So What's On The Menu For Thanksgiving?

Read your sweet potato casserole description - faints with bliss.

Made/provided by me:
turkey (the two biggest I can find)
stuffing
mashed potatoes
giblet gravy
yams with butter, brown sugar, pecans, and pumpkin pie spice
ice cream
whipped cream

brought by others:
raw veggie tray
rolls
broccoli casserole
assorted pies

I don't have a head count yet, but it will most likely be 20-25
We don't karaoke, but weather permitting cut throat croquet will be played in the back yard.

MM

I was invited over to a coworker's. She's an excellent cook. Mom and I are gonna head over there Thursday. (we're bringing the vegetable dish...candied carrots I believe)

She does the turkey, stuffing, potatoes all from scratch. For a microwave queen like me, I appreciate others who can cook.

Thanksgiving is the 25th right?

I have graduation that night, then a birthday dinner for Nanna afterwards. I'm hoping for Chinese food.

I guess it depends if I decide to go over to my brother's for Thanksgiving or not. His fiance's father ordered the food prepared from some store. I believe ham is the meat. I don't know what the "fixin's" are, but I imagine a potato dish is in there somewhere.

Somehow a house full of screaming kids I have only met once, and smokers (every adult who will be there but my brother), doesn't have a great appeal for me. I am sensitive to cigarette smoke to the point of getting ill when one person is smoking around me, let alone a house filled with it. And the smoke would be in my clothes when I left, which would cause continued reactions physically. I don't have a washer here either, so the clothes would have to be sealed away until washed. It would be a huge sacrifice for me to go. I am thinking a quiet day spent with my dog a better holiday this year. I may pop over, I don't know yet, just so her family doesn't see me as "stand-offish". If not for the smoking issue, I would go without hesitation. I can handle a few hours of screaming kids.

We'll see.

In addition to the standard turkified menu, I'll be making two different ice creams this year--vanilla for the kids and teetotalers, and rum raisin for me.

... whatever I can stir up from the brush. Hopefully a turkey, more likes a ptarmigan. Years back, fowl were plentiful. Danged city folk keep encroaching though. Not but a parcel of land to be found north of the bend these days. Shame. Real honest to goodness shame :-(

You silly Americans are such odd ducks!

Thanksgiving was over a month ago.

I'm kind of a fan of having non-traditional foods on holidays. But, I'm the only one in my family that feels that way. So, eh. I'm making carrots

yann0--like eggplant.


or haggis.

... carrots are tasty.
Be sure to set an extra seat for me

I have most of my food except for the turkey.

Corn
Carrots
Potatoes
Cranberry
Stuffing
Rolls
Gravy

My sister is bringing the desserts. I'm getting a free turkey so I'll go pick that up on Monday or Tuesday.

Ken said:

... carrots are tasty.
Be sure to set an extra seat for me

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okay, but we eat them with chopsticks. and by that, I mean we poke at them. and by we, I mean me.

dinner at my moms and all of my siblings (there are 6 kids in my family) and their spouses and their kids and...probably a few random people from my hometown who don't have anywhere to spend thanksgiving



my mom will do the turkey of course...but my contribution is my white chocolate pumpkin spice cake, a gruyere cheese/shitake mushroom scalloped potatoes, and a green bean casserole

oh, and I am the designated cranberry sauce sister for about the 8th year now

Spiral Honey Ham
Smoked Turkey Breast
Cinnamon Apples
Mashed Yukon Potatoes
Cornbread Stuffing
Turkey Gravy
Green Bean Casserole
Macaroni and Cheese
Rolls
Cranberry Sauce
A cake (who knows what kind)
a pie (again, who knows?)

Whatever we order from whatever restaurant we stop in.

RedWritingHood said:

okay, but we eat them with chopsticks. and by that, I mean we poke at them. and by we, I mean me.

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... that would be problematical. Once tried eating with chopsticks at a Japanese restaurant. Real disaster. Food fell on the floor. And there I was with a date trying to make a good impression. Needless to say there was no second one :-(

I just shot the tofu turkey. Hung it up by its clawed feet to age. Feathers should fall out by Thursday. Then, yum. Diarrhea. The entire meal will be slimming.