What is your Thanksgiving menu

[Angelhalo]

I don't have a set meal plan but usually there is some mixture of the following items:

Turkey
ham
mac and cheese
mashed potatoes and gravy
sweet potato casserole
green bean casserole
squash casserole (always a hit)
One pan of regular dressing
one pan of oyster dressing
cranberry sauce
rolls
Sweet potato pie
pumpkin pie
nutty buddy pie
cherry cheesecake
7 layer salad
deviled eggs
pickles
olives

I have had years where I try to do some fru fru Martha Stewart different than usual stuff, and even when I think it tastes great, it doesn't go down well with my family. They don't appreciate someone wrecking their holiday with menu item newbies. For example one year I made a grand marnier cranberry relish from scratch and everyone hated it and wanted the canned stuff. I ate it so I know it was good, they just didn't want something new! LOL!

 

[tasha99]

Turkey
Stuffing
Mashed Potatoes
Gravy
Green Bean Casserole
Yam Casserole (so yummy--has brandy, orange juice, brown sugar and pecans)
Cranberry Sauce (a couple kinds)
Rolls
Pumpkin Cheesecake
Baklava

 

[purpletiger]

I always make a cranberry bread instead of rolls. Really yummy.

How do you make your cranberry bread. Maybe I will surprise my MIL.

 

[frndshpcptn]

Appetizers:

Hot artichoke dip

1-3 cheeses

Mini Latkes

Mini hot dogs with a good mustard sauce for dipping

Gruyere crisps

Assorted chips / pretzels


Dinner:

Cornbread

Salad

Zucchini and yellow squash with rice or rice noodles in a creamy basil pesto sauce

Mashed potatoes

Sweet Potato pie with marshmallows

Acorn squash with maple syrup

Turkey



Dessert:

Brown Sugar Cinnamon Apples

Williams - Sonoma choclate cake

French Vanilla Ice Cream


I love Thanksgiving!!!

 

[NewCrew42]

I don't have a set meal plan but usually there is some mixture of the following items:

Turkey
ham
mac and cheese
mashed potatoes and gravy
sweet potato casserole
green bean casserole
squash casserole (always a hit)
One pan of regular dressing
one pan of oyster dressing
cranberry sauce
rolls
Sweet potato pie
pumpkin pie
nutty buddy pie
cherry cheesecake
7 layer salad
deviled eggs
pickles
olives

I have had years where I try to do some fru fru Martha Stewart different than usual stuff, and even when I think it tastes great, it doesn't go down well with my family. They don't appreciate someone wrecking their holiday with menu item newbies. For example one year I made a grand marnier cranberry relish from scratch and everyone hated it and wanted the canned stuff. I ate it so I know it was good, they just didn't want something new! LOL!

I forgot. We always have deviled eggs as well! One of my favorites!

 

[Meriweather]

Not 100% postive yet.
DD is coming and she likes pretty much nothing
So just 3 of us.

avocado dip
onion dip
chips
green salad
turkey
mashed potatoes
sweet potatoes
gravy
rolls
stuffing....not sure what kind yet
not sure of the veggie yet either
chocolate cheesecake
pumpkin custard

 

[bubie2.5]

Pumpkin Flan
2 cups sugar
1 cup whole milk
2 (5-oz) cans evaporated milk (1 1/3 cups)
5 large eggs
1/4 teaspoon salt
15-oz can solid-pack pumpkin (1 3/4 cups)
2 tablespoons premium golden agave tequila such as Herradura Reposado, or bourbon
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Preheat oven to 375°F.

Heat a 2-quart souffl&é dish or round ceramic casserole in middle of oven.

Cook 1 cup sugar in a dry 2-quart heavy saucepan over moderately low heat, stirring slowly with a fork, until melted and pale golden. Cook caramel without stirring, swirling pan, until deep golden, about 5 minutes. Quickly and carefully remove hot dish from oven and immediately pour caramel into dish, tilting it to cover bottom and sides. (Leave oven on.) Keep tilting as caramel cools and thickens enough to stay in place.

Scald whole milk with evaporated milk in a saucepan and remove from heat. Beat eggs and remaining cup sugar with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Beat in salt, pumpkin, tequila, and spices. Pour milk mixture through a sieve into a bowl and beat into pumpkin mixture in a slow stream until combined well.

Pour custard over caramel in dish and set in a water bath of 1 inch hot water. Put pan in middle of oven and lower temperature to 350°F. Bake until golden brown on top and a knife inserted in center comes out clean, about 1 1/4 hours, possibly longer. Remove dish from water bath and transfer to a rack to cool. Chill flan, covered, until cold, at least 6 hours.

To unmold flan, run a thin knife around flan to loosen from sides of dish. Wiggle dish from side to side and, when flan moves freely in dish, invert a large serving platter with a lip over dish. Holding dish and platter securely together, quickly invert and turn out flan onto platter. Caramel will pour out over and around it. Cut flan into wedges and serve with caramel spooned over

Thanks eeyore! I'm not a good cook, but I will be giving it a try this weekend.

 

[Ohiodislover]

Turkey
Dressing
Mashed Potatoes
Sweet Potato casserole
Homemade noodles
Green bean casserole (for DH)
Scalloped Corn
Vegie Tray
Cranberry Relish
Black Cherry salad
Perfection salad

Pumpkin Pie
Apple Roll
Pumpkin Roll


And wine--after all, my MIL is coming for the week. Better make it 2 bottles.

 

[Nancyg56]

Can you share the recipe for this please? It sounds great!!

Here you go!

I usually double this for my bunch


Pineapple Stuffing Recipe #23732


1¼ hours | 10 min prep
SERVES 12 , 1 1/2 quart

• 1 (8 ounce) can crushed pineapple, drained
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup butter
• 4 eggs
• 5 slices bread, cubed and dried

1. Cream butter and sugar.
2. Add eggs, 1 at a time.
3. Stir in pineapple.
4. Fold in bread cubes.
5. Place in 1 1/2 quart casserole dish.
6. Bake 1 hour at 350 F degrees.

© 2009 Recipezaar. All Rights Reserved. http://www.recipezaar.com​

 

[aristocatz]

here's mine but I think it looks dull

turkey
salad
corn
rolls
potatoes
brocolli & cheese
craberry sauce
stuffing
gravy
applie pie
pumpkin pie
cool whip
veggie platter
cheese/cracker platter


Anyone serve something different for their Thanksgiving dinner?

Hummus, Fufu, Squash soup, and Zebra Domes from Boma!!!!

 

[OsFan09]

I'm having the usual
turkey
stuffing
sweet potatoes
mashed potates
a squash soup

I amd trying new recipies for stuffing, soup and sweet potatoes along with a new recipie that I found for a cheesecake

 

[luvsJack]

Well, not too long ago I would have said our usual traditional stuff, but I am now trying to eat differently and lose some weight.

I have found some really good sounding "low cal" recipes for Thanksgiving type foods and plan to mix those in with the other more traditional things. That way no one can tell me "but its Thanksgiving"

 

[lovebuzz]

The great thing about shopping for your Thanksgiving menu is, if you forget your shopping list you can always borrow one from someone else.

We all are having the same thing.

 

[DisneyAndRedSox]

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)

When we cook a turkey, putting it in a brine is always a must. One year DH cooked the turkey up-side-down by accident. It was the moistest turkey I ever had! Turns out some people do this on purpose to get the juices to cook into the breast. Oh, don't make the mistake we made Christmas Eve last year. 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.

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!

I can't wait to try the pineapple stuffing posted earlier. I have a turkey breast in my freezer and a crockpot recipe to try out. I am going to make this with it!

 

[DisneyAndRedSox]

And never a southern dinner without a jello mold

My Mom makes a lemon jello mold for Christmas Eve dinner at my house every year. I LOVE IT, now she borrows my mold and makes 2 so I have leftovers! Problem is lemon jello can be a pain to find!

 

[DisneyAndRedSox]

Here you go!

I usually double this for my bunch


Pineapple Stuffing Recipe #23732


1¼ hours | 10 min prep
SERVES 12 , 1 1/2 quart

• 1 (8 ounce) can crushed pineapple, drained
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup butter
• 4 eggs
• 5 slices bread, cubed and dried

1. Cream butter and sugar.
2. Add eggs, 1 at a time.
3. Stir in pineapple.
4. Fold in bread cubes.
5. Place in 1 1/2 quart casserole dish.
6. Bake 1 hour at 350 F degrees.

© 2009 Recipezaar. All Rights Reserved. http://www.recipezaar.com​

Just a question- is 5 slices of bread enough?

 

[jennifermae]

Most of those menus sound like mine!

I will be doing:

Turkey
Ham
Tofurky(think that is how it is spelled)
Sweet Potatoes
Mashed Potatoes
Giblet Gravy
Pineapple Cole Slaw
Stuffing
Vegetarian Stuffing
Deviled Eggs
Green bean casserole
Rolls
Pumpkin Pie
Pumpkin pound cake

Boy....Im tired just thinking of cooking it all....

 

[JerseyJanice]

I know I won't be eating turkey that day. Yes, it's sad and true. My sister-in-law hosts Thanksgiving and gets this nasty organic, fresh-killed turkey. It tastes like something the dog hunted down and dragged in from the yard. Gimme Butterball!

I bring homemade cranberry sauce and pie. I sell pies as a fundraiser for DS's band, so it's one of those.

 

[alexandria674]

I found this great Turkey recipe from Martha Stewart so I think I will try that
Some rosemary mashed potatos and gravy
Cranberries
Stuffing with either clams or sausage in it
Sweet Yams
saute spinach
grilled green beans
grilled bacon wrapped asparugus
baked mac n' cheese with broccoli (sp)

mini-quiches, a vegetable platter and summer sausage for the appetizer

A crustless pumpkin pie and lemon poundcake with berries

 

[monkeybug]

Turkey
Stuffing (with chestnuts and sausage)
sauteed brussel sprouts
creamed spinach
German style green beans
roasted sweet potatoes
mashed potatoes
gravy
home made cranberry sauce
7 layer jello
Turkey cheese ball (shaped like a turkey, not flavored like one)
Rolls
stuffed mushrooms
spinach dip
banana cream pie
pumpkin pie
cheesecake

Cooking is my favorite. I tend to go a little overboard!