Whatsha eatin' for Thanksgiving?

[skateboy]

Our TG menu:

Frijoles molidos and chips (made by me--appetizer)
Turkey and gravy (both turned out spectacular!)
Mashed potatoes
Baked yams and apples (yum!)
Sage stuffing
Sweet corncake
Green beans and mushrooms in cream sauce
Mac and cheese
Pickled artichokes and cauliflower
Cranberry sauce
Dinner rolls w/butter and burberry jam

Dessert:

Homemade pumpkin ice cream
Pecan pie
Pecan cheese cake
Pumpkin pie
Sugar-free pumpkin pie
Cherry/apple/rhubarb pie
Macaroons

(I limited myself to the ice cream and one slice of the fruit pie)

Now I contented sit in food coma... Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!

[znachki]

So last week my sis and I had to make a change in our Thanksgiving plans, and are doing the traditional dinner tonight with the usual Thanksgiving gang.

We decided to have steaks, and make the pies for Friday. Then, we found out that some other friends were in a similar situation, and well... so, last night we had:

Manhattans
Cheeses - we had a blue (goat,sheep & cow), a semi-soft (cow) and a harder chesse that was sheep. The name of the dairy for the last was "Lord of the Hundreds". Loved the name.
Marcona Almonds
Assorted Olives

Rib-eyes with a red wine shallot pan sauce & sauteed mushoomes
Baked potatoes with all the trimmings
Warm Butternut Squash onion and herb salad with goat-cheese and vinagrette dressing.
Artichoke hearts
Home-made rolls
Sangoviese

Egg Nog & Pumpkin pie
Champagne

Tonight - Turkey and all the trimmings.
Saturday - Brunch here: http://bastilleseattle.com/Menus

Eat-a-palooza 2011

[topaz]

My menu was:

Candied Yam(fresh yams, no canned yams for me)
Collard Greens
Turnips Green w/smoked pork neck bones
Broccoli, carrots, water chestnuts and snap peas medley(Birdseye brand)
Mashed Potatoes
Cornbread Dressing

Grilled Whole Turkey
Glazed Ham

Sweet Potatoe Pie
Apple & Raisin Bread Pudding
Devil's Food Cake

*It was my first time grilling the turkey and it turned out very well. It was son of gun replenishing the charcoals to keep the turkey at a constant temp. It took about 3 hours for a 14 pound turkey but flavor was fantastic. The legs started to open up while cooking. Next time I'll wrap the turkey in foil all around. The brine I used the night before kept the turkey juicy but I'll do a brine and flavor injections next time.

[Civic]

We ate at my middle sister's house this year. The menu:

Seven layer salad
Roast turkey
Baked ham
Cornbread dressing
Collard greens
Green beans
Mashed potatoes
Dinner rolls
Cornbread
Sweet potato pie
Chocolate cake with strawberry frosting

There were 11 of us and we had lotsa leftovers

[GarrAarghHrumph]

I'm spending Thanksgiving by myself this year. Looking forward to some peace and quiet. I am not cooking, but stopped and bought chicken, mashed potato, corn and pumpkin pie at Boston Market. I have cranberry sauce as well. I'm all set.

Ooh, lovely. I love Boston Market. I used to eat there a lot when I lived in Boston, but when I moved to NY, there weren't any near me. They recently built one near my work, and I went there, and remembered how much I like it.

We had a small Thanksgiving. My brother-in-law up in NH, who formerly was a stay at home husband, very recently asked his wife for a divorce, and is now living with his mom in Mass. Luckily, even after five years of not working, his particular skill set (commercial large vehicle license and tons of related experience) is so in demand in his area that he got a job by sneezing at one. He's now a driver for UPS - very good job, lots of hours. But it means he's not only working day before and after Thanksgiving, but also, as both the new guy and someone who needs serious and sudden cash, ON Thanksgiving. So husband's family could not come down, as they normally do, and did not do Thanksgiving at their house due to his working. So we had a small Thanksgiving at our house. It's always a pleasure not to have to travel for a major holiday, so we're happy and, even a day later, I feel like I'm still full!

We did get the world's smallest turkey. Turkette? We had mashed potatoes, acorn squash instead of our normal for Thanksgiving butternut, stuffing, green beans, candied carrots, rolls, and my special, spicy cranberry sauce. All lovely.

[GarrAarghHrumph]

I am making turkey, home made stuffing, asparagus, green beans, mashed potatoes and gravy, cranberry sauce and corn. Others are bringing pies...

Yes... the one thing we forgot to do is make a dessert. We normally make a pie, but we forgot. It was, I admit, a sad moment when we did remember.

[Rex]

Collard Greens
Turnips Green w/smoked pork neck bones.

Collard greens

Did not get any greens this year...clearly, I will have to make some myself.

[Lainerb]

Porcini mushroom encrusted potatoes
Chanterelle Pot Pie
White King Salmon for Mr. LaineRB and a few friends
Actual wild rice and hedgehog mushrooms

Cloudberry, tart
Wild Alaskan Cranberry Tart
Crabapple cake
Butternut squash pie

[Lacey]

So, having done the hors d'oeuvres and desserts for son, who did the whole main meal, we had no turkey leftovers, and I might have to do a breast here soon. But I did have some mini meals of cheeses, shrimp and chocolate flourless cake, pecan pie, apple crisp and my daughter's favorite, pumpkin chocolate bread pudding from Michael Symon on The Chew.

Today I am craving fish, weird.

[mmscfdcsu]

I just got home for a surprise Thanksgiving. I thought I was just going over to see my friends, They were visiting colleges over Thanksgiving. When I got to their house at 1:00 pm there was a whole meal waiting. Turking, stuffing corn cassarole, cranberry sauce, jello, sweet potatoes, rolls, green beans apple and pumpkin pies and a nice white wine. Yum.

[Rex]

I just got home for a surprise Thanksgiving. I thought I was just going over to see my friends, They were visiting colleges over Thanksgiving. When I got to their house at 1:00 pm there was a whole meal waiting. Turking, stuffing corn cassarole, cranberry sauce, jello, sweet potatoes, rolls, green beans apple and pumpkin pies and a nice white wine. Yum.

Mary, that is great...so you did have a turkey dinner...

[mmscfdcsu]

Mary, that is great...so you did have a turkey dinner...

Yes, they are amazing people. Wanted to celebrate the last Thanksgiving before the kids go off to college, together. I'm a very lucky lady.

[skateboy]

Yes, they are amazing people. Wanted to celebrate the last Thanksgiving before the kids go off to college, together. I'm a very lucky lady.

So glad you got your Holiday dinner.