What apps are you doing for Thanksgiving?
We’re doing cheese plate and a spinach dip. Trying not to fill up before the 4pm mealtime.
It took me eight years, three grandkids, and one house before I had enough pull to move mealtime from 1pm. I was at their house with the tv muted and he came over at kickoff and ‘let’s eat!’
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Burnt cheese curds will be available from 12-3.
I always hated that my mom wanted Thanksgiving dinner at the table at 2:30. I host now.
Apps at 11
Lunch ready by 12: Buffet style, table and living room with tray tables are fair game. Everyone can pop a squat, the game is on but people can do other things if they dont want to watch.
Dessert when the Cowboys game starts.If hosting is just not in the cards. My app secret weapon, cocktail shrimp. They are mostly water, feel fancy, and are delicious. Happy Thanksgivinging!
My appetizer is beer.
I do a cheeseball. Lately I’ve been molding it into a snowman or football or something. Us kids loved it back in the day and my kids and their cousins like it now. I use a modified version of my aunt’s old recipe:
1-1 ratio on cream cheese and shredded sharp cheddar. I think cream cheese comes in 6oz bars and shredded cheese comes in a 12oz bag, so put in 2 cream cheese bars for a huge cheeseball and the whole bag, or 1 bar and half the bag of sharp cheddar for a regular size ball.
Add 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce. Optionally, I like to add a 1/2 teaspoon of garlic powder (actual garlic powder, not that granulated shit).
If you’re using a mixer, just dump it all into the mixing bowl and turn it on. If you don’t have a mixer to use, I find the best option is to throw it into a big bowl and mash it together by hand. It doesn’t take long.
Mold it into any festive shape you like or just make a ball. When I made a snowman out of it the one time I used raisins for the face, cut a sliver of carrot for the nose and used pretzels for the arms. You could make a Bubbles logo. Get creative.
My aunt used to dust the outside with crushed pecans but my brother and I always thought the nuts were ass so I leave it bald.
Serve on a plate with Ritz crackers to spread it on. It’s good by a veggie tray too.
This is a good appetizer for you guys who don’t know anything about cooking. It’s easy, lots of room to be creative and the resulting cheese spread is fire, dawg.