What's on YOUR Thanksgiving table?

[John VN]

It's DW and I and we haven't done the *DINNER thing* for many years. I asked her if she wanted me to do a turkey breast with mashed/gravy + veggies and biscuits with an Oreo ice box cake for desert. She ordered up a 4oz. piece of Butterball's Turkey Breast Tenderloin cooked on the George Forman with sweet peas + quinoa AND the Oreo IBC.

Since she will be helping out at our local 5K Turkey Trot tomorrow (leaves the house at 5AM) I'll make her Juicy Egg with bacon bits on a lightly toasted Thomas English muffin as soon as she wakes today.

At 3am I began making the *Veggie Soup* that her grandmother made then her mom then dad and turned off the stove at 5am with it resting until she samples it to make sure it's OK???? If approved she will have it for dinner tonight, I'll have my Sockeye Salmon, and freeze the rest in containers for future dinners and give enough for a few dinners to our 85yo neighbor who really likes it.

Will give a container to her sister who loves it but does not make it. Next time her sister in NJ calls she will simply say "m - m - m" which is the code phrase for *John made Dad's Soup* to which her sister will reply, *Oh SHUT UP* and laugh. When NJ sister had COVID and was in the hospital I made a batch of the soup, froze a huge Ziploc bag of it, made a super tight Styrofoam container with ice packets and sent in Next Day Air so she had it when she got home from the hospital.

OOPS, she just gave it 2 thumbs up.

 

[NannyBeBe]

I will make coffee cake for breakfast.

My granddaughter always makes a charcuterie board for everyone to munch on at lunch time.
We usually have dinner around 5 o'clock:

Turkey
Mashed potatoes
Stuffing
Sweet potato casserole
Green bean casserole
Macaroni & Cheese
Deviled eggs -- making 48 this year because everyone fights over them
Cranberry sauce
Gravy
Rolls & butter
Pumpkin pie for dessert

 

[lovesmurfs]

This is the first year in over 25 that I'm not making dinner (work and class stuff going on). DH and I are taking his aunt to a local hotel restaurant that's having a Thanksgiving buffet. They're having standard Thanksgiving fare, but also some appetizers, brunchy stuff (omelets, etc.), soups, fresh shrimp and crab claws. Desserts are a variety of pies, pastries, and cakes. No cleanup!

...but no leftovers either.