Thanksgiving Food

[Lord Manhammer]

I'll be honest, until this moment in time I had no idea that there was a Thanksgiving Day parade in Detroit!

Detroit is the ONLY parade to watch. You can see it online at clickondetroit.com. It's a great parade.

 

[where_else]

Detroit is the ONLY parade to watch. You can see it online at clickondetroit.com. It's a great parade.

It will always be the Hudson's parade to her

 

[utahgirl]

Pretty traditional, but when we would go to a buffet I did enjoy the non traditional items like salmon, Prime Rib & squash bisque

 

[NYCgrrl]

Detroit is the ONLY parade to watch. You can see it online at clickondetroit.com. It's a great parade.

Will Ferris Bueller be there?

 

[RedAngie]

I remember decades ago three channels showing parades on Thanksgiving morning.

NBC national network had the Macy’s parade.

ABC affiliate in Philadelphia had the Gimbel’s parade. It changed sponsorship a few times and I believe it’s now the Boscov’s parade.

CBS national had bits of parades from New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, Toronto, and Hawaii.

Toronto’s parade was a “Holiday” parade, not US Thanksgiving and I think it was taped from the previous weekend, not live.

Hawaii’s parade was also pre-recorded,

I didn’t realize that Detroit still had a parade since Hudson’s downtown closed long ago.

 

[jalapeno_pretzel]

What’s your opinion about gravy? I like the yellowish turkey gravy. My father said the sight of it made him sick and insisted on brown gravy. My kids also prefer brown.

I’ll use brown gravy If that’s all that is offered at someone’s house, but when we host we provide both kinds.

Mine is a mushroom gravy, made with veg broth and lots of mushrooms. It's pretty dark. I'm not sure I've ever seen yellowish gravy.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Trying to decide if I want to add sausage stuffing stuffed mushroom caps this year

Is this a trick question? Of course you should ad them.

My mom claims there is no other Thanksgiving parade besides the Detroit

Well consider this. New York's and Detroit's parades are tied as the second oldest thanksgiving day parade. Detroit's was Hudson's, New York's Macy's. Well given that Hudson's was bought out by Dayton and then Dayton Hudson changed its corporate name to Target, and rebranded all Dayton and Hudson stores to Marshall Field's and then sold them to May, who sold out to Federated who owns Macy's. New York is obviously the winner. Of course it's a trivial matter for New York and Detroit to be fighting over because everyone knows the best holiday parade occurs around New Years and is the grand daddy of them all, the Tournament of Roses Parade.

 

[easyas123]

Of course it's a trivial matter for New York and Detroit to be fighting over because everyone knows the best holiday parade occurs around New Years and is the grand daddy of them all, the Tournament of Roses Parade.

I'm just going to leave this here...

https://www.facebook.com/mummersparade/
https://parade.com/1308577/jessicasager/mummers-parade/
https://www.mummersmuseum.org/about/

 

[AustinTink]

Best thing about Thanksgiving food is the leftover sandwich. Leftover yeast roll with turkey, cornbread dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy and cranberry sauce.

 

[china mom]

Sadly, I am pretty much carb free and we are going to SIL's house and she tends to overcook the turkey until it is dry. So, I am not really looking forward to any of the food. But I am looking forward to spending the day with family - who we do not see often enough.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

I had enough 5 am "start cooking to serve it all at lunchtime"

My oven space was too limited to traditionally stuff and roast a bird on the day

About 3 years ago I figured out I could cook the (whole) turkey, with stuffing the day before. Then I can carve it and put it in a pan to reheat the next day.

I made that move because, after I'd been up all day cooking when I did the turkey same day as everything else, I just wasn't hungry when we actually sat down to dinner.

On Thanksgiving itself, it only takes about 1/2 hour in the oven to be ready, and that's about how much time I need for the potatoes (mashed & sweet) so everything comes out ready to eat at the same time.

 

[NotUrsula]

We make gravy from scratch and neither our turkey gravy or chicken gravy is typically yellow. Turkey gravy requires turkey stock (sometimes available to purchase) but we make our stock from turkey wings and thighs that we usually start buying, preparing and freezing in September so we have plenty on hand for Thanksgiving & Christmas. I have never liked gravy from a jar or the mix packets so we figured out how to make it years ago.

You don't have to buy extra turkey parts to accomplish that. You can make the stock from the neck and giblets, which is why they are included with the turkey. I alway pull them when the bird is defrosted the day before, then put them (all but the liver, b/c it disintegrates) into the stockpot to simmer for a few hours. Between that and the cookdown of the carcass after the dinner, I usually end up with about 3 gallons of quality stock, the leftovers of which I freeze flat in quart ziplocs that last me for quite a while.

I strip the neck meat and chop it and the gizzards to be included in the stuffing and gravy; the cats get the heart (which they prefer cooked and minced first, bless their finicky souls.)

PS: Turkey gravy I'd describe as a light brown/tan; it's chicken gravy that sometimes tends to look a bit yellowish. AFAIAC, brown gravy is for beef or lamb; poultry gravy is made from paler poultry stock. I also sometimes make onion-mushroom gravy (along with the bechamel for the roasted veggies that we always have) if I'm having vegetarians over, but I don't try versions for vegans; I'm afraid they are on their own if they want any kind of cooked sauce other than good olive oil for their veggies; though of course they are welcome to use my kitchen if they want to make something. (It's not that I don't want to make the effort for them, but I don't think I could do it at all well and meet their taste expectations. Sauces are tricky at the best of times.)

 

[LuvOrlando]

Oh, do it!!!

Turns out I didn't need much convincing

 

[firefly_ris]

I like pretty much everything, except white meat turkey. Dark only for me. We usually have sweet potato casserole, stuffing, cranberry, green beans, corn, mashed potatoes, and pork & sauerkraut. Then various pies for dessert. My favorite though is having the leftovers for several days after.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Gravy is yellow/light brown - until you put this stuff in

 

[Snowflakey]

Gravy is yellow/light brown - until you put this stuff in

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This stuff is the best!!!

 

[fla4fun]

Mine is a mushroom gravy, made with veg broth and lots of mushrooms. It's pretty dark. I'm not sure I've ever seen yellowish gravy.

I have only seen yellowish gravy at restaurants. Our Thanksgiving gravy is kind of a dark beige. I don’t know that I would categorize it as brown.

 

[Lord Manhammer]

Will Ferris Bueller be there?

Funny story about that parade scene. It was total serendipity. John (Hughes) planned to be filming in the city and there happened to be a German-American parade going on at the same time. The filmmakers essentially commandeered the parade to create a scene that would go down in history.

 

[Robber Baron]

What’s your opinion about gravy? I like the yellowish turkey gravy. My father said the sight of it made him sick and insisted on brown gravy. My kids also prefer brown.

I’ll use brown gravy If that’s all that is offered at someone’s house, but when we host we provide both kinds.

My Turkey gravy comes out about the same color as this chicken gravy I just made.

 

[bholbert81]

FRIED Turkey and Dressing!!! My wife also makes Pecan Tossies (mini pecan pies) and they are AMAZING!!