Anyone Tired of the whole "Thanksgiving" Food Traditions?

Stuffing is stuffed inside the turkey and cooed with the turkey, dressing is baked in a pan, but they are essentially made of the same materials, mostly.

Don't forget useless carbs when you are spiking your sugar on a feast. Me, I am happy to love the turkey because everything else takes up my sugars for the day and I am not missing pie for some potatoes and breadcrumbs. However, I am tempted to shoot myself up with a ton of insulin and eat my way back to a healthy blood sugar. It probably does not work that way, but I might be willing to risk it.

Carbs have more impact on my blood sugar than straight up sugar. Never have figured that out.

When it comes to something that often seems to come around at Thanksgiving that I would like to have more often are fried sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes. Vastly underrated dish.

Carbs and sugars have similar chemical properties for conversion into fat and energy. Your body has an order for how it digests substances. This is why alcohol ends up being bad for you because it is metabolized before sugars and carbs. It is all biochemistry I used to know well, but have not used since I was in my twenties. But if you ever messed with chemical diagrams they have similar structures to each other. They have easily broken bonds and convert to ATP which is what your cells use for energy. I guess insulin works to allow the molecules to pass the cell membrane and that is why it is important.

However all that seems a bit beyond a history teacher who can't remember history.

Simple carbs, like cane sugar, are easy to digest and can cause temporary quick spikes in blood glucose levels. That's why diabetic recovery products are usually made of dextrose. In gel form, it can be absorbed through the mouth and could kick someone's blood glucose level up 60-75 points in 10-15 minutes. That's also why medics will give an amp of D50 to someone whose blood glucose levels are dangerously low. It works fast, like, in 5-10 minutes, but it'll be metabolized in 30 minutes.

Complex carbs, like those from vegetables, baked goods, etc. take more time to digest and cause a slow, but steady increase in blood glucose levels. Eating a serving of chocolate chip cookies can be addressed by checking your blood glucose levels in 30-45 minutes and dosing accordingly. Eating a serving of cornbread dressing, or chicken and dumplings, or other complex carbs will have an effect that could last for six to eight hours. Your check in two hours may show fine, but in six hours, right before you eat again, you're going to show high.

That looks delicious. What's your recipe?

yes I have had cornbread stuffing/dressing before - it was pretty good if I remember right!

Not a food tradition, but one I have, while cooking all the food is to have the Twilight Zone on. That started years ago, when I think it was the SciFi channel had a marathon for several years. Now I just stream it on Netflix, later on, I've got buddy coming over and will watch STiscovery, he hasn't watched the last 5-6 episodes. He doesn't have CBS All Access.

We usually have a turkey and a ham, once a goose instead of a ham, and once my Italian brother in law insisted on a "whop thanksgiving" where there was turkey plus pasta. I did a fried turkey one year but it didn't turn out so good because I ran out of peanut oil and tried to substitute olive oil which all burned and caused the turkey to taste burned. Luckily, my aunt had insisted on an oven bag turkey because she did not like fried foods.

two doors down our neighbors are deep frying a turkey. I hope there are no mishaps!

Lunch has been consumed. It is now officially the "Christmas Season."

don't get me started! As we speak I am dragging all the X-mas decorations, lawn ornaments, lights, etc.etc. out of storage. It was going to be an "alcohol free" four day weekend but COME ON! You can't do this shit stone-cold sober and live to tell the tale!
Oh, and thanks kitty for starting to chew on fake pine needles before I even get everything taken out & organized. Hey, it's what I have to do so I can go hunting the rest of the weekend, so I'll keep my nose to the grindstone and knock this shit out I guess.

I've been drinking Mojitos and Margarita's since 9AM....

Lies, all lies!

It is only 1pm.

Now that is what I call a holiday. Did you use fresh crushed mint leaves?

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To answer the question, no, I love traditional Thanksgiving food. I love turkey, gravy, ham, cranberry sauce, green beans(cooked with bacon), corn, mash taters, did I mention gravy, stuffing, gravy, peas, gravy. I could use a change up for Christmas though.

Hmmm, food porn.

Thanksgiving is when I get to let my slow cooker skills shine. Steaky mashed potatoes, green chile mac, and jalapeno turkey Tex Mex.

slow cooking is great (for most foods) and I use them frequently.

During my extended stay in North Korea for Thanksgiving we "pigged" out on undigested seeds we found in animal poop, slow cooked pages from banned books, and for dessert......licking the condensation from the Candy Store #4 display window! Granted, there were also lean times now and then.

But not on Thanksgiving.

it doesn't matter - some foods can be cooked on Thanksgiving via slow cooker and not be too "non traditional."

Says who?

I cook what I feel like and anyone who doesn't like it can cook their own $200 meal

Tired of beef so yardbird FTW.

They most likely had lobster.