Some good ideas of food to make for Thanksgiving?

Question

So far this is what we are having. Turkey,suffing,tators and gravy, yams, green bean casorole, corn, deviled eggs, baked beans, rolls

Thankyou everyone these are all some great ideas.

Answer 1

Apple Orchard Punch

1 (32 fluid ounce) bottle apple juice, chilled
1 (12 fluid ounce) can frozen cranberry juice concentrate
1 cup orange juice
1 1/2 liters ginger ale
1 apple

In a large punch bowl, combine apple juice, cranberry juice concentrate and orange juice. Stir until dissolved, then slowly pour in the ginger ale.
Thinly slice the apple vertically, forming whole apple slices. Float apple slices on top of punch.

Answer 2

Sounds good so far! Here's a couple desserts:

cake with autumn icing.
Use your favorite mix or homemade cake. Top with orange creme icing (red and yellow food coloring in a cream cheese icing.) Take a leaf, like a maple leaf and wash it thoroughly.
Melt chocolate in a double boiler and spray the leaf with cooking spray. Paint the melted chocolate on the leaf with a basting brush. Dip it into a bowl of ice water, and peel off the chocolate leaf! Decorate the cake with them. Everybody will notice the realistic veins on the leaf and you can tell them you found a rare tree that grows chocolate leaves! (Don't forget to take a picture before you eat it.)

colonial era pumpkin custard pie.

In the old days, they didn't have pie crusts in the supermarket, so when they wanted a pumpkin pie, this is what they did.
6 eggs, 2 cups whipping cream, 1 cup brown sugar, vanilla, cinammon, ginger, nutmeg (you decide.) Several tablespoons butter. 1 Medium size sweet (cooking) pumpkin, about five pounds.

Cut the top off the pumpkin as if to make a jack o lantern. Clean out the seeds and save the seeds for toasting later-- they are yummy! Mix all ingredients except for the buttter, beat thoroughly.

Put the mixture in the pumpkin and melt the butter, top the mixture with the melted butter. Then cover with the pumpkin top. Bake about 1 hour at 350.

This makes a delicious egg custard and when serving, scoop out some of the pumpkin along with it! I suppose you could also try cutting it into slices, but I haven't tried that yet. If you do decide to slice it, the custard might be firmer if you refrigerate it first. But it is so good, hot!

Enjoy!

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Answer 3

Standing Rib Roast of Beef au Poivre

Serves 4-6

Ingredients:

About 1/2 cup whole black peppercorns
1 each 5- to 6-pound standing rib roast of beef, at room temperature

Procedure:

Preheat the oven to 475 degree F. Place the peppercorns in a small heavy brown bag and crush by banging with a mallet. With the palm of your hand, press the peppercorns into all surfaces of the meat.

Place the roast, fat side up, on a rack in a shallow roasting pan, then put into the oven and roast for 30 minutes.

Lower the oven temperature to 300 degrees F. Baste the roast with the pan juices and insert a meat thermometer into the center of the thickest part of the roast, making sure that the thermometer does not touch the bone.

Continue roasting for about 30 minutes and check the thermometer reading. Roast until the thermometer reads 135 degrees F. for medium rare (about 16 minutes per pound total roasting time) to 160 degrees F. for medium-well (about 25 minutes per pound total roasting time, not that we suggest this!).

When desired doneness is reached, remove it from the oven and allow it to rest, loosely covered with aluminum foil, about 30 minutes before carving. Prepare the Sauce Diabolique (recipe below).

To serve, carve into 1/4 to 1/2-inch thick slices and ladle a few tablespoons of the sauce onto each serving.

Answer 4

Cranberry relish for Thanksgiving is an easy and delicious side dish.
INGREDIENTS:

* 1 lb. cranberries, sorted, rinsed, and drained
* 1-1/2 cups sugar
* 2 tsp. vanilla
* juice of 1 lemon
* rind of 1 lemon
* 1/4 tsp. salt
* 2 oranges, peeled and sliced

PREPARATION:
In a food processor, combine cranberries, sugar and vanilla. Process for a few seconds. Then add lemon juice and process for 5 seconds. Add oranges and process until well mixed, about 5 seconds. Cover and refrigerate for at least 24 hours before serving.

Carrot Pineapple Salad

IThe tangy flavor of the mayonnaise complements the sweet and juicy pineapple and crunchy carrots.

INGREDIENTS:

* 1 envelope unflavored gelatin
* 1/2 cup reserved pineapple juice
* 1/3 cup sugar
* 1/4 tsp. salt
* 1 cup boiling water
* 1/4 cup lemon juice
* 1/2 cup chopped pecans
* 8-oz. can crushed pineapple, well drained, reserving juice
* 2 carrots, coarsely grated

PREPARATION:
In large bowl, sprinkle gelatin over reserved pineapple juice and let stand 2-3 minutes. Then pour sugar and salt on top of gelatin. Pour boiling water over all and stir until sugar and gelatin are dissolved.Add lemon juice and stir to blend. Add pecans, pineapple, and grated carrot. Pour into 8" square glass baking dish. Cover and chill 4 hours until firm. Cut into squares to serve and top with a bit of mayonnaise. 9 servings

Answer 5

My boyfriend is coming over, so I am making:

Scallops with a Mascarpone Cheese Sauce
Lentils and Applewood Bacon, with an Apple Cider Reduction
Red Wine Risotto in Parmasean Broth
Grilled Asparagus wrapped in Pepper Bacon

No, I don't know how to make a turkey. Who do you think I am, Julia Child?!

Answer 6

You can't have Thanksgiving without the cranberries!! There is a recipe I have made many times that gets RAVE reviews.

2 bags fresh cranberries, clean and pick out the bad ones, of course, add one very juicy peeled orange, deveined and seeded, add 1 tsp of orange peel. Put this in the food processor until finely ground....NOT soupy! Add to that 1/2 cup of fresh orange juice and a cap full of orange flavored brandy or some kind of orange liquor. Add sugar...1 to 2 cups according to taste, as cranberries are very sour. Mix thoroughly and refrigerate. No cooking whatsoever!! It is very easy and very fabulous!!

Answer 7

This sounds almost like the quintessential Thanksgiving menu. Except for baked beans. Is that regional? You are missing the cranberry sauce, black olives, scallions, and radishes -- all very important to our table. And of course the pumpkin pie.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Answer 8

A big trend this year is including a dish with family familiarity with the traditional meal...so say you're of greek origin, try a nice easy spanikopita. Irish?, corned beef and cabbage. Jamaican?, jerk roasted chicken.
have fun!

Answer 9

Have you ever tried carrots with butter and brown sugar. Or try going to foodnetwork.com and looking at some of there ideas on what they surve at Thanksgiving. Enjoy

Answer 10

every year my sis makes cheesecake and I make lemon pie.

if you take a recipie for green bean cassarole and substitue with corn instead its great! good luck!