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Our table will be full of
turkey
fresh cranberry sauce
apple sauce
stuffing (from a box  )
green beans
taters of some sort, either sweet or mashed
key lime pie
If you cook when do you start? I may make the pie crust tonight and the filling tomorrow. Most everything else, I'll do on Thursday. The kiddos like to watch the parade and I might have them do a little Thanksgiving lapbook.
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WE are eating at my brother's, but I am doing a considerable amount of cooking to bring with us....
Ham
Sweet Potato Casserole
Acorn Squash with Shrimp
Mississippi Mud Pie
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We're eating very early afternoon. My sister and bil work opposite shifts somedays and that's one of them.. so I am going to attempt to have dinner ready so that they can both eat with us.
Turkey (stuffed with citrus and onions for moisture)
dressing (stuffing not stuffed)
mashed potatoes
gravy
some sort of veggie
celery stuffed with cheese
pickles
olives
homemade cranberry-pear sauce (sis is making)
rolls
pumpkin pie
pecan pie
apple pie
You know the more years I do this the shorter that menu seems 
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This year we're attending a pot-luck Thanksgiving party -- yay!! I'm in charge of dessert ONLY, so I get to play:
Ginger Ice Cream
Ginger-Molasses Cookies
Caramel Nut Tart
Pumpkin Pie, which will be some sort of combo between this and this
Rum-Raisin Apple Pie
Roasted Pears, but prettified with Pomegranate Seeds
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We're hosting for the first time ever. (Just my Mom, her dh, and my sister and her family.) My dh will cook the turkey, gravy and stuffing, my ds 9 will make the pumpkin pie and I'll do most of the easy stuff.
turkey
stuffing
gravy
mashed potatoes
sweet potatoes
carrots
corn
jellied cranberry sauce
dinner rolls (my sister)
cornbread
pumpkin pie
apple pie (Mom)
roll cake (Mom)
cookies (my sister)
water
soda
coffee
apple cider
I'm washing the new tablecloths and napkins right now.  Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
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Bill's mom is taking us out to eat. I'm thinking it will be pretty interesting taking 7 kids to a sit down place after all of us have been in the car for 2 days. I was kind of hoping for Chinese food, but we'll see what in on the menu. 
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We are having Thanksgiving with just our immediate family this year. My children do not have big appetites and are not adventurous eaters at all, and dh isn't really very adventurous, either. I love to cook and try new recipes, but this isn't going to be the year to do that! So, we are having:
Roast turkey breast
Pan dressing
Mashed potatoes and gravy
small dish of sweet potatoes for me
corn
rolls
green salad
pumpkin pie
chocolate pie
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Almost the exact menu we had last year. Many of the foods were new and turned out to be keepers.
Turkey
Ham
Leber Soup
Mashed Potatoes
Stuffing
Green Salad
Rice Marinated Artichoke Salad
Parmesan-Butternut Squash Gratin
Green Beans with basil
Ultimate Creamed Corn
Cranberry Sauce
Candied Yams w/ Marshmallows
Crescent Rolls
Dessert
Eggnog Pots de Creme 
Jell-O Cloud
Apple Pie
Pumpkin Pie
Apple Dumplings
Drinks
various Juices
Apple cider
Cranberry-Apple Spritzer
**Edited to add: Last year, for the first time, almost everything was prepared Wednesday to have less to do on Thanksgiving. Even peeling and cutting the potatoes, then putting them in a large bowl of water. That meant the kitchen was clean when guests arrived early on Thanksgiving and I didn't feel overwhelmed or fall behind.
That was reeeally different for me. 
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Michaela wrote:
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Oooh!!! Tell us how to make that one please!
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Turkey
Mashed Potatoes
Gravy
Green Beans
Butternuts Squash puree
Pumpkin yeast rolls
Pumpkin cheese cake
Pumpkin Pie
Pomagranite juice to wash it all down!
It will just be the 11 of us and my Mother and Father in law.
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Ours is not a traditional Thanksgiving...or perhaps it is. We meet family up in the northern woods of Louisiana and everyone brings something to the feast.
Everyone is already up there camping this week. We couldn't leave because of work and sports schedule and because of this treat with my girls tonight.
Anyway, we'll be driving up there for a few days and the menu is:
Turkey---the Delano's
Ham------Ellender's and Gibson's
Yam Dish-Charlotte
Cornbread Dressing---my sister-in-law
Green Bean Casserole---Cheryl
Giblet Gravy---Cheryl
Homemade Cranberry Sauce---my mom
Fruit Salad---my brother
Bread---my mom
Cantaloupe---me, myself and I
Dessert (Pecan & Pumpkin Pies)---me, myself and I
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stefoodie wrote:
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Eggnog Pots de Creme
1 1/2 cups eggnog
1/2 cup half-and-half
3 egg yolks
2 tsp. cornstarch
1/2 tsp. rum extract
Ground nutmeg
1. In saucepan, heat eggnog and half-and-half over medium-low heat, stirring occasionally, until hot.
2. In medium bowl, beat egg yolks, cornstarch and rum extract with wire whisk. Stir a small amount of the hot eggnog mixture into egg mixture, then gradually stir egg mixture back into eggnog mixture in saucepan. Continue cooking over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, until mixture just begins to boil and thicken. Immediately remove from heat.
3. Pour into 4 (4.5-ounce) serving dishes. Sprinkle with nutmeg. Refrigerate at least 8 hours until well chilled and set.
This dessert can be made up to 24 hours ahead. Just cover each dish with plastic wrap and refrigerate.
I double the recipe & enjoy it hot. The flavors seem more intense. The rest of my family enjoy it either hot or chilled.
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I've gotta' leave my mandatory, annual plug for the sweetpotato farmers. ;-) My dad and brother run a big sweetpotato business. Here's their website for several recipes, including our famous pie recipe. I've posted it for *years* but I thought I'd link it once again for any newbies.
I make it pretty much the same as my mom except I don't use as much ginger as is listed (neither does she!) and I add more nutmeg. You can make this allergy-friendly with soy milk instead of evaporated milk, use dairy-free margarine, etc. I've also made it with egg-replacer for my son before, too. I have also used honey a time or two instead of brown sugar.
Godwin Produce Co.
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I want to eat with Michaela's family!
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Michaela wrote:
Eggnog Pots de Creme
1 1/2 cups eggnog
1/2 cup half-and-half
3 egg yolks
2 tsp. cornstarch
1/2 tsp. rum extract
Ground nutmeg
1. In saucepan, heat eggnog and half-and-half over medium-low heat, stirring occasionally, until hot.
2. In medium bowl, beat egg yolks, cornstarch and rum extract with wire whisk. Stir a small amount of the hot eggnog mixture into egg mixture, then gradually stir egg mixture back into eggnog mixture in saucepan. Continue cooking over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, until mixture just begins to boil and thicken. Immediately remove from heat.
3. Pour into 4 (4.5-ounce) serving dishes. Sprinkle with nutmeg. Refrigerate at least 8 hours until well chilled and set.
This dessert can be made up to 24 hours ahead. Just cover each dish with plastic wrap and refrigerate.
I double the recipe & enjoy it hot. The flavors seem more intense. The rest of my family enjoy it either hot or chilled. |
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That sounds so goooood... and soooo bad for my family that it will all be *mine* Thank you!!
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missionfamily wrote:
WE are eating at my brother's, but I am doing a considerable amount of cooking to bring with us....
Ham
Sweet Potato Casserole
Acorn Squash with Shrimp
Mississippi Mud Pie
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Gosh Colleen - you are brave to do all that with the nausea!! We are having our first ever quiet Thanksgiving - just our family at home! Our menu is very simple - I cannot even bear to see the picture of a turkey  We are having ham, mashed potatoes, green beans, big salad, French apple tart.
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Recipe please!
Kayleigh made her Chicken/Cornbread Dressing this morning to take to work. I thought I'd share it.
A warning...she really doesn't measure anything so, as I took notes, I made some haphazard guesses.
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We're going to Grandma's house. I posted a few recipes of the items I'm bringing. Making the apple pies and stuffing balls today.
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I am checking out all of your recipes as I scroll past!
On our menu:
Turkey
Wild rice dressing with Italian Sausage
Sweet Potatoes with Cranberries
Roasted Potatoes
Asparagus
Fresh Baked Butter Roll Bread
Pumpkin Pie
My ds loves the pie, my dd the cheesecake, so he gets his choice this year! And I just made fresh pumpkin! You cannot buy cans of pumpkin (at least, not in this part of Wales).
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A 12-pound fresh Butterball turkey that was 99 cents a pound at Costco, stuffing mix that just needs butter and water added, homemade gravy, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce homemade from cranberries and sugar, homemade pumpkin pie (with canned pumpkin, not fresh, but a homemade crust,) oh and frozen broccoli. Very simple, to feed five adults and two small children.
And my husband is presumptively the one making all this stuff! He's been the main cook in the past although I used to help more. His apple and pumpkin pies last year were so delicious, but you really needed to eat small servings.
The two last things we might get are apple juice for cider, and carrots.
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