6794 I don't like the texture of the pie and casserole so I do candied yams but it always served as desert
Cozy background, and lighting! Nice change of background!
Thanksgiving done right! Good to see the little ones eating well
English people are easily impressed by food prepared using spices. What a concept. If you don't like puh-con pie, we can't be friends.
Hold on. I grew up in the south east. Charlotte, NC and Hilton Head Island, SC. We don’t eat sweet potato pie or candied yams or anything of the kind as dinner… you make a plate that consists of dinner, finger foods and sweets so you don’t get back up until you go for second supper. 😂😂
Quick thought....if you come to America over Thanksgiving you can enjoy that holiday with a real Thanksgiving dinner as well as catch a college football game.
Pumpkin pie is flavored with ginger, but otherwise would taste pretty strange.
Happy Thanksgiving from Eugene Oregon. Home of the ducks
The thing with Thanksgiving dinner is everything has to be eaten during the meal .
The basic meal has the same components
but prepared differently depending on regions
The thing about eating a Thanksgiving meal is usually you mix the food on your fork based on your preference. For example, the turkey and and stuffing among other things on the plate are quite savory and the sweet potatoes with marshmallow are quite sweet. Mix the two together on your fork to your liking, it will give you a sweet and savory flavor. Sweet and savory in one bite...kind of like the sandwich, it's sweet and savory. To eat the food individually, like just the sweet potatoes with marshmallows may not be very pleasant. It's not always about the meal but how you eat it.
A staple in my Thanksgiving meal is baked mac n cheese, as well as honey glazed ham. Also, for dessert, it has to be banana pudding.
Sweet potato casserole with marshmallows is a regional dish. Most places and people don’t make it on thanksgiving
Sweet potatoes or yams ....basically is served with a little brown sugar on the top and melted butter. Same would go for squash. Marshmellows is something some people do. I like gravy over it.
Pumpkin pie is best with a little whip cream on it. Pecan pie is really sweet and rich.
Turkey sandwiches are basically just turkey on some bread with Miraclewhip or Mayonaise and a little salt. Not much on it but pretty good.
Sweet potatoes and marshmallows are awesome together. The Presidential pardon is a real thing it supposed goes back to President Lincoln’s son not wanting to see the Thanksgiving turkey killed for dinner. So he went and asked his father to do something about it. The President wrote out a pardon for the turkey. Them buying the title for the headmaster was awesome especially since it included free breakfast for all the students.
We never used marshmallows either.
We had candied yams instead of sweet potato casserole. It's the same thing but with Yams instead of sweet potato and it's chunks of yam instead of it being purée'ed like the sweet potatoes are. Great as a side dish.
We do have savory pies in America, we call them "pot pies". If you just said pie we would assume you were talking about a dessert.
Im 73yrs old and I've never heard of 'sweet potato casserole".....sweet potatoes yes, but not a casserole. I know I don't know everything but this was new to me.
We had turkey,ham,mashed potatoes and gravy,sweet potato casserole, stuffing, three bean casserole, Mac and cheese, hominy casserole,cranberry sauce,rolls, grape salad, pistachio salad, applesauce cake, pumpkin pie, and cherry pie. My brother and I brought some home, aunt and uncle kept some and cousin and boyfriend took some. All of us will have leftover tomorrow. We will make up dinners and freeze them for later. If any turkey or ham left will be frozen in small bags to use for hot sandwich with gravy at another time. I eat 12 hours ago and finally had enough room about an hour ago for some pie.
While attending Thanksgiving dinner with friends I tried the Pecan Sweet Potato casserole that one of them had made. It was fantastic. Clearly the standout dish of all of the food there. I had never heard of it or tried it before but I hope to have it again.
Hope you had a great day. When we have candied sweet potatoes, there are less marshmallows and they are browned more, which is the way I like them. But pecan pie is really sweet.
Love your virtual fireplace. I have a cd of that too.
Fun Fact: The "pumpkin" in pumpkin pie is actually pureed Butternut squash. The American FDA says that squash is close enough that youcan call it pumpkin. The reason they do this is because it tastes better than the orange pumpkins we use for decoration.
It also true that the turkey was considered as the national bird before the bald eagle
Pecans are a “buttery flavor” nut. Pee-Kanz is the most common pronunciation, but pickanz, and peck onze is also used.
Baked or fried turkey, baked Ham, potato salad, baked beans, pecan pie, pumpkin pie, ..... Cranberry slices. Ohhh yeaahh... brown gravey over potato salad and/or turkey and ham pieces.
In parts of MD and some states,its common to eat sauerkraut on thanksgiving
Thanksgiving greetings from the USA James and Millie, how's the wee little one doing?
Also happy upcoming Christmas holiday to you as well! 2:27
Yes whipped cream or something similar is a must for pumpkin pie
The presidential pardon is a real tradition going back to when Lincoln pardoned a turkey in 1863
Ms.Beesley is looking fabulous....love the hair!
About 95% of a pumpkin pie's flavor comes from the spices. If you've ever had anything pumpkin spice flavored, you mostly know what pumpkin pie tastes like.
Hi guys! I've lived all of my life in the southern U.S., and I've never seen sweet potato pie served as a main course, it's always for dessert! I can't believe they left out turkey and dressing, I mean that's the most iconic thing one the Thanksgiving table! I, being from the South, am partial to cornbread dressing, and it's most likely what the Pilgrims ate. Another thing that made it into the Thanksgiving menu is green bean casserole. It started in the 50s, and consists of green beans with cream of mushroom soup and crunchy fried onions. It's actually very good.
In our family, Thanksgiving reunions were an annual tradition. We would go to one of relatives house, and everyone would start drinking right after breakfast. It was one of those occasions where everyone who was 10 years and older would be permitted to indulge. God it was fun! Then me and my cousins who were into it, would partake in smoking some green, leafy herbs. Just to boost our appetites, of course. Then you could watch football, listen to music or just hang out until mid afternoon, when dinner was served. The next day, as we were all hungover, it was necessary to start drinking again as soon as you got up!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING Y'ALL!
Rick
Charleston SC
Sending lots of love from India❤
thanksgiving is always the 4th thursday in november,,, not everone does sweet potato casserole like the southerners do (marshmellows, yukky )..some do a crumble like top made on pecans, brown sugar, bit of flour and butter and some just make a sweet potato mash...yes, pardon of two turkeys every year . they are usually given cute funny names like DRUM and STICK , this year it was LIBERTY and BELL
I'm Southern, and Sweet Potatoe Casserole makes me want to throw it in the face of Whoever made it. I have always made Fried Sweet Potatoes like My Daddy who grew up very poor
Sometimes there's brown sugar in the sweet potato casserole. I used to dig them up in the cold by hand
There is a small North Eastern franchise called DiAngelo’s and the have a sub sandwich in a grinder roll with Turkey, Stuffing, Mayo, cranberry sauce on the side but I rather not have it on mine but the gravy is the thing that makes it sooooo damn good. The Grinder roll makes the sandwich less soggy but you get the gravy on the side to add.
Happy Thanksgiving!!
Happy Thanksgiving!! 🥧🦃🌽
Advice from Alabama. Just my humble opinion after consuming both versions my entire 66 yr lifetime. Ditch the marshmallows on the sweet potato casserole. Use a mixture of pecans and brown sugar instead its way better.
I never eat the marshmallows its just too much unnecessary too sweet gooey mess. You get some nice crunch with the pecans and brown sugar. Recipes for either version should be easily obtainable.
I'm from Alabama and usually make the marshmallow version of sweet potato casserole but this year I made a version with the streusal topping and wished I hadn't. 😅
I like pumpkin pie…but PECAN PIE is my absolute FAVORITE PIE!! I eat pecan pie any time of the year…not just on holidays!!
PS…great video!! 🧡
This video just blew my mind!
Someone did that "Lord" thing on Taskmaster and made Greg a Lord.
That pumpkin pie looked like it was made by a Brit. It was far too pale to have proper amount of spice. Also, yes it always has whipped cream ( though I would never use canned.)
Someone gave J & M the Betty Crocker cookbook in one of their parcels. Its recipe for pumpkin pie is what may family has always used. I always tell people to get canned pumpkin NOT canned pumpkin pie mix.