What do you usually have to eat at your Thanksgiving Day table? I am just wondering what other people have..(including dessert) We have:
turkey, mashed potatoes, homemade stuffing, gravy, scalloped corn, Harvard beets(my grandmother's recipe), turnip, butternut squash, green beans ( NOT the casserole!!!!!), homemade applesauce, cranberry sauce,various homemade pickles and homemade rolls.
For dessert, we have: Cranberry orange bread, date nut bread, Pumpkin pie, apple pie, mince pie, and our traditional Butternut Cake (my great-great grandfathers recipe) All desserts are also homemade.
One last thing: As you sit down to your meal...think about this...What are you most thankful for?
2007-11-13 04:53:14 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Thanksgiving
Sounds like a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. I would come. The thing that I am always thankful for is God and having 2 families to spend Thanksgiving with. Have a Blessed Thanksgiving.
2007-11-13 05:04:11 · answer #1 · answered by catwoman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have a smoked turkey and ham from the local meat market, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes (half of it mashed with marshmallows on top because not everyone likes it that way), my mother makes her famous dressing, cranberry sauce (homemade), green beans (not the casserole, either), and I make the most amazing homemade dinner rolls.
As for desserts... I'm in charge of the dinner rolls and desserts each year. This year, for desserts, I am using some of Paula Deen's recipes: Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cake, Pumpkin Pecan Pie, regular pecan pie (for those that demand it each year), and fudge.
There are a lot of us that bake and cook (several generations), and we all show up at the same home with all of our dishes. It's wonderful. I love having a large family Thanksgiving. Family come from all over the United States to join us for this meal.
As for what we're thankful for... I have to say... I am thankful for things on a daily basis...not just at Thanksgiving.
Oh! The best part. FOOTBALL! We love to watch it and play it! There's an empty field by the deer fence at my parents' house that's perfect for football.
2007-11-13 05:01:03 · answer #2 · answered by Beth 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This year, I will be most thankful for the birth of my first child. I was due last week, and he still hasn't arrived yet, but my ob won't let me deliver past next Tuesday so he will be here in time for Thanksgiving.
We usually have a huge meal & the food starts around 1p, and goes until about 8p. Everything is homemade by me or one of the other members of the family & we have between 6-20 people here depending on the year. This year our Thanksgiving feast will be held the first weekend of December so I have time to feel like me again.
Appetizers: pepperoni bread, spinach dip, veggies & dips, pigs in a blanket
Dinner: turkey, gravy, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potaotes w/ apples, corn, creamed onions, string bean casserole, cranberry sauce, dinner rolls
Dessert: apple cake, pumpkin pie, lemon meringue pie, cookies, pecan tassies (easier to make then a whole pecan pie), and something sugar free (either cheesecake or cherry pie), homemade whipped cream & usually homemade vanilla ice cream.
Lots of coffee, tea, hot cocoa, red wine, & soda.
2007-11-13 05:01:56 · answer #3 · answered by Stephanie H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We usually have fried turkey (probably baked this year though), gravy, spiral ham, stuffing, green bean casserole, cranberry sauce, rolls, carrots cooked with brown sugar and butter, homemade mashed potatoes and the desserts usually change because I love experimenting, last year I made a double layer pumpkin pie and a pumpkin cheesecake with gingersnaps for the crust, this year I'm thinking apples and I tried a three layer pumpkin pie but I liked the double layer one better.
2007-11-13 06:37:45 · answer #4 · answered by cherylx08 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay, here is mine:
Appetizers:
Baked brie en croute
Assorted cheeses
Olives
Crackers and french bread,
Pears, apples and grapes
Dinner:
Roast turkey (fresh, not frozen)
Sausage and bread stuffing/dressing
Gravy
Spiral sliced ham with brown sugar and pineapple
Green beans with bacon and almonds
Mashed potatoes
Corn in butter sauce
Scratch made baked mac and cheese
Both whole berry and jellied cranberry sauce
Fresh dinner rolls
Desserts:
Pumpkin pie (or sometimes pumpkin cheesecake)
Crumb top apple-cranberry pie
Flourless chocolate cake
Chocolate chip cookies
Golden rum cake
Black walnut pound cake
(All things made from scratch)
Beverages:
Wine
Sodas
Iced tea
Water
Coffee
Tea
Hot Chocolate
Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Oh and let's not forget the grilled turkey rubens the day after!
2007-11-13 05:43:45 · answer #5 · answered by AlwaysOverPack 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Appetizers: Ritz crackers and cream cheese, celery with peanut butter, peperoni and cheese
Dinner: Turkey
Stuffing
Mashed Potatoes
Baked Corn
Carrot Casserole
Green Bean Casserole
Broccoli and Cheese Casserole
Poppyseed Salad
Crescent Rolls
Cranberry Sauce
Candied Yams
Deviled Eggs
And dessert is always apple pie, pumpkin pie and chocolate peanut butter pie! Homemade, of course.:o)
Oh I can't wait!!
2007-11-13 06:12:55 · answer #6 · answered by superkate54 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Now this is my kind of talk.
Let's see my uncle and aunt cook the meal every year so this is what I'm sure we're having.
Appetizers -
Nacho chips
Trail Mix
Pumpkin Seeds
Soup
Dinner -
Baked Turkey
Salad
Celery w/cream cheese
Olives - Both green and black
Sweet Potatoes
Mashed Potatoes w/gravy
Green Beans
Corn
Corn on the cob
Baked Macaroni and Cheese
Biscuits w/butter
Cranberries
Desert -
Pumpkin Pie (blech)
Dutch Apple Pie
Ice Cream
Cookies
The thing I'm most thankful for?
My mother. I'm thankful 24/7 that I have probably one of the most wonderful mom's. I love her so much. So that's what I'm most thankful for.
blondie.
2007-11-13 08:31:58 · answer #7 · answered by blonddiva999 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Turkey, sage dressing, mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, green beans in mushroom soup, pecan pie and whipped cream, cranberry sauce, black olives, turkey gravy, and water. Then my family would go to Golden, Colorado, at a restaurant drugstore and get malts in the afternoon, then go back home again, and eat Thanksgiving supper. I was most thankful for the butterscotch malt, and Macy's Thanksgiving day parade.
2007-11-13 06:15:57 · answer #8 · answered by Susan S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We're making a lemon garlic sage turkey, 2 stuffings, green bean casserole, mixed greens salad with balsamic vinaigrette and feta, 2 different mashed potatoes with bacon gravy, French bread, and some appetizer I haven't come up with yet.
I really want shrimp, but one of the guests can't stand even the smell of seafood. Otherwise my menu would be done.
Oh, and I'm thankful for my husband, kids, and grandkids and that we can spend time with them.
2007-11-13 04:58:43 · answer #9 · answered by chefgrille 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Having Honey glazed turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing,corn, rolls, Pumpkin pie with Cool Whip, dutch apple pie, & cookies.
I am thankful to have a wonderful husband who has stuck by me through thick and thin, that our daughters are safe, happy and healthy, we have a roof over our head and food on the table.
2007-11-13 05:18:43 · answer #10 · answered by Wantstoknow75 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋