What Do You Have For Thanksgiving Meal?

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Turkey in our family .
mashed potatoes,
stuffing (home made)
turnips
veggies( peas or corn)
gravy
cranberry sauce ( not jelly)
lettuce salad
apple salad
pickles, buns
at times -- meatballs,(sweet and sour) cabbage rolls
apple and pumpkin pie

Every one chips in with something.

What about you?
 
Depends on the weather and who it is.

We may barbeque something if the weather is nice and family isn't getting together. If not, then probably honey-garlic ribs with rice and stir fry (Chinese) or spicy baked chicken with lentils and eggplant (Indian)

If we are getting together as an extended family, then it will likely be a turkey dinner but that's rare in our family. Often, people are away at Thanksgiving (e.g. one brother is going to the cottage this year). I seem to recall my brother once BBQ'ing a turkey but that may have been for another occasion (Father's Day?).

One year we had dinner with two other families that we are friends with and it was a bit of a mixed bag, but mostly Indian IIRC (one family is Indian as is the mother of the other).

In the end, we tend to be just quietly thankful without making a big production out of it.
 
It varies.

At my parents always:
turkey
gravy
stuffing
carrots
some type of potato - typical mashed, mashed sweet potato, scalloped, or just cut up - sometimes a form of both regular & sweet
cranberry sauce - often from a can
salad

Others
buns
cabbage rolls
peas
pickles
beans
a casserole with marshmallows, I think it's with yams?

Other places:
chicken
turkey breast with cranberry sauce & apples (Chemguy & I)
brussel sprouts
turnips
ham

Dessert:
pies - pumpkin, apple, pecan, other fruits
pumpkin cake
angel food cake with strawberries or a pineapple sauce
 
Turkey, dressing (home made with both potatoes and bread), cranberries, mashed potatoes, gravy, squash, another vegetable, pickles and/or side salad--pumpkin pie with whipped pie and maybe apple pie and ice cream. Wine. Tea.
 
When I was growing up, our traditional Thanksgiving feast was...

Turkey
Mashed Potatoes with Butter & Milk
Mashed Turnip and/or Squash
Broccoli with Cheese Sauce
Whole-Berry Cranberry Sauce
Homemade Pumpkin Pie with Fresh Whipped Cream
Wine, Juice, and Milk
Coffee, and Tea

Last year my wife, son, and I had nearly the same thing, but with nowhere near the same quality as mom used to make.

The year that we were living in northern Alberta, we opted for fish and rice instead of turkey and potatoes.

This year the plan is for chicken plus three snacks (fries, sweet potato fries, and onion rings). Plus some kind of pumpkany dessert.
 
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Pr. Jae said:
Broccoli with Cheese Sauce
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I forgot that one! Not every year, but often. The best was the years where there was 'lumpy' cheese sauce as my sister and I called it. I think my mom was a little upset when we first started calling it that, she would always whisk it to try to break up the lumps as much as possible, but we're always happy when it's there.

I've also had broccolini.
 
ChemGal said:
I forgot that one! Not every year, but often. The best was the years where there was 'lumpy' cheese sauce as my sister and I called it. I think my mom was a little upset when we first started calling it that, she would always whisk it to try to break up the lumps as much as possible, but we're always happy when it's there.

I've also had broccolini.
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We kids would insist on broccoli and cheese sauce every Thanksgiving, and Christmas too, and mom always came through, My sisters still make it for there for their families, but it is never as good as mom's.
 
Wine
Turkey with stuffing as well as one end stuffed with sausage
Mashed potatoes, gravy
Squash
Sweet potatoes
Carrots
Peas with toasted almonds
Brussels sprouts
Cranberry sauce

Pumpkin pie
Apple pie

More wine

This year all 20 of us are meeting at my sisters for dinner on Saturday. One nieces boyfriend is working but everyone else will make the trip.
 
I really look forward to Thanksgiving. It's late Nov. here. I love turkey (or a roasting chicken) stuffing, rolls, sweet potato casserole (preferably the kind with marshmallows), green beans and sweet ice tea to drink. There should be lots of gravy for the rolls, turkey, and stuffing too. Dessert would be pumpkin and/or pecan pie. I remember growing up and mom would put a can of jelled cranberry sauce on a very ornate serving dish even though the sauce was still in the shape of a can. I wouldn't eat it myself but I liked it on the table as a decoration.
 
Turkey
Mashed Potatoes, my family can't get enough of my take on them.
Roasted root vegetables
Stuffed squash
Stuffing
Green and Yellow Beans
If there is a request I will make cranberry jelly though we never let it set fully so it is more saucy than jelly. Our family tends not to be favourably disposed to gravies or sauces.
For desert we typically have two kinds of pie one of which will be apple because our pastry chef ensures there will be at least one pie he wants to eat.
 
What do you do to your mashed, RevJohn? (I make a variation of mashed, specifically called Thanksgiving potatoes by the orig recipe-writer, that are enriched with butter, cream cheese AND sour cream, none of them low-fat; if I remember and I'm in the mood, I'll throw in a head of roasted organic garlic as well.)

My dinner must be accompanied by vast quantities of home-made cranberry sauce AND gravy, my family being over-disposed to sauces and gravies.
 
Jon71 said:
I really look forward to Thanksgiving. It's late Nov. here. I love turkey (or a roasting chicken) stuffing, rolls, sweet potato casserole (preferably the kind with marshmallows), green beans and sweet ice tea to drink. There should be lots of gravy for the rolls, turkey, and stuffing too. Dessert would be pumpkin and/or pecan pie. I remember growing up and mom would put a can of jelled cranberry sauce on a very ornate serving dish even though the sauce was still in the shape of a can. I wouldn't eat it myself but I liked it on the table as a decoration.
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Aha, I knew there had to be someone preferring the jelly kind of cranberry.
 
Pr. Jae said:
Aha, I knew there had to be someone preferring the jelly kind of cranberry.
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I don't think I've had a cranberry sauce I didn't like. When it comes to canned, we usually get the ones with the whole berries. My grandma used to make a cranberry jam/jelly for toast that we would also use as cranberry sauce.

Chemguy's family never had it and I missed it so I started bringing jars to holiday meals. Then his Dad realized how easy it can be to make it which I'll admit is much better than the jarred stuff!
 
Pr. Jae said:
When I was growing up, our traditional Thanksgiving feast was...

Turkey
Mashed Potatoes with Butter & Milk
Mashed Turnip and/or Squash
Broccoli with Cheese Sauce
Whole-Berry Cranberry Sauce
Homemade Pumpkin Pie with Fresh Whipped Cream
Wine, Juice, and Milk
Coffee, and Tea

Last year my wife, son, and I had nearly the same thing, but with nowhere near the same quality as mom used to make.

The year that we were living in northern Alberta, we opted for fish and rice instead of turkey and potatoes.

This year the plan is for chicken plus three snacks (fries, sweet potato fries, and onion rings). Plus some kind of pumpkany dessert.
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Update: Tonight is our Thanksgiving dinner, and we'll be having...

Roast Chicken
Gravy
Mashed Potatoes
Glazed Carrots
Broccoli & Cheese Sauce
Chocolate Ripple Ice Cream​
 
BetteTheRed said:
What do you do to your mashed, RevJohn?
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New potatoes only. Leave the skins on (after a light washing).

Cube potatoes and place in chicken broth with seasoned salt.

Bring to boil on high (I use a gas stove)

Reduce heat to minimum and let the potatoes slow boil for 20 minutes

Drain.

Mash with fresh butter.

BetteThe Red said:
My dinner must be accompanied by vast quantities of home-made cranberry sauce AND gravy, my family being over-disposed to sauces and gravies.
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When we were in Newfoundland and Labrador I would pick partridge berries (aka lingon berries) for the cranberry sauce. Kids would only eat partridge berries if they were in a pie so I always had lots left over.

When I substituted cranberries the kids finally came around.
 
I am glad y had a"thanksgiving dinnerforyour over seas family Jae. It is a very nicethingtodo. Andiknowy are busy with school and work.

I hope they enjoyed it and enjoy hearing the tradition.
 
Possibly my oven will still be waiting a repair man on Thanksgiving. Possibly our daughter will invite us for dinner, which I will help cook at her home. Possibly her family will go to her inlaws and then I'm tempted to suggest that Seelerman and I go to a fine restaurant.
However, if I do end up cooking Thanksgiving dinner for six at my house, what do you suggest I serve. I have two crock-pots, a microwave, and the stove-top, and a limited amount of energy. We are traditionalists when it comes to holiday meals.
 
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