Originally Posted By Lisann22 LOL on Going back to Cali and the salami!! I read that CookingLight feature too. LOL!
Originally Posted By alexbook We haven't done a big Thanksgiving the last couple of years, but we're talking about resuming our family tradition, which used to involve going over to my mom's best friend's house. Mom and her friend would cook up a fairly traditional feast, with a few concessions to the vegetarians. (Hooray for squash ring!) Before dinner, we sometimes play croquet or go for a short hike. After dinner, we sometimes play Scrabble.
Originally Posted By Stacers76 For the first time in 11 yrs I won't be going home, always have to work the day before and after and usually go home the week before...but since mom and I are heading out on vacay the week after, I'm just stayin home..less driving. SO I'm working overtime on the actual holiday, the weekend before I do have a turkey I'll be roasting with just white wine. Stove Top Stuffing, mashed potatoes and giblet gravy...hmm Pillsbury rolls, cranberry sauce out of a can (the jellied can shaped kind) and I'll make steamed green beans. Also have wonderful squeeze cheez out of a can mmmm, chips n ranch dip and deviled eggs. OOh yeah and black olives...OH and a ClaimJumpers lemon meringue pie for dessert. SO I'm making nothing really homemade and will not be able to fit on any ride at disneyland when we get there a week later lol )
Originally Posted By TheParsec Last year we had Thanksgiving at Disneyland, and years before with my parents, but with everything going on here this year with my father sick and my daughter going to have her baby next week, we are going to have a simple thanksgiving dinner at home. We have the usual things like turkey, stuffing, mash potato's, and so on, but I also make a Vegi plate and a seafood platter, and Stuffed Mushrooms with Crab meat.
Originally Posted By TXDISNEYNERD Thanksgiving is going to be at my house again this year. We try and take turns going to my Aunt's house one year or having it with my DH's family the next, but due to circumstances, I am having it again. On the menu: Turkey Dressing Mashed potatoes & gravy Green beans (not the yucky casserole!) Sweet potatoes Corn Rolls Pumpkin & Apple pie Deviled eggs
Originally Posted By 999HAUNTS I've noticed deviled eggs on a lot of these lists - is this beoming more and more traditional for the holidays? (I don't do mayo or mustard at all, so I rarely prepare them. But when I do, I make them with ranch dressing and olives - not very interesting but still yummy.)
Originally Posted By Disneymom443 Everything sounds so good. I just can't belive that it is almost here. I think I'll start thinking about it next week. Hoping to not run out of time.
Originally Posted By mele <<Everything sounds so good. I just can't belive that it is almost here. I think I'll start thinking about it next week.>> Fiddle-dee-dee, Scarlett! ;-)
Originally Posted By iamsally >>>>My family is adamant that my mother do as little of the cooking as possible.<<<< LOL mele. We have that same tradition with my mother-in-law. Luckily, the dear thing is going to her niece's to be with her sister this year. We will be having a fresh turkey. One that was still alive on Wednesday afternoon. A first for us as I usually buy a big frozen thing. Yeah to the deviled eggs. Whenever I make them they disappear quickly so the fam must like them. Watergate salad. Some sort of vegetable casserole. I do love that greenbean thing but I use fresh veggies and no canned soup. Rolls of course. Potatoes and gravy. Rice, there has to be a big pot of rice. I am going to try my hand at fresh pumpkin pie. (I say this every year but have yet to actually do it.) A cheese cake. Probably a ham as DS does not like turkey very much. I am sure other things will show up. Have a yummy fun meal everyone;o)
Originally Posted By Labuda Oooo, you're in for a treat with fresh turkey! I got to have fresh turkey at my Uncle Steve's one year when I was in college, and it was FABULOUS.
Originally Posted By WDWdreamin I forgot: Shrimp tray Veggie tray Olives Corn Deviled eggs seem to have become a tradition with us.
Originally Posted By Sara Tonin I'm only doing the turkey and dressing/stuffing. I've let the family know that I have to work the day before and the day after so I just won't have time. And my 82 year old father shouldn't have to take up the slack. So, hopefully they can get together and divide up the sides...
Originally Posted By Sara Tonin Oh, and anyone have the recipe for the crap salad that has been so popular here for the last couple years?
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb This is going to be my first Thanksgiving with my parents and my sister's family since about the time I joined LP as Kylesmom Fall of '05. So really the food is just a bonus for me. Since I will be traveling on the day, I won't be doing much, if any cooking, so I don't know exactly what's on the menu. Some possibilities are: Devilled eggs Relish tray (carrots, celery, black and green olives, that sort of thing) Crackers w/ artichoke dip Turkey Dressing Mashed Potatoes Gravy Green beans and bacon Bro in-law likes cranberry sauce, so we'll probably have a can GBC will be there if my roommate comes with us Pumpkin pie and apple pie are a must.
Originally Posted By Labuda Ok, so... yesterday my friend Rob's wife Nancy who is THE BEST COOK I HAVE EVER ENCOUNTERED (including the chefs at both Napa Rose and Victoria & Albert's) invited me to Thanksgiivng at their house. So, after my morning working with Operation Turkey (<a href="http://www.operationturkey.com" target="_blank">http://www.operationturkey.com</a>), I will be headed to Pflugerville to have what I suspect will be the tastiest Thanksgiving dinner I'll have ever had. Oh, and then, of course, watch the UT-A&M game and play some poker since, hey, poker happens on Thursdays.
Originally Posted By chickapin "BTW, I have one teensy question, aimed at chickapin: Salad? Really? On Thanksgiving?" Sorry--been out of town! I'd like to stand on a pedestal and tell you we prefer to eat healthy foods, etc., but the truth is--we LOVE the chunky shrimp dressing (cream cheese, sour cream, dill, etc.) that goes on the salad, so salad it is!
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb Years ago no one in our family would eat dressing unless it were stuffing, that is to say cooked in the bird. Just too dry otherwise. A few years ago my mom came up with a method for making dressing that is every bit as yummy and moist as the bird stuffing, without worrying about food-born illness. She take the dressing and loads it into a crockpot lined with bacon, she then takes some of the excess fat removed from the turkey before cooking and puts it on the dressing and then covers the whole thing in more bacon . Vegetarians need not apply, but oh soooooo yummy!
