What are your Thanksgiving dinner "staples"? What foods do you have to have at the table?
967484
We love turkey, mashed potatoes, stove top, sweet potatoes, crescent rolls, and pie for dessert.
783440
Give me as much of my moms stuffing as you can!!! plus we pick and make our own cranberry sauce yummy and omg green bean casserole oh never mind just give me one of everything thank you....i'm hungry now
882285
I think it's great that your son is home and you'll all be together for Thanksgiving! Talk about something to be thankful for! I am planning to have Thanksgiving at home with my family. My boyfreind is going to cook because he's the best at it. I think he's planning to make a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, including mashed potatoes from scratch. My mom made a pumpkin and pecan pie for dessert. I guess my contribution will be cleaning up.
892779
My family always went or invited other relatives over for a feast...we would have a potluck or cook fresh. The women made the food while men watched football. My grandma would usually take care of the apple or pumpkin pie because her crusts are the best...now that shes gone...we just buy it. My mother and I made the stuffing every year while the guys cheer at football and stuff... I miss my grandmother very much...
814945
Turkey and dressing/gravy, cranberry sauce (homemade, not that canned stuff) on the side...and dessert...Maple walnut pumpkin pie\n\nHappy Thanksgiving....to you, your family and friends
928013
What planet have you been living on?? Everybody knows that the traditional Thanksgiving meal is corned beef and cabbage.\n\nI am sorry, it really is not corned beef and cabbage that is the usual Christmas meal.  For Thanksgiving you cook:\n\nTurkey\nStuffing\nMashed Potatos\nCornbread\nGreen beans\nCranberry sauce\nPumpkin Pie\nMince Pie\n\nEnjoy your meal
786325
creme cheese and ham canapes\nwhite wine\nRoast Turkey\nfresh green beans with honeyed almonds\nsourdough stuffing\nmashed potatoes\nturkey gravy\nfresh yams baked mashed and buttered\npumpkin pie
896875
It was good.  We went to my sisters house and had the whole family together.  Our Thanksgivings where my mother and father, both in their 80's, is numbered.\n\nThe little children are always the most fun. Newborns, toddlers and first graders. \n\nI made a seafood platter with big boiled shrimp, crap claws and oysters on the half shell for before dinner.  Drawn butter, fresh lemon and a hot horseradish cocktail sauce.\n\nWith all the traditional fitings we also had a "savory bread pudding" and oven roasted parsnips.  Here the recipe.\n\nIngredients\n4 Large eggs\n2 cups 1% milk\n1/2 tsp Hot sauce, such as Tabasco\n3/4 tsp Salt, divided\n1/4 tsp Freshly ground pepper, divided\n3 1/2 cups Cubed stale whole-wheat country or sandwich bread\n1 10-ounce Package frozen spinach\n1 tbsp Extra-virgin olive oil\n1 cup Chopped onion (1 medium)\n1 cup Chopped red bell pepper (1 small)\n4 cups Sliced mushrooms (12 ounces)\n1 clove Garlic, minced\n1 cup Grated Gruyere, Emmentaler or Manchego cheese (3 ounces), divided\nPreparation\n\n1. Whisk eggs in a large bowl. Add milk, hot sauce, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/8 teaspoon pepper; whisk until blended. Add bread and stir to coat well. Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes.\n\n\n2. Meanwhile, preheat oven to 350 degrees. Coat an 8-by-8-inch (or similar 8-cup) ceramic or glass baking dish with cooking spray. Put a kettle of water on to boil for the water bath.\n\n\n3. Cook spinach according to package directions. Drain, refresh with cold water and squeeze out excess moisture. Set aside.\n\n\n4. Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add onion and red pepper; cook, stirring often, until tender and golden, 4 to 5 minutes. Add mushrooms and garlic; stir to blend. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover and cook until tender, about 5 minutes. Uncover and increase heat to medium. Cook, stirring, until any excess moisture from the mushrooms has evaporated and mushrooms begin to brown, about 5 minutes. Add spinach, remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/8 teaspoon pepper; cook, stirring, 2 minutes.\n\n\n5. Add the mushroom mixture and 1/2 cup cheese to the egg mixture; stir until blended. Scrape into the prepared baking dish; sprinkle the remaining 1/2 cup cheese evenly over the top. Place the baking dish in a larger pan, put in the oven and pour boiling water into the larger pan to about halfway up the sides of the baking dish. Bake until the pudding is set in the center, 50 to 60 minutes. Let cool slightly; serve hot or warm.
846531
Christmas. You get all the good food associated with Thanksgiving, only for Christmas you get at least three full days of it. (Christmas Eve with Mom's family. Christmas at home. Boxing Day with Dad's family. All three consisting of different kinds of feasts!)\n\nAnd then PRESENTS to go along with it...what's not to love!!!
826713
Mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole (a must), cranberry sauce, pickles, rolls and sometimes ham along with the turkey.
769756
Invite someone over who is less fortunate for dinner, or someone who will be alone for the holiday! \nLeg of Lamb\nHam\nCandied Yams\nCorn bread dressing\nPecan Pie\nRed Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Icing\nCheese Cake\nBaked Macaroni and Cheese\nCollard greens\nTake your pick, God bless****
796087
I just finished our menu last night and besides every food you mentioned (which we will have) our family also requires:  pan gravy; sage dressing; a pineapple dressing that is more like a souffle; a butternut squash casserole made with sour cream, butter and onions; a fruit salad that is combined with a base of marshmallows, sour cream and coconut that has previously set for 24 hours so that they combine into a thick and stable sweet cream that won't turn into a liquid; pickles (dill and sweet); olives (black and green);  both pumpkin AND pecan pie plus a required cherry pie and pumpkin cake roll.  I will also have a tray of crudities and dip that guests can nibble on if they can't wait until dinner (which is usually around 1pm to accommodate those that must watch football.)\n\nI know it sounds like a lot (and it is) but then we ususally have a gathering of from 13 to 24.  Even with a 20-27 pound turkey we rarely have many leftovers which is rather upsetting because isn't the whole reason we have turkey on Thanksgiving is for the sandwiches we get to have the rest of the week?
938265
We are going to my mother-n-laws house. We are having a Turkey, dressing, and all the good stuff! I can not wait. That night we are going to see my mom sister and her husband and my nephew and niece. I get so hungry just thinking about it. Ohh! Don't forget to take some plastic containers to bring home all the left overs in. I forgot last year and this year I'm going to make sure I do not forget.\nHAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
694319
that around early 1600s, in the fall, the pilgrims and natives had the thanksgiving.\n\ntheir menus were :\nWild Deer\nTurkey\nDuck Goose\nRabbit\nClams\nLobster\nSquash\nOnions\nBaked Pumpkin\nDried Berries\nCornbread\nCheese\nPudding (Pumpkin or Cornmeal)\n\nmay that help.-
948316
LOL----got a couple picky eaters in your crowd?\n\nHere's a couple options:  (A)  Thanksgiving gets stuffing selection 1, chosen by coin toss----you serve the other option with the Christmas/winter feast turkey.\n\n(B)  Opt for something completely different....but still Southern.  How about a RICE dressing for the bird, with or without fruits/ vegetables?  (MMMmmmm---sauteed onions, celery, nice plump raisins or cranberries....mushrooms are optional)  Or rice and the turkey giblets (URRRRK!), supplemented by chicken livers (ACKFFHLLLFFFF).\n\n(C)  Make a rule that everyone who complains about the stuffing (whatever you end up choosing, strictly by random) has to do dishes, clean up, etc.!   \n\n(D)  Don't suppose you could tell them that you're giving up Thanksgiving turkey for Lent (that ought to stun them into silence for a minute ot two), and that they're going to eat lamb or venison and LIKE it, or else? (g)    \n\nBut don't let my silly prejudices get in your way. \n  \nEither the family will compromise, or they will ALL join together in cussing you out.....in which case, make them take you out to dinner at a restaurant! (g)\n\nOysters....why did it have to be OYSTERS?....  I do SO not want to eat anything that looks like I just suctioned it from a patient's airway, thank you very much....\n\nWe solved the matter by sticking to bread stuffing, but having lovely corn muffins/cornbread on the table.\n\nHave a great meal!
554908
Gotta be Thanksgiving - family, food, and fun - and none of the outlandish expense of Christmas! Not to mention the stress - Thanksgiving is just such a great laid back holiday - I love it!
829242
For Thanksgiving, my boyfriend is coming over.  I have no CLUE how to make a turkey, and I'm not fond of ham (unless my Mom makes it).\n\nI'm cooking:\n\nScallops in a Mascarpone Sauce\nLentils with Apple Bacon and an Apple Cider Reduction\nTruffled Red Wine Risotto\nBok Choy with Garlic\nCauliflower fried in Duck Fat