What is your Thanksgiving menu

[Kennywife]

Since Kenny works on Turkey day all day, we're going to have ours on Tuesday (it'll be just me and him) and then have one at G-ma's with my grandma, dad, and cousins.

Here's mine:

Honey Brined turkey
homemade bread
dumplings
sweet potatoes with marshmallows
green beans
pumpkin pie
choco chip cookies

At g-ma's:
Turkey
mashed potatos
green beans
corn
dumplings (The Gibson family has dumplings at every holiday)
brown beans
rolls
pumpkin pie

 

[disneyfav4ever]

Not 100% sure yet, and we're going away, but it's usually the same thing;

Turkey
Mashed Potatoes
Stuffing
Corn Casserole
Cranberry Relish
Sweet Potatoes
Baked Onions
Green Bean Casserole
Pumpkin Pie
Pecan Pie
Jell-o Salad
Apple and/or Cherry Pie
Lots of Alcohol

 

[traviesojmt]

Side note: I am dreading the mashed potatoes, as I dread every year. The womnan who brings them to my SIL's is the nicest woman but should be banned for life at making mashed potatoes-lol. She mashes-up potatoes and puts nothing in. No butter, no sour cream, no half and half or milk... nothing to make them creamy! Maybe I will sneak in someting this year to spike them!

Ok, don't go messing with my mashed potatoes. LOL Actually, holidays are when I go nuts with my mashed potatoes. We are trying to eat more health conscious, but not on Thanksgiving. I put both cream cheese and sour cream into my mashed potatoes. You make them the day before and then bake them Thanksgiving Day. Man, I could just eat those.

We will have a traditional meal:

Turkey
Ham
dressing (stuffing for you Northerners)
Mashed Potatoes and Gravy
Broccoli Casserole
Sweet Potato Casserole
Fresh Green Beans
Fresh Corn
Baked Mac and Cheese
Deviled Eggs
Yeast rolls
Pecan Pie
Pumpkin Pie
Key Lime Pie

PS: Just kidding with my dressing/stuffing remark. It is a joke in our family. When we lived in MA, but DH had a Thanksgiving lunch at work where everyone was to volunteer to bring something. My DH told the lady in charge that I would make dressing. The lady told my husband not to bother that she would just buy that stuff. She seemed put off that dressing was going to be his only contribution. It took a few minutes before my husband realized that she thought he was volunteering to only bring SALAD DRESSING.

 

[liamsaunt]

Side note: I am dreading the mashed potatoes, as I dread every year. The womnan who brings them to my SIL's is the nicest woman but should be banned for life at making mashed potatoes-lol. She mashes-up potatoes and puts nothing in. No butter, no sour cream, no half and half or milk... nothing to make them creamy! Maybe I will sneak in someting this year to spike them!

Oh my gosh, that sounds like my inlaws potatoes!! I LOVE my inlaws, they are so sweet, but cooking is not their one of their strong points. Their Thanksgiving mashed are just potatoes mashed in their cooking water. That's it! Not even any salt!!

Here's my menu this year:

Roasted turkey
Two kinds of gravy (with giblets and without)
Mashed potatoes
Herbed bread stuffing
Homemade whole berry cranberry sauce
Roasted root vegetable assortment: turnips, sweet potatoes, butternut, brussel sprouts, garlic, red onion, carrot, and parsnip
Roasted acorn squash wedges with rosemary, butter, and brown sugar
Green beans with toasted almonds in brown butter
Cauliflower-gruyere gratin
Pumpkin cheesecake
Apple pie

My mother will make the turkey, gravies, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and the desserts. I will be making the vegetable dishes. My husband is bringing the dinner wines, my Dad is bringing the dessert wine, and my sister will be sous chef to both my mother and me.

 

[georgina]

If you want salt in your mashed potatoes, add your own! I do put some milk in mine, but no salt here. Thanksgiving dinner was supposed to just be my family, but we keep getting add-ons, so now we are having

turkey
stuffing
corn casserole (Market Day made)
praline sweet potato casserole (Market Day also!)
brocolli/mushroom/cheese casserole
mashed potaotes (for my youngest D)
rolls
cranberry/jello salad

dessert will be turtle cheesecake and pecan pie (yep, Market day also!)

 

[Nancyg56]

We typically don't do T-Day at our house (we have Christmas Eve) and every year we bring Butternut Squash Soup to SIL's which is Wolfgang Puck's recipe. It is very rich and has a cranberry and cardamom cream topping. It is a huge hit every year!

http://www.wolfgangpuck.com/recipes/view/4092/Savory-Squash-Soup
(note- we don't do the pumpkin seed oil, pain to find and expensive)
My Mom used juice from cooking the turkey to make gravy. Well, when you brine a turkey there is TONS of salt in the juice. The gravy was very salty and we had to toss potatoes into it before serving to absorb the salt.

She mashes-up potatoes and puts nothing in. No butter, no sour cream, no half and half or milk... nothing to make them creamy! Maybe I will sneak in someting this year to spike them!

l love the squash soup at WOlfgang Puck!
The salty drippings are the reason I sometimes do not brine my turkey, I love to use those pan drippings and you really cannot.

Mashed potatoes sound like my MIL's. She does not season anything, uses FF milk and if she uses butter I have yet to taste it!

Just a question- is 5 slices of bread enough?

I usually double the recipe and use 5 to 6 slices depending on the size of the bread. It really is enough. I also use a longer rather than deeper casserole dish, my family likes the crust that forms, it is YUMMMY!

PS: Just kidding with my dressing/stuffing remark. It is a joke in our family. When we lived in MA, but DH had a Thanksgiving lunch at work where everyone was to volunteer to bring something. My DH told the lady in charge that I would make dressing. The lady told my husband not to bother that she would just buy that stuff. She seemed put off that dressing was going to be his only contribution. It took a few minutes before my husband realized that she thought he was volunteering to only bring SALAD DRESSING.

My mother will make the turkey, gravies, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and the desserts. I will be making the vegetable dishes. My husband is bringing the dinner wines, my Dad is bringing the dessert wine, and my sister will be sous chef to both my mother and me.

Becky- I just laugh picturing Laura as the sous chef, she said you bite!

 

[LilyWDW]

I'm already having to time out and start the shopping! I do most of the cooking these days and Thanksgiving is no exception!

Here is what I am making:

Turkey (in the roaster... I love my roaster...)
Family dressing (what I grew up having every year at my grandmothers)
Cornbread dressing (my mom doesn't like the family dressing lol)
Oyster dressing (for my dad... he gets all the left overs too!)
Green bean casserole
Sweet potato casserole (my boyfriend's mom's recipe)
Mashed potatoes (maybe)
Cranberry sauce (homemade... I can not STAND the canned stuff)
Rolls
Pumpkin pie

I am also making a pumpkin roll for my boyfriend. He may not be able to come over for dinner but we never know for sure until just a couple days before. I always make him something though...

While I cook, mom and I will have a lunch of snack type foods. Just cheese and crackers, chips and dip, ect ect. Makes it easy for me!

 

[BellePrincessBelle]

Mine is boring
Turkey
stuffing
gravy
mashed potatoes
corn
green beans
carrots plain & glazed
cranberry sauce
rolls
corn bread
pumpkin pie
cheesecake
and ice cream
Everything is from scratch including the ice cream.

 

[monkeybug]

Oh my gosh, that sounds like my inlaws potatoes!! I LOVE my inlaws, they are so sweet, but cooking is not their one of their strong points. Their Thanksgiving mashed are just potatoes mashed in their cooking water. That's it! Not even any salt!!

Here's my menu this year:

Roasted turkey
Two kinds of gravy (with giblets and without)
Mashed potatoes
Herbed bread stuffing
Homemade whole berry cranberry sauce
Roasted root vegetable assortment: turnips, sweet potatoes, butternut, brussel sprouts, garlic, red onion, carrot, and parsnip
Roasted acorn squash wedges with rosemary, butter, and brown sugar
Green beans with toasted almonds in brown butter
Cauliflower-gruyere gratin
Pumpkin cheesecake
Apple pie

My mother will make the turkey, gravies, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and the desserts. I will be making the vegetable dishes. My husband is bringing the dinner wines, my Dad is bringing the dessert wine, and my sister will be sous chef to both my mother and me.

Ohhhhh...will you pretty please post how you make the roasted root veggies and the cauliflower with gruyere??? Those sound so mmmmmm!

 

[TwingleMum]

ETA: I forgot the pumpkin beer and the cranberry daqueris......the most important part. LOL

Can I come ??? Or have the recipes the cranberry daquiri sounds awesome!!

 

[james'mommy]

Whatever they are serving at Cracker Barrel. The in laws usually come down and celebrate Thanksgiving and DH's bday but this year they are meeting us in Disney that weekend.

 

[Magic Mom]

Can I come ??? Or have the recipes the cranberry daquiri sounds awesome!!

I don't really have a recipe, just mix to taste. Be careful, the more you drink the more rum your "taste" calls for.

Ice
canned cranberry sauce, 1/2 can (the jellied kind without the whole cranberries)
lemon juice, a teaspoon or two (or not if you don't have it)
powdered sugar 1/3 a cup
good quality RUM (no cheap stuff LOL)

I think that's it...it's hard to remember.

Mix in a blender. Drink, repeat.

 

[marshallandcartersmo]

we're short on oven space this year, having extra people at my parents house for Turkey Day.....


of your sides, which do you cook and/or keep warm in a crock pot???

 

[MulanUSAF]

I posted this in another Thanksgiving thread, but here's the menu from last year's Thanksgiving that I cooked up for my family. We're Chinese-American and tend to mix traditional foods with American food. Notice there's no turkey on the menu, because no one really likes it in my family. So we go with Chinese roast duck, which comes from a local restaurant. In my opinion, it's so much tastier and hardly any leftover scraps.

Appetizer:
-Tempura fried veggies (green beans, yam sticks, green/red pepper strips, mini broccoli florets) and shrimp
-Pumpkin butter dip for tempura
-Crab & Artichoke dip with toasted mini rice cakes

Main Course:
-Chinese roast duck, served with traditional steamed buns and duck sauce (ordered from a local Chinese restaurant)
-Broiled rainbow trout stuffed with sautéed onions and mushrooms

Sides:
-Sticky rice stuffing with sweet Chinese sausage
-Green bean casserole
-Roasted spicy potatoes
-Cornbread

Dessert:
-Sesame puffs (fried donut balls rolled in toasted sesame seeds)
-Pumpkin Cheesecake (frozen Cheesecake Factory)
-Green tea ice cream

 

[mybestieismickey]

Thanksgiving is at my mom's this year so I don't know the whole menu, but I'm sure that it will look like a lot of those previously posted. But we do have a few traditions that are not to be missed.

1. Enchiladas. This is my job this year. We have had enchiladas at every Thanksgiving that I can ever remember. My Mexican great grandmother used to make them and now we continue the tradition. This is usually what I make. I don't want them forgotten since I don't really like turkey.

2. Green Jello. With cottage cheese and pineapple. My dad's mom always made this and my mom makes it to remember her. Mostly because she was a terrible cook but she made Jello and punch really well. It's a family favorite and lucky me, my MIL makes something very similar.

3. Waldorf Salad. Only my mom likes this so she make a very small amount. The rest of us just make fun of her. One year my cousin came up with "Wal-Death Salad" and the name has stuck. She has threatened to haunt us after she is gone if we don't make it after it's gone in her honor. Or at least put an apple on the table.

And for those that are fussing about bland potatoes, be glad that they can be fixed. DH's family likes their mashed potatoes with sugar instead of salt. I'm not talking about sweet potates. It's regular Idaho potaotes. It's disgusting. And wrong. And possibly un-American. The in-laws are coming to my parents' for Thanksgiving, but fortunately my sister is making them. MIL is just bringing Apple-Yam casserole. Though DH is threatening to bring his own mashed potatoes...

 

[Nancyg56]

we're short on oven space this year, having extra people at my parents house for Turkey Day.....


of your sides, which do you cook and/or keep warm in a crock pot???

You could do the mashed potatoes with sour cream and cream cheese and reheat them in a crockpot. I have seem stuffing in the crockpot as well

I have never tried this but it was a 5* recipe

Crock Pot Stuffing Recipe #49609


3¼ hours | 10 min prep
SERVES 10

• 2 cups chopped onions
• 1 1/2 cups thinly sliced celery
• 1 cup diced tart apple, peeled and cored
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1 tablespoon ground sage
• 1 teaspoon ground marjoram
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon savory
• 1/2 teaspoon thyme
• 12 cups lightly toasted bread, cubes
• 1/4 cup fresh parsley, chopped
• 1 1/2 cups chicken stock or vegetable stock

1. In a large fry pan saute onions, celery and apple in butter until onion is just translucent.
2. Stir in sage, marjoram, salt, pepper, savory and thyme.
3. Combine vegetable mixture with the bread cubes and parsley.
4. Toss well.
5. Pour stock over mixture, tossing well.
6. Spoon into your crock-pot.
7. Cover and cook on high for one hour.
8. Reduce to low and continue cooking for 2-3 hours, stirring every hour.
9. As stated for Vegetarians use vegetable stock.

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To Die for Make-Ahead Mashed Potatoes

Recipe #81902 | 2¾ hours | 45 min prep |

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These are the BEST mashed potatoes EVER! And they are so user-friendly because you can make them the night before. I never take these anywhere without people begging me for the recipe. Once you make these, you will never want to make them any other way. Also great in twice-baked potatoes. And, if you need really easy, buy pre-cooked mashed potatoes, add from these ingredients, stir, and re-heat in microwave. Tastes almost as good as home-made! My favorite way to cook these are in the crockpot! EDIT: Please note that I have always cooked these in the crockpot and have never baked them; I have gotten new feedback that they taste FAR BETTER if cooked in the crockpot, so this is now my only recommendation for cooking source.
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Ingredients

• 8 medium potatoes
• 1 cup sour cream
• 8 ounces chive & onion cream cheese
• 4 tablespoons butter
• 1/4 cup chives
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 1/2 teaspoons onion powder
• 1 pinch marjoram (optional)
• 1/2-1 cup thinly sliced green onion
• bacon bit or 2 slices cooked crumpled bacon
• milk
• paprika

Directions

1. 1
   
   Boil potatoes until tender.
2. 2
   
   Beat softened cream cheese and sour cream in mixing bowl.
3. 3
   
   Add hot potatoes and beat until smooth, adding small amounts of milk as needed.
4. 4
   
   Add butter, chives, salt, pepper and onion powder and beat until well-mixed.
5. 5
   
   Add garlic, green onions, and marjoram and beat until well-mixed.
6. 6
   
   Pour into either casserole dish or crockpot.
7. 7
   
   Dot with additional butter and sprinkle with paprika.
8. 8
   
   Bake for 25 minutes in 350°F oven or cook on low in crockpot for 2-3 hours. If cooked in crockpot, add a few additional drops of butter and stir, just before serving.
9. 9
   
   Sprinkle with Bacon Bits or crumpled bacon just before serving.
10. 10
    
    NOTE: Can be refrigerated overnight in either casserole dish or crockpot.

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[Nancyg56]

we're short on oven space this year, having extra people at my parents house for Turkey Day.....


of your sides, which do you cook and/or keep warm in a crock pot???

This one is a 4.5 * rating, I have never tried it but it is designed for a crockpot.



Crock Pot Green Bean Casserole Recipe #146212

This is a low-fat version using a crock pot
by smilyus
6¼ hours | 15 min prep
SERVES 6 , 1 cup

• 1 (14 1/2 ounce) can French style green beans
• 1 (14 1/2 ounce) can cut green beans
• 1 (10 3/4 ounce) can 98% fat-free cream of mushroom soup
• 2 (4 ounce) cans mushroom pieces
• 1/2 cup nonfat milk
• 1 teaspoon worcestershire sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 small onion

1. Combine canned green beans with 1 can of mushrooms and onion slices. Place in crock pot sprayed with cooking spray.
2. Mix cream of mushroom soup, fat free milk, worcestershire sauce, black pepper and other can of mushrooms in separate bowl.
3. Cover green beans with sauce. Do not stir.
4. Cook on low for 6-8 hours.

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Here is one for sweet potatoes casserole. It is a 5 * recipe. i read the reviews, most people have used fresh potatoes instead of canned. They also used more topping or modified it a bit adding oatmeal. This is similar to the one I use every year but I bake mine in the oven. I do not use the orange juice in mine, my family does not like it.I double the topping.

Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Casserole


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Submitted By: CORWYNN DARKHOLME
Photo By: busymommy
Prep Time: 30 Minutes
Cook Time: 4 Hours

Ready In: 4 Hours 30 Minutes
Servings: 8
"Sweet potatoes slow-cooked with butter, sugar, orange juice and milk."
Ingredients:
2 (29 ounce) cans sweet potatoes, drained
and mashed
1/3 cup butter, melted
2 tablespoons white sugar
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 tablespoon orange juice

2 eggs, beaten
1/2 cup milk
1/3 cup chopped pecans
1/3 cup brown sugar
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons butter, melted
Directions:
1. Lightly grease a slow cooker.
2. In a large bowl, blend sweet potatoes, 1/3 cup butter, white sugar and 2 tablespoons brown sugar. Beat in orange juice, eggs and milk. Transfer this mixture to the prepared casserole dish.
3. In a small bowl, combine pecans, 1/3 cup brown sugar, flour and 2 tablespoons butter. Spread the mixture over the sweet potatoes. Cover the slow cooker and cook on HIGH for 3 to 4 hours.
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[Nancyg56]

Though DH is threatening to bring his own mashed potatoes...

Mine usually joins my son in threatening to go to Ruby Tuesday;s if I do not make him plain stuffing It seems I tinker with his food