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mmmm green bean casserole of course! with the french onions! - id be fine with just that and turkey
Green bean casserole is my absolute favorite! Aside from the mashed potatoes of course!
-we always do a chocolate pie (it's my grandmother's recipe) and a well-known favorite! And of course coffee and such.
We have the same menu every year. The same menu as you, except sub kielbasa and sauerkraut for the green bean casserole and sweet potatoes
Turkey, Gravy, Stuffing, Mashed Potatoes, Cornbread, Fresh Cranberry sauce, some kind of Sweet Potato dish (never with marshmellows though), Pecan Pie. I think there's usually a green bean dish but its not a must. When I'm home for thanksgiving my mom always bakes pearl onions in heavy cream and its amazing.
Our menu:
Turkey
Stuffing (cornbread, not bread)
Mashed potatoes and gravy
Green Bean Casserole (with the french's onions, of course)
Candied Yams
Rolls
Cranberry sauce (always canned - I like the jellied kind, not the one with actual bits of cranberries in it LOL)
Pumpkin Pie
Usually an apple or cherry pie, or a chocolate mousse pie of some sort, occasionally a lemon meringue pie
And we have veggies and dips out for appetizers, along with black and green olives, and depending on how many people, we will have crackers/cheese type stuff out also.
....and now I'm hungry!
ETA: forgot about the Pecan pie. Fiance's favorite!
Turkey, green bean casserole, sweet potato casserole (without marshmallows), mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, rolls, cranberry sauce, butternut squash, brussel sprouts with bacon (yummmmmm!!) and some type of pumpkin dessert. (This year it is pumpkin custard!)
We have the same as pretty much everyone, Turkey, dressing, cranberries (from the can of course with the ridges and all), the green bean casserole, rolls, and Champ, (mashed potatoes with buttermilk and green onions omg delish)
I was hoping someone would start a thread like this! Although now I'm super hungry for Thanksgiving food, lol.
My two sides of the family and FI's family all have very different foods and a lot don't overlap, so I'll just list all the foods that are essential to me personally throughout the day ;)
Turkey
Ham
Mashed potatoes and gravy
Cheesy potatoes
Corn
Carrot sticks
Any kind of broccoli casserole
Dinner rolls
Pumpin pie
Apple pie
Various delicious desserts ;)
My menu is just like yours; nothing else needed! Must be an Ohio thing. ;) I am more on the traditional side; I don't care for fancy side dishes like brussel sprouts, asparagus etc.
Turkey
Stuffing
Green Bean Casserole (the kind with fried onions)
A sweet potato dish (sometimes with brown sugar, sometimes marshmallows, depends on how MIL feels like preparing it)
Corn Flan
Cranberry sauce (homemade, not from a can)
Mashed Potatoes & Gravy
Squash--I'm not sure what exactly is in it, but she boils peeled, cubed squash with butter, stock, cream, salt, pepper and parm cheese. It's always the first dish gone.
Oyster dressing (oysters, cheese, butter and breadcrumbs)
Creamed Pearl Onions
Rolls
Pumpkin/Sweet Potato/Apple Pies
This year I'm making the rolls and sweet potato and apple pies.
I always make my caramelized shallot and pancetta roasted brussel sprouts. Plus noodles, mashed potatoes and gravy, and rolls. I usually make another veggie too, kind of play that one by ear.
@futureMrsCPT: YES on the cranberry sauce. I am the same way. It has to be from a can and only the totally jelled stuff. I don't want any REAL cranberries obviously lol! (My dad and I are the only ones that feel this way, everyone else likes the real stuff, weirdos heh)
@HisIrishPrincess: those potatoes sound really good.
@galloway111: I've seen a lot of people on other threads mention ham. So funny bc I never knew until today that people at ham at thanksgiving!
I'm obsessed with making fancy mac and cheeses. Last year, it had white cheddar, Jarlsburg, and fontina in it with pancetta and panko on top. This year it will have bacon throughout, and a mix of cheddar and smoked gouda.
@LGenz: that pearl onion dish sounds intriguing. Perhaps you could share Mom's recipe?
@Miss Longcoat: Mac and cheese at thanksgiving sounds like such a good idea, i'm already committed to my two dishes this year (I'm making sweet potato casserole with a pecan crust and apple crumb pie), but maybe I'll do that next year!
We always do a big family potluck at my Aunt's house. We always do:
Turkey
Ham
Mashed potatoes
Gravy
Stuffing
Sweet potatoes
Cranberry sauce
Green bean casserole
Then, there is usaully ambrosia salad, pecan pie, pumpkin pie, cookies, etc. We like plain ole down-home cooking. Nothing fancy.
@MrsSl82be: Its kinda like this
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/pearl-baked-cream-onions/
Except sub breadcrumbs for crackers. Her recipe is from some discontinued cookbook she refuses to share with me.
Mmmmm....Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. :)
We're going to brine and grill our turkey again this year (last year it came out fabulous). For sides: Green chile cornbread stuffing, cheesy mashed potatoes, grilled brussel sprouts, green beans (not sure how I'm going to prep those just yet), possibly a pineapple casserole, cranberry-apple sauce, gravy and of course my husband's specialty-pumpkin pie. :)
@LGenz: That's pretty much the "creamed pearl onions" dish that we have, with butter crackers. I couldn't think of what to call it. DH's aunt has the recipe in a cookbook, but also refuses to share it, lol. It's divine.
@LGenz: thanks!! I think I may try this out as well. It does sound amazing...
@Mrs Sarah McK: What the h*ll with people hoarding the creamed onion recipes! haha
@LGenz: I beg her to give it to me every year, and so far she's refused to share it. Maybe this year will be my lucky year!
My mom's menu:
Turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes with caramelized pecans, cranberry sauce, brussels sprouts with lemon butter and almond slivers, mashed potatoes, and buns. There's usually also another vegetable dish, but that varries (sometimes green beans, sometimes mushrooms, etc.).
We have Canadian Thanksgiving, but I'll share what we make!
Turkey
Stuffing (Mom's has almonds, green peppers and onion in it)
Mashed Potatoes/Gravy
Salad (Green Salad)
Homemade cranberry sauce
Rolls
Steamed Beans and/or carrots
Pumpkin pie (from scratch - we bake the pumpkin and everything)
whipped cream
I actually didn't know that people made beans into a casserole before I read this thread!
We dont do green beans or anything with sweet potatoes. Uh oh!! Now I am questionning myself :)
Our menu is:
Turkey
Mashed potatoes
stuffing
fresh cranberry sauce
roasted root veggies
corn bread
gravy
Boston cream pie, and pumpkin bread pudding :)
Stuffing is the only thing I care about. Give me a pot of stuffing and I'm good.
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All these Thanksgiving threads got me wondering about what other people consider "essential" to their meals. I guess I take for granted that what my family makes is normal... but honestly I've never had Thanksgiving anywhere else! My DH's family doesn't really do it so we always go to my parents' (same with my ex's parents actually).
Our menu:
Turkey
Stuffing
Mashed potatoes and gravy
Green Bean Casserole (with the french's onions, of course)
Sweet potato dish (sometimes with marshmallows on top, sometimes with nuts on top, but always a prepared dish, never just the potatoes)
Rolls
Cranberry sauce (always canned and fresh as well if my grandma comes to dinner)
Pumpkin Pie
1-2 other wild-card pies depending on who makes them (this year I"m making apple crumble pie)
So what is your menu? Or does it change year-to-year?