We're all talking about meatbirds and changing the scales in advance, but what's on the menu for Thanksgiving dinner in your circle? Are you cooking anything yourself or traveling anywhere? (I need to figure out whose house I'm going to show up at on Thursday. 😁)
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I am cooking nothing and loving it. I will however, do dishes.
My hub's making turkey,gravy, mashed potatoes. corn, biscuits,cinderblocks, oyster stuffing and pumpkin pie with whipped cream.I think that's it.
The pumpkin pie is Julia Child's recipe and it is good! I never really cared for it until I had that version.
We're having some family over so it should be fun 
What are you doing/having?
Turkey and duck with oyster stuffing, candied sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, overcooked brussels sprouts, Harvard beets, corn, turnips & parsnips in broth, canned cranberry sauce, bought artisan bread, 2 kinds of pumpkin pie, and apple pie. Mum's roasting the birds, but I'm doing everything else. It'll be at her house, which means we'll run around turning off all her heaters the moment we get there. What are cinderblocks?
It's great to find someone else that eats oyster stuffing! Ours is traditionally made with a REALLY heavy dose of ground black pepper.
Your dinner sounds delicious!
Cinderblocks are those large gray bricks often used in construction as well as testing to see if someone got through one of my posts! A+ feel free to use this test.😆😆
I love it! I'll have to use that for my family.
They're always good for that.😅
And I thought it was commentary on your hub's biscuits!
😂😂😂😂 More like my own!
It was a test! I thought it was some sort of local dish!
😅
Cinderblocks?
Here in the UK it's just an ordinary day.
I thought you were planning big chunks of cinder toffee!
because we call them "breeze blocks".
Well, now. It doesn't need to be. You could celebrate the fact that you're no longer responsible for us! You just need a large roasted bird, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, and your vegetables of choice. Make far more food than what you need for the number of people being served. Have an array of handprint turkeys and papier mache pumpkins scattered across the table, along with some autumn leaves. Put on a new silk blouse that will show every drop of gravy that you dribble. Be sure to seat drunken Uncle Mel next to the newest in-law, and have Great-Aunt Margaret beside a child whose cheeks she can keep pinching while declaring "Oh, my; you look so much like your mother at that age." Keep feeding people until their buttons burst and everyone falls asleep at the table.
That sounds like one of my childhood dinners!😂
That's called "Christmas" ...
No, no, no. Christmas is simply the Second Thanksgiving! 🙄
As in Dylan Thomas's A Child's Christmas in Wales...which is my favorite Christmas reading.
That is my absolute favorite movie! I've never met anyone else who's even heard of it before!!
I encountered it on a recording of Thomas reading it. It has become a decades long favorite of mine, absolutely magical.
You have not seen the film? It sticks right to Dylan Thomas's writing. If I can only see one Christmas film, that is the one I would choose.
I would probably love the film, but I haven't seen it. When I was 15, I went to work after school for the Pasadena (CA) Public Library. I was assigned to the Children's Room to sort and shelve returned books. The children's' librarians became fond of me; one Christmas they gave me a booklet of the poem. A few years later, in college, I bought the recording but though I have seen videos of Thomas himself, I've never seen the film. I will start looking for it. Maybe it's on DVD.
Isn't once a year enough?!
We have Harvest Festival (mostly a church or school thing), Harvest Supper (also called Mell Supper, some villages do it as a social event, often with a barn dance.) Do you do that too? Then there's 5th November Guy Fawkes bonfires and fireworks - originally to celebrate King James 1st not being blown up by the gunpowder plot (gunpowder barrels in a cellar under the houses of Parliament) - or as someone once said "Every year the British public attempts to remind Parliament that it would have been a Good Thing." (Sellar and Yeatman in "1066 and All That" - Classic humourous version of British history.)
You are welcome at my table, there's always room! A ridiculously good marinaded turkey breast (not "Thanksgiving" but hubs doesn't like a normal turkey and this one I don't have to babysit), mac and cheese, green bean casserole, brown rolls, and pies (apple crumb and pumpkin). Mom is bringing cornbread dressing, mashed potatoes and gravy. If I have the energy, I will add a rib roast, sweet and sour purple cabbage, deviled eggs, and spinach dip.
We do a carry-in at my husband's sister's house. Fortunately many of his family are allergic to cats so I don't have to clean my house! We are bringing corn casserole.
Wow, that IS fortunate!😂
I feel like I'm missing a corn dish, how do you make this?
You beat me to it. I've been seeing a lot of corn casserole ads on my computer, and they look very interesting.
CORN CASSEROLE2 eggs
1 cup sour cream
1/2 cup melted butter
16 oz. can, cream style corn
16 oz. can, whole kernel corn
10 oz. box Jiffy corn muffin mix
In your casserole dish, microwave the butter to melt it. Then dump all the other ingredients in the same dish and mix until blended.
Bake at 350 degrees until lightly browned. Remove from oven and sprinkle 1 cup grated cheddar or Swiss cheese on the top. Put back in oven for 10 - 15 minutes
I love this because it's so easy to make and you make and bake it all in 1 bowl.
To double-bake 1 hour, 20 minutes and the cheese is 15 minutes.
Yum!
Darnit! I have everything except the sour cream, and I refuse to go back to another store until at least Tuesday. Thank you, MrsMike9!
Thank you so much! 🥰 I'm going to try it, and I love a good dump and stir recipe 🎉 We have cornbread dressing already so it may have to wait until Christmas 🤔 I also make 2 variations of maque choux (corn, corn milk, diced onion and bell pepper, spices, sometimes meat) when sweet corn is fresh here, and turning those leftovers into a casserole would be divine! My life is seriously changed right now 🤯🎉
Turkey Breast - in the instant pot, get it in and forget it. Oven is free for other things.
Gravy
Oyster stuffing - because my husband loves it]
Cornbread stuffing - because my mother-in-law doesn't want oyster stuffing
Mashed potatoes - because my oldest son doesn't like any stuffing
Sweet Potato Casserole - because my mother-in-law loves it.
Meatballs - because my youngest son won't eat any of the above
Crescent rolls - because everybody loves them including my youngest son
Cranberry sauce - because my mother-in-law sees it as traditional
Pumpkin Pie and Pecan Pie - from Krogers
Pear Pie - because I think it sounds delicious and I want to try it
I am trying to keep the portions of a lot of these small because there will be only 5 of us.
Everyone's dinner sound so good except for the oyster dressing. We are having spare ribs, stuffing, green beans, rolls & salad. Dessert is Pumpkin praline with ice cream topper. We start marinating the ribs tonight.
Love praline anything, I'd probably eat a praline turd 🤣 I'm going to go google this mysterious oyster stuffing 🤷♀️
I love praline anything too & this dessert is so easy. As for oysters...they need to stay in the ocean!🦃
I googled it 🫣 But I have questions 🤣
It's an acquired taste, to put it mildly. I'd warned my now-ex the first time he came to holiday dinner that he did NOT want to eat the oyster stuffing. He forgot. One of my biggest joys in life is remembering the look on his face when he took a big bite. 😁
My recipe is very simple, made from memory because Grandpa died without writing it down. I'll be working on it later today. My daughter and I will fight over the leftovers, but no one else will touch the stuff.
🤣 My experience with dressing is making an awesome bite with the turkey, gravy and sometimes cranberry sauce. I can't imagine throwing fish into that mix 🤣
It's a wonderful thing to have Gpa's memory with you, and something you and your daughter love but don't have to share! 🥰
Do you put your oysters in whole or cook them first & chop up then put in dressing before baking.
Oh, my no. That sounds too much like work. I get the canned ones and just mix them into the dry bread. I wouldn't have the first idea what to do with ones that needed cooked or cleaned or caught or whatever one does with oysters. 😅
I just looked up recipes for oyster stuffing, and no wonder Kdali's horrified! lol. Mine's strictly a landlocked Depression-era recipe.
I actually cringed when I saw celery. I can't do crunchy bits in dressing 🫣
That sounds a little better than what my mom used to make. She used raw oysters. Just grossed me out!😂😂
We ordered a dinner from Krogers. My wife is tired of cooking a big meal after 70+ years
there will be 9 of us. the turkey is in the frig thawing (as of Sunday night). fortunately no pressure with the guests we will have. my significant other and i work on the dinner together. we have a typical menu. i always make the baked corn pudding in honor of my mom (she always made it and i have her recipe ❤️) the holidays used to maximally stress me out but i'm working hard to not let it get to me. happy thanksgiving !!
Did the whole turkey meal thing a couple of weeks ago, using the last bargain turkey in the deep freeze from? Last Thanksgiving? Smoked it! Literally and figuratively. Applewood, low and slow. Did all the sides to go with it of course.So this year, going by relatives for Thanksgiving and bringing whatever they ask. Had 3 bargain turkeys last year. Ate them all. Even tukey in July is great. I already filled the last open spot in the deep freeze with another bargain turkey for post Thanksgiving!
We are going to my parents house for dinner my parents oven doesn't work so everyone is making something and bringing it over
It will be a quiet one with just my husband and I. And I demanded he cooks a Cioppino. So much of it that we'll have some for at least 3 days of the long weekend.
we do pretty much the same as others except no fishy stuff ..but all are great sounding ...i am just into the fish stuff ..my husband and son and some of the grandkids do it ...but it is outside at the beach...the smell is terrible to me ...yuck sorry everybody who love it ...hope all have a wonderful Thanksgiving and remember to be thankful for what we have and why ...love and much happiness to enjoy this special day ...
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