Trailerpark Turkey Talk

This weather is CRAZY!

The wind has been blowing so hard and it's been raining pigs and chickens.

They're calling for thirty hundred inches of snow in the mountains and some even as low as a thousand feet which means us baby. I think.

Ok so yesterday like a hundred readers {Kenna Marie and Andrea P} asked for some Trailepark Thanksgiving recipes. Oh my gosh! I got so excited I could barely wait to write this post!

You see I love love love Thanksgiving. It is without a doubt my favorite holiday. All of the family stress and pressure without the shopping.

I have never been one of those people who wake up when it's still dark to start cooking and frankly, I don't know what those people do in the dark. For all I know they're in there tapping the box so as to be a little more thankful and a lot more grateful.



I don't even start cooking until mid morning.

Here's an unbelievable fact.

I have never served nor tasted a green bean casserole.



I know huh... A.M.A.Z.I.N.G.

I tackle Thanksgiving the easiest way possible. I use powdered gravy from a plastic jug that I buy once a year at Costco. I use instant mashed potatoes from a box I buy at Winco. I use store brand stuffing mix and store-bought dinner rolls and canned green beans and for SURE canned cranberry sauce cut in the round and I LOVE  the way the can leaves ridges on the sauce. And why do they call it sauce anyway? I do serve fresh asparagus and the one thing I am MOST particular about is... The sweet potatoes yams.

I don't use sweet potatoes because they're not very colorful and up to a year or so ago I never even knew there was a difference but anyway,  I always use yams, but I call them sweet potatoes. I boil them up just like I would a regular potato for mashing, but then I pour in some real heavy cream, tons of butter, handfuls of brown sugar and mash it all together and top it off with a package of mini marshmallows. The colored ones add an extra festive feeling to the dish.



But my most accomplished Thanksgiving dish ever was prepared the year I spent with my sister a few years back.

She asked what I wanted to bring and knowing full well I could never live up to her culinary prowess I figured I just better go big on what I did best.

Trailerpark Cuisine.

Since I knew I couldn't compete with whatever Julie would be serving I decided to create my own playing field where I could stand alone and take home the gold.

And that my friends is when Trailerpark Sweet Potato Yams were born.

Oh I did all the usual things, heavy cream, brown sugar, butter and mini marshmallows, but the secret ingredient on that special day was the...

Circus Peanut.

Yes, you heard me, the Circus Peanut. Laid atop the snow-white blanket of mini marshmallows in maple leaf formation.

It was truly a sight to behold, a vision no one had ever seen the likes of before and may very well never see again, but on that day, that glorious day, in my mind, that dish stole the show.

Don't get me wrong, the perfectly basted turkey was moist and mouth-watering as were the fresh cranberries and hand kneaded delicately risen rolls, but I must say, those sweet potatoes yams were like manna from heaven.

So there you have it everyone {Kenna Marie and Andrea P} my favorite Trailerpark Thanksgiving recipe!

See you tomorrow, maybe with some Thanksgiving Craft Ideas :)