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Turkey
Buttermilk-Parmesan Mashed Potatoes
Green Beans
Dressing
Rolls (I'm making them)
Dessert (I'm making these too)
There will only be 5-7 of us, so it seems silly to go ALL out! But I'm spending it with A's family, so that should be interesting.
Thanksgiving is a week away! AHHHHHH.
Three words: Green Bean Casserole.
I am so eating light for the next week so I can chow next Thursday and not totally disrupt the weight loss so far.
I LOVE my Mommy too!! :)
Our T-giving menu - which usually is the same every year:
Oh man am I HUNGRY! I just love T-giving!
Ceviche (to start)
Turkey
Stuffed Grape Leaves
Bulgur wheat w Swiss Chard
Potatoes (mashed maybe?)
Spanakopita (spinach pies)
Some kind of roasted veggie
Greek salad, maybe beet salad
Stuffing (my BF will make it and bring it for my BIL and himself)
--And there you have our Greek/Ecuadorian/American Thanksgiving, YUM
Turkey
Macaroni and cheese
Green bean casserole
Rice and gravy
Squash casserole
Pecan pie
Yum!
roddy bride, quick stat need the recipe for your apple crisp!! i don't know how many folks there will be at my house, but i will definitely have food to take somewhere else (to m's family, after all i want to solidify the fact that i'm a keeper :P) most of his family will be out of town for his cousin's wedding though...
Thanks to my fiance's craptastic work schedule, we can't do Thanksgiving with family this year, so we're doing a local Friendsgiving. Everyone is bringing something, and here's what we'll be having with 14 guests:
I. Can't. Wait. And after Thanksgiving, i get to plan what to cook for my Christmas Present Baked Goods extravaganza!
@crebre - I haven't made it yet but I am planning on using the Old Fashioned Apple Crisp recipe from the Barefoot Contessa - http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/old-fashioned-apple-crisp-recipe/index.html
It got a lot of great ratings.
We've got 13 guests, my parents, and my dads bro and family. SO's parents, sibling, aunt, and grandma. Oh, and us :-) In my tiny townhome!
So excited to see my dad. I've seen my mom a few times this year but haven't spent much time with my dad. They're still married but my dad works in London and my mom has made it back to the US more. I get a whole week with the 2 of them. I'm VERY thankful for that!
@redherring: we're doing christmas present baked goodies too!! my son wants to do santa cookies with sprinkles lol!! i want to do peanut brittle and m loves chocolate chip cookies so i think i'll do all three!! i have never attempted to do so many things from scratch but hey it's only food right?!
It's just me and the FH, so I think we will be having a few things
Turkey
Mashed Potatos
Green Bean Casserole
Apple Pie/Pumpkin Pie (whichever he chooses)
@crebre80 - A friend of mine bakes with her mom every Christmas. And when they bake, they do not screw around. Last year, they made around 420 (35 dozen) cookies. It took literally all day - I think they were baking for about 15 hours. I am nowhere near that ambitious! My fiance always gets people liquor for the holidays, since none of his friends will ever turn down a bottle of Grey Goose (or scotch/gin/pick their poison). Plus, shopping for every single person on his list only takes about a half hour. When I suggested also doing cookies, he was like "Uh, yeah - that'll be your thing." For all of his great qualities, he's not exactly much of a baker :)
There will be just under 40 of us at our Thanksgiving. (yes - my dad's the middle of 5 and that is just Grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins+spouses and kids)
We usually have 3 turkeys - smoked, roasted, spicy cajun. We'll also have:
I know, I know - it's insane. Then we leave for FI's family celebration.... omg
@querida: at home there are anywhere from 60-80 people (my family is HUGE!!) and my dad's family has about 20 or so folks there at the most.
@redherring: i dunno about that although i did want to do tons of sweets etc! i am going to put them in a little cute gold stamped lunch bag with a fleur de lis on it and wrap the cookies in cellophane with ribbon for my clients/family/friends...
Mmmmm, I am so excited for next week. :) We are not traveling for Thanksgiving, so my family isn't coming up until the day after. We're going to have "Turkey Fest '09" with our best friends (and the kids... and the dogs...) so we have a huge all-day menu planned out!
@mrs. spring: what's feta mashed potatoes? sounds delish?!
I am so excited, I am about to burst! We actually get to go home for Thanksgiving this year!! We leave early Tuesday morning and after a 10 hour drive, I get to see my Momma!! And she's the best cook!!
We are having:
We are doing Thanksgiving at the in-laws house again this year & their menu is always pretty much the same:
They serve 2 turkeys becasue total there will be 13 people at the house, since they invite family friends over too.
@Puggy: how exciting!!!!! I wish I got to go home, but I'm definitely going for Christmas!! I'm hoping M gets off the 23rd and we can just leave early the morning of the 24th. Our hotel room has already been reserved so all we have to do is get there!!! And my mom rocks out as a cook she's so cute because she rarely cooks anymore so sometimes it comes out burnt other times wonderful so my sister and I are always at the table teasing...
@ crebre80 - Only the best mashed potatoes ever! I boil the potatoes and half a head of garlic in a big pot, and mash them up with butter, salt, and pepper. Then, I add cream cheese and milk to make them really creamy. I stir in a half package of feta cheese, and then put it all into a caserole dish. I put the rest of the feta on top of the mashed potatoes and put the whole thing in the oven for 20 minutes, until the cheese on top starts to brown a little. Mmmmmmm, it is sooooo good!
OMG Mrs.Spring, talk about cheesy potato goodness, I'm stealing that recipe to make during the our Christmas holiday party! :)
I don't know what we're having since there will be about 20 of us.
the most 'odd' thing we have though is fried cauliflower!
My parents are going to be gone for Thanksgiving this year 
I think its the first one without them! So we are going to FIL house. I have no idea what the menu is, just know I will probably eat way to much like always!
haha yeah i was thinking the same thing last year when i was asked to bring stuff! thanksgiving dinner is always over my aunts on my dad's side. we have EVERYTHING you can think of. its probably around 70 people and grows with babies every year.m
we have turkey, honeybaked ham (mmmmmmmmmmm i can't wait), regular stuffing, oyster stuffing (yuck), deviled eggs, green bean casserole, a buncha pasta salads, candy yams, ham roll ups, oooo i could go on and on. and then we have about 20 different desserts.oooooooo i can't wait!!!
Yum!! I'm not going to be spending US Thanksgiving with my FI this year... but every year we usually go to his cousin's place.
She smothers everything in those canned fried onions.. yum! I had never had green bean casserole or those fried onions before going to a US Thanksgiving dinner... Mmmm! I could eat a whole can of that stuff in one sitting lol.
I am having DEEP FRIED TURKEY!!! So excited, my dad made it a few years ago and it was delicious but hasnt made it since. This is acutally how we decided to spend our first Thanksgiving married at my parents house (we will go to his parents house next year). We told my parents if they had deep fried turkey this year they would get the first Thanksgiving and it worked. Also very much looking forward to my Grandma's green bean casserole and pumpkin pie. MMMM....
Ooooo I cant wait for thanksgiving!!!!
Turkey
mashed potatoes
sweet corn
corn bread
rolls
dressing
cranberries
all sorts of salads
oh my gosh the list goes on!!!!
ohhhhh and pumpkin pie with a ridiculous amount of whipped cream on it :)
oh i forgot about the corn on the cob and the dinner rolls!!
I am a disaster in the kitchen, however my inlaws are letting me do a slow cooker sweet potato recipe.
http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/2008/01/crockpot-candied-sweet-potatoes-recipe.html
We will be having:
Roast Turkey
Stuffing
Green Bean Casserole
Sweet Potato Rolls
Biscuits
North Shore Potatoes
Chocolate Pecan Pie
Pumplin Pie
and some sort of Apple Pie
I love the crock pot too. It's the only thing I can be trusted to use in the kitchen. The website http://crockpot365.blogspot.com is excellent. She always has great seasonal recipes and has special dietary recipes as well. I'm thinking of attempting pumpkin spice latte in the crockpot in the am on Thanksgiving as well.
We will be hosting (Thank God the family drama has died down:)) Here's what's on our menu:
Turkey
Sweet Potato Casserole
Red Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Gravy
Green Bean Casserole
Dressing
Cranberry Sauce
Dinner Rolls
Apple Pie
Pumpkin Pie
T-Day is my favorite holiday! We'll have 8 guests (mom and dad, me and R, aunt and uncle and cousin and his wife). We're serving:
Appitizers (not sure what all these will be yet, except for the "stinky cheese" platter which has been requested - brie, st. albans, etc.)
Roast turkey
mashed potatoes
sweet potatoe dish my dad makes (its so good!)
gravy
stuffing
rolls
green bean casserole
cranberry sauce
salad of some kind
pecan pie
pumpkin pie
apple pie
bottle of "39 year old Port" (my uncle has been talking nonstop about this Port - meh, I'm not a huge fan of sweet/dessert type wines so I'm not too excited lol)
MMMMMMMMMM that port sounds amazing i love dessert wines!!
and my mom just emailed me... it's my first time to make the dressing and lemon meringue pie so she said we can make it together and we can just do speaker phone on our cells so that i can get it right <3 what an awesome thing!! i think we've just started a holiday tradition for when i'm not able to go home!! and my little girl will be helping just like i used to help her (m's daughter) it's going to be so fun when we go home and the three of us are in the kitchen together...
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She's just so incredibly cute!! She calleed me last week to remind me to tell my stepdad happy birthday (he was out of town on business) and then she forgets his cell phone number, which I had forgotten and says "it's the little basketball thing on my screen hang on a sec let me see" lol!! (she has t-mobile and it's one of her my fave icons)
So today she emails me and says, she loves pix from an event I had this weekend, and asks what I'm cooking for Thanksgiving, umm really? I need to cook something oh sh!t that's right I'm an adult I can't just go over someone else's house and veg out.
I wish I could go home for Thanksgiving, my mom and I were never uber close but when I'm away from home I miss her like crazy lol!!
So my menu is..
Engagement Chicken/Roasted Chicken since I don't really like turkey
Mac and Cheese
Mashed Potatoes
Dressing (mom has to send the recipe)
Fettucini with crawfish (any recipes are welcomed for the alfredo sauce)
Lemon meringue pie (mom's recipe)