Thanksgiving Dinner

[king family fan]

What will you be having? will you be fixing dinner or going elsewhere for dinner? Will you be traveling? Maybe some special recipes or traditions. We will be staying home for turkey day. The usual dinner. We will have circle corn. (corn on the cob) sons only dinner request.

 

[Out of Order]

Turkey!!!

 

[HollyGolightly]

I am taking a fried turkey to Mom's - that gets me out of having to make anything myself - the Knights at our church will fry you up a turkey for $35. We'll spend the day feasting at my mom's - that's a two hour drive us. I'll drink way too much and for some reason we always plan Bananagrams - and it gets very naughty and mean - I usually have to usher the kids out of the dining room. And then the Husband will drag me away before it gets too dramatic. I am way older than my siblings and sometimes they hate me.

 

[Autumn Gust]

I'm bringing a few things to our big family dinner at my brother and sister-in-law's house-- candied sweet potatoes, cranberry chutney, and pumpkin cake.

 

[kingricefan]

Have to work till 430 pm or so, so won't be doing anything but coming home and relaxing for the next day (Black Friday!!!!).

 

[Cowboy]

I will spend the morning deer morning with my boys and then about noon, Momma is fixing Turkey and her home made noodles. I am looking forward to it as I do every year.

 

[doowopgirl]

I haven't been the States for Thanksgiving for 23 years. I used to get really upset about it, so I decided to do something about it. We have the in laws over on the Sunday as Thursday isn't a day off here. It's still Thanksgiving weekend. Turkey, ham, cranberry sauce, ususally sweet potatos, but this year I'm doing butternut suash for a change. I cook and freeze the Halloween pumpkin for the pie. It makes me happy and no one complains.

 

[Moderator]

Thanksgiving will be at my mom's and will be our first get-together to do the Christmas thing as well as this is her first year as a Florida snow bird so won't be here for Christmas. I've already told my kids that I'm not giving them ALL their presents on Thanksgiving--they'll have to wait until the real Christmas. I'll then make my own scaled-down Thanksgiving dinner for my partner and myself on Friday as I like having all the leftovers--and not having to cook for several days after. The menu will be pretty traditional--turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, broccoli casserole (we're not into the green bean one), squash, carrots, yeast rolls, homemade cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie with whipped cream.

 

[FlakeNoir]

Thanksgiving will be at my mom's and will be our first get-together to do the Christmas thing as well as this is her first year as a Florida snow bird so won't be here for Christmas. I've already told my kids that I'm not giving them ALL their presents on Thanksgiving--they'll have to wait until the real Christmas. I'll then make my own scaled-down Thanksgiving dinner for my partner and myself on Friday as I like having all the leftovers--and not having to cook for several days after. The menu will be pretty traditional--turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, broccoli casserole (we're not into the green bean one), squash, carrots, yeast rolls, homemade cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie with whipped cream.

Ahhhhhhhh stop! If you could see the state of my keyboard now.

 

[Moderator]

Ahhhhhhhh stop! If you could see the state of my keyboard now.

You should hear what my mother has planned for Thursday!

 

[FlakeNoir]

You should hear what my mother has planned for Thursday!

Oh alright, it can't get any worse... hit me!

 

[two gun Dan]

I thought I'd gotten out of ThanksGiving this year. My boys are both married and off to their inlaws that day, My mother and her husband were headed up to my older sisters because her husband had to work and everybody else is working too. But now their plans fell through so I got a call asking me to host it. So it will be ham with garlic & chive mashed potatoes. Others are bringing the pies, buns & sweet potatoes. I like ham because that leads to ham & bean soup. I'll put some ham in the freezer for scalloped potatoes & ham come Xmas. Everybody raved last year about it but now I have no idea what I did last year. I didn't add it to my recipe file so I'll have to start from scratch again.

 

[two gun Dan]

Ahhhhhhhh stop! If you could see the state of my keyboard now.

Are you drooling all over your desk? If I hadn't already eaten I would be.

 

[kingricefan]

Drive the cah to Bah Hahbah for lohbstah?

 

[two gun Dan]

A celebration of food is a celabration of life!

 

[Moderator]

A lot of the same things I'm having and this year is making the mashed potatoes by simmering them in 1/2 cream and 1/2 milk instead of water then adding fresh garlic and butter when mashing them, in addition to the pumpkin pie there will be blueberry pie, chocolate pecan pie, and pumpkin roll. Seems like there were other vegetable side dishes she mentioned but not remembering them at the moment. I think I gained weight just listening to her describing the menu!

Oh alright, it can't get any worse... hit me!

 

[FlakeNoir]

A lot of the same things I'm having and this year is making the mashed potatoes by simmering them in 1/2 cream and 1/2 milk instead of water then adding fresh garlic and butter when mashing them, in addition to the pumpkin pie there will be blueberry pie, chocolate pecan pie, and pumpkin roll. Seems like there were other vegetable side dishes she mentioned but not remembering them at the moment. I think I gained weight just listening to her describing the menu!

Oh God, I was wrong, it can always get much, much, much worse!

Plane tickets, I neeeeed plane tickets... where is that bloody Santa when you need him?!

 

[Moderator]

Drive the cah to Bah Hahbah for lohbstah?

Lobster is saved for Christmas.

 

[two gun Dan]

A lot of the same things I'm having and this year is making the mashed potatoes by simmering them in 1/2 cream and 1/2 milk instead of water then adding fresh garlic and butter when mashing them, in addition to the pumpkin pie there will be blueberry pie, chocolate pecan pie, and pumpkin roll. Seems like there were other vegetable side dishes she mentioned but not remembering them at the moment. I think I gained weight just listening to her describing the menu!

Yes! These menus are worth a couple of pounds weight gain apiece! Pumpkin roll ????

 

[kingricefan]

All this talk of food has made me hungry! I shall depart now and partake of some much needed lunch consisting of a tuna (tooter) fish sandwhich, some string cheese and some eggnog. Nummers!!!