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What's for Thanksgiving?
What are your favorite things to make for Thanksgiving? Do you prepare any unusual dishes that are not considered typical for the holiday?
Re: What's for Thanksgiving?
I love cooking on Thanksgiving! My favorite this is green bean casserol because it's the easiest thing to throw together.
Every year I make my gingerbread trifle. It's not really an unusual dish. All it is gingerbread, a pumpkin/pudding mixture, and cool whip layered with crushed gingersnap cookies on top.
My mom and dad handle everything, for the most part. But...since my dad's not home this year, I'll probably help out a lot.
We have the usual staples - turkey, ham, greens, mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese etc. I always make the green bean casserole, which always turns out delish. My fave part is AFTER Thanksgiving - we mash up all the extra turkey and ham with veggies to make turkey salad. I think that goes faster than any other thing at our house during the holidays.
We're pretty traditional: turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, green bean casserole (broccoli for Dad because he hates green beans), rolls, apple pie, etc. That's pretty much what I grew up with for Thanksgiving, so whenever it's at our place that's what we have too.
My favorite thing is probably the stuffing. I hated it as a kid, but now I can't get enough! We have an old family recipe for sausage stuffing, though we have fun experimenting to see how we can improve upon it each year. I think this year my mom is going to try making it with half cornbread, for instance. Last year she used English muffins instead of regular bread. Yum.
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We're having traditional fare as well, but I think the most unusual thing is the cranberry stuff my mom makes. She uses cranberries and chopped apples and mayonnaise and juice (it sounds disgusting, I know), and mixes it together, and man, is it good.
Our other non-traditional thing is that we usually have my parents' foreign exchange students from OU eating with us. Their current one is from Ethopia, and they've just gotten a new one from Costa Rica, I believe. Last year we had the same one from Ethopia, one from Saudi Arabia, and one from somewhere else in Africa...I forget where he was from. Anyway, it's always fun to get to know them and give them a typical Thanksgiving experience.
Were pretty traditional also with the exception of the horrible smelling oyster dressing my mom makes for my dad and uncle. My great grandma used to make it every year and now that she has past my mom makes it for them.
This year I plan to make pumpkin cake. Very very yummy!
I usually just bring what I'm told to bring, if anything. However, my sister and I have a "little" Thanksgiving usually just with H, her, and myself. Though she might bring her new guy this time.
We are thinking about doing "fancy" barbecue this year.
What's "fancy" bbq?
Our families live so far away that we don't go home for the traditional Tgiving food (since my semester ends a couple of weeks later and I go home then.)
Since we've done Tgiving as just the two of us, I've always had a lot of fun experimenting with new foods. I usually assemble all of the November issues of my cooking magazines (I get 6 or 7) and pick out my favorite dishes, then spend all day cooking them. I haven't decided whether to do turkey breast, lobster, or beef tenderloin for our main meat this year. I guess it depends on what looks good at the market and how it fits with the side dishes (my favorite part!)
I like all the traditional Thanksgiving foods, but I've never been in charge of the entire meal until this year. Fortunately it will just be me and the BF and I'm very excited to make the turkey and all the usual sides.
I plan to make turkey tamales with our turkey leftovers. We've also been thinking about cooking a duck or a goose, but we'll see. That's about as unusual as we get.
My family is very traditional and we have had the same thing every year for Thanksgiving for as long as I can remember: Turkey, Stuffing, chicken and noodles, mashed potatoes and gravy, bread, and corn. Occassionally my grandmother would make me mac and cheese. I guess having the same meal every.year is kind of boring but I LOVE LOVE LOVE it.
DH's family does something different every year and it kind of drives me crazy. One year his mother wanted to have lasagna. WTF?
I have never gotten to hostess Thanksgiving for my family which makes me pretty sad, actually. As a result, this will be the second year I have hostessed Friendsgiving on Black Friday. I am making the traditional meal mentioned above and my friends are going to add their own traditional dishes.
If you are interested in joining us for Friendsgiving, let me know - the more the merrier. Thunder tips off at 7pm that night (oot game).
we go to my parents house for thanksgiving, so I usually just bring some dishes (usually the stuff H wants, but that he doesn't like my moms version of--she is a WW leader and cooks WW style, I do not
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We are pretty traditional, turkey, stuffing, potatoes, green beans, and about a billion desserts (that are NOT WW at all!)
The most untraditional thing we have it matzo ball soup. I love it and look forward to it each year!
we are having a small Thanksgiving since it will just be us with my parents and maybe one of my friends who is military and doesn't have family here.
Turkey, cornbread dressing (it's funny that everyone else calls it stuffing), sweet potato casserole (the stuff with yummy pecan/brown sugar on top), green bean casserole (H is really the only person who LOVES this), rolls. For dessert probably pink salad (some delicious fruit/nut/cool whip thing my mom makes) and pumpkin cheesecake from Cheesecake Factory. They sell it at Sam's and it's better than any pumpkin pie you can make.
I had never had chicken and noodles with my Thanksgiving dinner until I met DH. His family does chicken and noodles with every big family meal. AND, they don't make gravy, they just put the chicken and noodles over their mashed potatoes! I was horrified the first time. Does your family make gravy or just the chicken and noodles?
P.S. I'd love to come to your Friendsgiving if we lived closer, sounds like fun!
We always go to my parents house. I've been a vegetarian for about 2 years. Last year the only time I caved was at Thanksgiving - the turkey was too tempting to resist! I cried afterwards, and I guess my mom felt bad because she said she isn't making turkey this year. I think my dad will be the only one who cares, but we'll probably do a turkey breast or something so he'll be happy. I will probably bring over some tofurky or Quorn chik'n (delicious!)
Everything else is pretty traditional - sweet potato casserole (I make it), stuffing, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie. The sweet potato casserole was a little tricky to make last year because I couldn't make it with marshmallows on top (it has gelatin in it), so we used marshmallow fluff (it's gelatin free) and it came out a little gooey.