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10-26-2015, 04:36 PM
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Thanksgiving Dishes
So what do y'all make for Thanksgiving dinner (or already did this year for our Great White North neighbors)?!
Like how do you make turkey, mashed potatoes, etc. 'special' from year to year? My sister is hosting her first holiday in her new house, and I have been assigned green bean casserole (which is totally fine). My husband, however, cannot eat traditional green bean casserole ('cream of' soups generally have gluten in them + the crunchy onion bits do, too, of course) so I thought I might 'branch out' and do a spin on GBC. Anyone have any recipes to share? Or just other general Thanksgiving/Christmas/holiday recipes? [I love collecting recipes. Using them on the other hand...  ]
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10-26-2015, 05:47 PM
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When we do Thanksgiving at my mom's we do everything 'normal'... no special recipes, really. My mom was always about convenience in the kitchen when I was little, so growing up we didn't have a lot of things from scratch. We did do mashed potatoes from scratch... no powdered stuff!
 We had pepperidge farm herbed cube stuffing, nothing added to it like onions or celery (my dad liked it plain). Canned cranberry sauce. Green Bean Casserole from the recipe on the onions. The turkey was fresh and mom made in a bag so it was nice and juicy, but we didn't stuff it.Now, as an adult, I've added some things to our family thanksgivings. I make cranberry sauce from scratch with orange juice & peels, clove, apple, fresh cranberries and cinnamon sticks. It's sooo good. I also make roasted carrots with a honey/lemon glaze. We still like our 'regular' green bean casserole, but the recipe I use has soy sauce in it. Not sure if that's what's in the original recipe. And I make Ina Garten's sausage and herb stuffing along with mom's plain pepperidge stuff. Dad still likes it plain. 
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10-26-2015, 07:46 PM
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10-26-2015, 08:35 PM
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We have turkey, real mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole with brown sugar/nuts, Paula Deen's cornbread dressing, gravy, Parker House rolls, squash and onions and the occasional new thing on Thanksgiving.
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10-26-2015, 09:02 PM
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10-26-2015, 09:59 PM
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Thanksgiving is interesting in my house because we have a lot of vegetarians (including me). Some of the things we usually have:
Turkey Tofurkey (vegetarian turkey) Pepperidge farm stuffing Stuffing casserole (a little stuffing and lots of vegetables) A few kinds of potatoes A few kinds of vegetables (but never green bean casserole--don't think I've ever had it) Cranberry sauce-always canned, sometimes also homemade Apple sauce Bread or rolls Pumpkin mousse Apple pie Chocolate mousse or another chocolate dessert
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10-26-2015, 11:08 PM
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Y'all making me hungry with all this food talk going!
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10-27-2015, 05:32 AM
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We have Thanksgiving at my parents every year with my sisters and their families, so my mom still makes her traditional things. I don't eat the turkey since I don't eat meat (but I never actually liked turkey when I did anyway
) Here's our list:Turkey Stuffing (with added onion, celery, dried cranberries) Gravy Mashed potatoes Glazed sweet potatoes German red cabbage Creamed onions Peas Cranberry sauce (jellied from a can because no one except me and my my mother likes whole sauce) Bourbon pumpkin pie with candied pecans Selection of homemade German cookies including Pfeffernusse, Zimsterne, Springerle, and Lebkuchen Last edited by mariewilcox; 10-27-2015 at 10:22 AM.
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10-27-2015, 08:40 AM
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Well, Thanksgiving here in Michigan tends to be different than Thanksgiving was in Florida, so I've just kind of started trying to go with the flow since we go to my inlaws, and I make the traditional meal exactly how I like it for Christmas dinner.
My Inlaws Do Turkey Mashed Potatoes Gravy Stuffing Some sort of vegetable and rolls usually. Since we've moved here, I make Sweet Potato Casserole Deviled Eggs And my SIL does Greenbean Casserole Seems like my MIL has started doing a corn casserole and a homemade cranberry walnut relish thing (that I love). I don't like stuffing, I want my southern cornbread dressing. LOL! So I get almost everything at their Thanksgiving that I want, other than my dressing. I'll probably make a Chocolate Pecan Pie and my MIL does Pumpkin. For Christmas I'll do Turkey Dressing Cranberry Relish Mashed Potatoes w/ Gravy Homemade Yeast Rolls Sweet Potato Casserole Corn on the Cob Green Bean Casserole Deviled Eggs French Silk Pie Pumpkin Pie And I think I'm going to make my Granny's Rum Cake.
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10-27-2015, 12:24 PM
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Our menu:
Fried Turkey (yum) Ham Mashed Potatoes (PW's recipe, ftw) & gravy Green Bean Casserole Stuffing (right out of the box! lol) Bacon wrapped little smokes Cheese & summer sausage with crackers Rolls And then we normally go crazy with the pies... Pumpkin, Pecan, Coconut cream, peanut butter, sometimes a cheesecake, etc. I have no idea why we make so many kinds, but I find it impossible to cut one.
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10-29-2015, 11:03 AM
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I guess for us the meal is pretty basic... carrots, corn, potatos, peas, cranberry sauce, (nothing special done with any of them -- I don't really touch veggies, but worse than veggies are foods touching each other so everything had to be kept seperate, the thought of casseroles makes my stomach turn), my Dad would fuss over the turkey ALL day (even though it was only ever the 5 of us - dad mom, me and my 2 brothers he always had to have the BIGGEST turkey he could find - so he was up at 5am on any holiday to get it in the oven on time). His turkey was always amazing! He also did the gravy (no one could make gravy like him - you would think he was a mad scientist the way everything had to be just so and perfect for making it lol) and then of course his FAMOUS stuffing! I was never a stuffing fan but everyone who ever had it always raved about his stuffing. The desserts on the other hand... there was always one of everyone's favorite pie waiting (and then a few extras for good measure
)... not nearly as many sweets and treats as there were at Christmas time but still lots. wanna know the BEST part about Thanksgiving?? I get TWO! My family is American and we moved to Canada when us kids were young, so we would do the Canadian Thanksgiving AND do American Thanksgiving. My parents would even let us stay home from school on American Thanksgiving if we wanted to (and of course I did... umm hellooooo.... Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was on tv... couldn't miss that!! ). This is something I carried on with my kids as a tradition and they love it! I'm sure my oldest will want to go to school this year because I don't think he'd survive an unnecessary day off from his girlfriend (lol), I know the little ones are excited, especially my MIni Chef Rob... he's looking forward to the FOOD and helping to prepare a Thanksgiving meal all over again!
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10-29-2015, 11:07 AM
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10-29-2015, 12:47 PM
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10-29-2015, 01:53 PM
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See, our Stuffing is called dressing. LOL! I don't stuff the bird. And we use cornbread, and it is moist.
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10-29-2015, 05:58 PM
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I always, always work Thanksgiving, but was randomly given it off this year. I have no idea what to do with myself now. I don't know what to cook. It doesn't help that I am vegetarian and my boyfriend and son are big meat eaters.
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10-29-2015, 07:19 PM
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