What are your Thanksgiving staples?

[wbraswell]

What are the dishes you know will be on your Thanksgiving Day table? Mine are Turkey, cornbread dressing, giblet gravy, orange glazed sweet potatoes, rolls, and pumpkin pie. There will be lots of other things, but they are optional and may vary from year to year. Happy Thanksgiving everybody!

 

[Marshwheeling]

The only dish I care about is porketta. It has been on my table every Thanksgiving since the early '80s. My kids and Shelly's all expect it. Porketta is the tradition they have grown up with.

Shelly can't wean herself from turkey, so that will be there, too, and the traditional side dishes will pretty much clog up the table. Otherwise I would make a carbonara to supplant most of the mashed root dishes, although I still like to get some rutabaga and buttered parsnips.

The other thing we can usually count on is pomegranate seeds in the salad.

 

[BigBill]

This year my wife cooks on turkey day as follow;

Appitizers, cheese, olives, crackers, stuffed mushrooms and salad. Plus fresh hot bread.

Turkey with her sausage, cranberry stuffing which is out of this world good. It also has mushrooms, celery, carrots in the stuffing too.

The first course will be stuff'd shells with meatballs, pork sausage.

Many years ago at grandma's house we got homemade soup first, the salad and then the homemade pasta and then the and turkey.

The desert is always the same with homemade pies and cakes, treats.

My youngest son (32yo) just said the other day he can't wait to smell the house with it all cooking. I wish i could jar that smell for the rest of the year.

Christmas eve is the biggest bash for the family.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Godbless.

 

[GKC]

This year, as we have done for the past couple of years, we will be going to see our parents. Both my wife's parents and my parents live in the same retirement community, and they are too elderly to drive here (6 hour trip one way.) The community has a very nice cafeteria on site, and they serve a good dinner buffet style on Thanksgiving Day. While it isn't the same as having a dinner in your home with family all gathered, at least we can be with our parents. We don't know how many years we have left to be with them.

As far as the usual fare I like to have, of course there is turkey, but I also like to have some ham. Served with corn bread dressing with giblet gravy, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, green beans, corn, cranberry sauce, rolls, and iced tea. Pumpkin pie with whipped cream for dessert is obligatory, although when we have dinner at home there are several other sweets as well, followed by a couple of hours in front of the TV with pants unbuttoned, watching the Cowboys lose...er, play.

 

[QuickDrawMcGraw]

What are the dishes you know will be on your Thanksgiving Day table? Mine are Turkey, cornbread dressing, giblet gravy, orange glazed sweet potatoes, rolls, and pumpkin pie. There will be lots of other things, but they are optional and may vary from year to year. Happy Thanksgiving everybody!

.. You're makin me Hungry WBraswell' !
You just about hit' my favorite menu' right on the nose*
... Exept you forgot the Garlic Mashed P'Taters!

Happy Thanks' to you* ... Here come them Holidays again!

~ Joe

 

[Mike McLellan]

Whatever I can find near the dumpsters.

 

[GKC]

Whatever I can find near the dumpsters.

Near? Give yourself a treat, and try "in the dumpster." Of course, make sure that whatever you select isn't moving...those little white things that cover some treats aren't sprinkles.

 

[Arik]

Beer, vodka, tequila!

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[redlevel]

http://smith-wessonforum.com/lounge/164196-real-shonuff-cornbread-dressing-thanksgiving.html

Not going to get to make it this year. Both my wife and my Mama are sickly, so I farmed out the dressing and sweet tater soufflé to a lady who cooks for folks. I guess it will probably be the first time in nearly 70 years that Mama hasn't made dressing for Thanksgiving.

 

[P&R Fan]

My list is as follows:
Turkey
Dressing
Mashed potatoes and gravy
Green bean casserole (A Must!)
And of course the most vital one.......PIE!!!!!

After that, whatever else is unimportant.

Jim

 

[sipowicz]

I go over my best friend's house every year and he does turkey, stuffing, salad, brussle sprouts (ugh) along with a pre nut and cheese board. I bring my famous fried asparagus. It's always a big hit and easy to make.

Just take asparagus and roll them in flour, then egg, then Italian breadcrumbs and fry in a light oil. Being Italian, I used to use olive oil but it's a bit heavy for frying.

Top with parmesan cheese. If you don't like asparagus, sliced eggplant is nice to...if you don't like either, you are probably a redneck and you can substitute sliced spam or something you find on the road...

 

[rimfired]

And your dipping sauce would be????

 

[GKC]

I go over my best friend's house every year and he does turkey, stuffing, salad, brussle sprouts (ugh) along with a pre nut and cheese board.

What, pray tell, is a "pre nut" ? Is that like very young lamb fries?

 

[sipowicz]

pre nut and cheese board...as in, before the main course...sheesh!

 

[sipowicz]

And your dipping sauce would be????

I pulled that pic off the web...most likely ranch dressing...I use Marinara...

 

[Muley Gil]

Turkey, sometimes ham, mash taters, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, gravy, cranberry salad, sliced cranberry sauce, yeast rolls, pumpkin pie, sweet potato pie.

My momma made white bread dressing ( yuck!), but I much prefer cornbread dressing. One side that I love but many folks don't associate with Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner is sauerkraut.

Oh, and don't forget the sweet tea!

 

[Bert Man]

I will be making a duck gumbo. My sister will whip up her usual turkey, gravy, cornbread dressing, mashed potatoes and sweet potato casserole. Desert will be pumpkin pie and pecan pie served with what Sis calls a "dollop" of whipped cream.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

It is at MIL's this year, my wife made 4 batches of rolls already and starts on pies on Wednesday. The normal foods will be there along with lots of love and many thanks! "God bless us,Everyone"

 

[Old TexMex]

6lb. Flounder, oyster & cornbread stuffing. Island style Thanksgiving.
Pecan pie. Bluebell vanilla, Vera Cruz coffee. Zzzzzzzzzz.......

 

[Class III]

We will start out with the typical junk food of chips and dips and hot wings with carrot and celery sticks with ranch dressing during the football games. For dinner we start with a garden salad followed by parts of this (Click on picture), served with yams, carrots, green beans with onion and bacon and Leidenheimer's French bread. This will be followed by pecan pie (From the trees in the background), apple and peach pie (From trees on the other side of the house). All this served with a nice Merlot.

Class III