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[Homemade] Thanksgiving inspired dinner by a non-american
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[Homemade] Thanksgiving inspired dinner by a non-american


I wanted to try and make a thanksgiving inspired dinber for me and my boyfriend and I'd like to think I did okay for winging these dishes even though I have never made or even tasted stuffed turkey, cranberry sauce or sweet potatoes (as anything but fries). But I like experimenting and I hate using recipes. Everything is homemade.

  1. Stuffed turkey roast (I don't know what the cut of meat I used is called in english)

  2. Cranberry sauce

  3. Sweet potato mash

  4. Potato salad with hardboiled eggs

  5. 3-bean salad

I skipped the gravy cause my bf doesn't like it and I was too tired from all the cooking to make some just for myself.

I actually made another post specifying ingredients in each dish but when I posted it only attached one of the pictures I attatched (not this one) so I deleted it and made this one and I was too annoyed to type it all again

by JackieDeVil

45 Comments

  3. riddus

    I’d say you did great. There’s not really an official way of making any of our Thanksgiving dishes, everyone does them all a little differently.

  4. GET-U-5OME

    You nailed it! Most people will say mashed potatoes instead of potato salad, and candied yams instead of mashed sweet potatoes. My family is a potato salad family, and I say rock on 🤘

  6. PossibleLess9664

    That looks lovely. Well done 👏🏻

  7. Owvi

    Triple that serving and you’ve got yourself an authentic gut-busting American Thanksgiving meal.

    Looks great, though.

  10. idontknowjuspickone

    Looks great, but you need about 10 times more of everything to make it an official American thanksgiving meal!

  14. _andthereiwas

    The only thing wrong with this picture is your portion sizes… that’s the least American thing on that plate.

  15. nayhem_jr

    Must be roast breast, there aren’t any other large cuts worth roasting. Would generally be the whole bird otherwise. Hard to find any other turkey cuts in general.

    Hope you enjoyed it!

  16. shadhead1981

    This looks awesome!

    My only comment is to casserole up that sweet potato mash! You can’t go wrong with adding a bunch of sugar, butter, eggs, and milk to almost anything.

  18. Sarnick18

    As an American 0/10. I dont see a pool of butter on any of these food. We like when your heart stops just by looking at it.

    Jokes aside that turkey and sweet potatoes mash looks incredible

  19. Admirable-Cactus

    Nice work! Welcome to our tradition and Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.

  21. Misslimone

    the portion size is woefuly undersized for the U.S market ….

  22. thats-tough-lmao

    Ive seen Americans make much worse. Looks great op

  23. ancedactyl

    Looks good! Happy Thanksgiving, I hope you enjoyed… but where’s the pie!

  24. Capt_Murphy_

    Potato salad is more of a summer picnic food, I would say mashed potatoes with gravy to be more authentic, but the rest looks very on point, well done!

  25. Calamitous_Waffle

    Nice work! Now you have to make it a tradition and invite some people over next time.

  26. b4ttous4i

    Your plate is about empty my friend.

    -an american

  27. lousydungeonmaster

    Mashed potatoes

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  29. albino_kenyan

    Never seen potato salad at thanksgiving. Other dishes look great but those are child size portions when thanksgiving is concerned:)

  30. darndasher

    Looks fantastic! Did you enjoy it?? I hope you plan on putting that turkey, stuffing, sweet mash and cranberry sauce into a nice sandwich tomorrow- the true American way haha.

  31. Complaint_Manager

    I keep seeing a bunch of little faces in that potato salad. It’s strange. (I’m also in a food coma from the excess dinner we had tonight.)

  32. BRUISE_WILLIS

    When I lived abroad, it was hard as hell to find proper Thanksgiving ingredients. You did well, but find an American friend and visit for the true experience!

  33. philandmorty

    I been invited to many Americans Thanksgiving dinners. They all sucked. I bet yours tasted better. It looks better from what I seen. Most people sucks at cooling. Only few do well

  34. maoinhibitor

    You might enjoy getting a hold of The Joy of Cooking by Irma Rombauer to see great examples of American recipes and cooking styles. Green Goddess dressing, baked macaroni and cheese, meatloaf, chicken noodle soup, brownies, chocolate chip cookies… all in there. Of course you’ll need to do measurement and temperature conversions but hopefully that’s just part of the fun.

  35. empress_jae

    I think you did an excellent job. Over the last 10-15 years my family has not made a turkey. We’ve done roasted chicken or another protein or lead dish (lasagna, pork loin, etc.). This year I cooked a cornish game hen. It’s just me and my mom so it was plenty of meat.

  36. DeaddyRuxpin

    It all looks delicious. Potato salad is often more of a summer BBQ item but I’m sure there are plenty of Americans who have it at Thanksgiving. That’s the great thing about Thanksgiving, there are really no wrong foods. Some are more traditional than others, but ultimately it really comes down to whatever people like to eat.

  37. Corey307

    That plate is a wonderful interpretation of a Thanksgiving dinner. While not 100% traditional if somebody set that down in front of me, I’d think yep, it’s Thanksgiving. You did a damn good job with the plating too.

  38. MothChasingFlame

    This is pretty spot on, but the most Thanksgiving part about it was being so damn tired after all that cooking!

  39. paws2sky

    That checks out. I’ve definitely had some variation of each of these over the years. Well done.

    One quibble: there’s too much white space on the plate. Looks like it’s plated up for someone at the “kids’ table”

  40. ChocoPuddingCup

    Too empty. Need twice as much of everything. If you don’t feel like you could sleep for 24 hours after, you ain’t doin it right.

  41. lolercoptercrash

    You are on the right track!

    Simplified Thanksgiving is:

    1) Turkey

    2) Mashed potatoes

    3) Stuffing

    You can add more of course, but you can’t really slip any of these unless you don’t eat meat and don’t have a turkey.

  42. SgtDoakesSurprise

    What a wonderful plate. I’d happily come over and have about 5 of these plates 😋

    Now…what’s for dessert?

  44. HeartoftheHive

    The bean salad is a bit strange. We usually have green bean casserole or just simmered green beans with some meat like bacon or ham hock for flavoring. Can honestly say I’ve never had chickpeas for thanksgiving. Everything else looks great.

  45. copperkarat

    We did the opposite! I am American but my partner is German so we celebrated thanksgiving by making schnitzel. The food was delicious despite not being traditional to the holiday. Your plate looks very tasty too.