(OT) Your Thanksgiving Feast - What is it?

[ejja_1]

Mmm Food!

My Parents:

Spiral cut ham glazed in a honey and brownsugar concoction that makes it more like candied ham....
Mashed potatoes
Stuffing made with bits of breakfast sausage in it.
Mushroom gravy
Pumpkin soup ( sounds nasty tastes divine!)
Green bean caserole
Homemade bread
Cranberry jello and whip cream pie.


The wifes parents:

Turkey
Stuffing
Mashed potatoes
Mushrooms
Rools
Cranberry sauce

 

[Old Fezziwig]

Well, it's just me this year because of some logistical/professional issues, so I'm having a bit of a non-standard meal, but it's still pretty standard:

pork chops (easier to buy chops for one ), mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, applesauce, and pumpkin pie for dessert.

The whole pork chops thing came about because I had been reading Dickens (Great Expectations) and Pip was eating pork chops. I realized I hadn't had chops in a while, so...

Should be a good time. Eat dinner, watch some football, start cracking on a term paper on Poe.

Happy thanksgiving,
tKL

 

[Wicht]

Well, all the vegetarians got to have a little mini-conversation, right? Where's the rest of the strict carnivores?

I'm not a strict carnivore but vegetables at my table always play second fiddle to the glorious meat.

And I could not imagine life without cheese.

 

[Kamard]

I'm going to be having traditional fare for my household.

Turkey, salad, potatoes, corn. Theres others that eat beets and cranberries and various other non-edible things.

Since my brother in law joined the family, we add a nice big slab of medium rare steak to the mixture.

So I'll be having turkey and steak and all the fixins. Huzzah for meat. Huzzah, I say.

 

[Quickbeam]

My wife and I host Thanksgiving for our families each year.
The day's agenda:
I used to get up around 11:30 am (so that I could miss having to view the Thanksgiving Day Parade on TV), shower, and then watch football until dinner. Then I'd stuff myself and we'd all either go to the movies or watch rented videos & DVD's.
Now we have two kids, including an infant so sleeping in is no longer an option. So I'll be up early, play with my two boys and help feed them breakfast. Then...

Appetizers, beverages and snack foods during the Lions' game include:
-- Chips & salsa
-- Queso Dip (some with spinach, some without)
-- Bagel chips
-- Assorted veggies and dips
-- Some form of salmon spread
-- Pizza rolls
-- Several varieties of beer and wine
-- Soda pop for those not in the trues festive party mood yet

Then after the early football is over, I commence making our deep fried cajun turkey...man is it ever good!!! Along with the 18 lb. crispy bird, we also have:
-- A traditional oven-roasted turkey
-- Mashed potatoes
-- Two kinds of stuffing (or dressing if you prefer that term)
-- Gravy
-- Three or four vegetable dishes ranging from corn to green beans; glazed carrots to squash; sweet potatoes to asparagus...it depends on what the two sets of parents bring
-- Large Caesar salad
-- Cranberry sauce (both fresh and from the can)
-- Carrot and/or banana bread

Dessert consists of at least eight -- yes 8 -- pies every year. It seems that her grandfather just loves buying them . There are usually three pumpkin; two pecan; one key lime; one French silk/chocolate cream; and an apple. The extras may include a lemon, cherry, or strawberry rhubarb. Then there's various sweets, cookies, and of course lots and lots of coffee.

Somewhere amongst all the eating, we find time to give thanks for all our good fortune and root for the Cowboys to lose!!

 

[Berk]

mmmm, one of the best meals of the year!!!!

there will be turkey at the table, brined for 8 hours before cooking, no stuffing, stuffing is evil!!! as alton brown says, it reinforces cross contamination and raises cooking time

there will be cornbread dressing, my favorite since I was like 6

cornbread pudding, different from above but almost the same

a cranberry dipping sauce, a different kind of cranberry sauce then most are acustomed to

candied sweet potatoes, mmmmmm

creamed corn, unfortunately thanksgiving is too far away from corn season or would have made our own.

and there will most likely be other things, know my sisters family is making some rice and beans dish. rice is always good

apple pie, pumpkin pie, no sweet potatoe pie though =o(

 

[Wicht]

there will be cornbread dressing, my favorite since I was like 6

Cornbread dressing with turkey gravy rules!!!

I don't understand why so many people only eat this once a year. As I mentioned in my first post, we cook turkey often and without few exceptions, its always a good excuse to make some cornbread dressing with turkey giblets .

 

[Berk]

Cornbread dressing with turkey gravy rules!!!

that it does my friend, that it does =o)

I don't understand why so many people only eat this once a year. As I mentioned in my first post, we cook turkey often and without few exceptions, its always a good excuse to make some cornbread dressing with turkey giblets .

Don't make turkey much myself but make cornbread dressing whenever I can. =o)

 

[pogre]

Turkey - usually smoked
Ham
Pheasant - usually smoked
Salmon
Most folks pick one of the meats - I eat them all! My favorite dish though is wildrice dressing!

 

[Sanackranib]

watcha eatin'?

In 1997, as part of a college course on agriculture in the US, I visited the tempeh factory (Turtle Island, I think?) that makes Tofurkey. It was a new product at the time, and they gave us all little samples of the "drumsticks," really tempeh with wild rice and cranberries in a wild mushroom gravy. It was really tasty, although not really turkey-like.

I also tried making a vegan turkey one year out of seitan and soymilk skin. Although you could've played killer dodgeball with it, eating it was out of the question .

BFG, if your wife needs good vegetarian recipes for Thanksgiving, point her over to www.epicurious.com (in fact, all y'all cooks oughtta head over there). They've got some great ideas. I particularly recommend their Roasted Butternut Squash and Caramelized Onion Tart. It's a very satisfying, rich pie full of Thanksgiving-y flavors. My meat-eating family all loved it (although for them it was a side-dish).

Daniel

I let all the tofu turkey coments pass but the "vegan" turkey made my stomache churn and not in a good way either. I'm a carnavore. for thanksgiving SOMETHING has to die to feed me.(preferably a 20+lb. turkey) or what are you giving thanks for? we will also have the staples pumkin pie, cherry pie, green bean casarole, rolls, yams etc.

By the way the Goose post sounded really tasty (my mouth waters just to think of it) and the deep fried cajan truky sounds good too. a few years ago we had smoked turkey (from dads webber grill) regular turkey and prime rib - good eats all. it is good to see that there are other carnavores out there