What do you always eat for Thanksgiving?

[Rubia Warren]

Yeah, I know you have turkey. Almost all of us do. BUt what is the food you have every year that you just couldn't have thanksgiving without?
Me? I GOTSTA have green bean casserole. Cannot function on turkey day without it.

[mossrose]

You CANNOT have any roasted poultry, chicken or turkey without fresh fruit salad and whipped cream as a go along. It just isn't right, otherwise.

[Xmansmommy]

Corn bread dressing. :duh:

[mossrose]

:woohoo: Somebody else who says "dressing"! My Bostonian husband has insisted for almost 31 years that it is "stuffing".... :wife:

[Rubia Warren]

:lol:

[dizzle]

purple sweet potatoes

[Rubia Warren]

:lol:

[Xmansmommy]

Purple? :hrm:

[Socrates]

:huh: What's thanksgiving? :nc:

[Lazy Agnostic]

Be lovin' them rutabagas.

[JardinPrayer]

Green bean casserole was something I had actually never heard of until I got married to Craig...what rock was I under? Now it's a must. The stuffing must have sausage and apples in it. Jellied cranberry sauce, sliced precisely in half-inch widths and arranged in the special cranberry sauce oval dish. Pillsbury Grands.

We do our turkey on the Weber grill outside...comes out amazing!

[$cirisme]

Stuffing, lots of it. And those little gren olives.

I love my stuffing and green olives!!

[Sher]

Green bean casserole, sweet potato (yam :wink:) casserole ... and pumpkin & spice pie with whipped topping .. the only time of the year we eat it.

For Christmas? Buckeye balls ... heavenly sweet peanut butter and chocolate dessert balls. Might as well paste them right on my bottom though :ahem:

cirisme:

Stuffing, lots of it. And those little gren olives.

I love my stuffing and green olives!!

Ack! I hate olives <shudder>


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Socrates:

:huh: What's thanksgiving? :nc:

:lmbo: Were we being too Americentric for you? :wink:

[Stephen]

Turkey of course (dark meat is my preference) with mashed potatos and gravy, green bean casserole with those crunchy breaded onion things that taste like they're pure fat. Then you've got the jello mold, biscuits, yams with marshallows on em, salad of course, and lots and lots of stuffing. Mmmmmm, stuffing.

Then for dessert, you got some pecan pies, some pumpkin pies, a cheesecake or two, a chocolate cake of somesort, and icecream. mmmm, icecream.

'Cept for the dessert, my family has basically the same thing every year.

[$cirisme]

I love picking the skin off the turkey... my favorite! :smile: :teeth:

[Stephen]

Amen. Gimme a drumstick with the skin on it, that's my thanksgiving

[JardinPrayer]

I cannot stand olives in any color (though Craig loves 'em), and I'm a white meat person. I see the green bean casserole is fairly universal. Cannot believe I lived in a bubble for almost 40 years, completely ignorant of it's existence!

Stephen...quit it with the desserts awready! Sheesh, I'm on the Atkins diet, brother! Have mercy! (I love cheesecake).

[Stephen]

Adkins diet? What do you eat for dessert then, pure lard? :eww:

Thats the no carb diet, right? Wow, I can't think of very many kinds of thanksgiving desserts without carbs.

[JardinPrayer]

:lol: :lol: :lol: I tried some of the "desserts" in the South Beach Diet book that called for adding sugar substitute and vanilla extract to ricotta cheese. Don't bother. I'd rather do without!

But, if I could just convince my husband to get out his Emeril Lagasse creme brulee recipe again and make it with Splenda instead of sugar, I'd be in hog heaven!

[geebob]

stuffing WITH gibblets!:duh:

[RumTumTugger]

Cranberry sause for Turkey, Candied Yams, Mashed Potatoes, Stuffing, and for desert Pumpkin pie, Mom's apple pie and Lemon supreme Pie(been a tradition in our family for over 15 years.) Spiced Apple cidar as well.

[Stephen]

oh man RTT, the apple cider is a must

[RumTumTugger]

Yep and lately we've added Martinellis Sparkling Cidar

[Stephen]

mmm, Martinellis. I love that stuff, but when I drink it from a 12 oz. bottle around school, teachers need to make sure its cider and not alcohol :teeth:

[Esther]

Faves at our table include green bean casserole (with lotsa french fried onions), stuffing (my mother calls it dressing), mashed potatoes with a whole lot of melted butter - none of that plastic stuff that doesn't melt, and sweet potatoes. Oh and ham. And rolls or homemade bread. Warm.

[Penguin]

I love pumpkin pie buried underneath of gobs of Redi-Whip. :teeth:

[bar Jonah]

Green bean casserole rawks! :thumb:

So does "pink stuff" and "green stuff!" (You folks from down south especially know what I'm talkin' 'bout!)

Dee Dee Warren:
purple sweet potatoes
No such thing. Were you thinking, perhaps, of Japanese purple yams?

The cranberry sauce must be chunky, not that jello-like stuff! I'm not into cranberry Jell-O.

I still always have T-Day dinner at my folks'. I haven't hosted a T-Day dinner, myself. Last year, my folks smoked the turkey in their smoker on the back patio, using mesquite wood! And holy heck, it was delicious! Mequite rawks! It truly is the most wonderful wood for smoking or grilling nearly anything!

Now, any T-Day dinner that I'm a part of is gonna have at least one dish with real vanilla in it, and probably two or even three.

In the yams or orange squash, perhaps. Or if the green beans are boiled/steamed and with almonds, put some vanilla in the melted butter and pour that over them. But especially, there must be a dessert with real vanilla!

Vanilla fudge! (maybe even with bits of candied cherries ... cherry vanilla fudge!)

Vanilla Heaven! (ie. a hot vanilla souffle with vanilla cream sauce)

Vanilla Death! (ie. a vanilla treacle torte with 1/3 of a cup of pure vanilla extract!)


These are just a few of my favorite things. :ri:

[mossrose]

The cranberry sauce must be chunky

My Mom used to make the best cranberry orange relish. She took fresh cranberries and one whole orange, skin on, seeds removed, and put them together through the old meat grinder we had. I don't know if she added sugar or anything else, but that was the best cranberry stuff I have ever had.......should see if she remembers the recipe....