- November 2, 2024
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Grown-ups call all the shots on Thanksgiving. They pick the menu and the time it’s served. They sit at a real table set with cloth napkins and the pretty dishes kids aren’t allowed to touch. Kids, meanwhile, sit at a folding table set with paper napkins and plastic plates.
So this year, we asked first-graders at Southside Elementary to set the menu for Thanksgiving, complete with their secret recipes.
What could go wrong?
Tinsley Ames: Canned cranberry sauce**
What you’ll need:
Cranberries, a can, a bowl and spoon
Smoosh the cranberries and put them in a cup. Put the cup in the fridge. Take them out and put it in a can. Then put the lid on it. Put it in the oven for three minutes. Take it out, put it in a bowl and get a spoon and it it. **Tinsley admits that she has no idea how to make canned cranberry sauce.
Owen Boyle: Pumpkin Pie
What you’ll need:
Bread (any kind), several 3-inch pumpkins and a large pot.
You grind up the pumpkins, and put them in the oven. Take the pumpkin out of the oven after awhile and mix it up with the bread in a pot. Put bread, pumpkin mixture in the refrigerator. Wait until Thanksgiving, take it out of the refrigerator and eat it.
Natalie Litke: Mashed Potatoes
What you’ll need:
Potatoes, packet of gravy, a bowl and a spoon. (You also might need more than one microwave)
Mash up the potatoes and put them in the microwave. While the potatoes are in the microwave, make the gravy. You take a packet of gravy and put it in a bowl. Then you heat it up in the microwave. Take both gravy and potatoes out of the microwave (or microwaves?). Put a spoon in both the potatoes and the gravy and you eat it.
Leo Schwimmer: Mashed Potatoes
What you’ll need:
Potatoes from the store, salt and pepper and stuff like that and a gravy packet.
Mush up all the potatoes. Then you season them with salt and pepper and stuff like that. To make the gravy you have to put the packet of gravy in a bowl and put in the microwave for 30 seconds.
Beatrice DeGuzman: Sweet Potatoes
What you’ll need:
An orange potato, salt and pepper, a bowl and a spoon.
Put salt and pepper on the orange potato and put it in the oven for 4 minutes. Take it out. Put it in a bowl, take a spoon and eat it.
Gordon Gogolyak: Turkey
What you’ll need:
A Turkey, a lemon and a big plate.
Buy a turkey from a store. Squeeze some lemon on it and put it in the oven at medium temperature for 10 minutes. Look at it. Take it out and put it on a big plate and then serve it.
Grace Bailey: Cooked Carrots
What you’ll need:
Carrots
You cook them.
Noah Rominiecki: Turkey
I just get it from Trader Joe’s and put it in the oven for an hour.
Madison Wetherill: Mini cakes with powder
What you’ll need:
Six cups of flour, two cups of sugar, no salt, a whole teaspoon of chocolate chips, two pieces of butter, only one thing of vanilla and lots of powdered sugar.
Mix it all up and put it in the oven for one hour. Take out of the oven and put powdered sugar on top.
Reid Sokol: French fries
What you’ll need:
A bag of french fries from the store, a grownup and a fryer.
Open bag of french fries and ask your grownup to put them in the boiler. Set a timer for 18 minutes. Ask a grownup to dump them on a plate. Put the plate on the table and put ketchup in a bowl.
Zachary Harshman: Turkey
Get your turkey in the wild (If you’re having trouble finding one, Zack says he would check the woods behind his grandma’s house)
Set the oven for 64 degrees and put the turkey in for two hours. Take it out and eat it.
Zachary Kurnov: Hotdog
What you’ll need:
A bun and a hotdog from the freezer.
Warm up the bun. Take a hotdog out of the freezer, warm it up and cook it. You leave it in the oven for 15 minutes. Take it out and put in the bun and chomp it up.
Mia Hadden: Stuffing**
What you’ll need:
Bread
You mash up the bread and set the oven for three degrees. Put it in the oven for six or seven minutes. Take it out then eat it.
Set the oven to 3 degrees
**She is not entirely sure how to make stuffing or if it’s made from bread
