What is must on your Thanksgiving table?

[Poohlove]

What is your must have for Thanksgiving? For my family it is green bean casserole with the adults and cranberry sauce with the kids.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Turkey
Pumpkin pie & whipcream
Cranberry sauce
Pumpkin pie & whipcream
Stuffing
Pumpkin pie & whipcream
Mashed potatoes
Pumpkin pie & whipcream
A vegetable of some description (green beans, or corn, or carrots)
Pumpkin pie & whipcream

 

[Wendy31]

The absolute "It's not Thanksgiving unless we have these items" musts:

Turkey
Dressing
Mashed Potatoes & Gravy
Sweet Potato Casserole
Cranberry Sauce
Pumpkin Pie

Oh, & my mom insists on Orange Jello w/ Mandarin Orange & Pineapples - that's one of her musts.

Other things we add in:

Green Beans
Corn Souffle
Baked Beans
Mac & Cheese
Honey Glazed Roasted Fall Vegetables
Kale & Cranberry Salad
Yeast Rolls
Some kind of apple dessert
Some kind of chocolate dessert

 

[Poohlove]

Turkey
Pumpkin pie & whipcream
Cranberry sauce
Pumpkin pie & whipcream
Stuffing
Pumpkin pie & whipcream
Mashed potatoes
Pumpkin pie & whipcream
A vegetable of some description (green beans, or corn, or carrots)
Pumpkin pie & whipcream

Do you bake your own pie and make the whipped cream? For me it depends on how many are coming and what kind of time I have.

 

[Wishing on a star]

The biggies....
Freshly carved roast turkey (and gravy), Good yeast rolls, and homemade pie(s)!!!

Yes, I do bake my own pie(s) if at all possible. My crusts from scratch and all.
Pumpkin pie is easy. I use a variation of the Libby's pie pumkin, with additional brown sugar, and a lot more spice! I think most people really like it.

 

[Hikergirl]

Mashed potatoes

 

[nkereina]

Butternut squash for me! It's my favorite and a must have, in addition to turkey, stuffing, and mashed potatoes.

 

[dotfurio]

Turkey
Stuffing
Cranberry sauce the jelly kind that keeps the shape of the can

 

[kimblebee]

My home made buns. They are always requested for the big holidays..

 

[pryncess527]

Turkey
Cornbread dressing
mashed potatoes with gravy
cranberry sauce for my husband
a desert of some description, but always with homemade whipping cream

 

[Klayfish]

I'm so simple...

Turkey
Mashed potatoes
Stuffing
Green beans if veggies are a must (I eat so healthy year round, don't care if I skip veggies on Thanksgiving)
Crescent rolls
Chocolate balls for dessert - don't know the exact recipe, my wife makes them. I know she chops Oreos in the blender, then mixes it with cream cheese. Rolls them into tiny balls. I think she then just buys that chocolate that's supposed to melt when heated, coats the balls with chocolate and puts them in the fridge to cool. I only eat these at the holidays and I'm DYING to get my first one in...I think I'll start a countdown clock until I can have one.

 

[Twilight Sparkle]

turkey for the non-vegetarians
Whole Foods vegan garden roast (we're vegetarian, not vegan, but this is really good)
corn pudding
mashed potatoes
roasted green beans with caramelized shallots
cranberry sauce
gratin de macaroni (as in Chefs de France style)
hashbrown casserole (because you can never have too many potatoes)
asparagus with grape tomatoes and pine nuts
vegetarian stuffing
vegan gravy
sauteed mushrooms in wine sauce

and I almost forgot - pumpkin and pecan pies

 

[Liberty Belle]

We always have turkey, stuffing, broccoli casserole, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, creamed corn, cranberry sauce, and rolls. For dessert we usually have between 3 to 8 pies. Other dishes are occasionally added from year to year. Oh, many years we have green bean casserole - blech!

 

[apirateslifeforme]

My SIL and her partner live on his family's farm. They raise turkeys (among other things), so we MUST have some fresh turkey. He stuffs it with whole apples, pears, onions, and turnips and it is SO good!

He requests that my mother make the stuffing every year. It's just Bell's, doctored up with butter, chicken broth, onions, potatoes, and sausage, but he loves it.

My MIL brings bread pudding with whiskey sauce from a local restaurant. We also usually have it for Christmas.

Hope my SIL makes her "completely homemade" pumpkin pie. She uses real pumpkins grown from their own garden and she doesn't even use a recipe!

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Do you bake your own pie and make the whipped cream? For me it depends on how many are coming and what kind of time I have.

Yep.

Wife makes the crust, I make the filling. She usually makes the whipped cream, although if given a recipe I am competent at it as well

 

[EMom]

Prefer ham to turkey.

Cornbread dressing is a MUST, as is pecan pie. Karo version. All else is negotiable.

Oh....DD wants green bean casserole.

 

[Snowflakey]

Roasted Turkey
Homemade sausage stuffing
Mashed Potatoes
Gravy
Sweet Potato Casserole
Homemade cranberry sauce (and the jelled stuff for the younger ones)
Sautéed green beans
Homemade yeast rolls
Relish platter
Spinach dip with bread to dip in it
Homemade Apple Pie, Cherry Pie, Pumpkin Pie, Pecan Pie
Chocolate Ganache Harvest Cake
Wine

 

[3 MEN AND A BOAT]

Oyster dressing is just about our only must have. We change up some years and have ham and potato salad instead of turkey and mashed potatoes. But oyster dressing every year.

 

[Meriweather]

nothing is a must anymore.
Family is all it takes.
DS will be recovering from knee surgery this year, so at his house and very, very simple.

 

[Klayfish]

nothing is a must anymore.
Family is all it takes.

Couldn't agree more. I was going to write that too, but figured we're talking about yummy, yummy food...drool....(hey, we need a picture of one of those giant turkey legs, my only choice is this cake)