Thanksgiving Day

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone.

Who is cooking? Do you do the traditional meal of turkey and dressing? If not what do you have for dinner?
My family always does the same traditional meal of turkey and cornbread dressing, pumpkin pie and pecan pie and way too many other side dishes. Leftovers for days.

 

Do any of you brime your turkey? If so what recipe do you use?

 

Laura I will be interested to know how your turkey turns out.

 

I live alone in a seniors mobile home park. I don't do much cooking. I some times make a reservation for a holiday meal at the club house.

 

Bob if we were neighbors I would invite you to join my family for dinner.

 

This will be a rare first Thanksgiving treat. All our kids are out of town or otherwise engaged so we will be ALONE for the first time in forever. Also, it is our 25th anniversary so will be a special day. To celebrate, we are going to abandon the bird for a cozy ham steak dinner with mashed potatoes and asparagus. Yummy. A tad of wine and thou (you know). Nice little relaxing evening alone without having to schedule meals, get everyone together, etc. Just us two for a change. Romance is in the air. Update to follow (if I survive)......

 

Go for it Gensuknives!

We usually have a traditional meal, but my sister and her family are staying at home, so it will just be me and my parents. We are not huge fans of leftover turkey, so my Mom is cooking 'Burgandy Beef" Basically beef cooked in a gravy mixed with wine, served over rice. Very tasty, and not near the work to fix and clean up. Plus, it is one of my favorite foods.

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow American members of MajorGeeks!
Enjoy the day... No matter what.

 

Thank you very much. I am not lonesome with out friends or relatives. I chose this life style.

 

I used to do up the full deal, turkey, mashed 'taters, gravy, stuffing, squash, cranberry sauce, stuffed celery, scallions, olives, pumpkin pie and apple pie. But, that was when there were 5 people in the house.

Now, there's just me and my sister so, I've cut back on a lot of that. We get Cornish Game hens which I do with a browned sage butter, Stove Top stuffing, squash, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie (with whipped cream of course). It suits the two of us quite well.

At any rate, Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

 

If it makes you happy Bob that is all that matters.

Meanwhile the kitchen here is heating up! Hope everyone enjoys their day!

 

My mother-in-law has been hosting Thanksgiving dinner since I moved here, since the whole family still lives in the same town. She has been using that exact recipe for the her turkey for the past few years, and the turkey always comes out amazing. Excellent choice of brine!

 

That what MiL said she got this year as well! There are only six of us, so we're looking forward to lots of leftovers!

And she actually cleans out a giant cooler (the same one that holds the beer and sodas when we have 4th of July BBQs) to brine her turkeys. Something to try next year, maybe?

 

Twenty pound turkey deep fried in peanut oil, Mustard, collard, and turnip greens. Sweet potatoes, potato salad, green beans, mac and cheese, corn meal dressing, cranberry sauce, apple desert, and more. Not my usual Thanksgiving day meal, but close enough. Am working this evening, good to have friends to break bread with.

 

Bugballou certainly has quite the meal!! Wow! giving thanks! and also friends to break bread with. I had roasted chicken - new recipe,was good ( only myself, i opted to stay in ), mashed potatoes, acorn squash, sweet potato, cast iron skillet blacken green beans -new & also good -home made cranberry sauce. For dessert - coffee!!! , more cranberry sauce and an apple. I was surprised how great the apple tasted, I already had banana cream pie and apple bread with others, and will have more sweets tomorrow with others. Now I will have a bunch of chicken to freeze for later meals.

To be thankful, I am! but my bird missed the usual salad, and corn, so I had to get her some corn along with the mashed potatoes later. She will have to wait till tomorrow for the salad!

 

Laura I did not have all those ingredients on hand and did not want to deal with the crowd at the grocery again. So I put what I did have in the brine and hoped for the best. It actually turned out pretty good. I only cooked a turkey breast as we don't like the dark meat. Next time I will plan ahead and use all of the recipe you shared.

A good Thanksgiving day all around with much to be thankful for! Thankfully no Black Friday shopping for me either.

 

There is a whole list of things I won't eat. Ever! Some of the vegetables on that list are brussel sprouts. turnips, collard greens, artichoke, garbanzos, mushrooms, mustard greens, okra, cooked spinach, and turnip greens to name a few. The do not eat meat list is long also. Very picky eater!