Turkey Talk

What has to be on your Thanksgiving table? It's just me and bebe this year, but I am having:

Turkey
Wild rice stuffing
Rolls
Green bean casserole
Cranberries in a can (you just gotta)
Some kind of pumpkin dessert. Probably this:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/aida-mollenkamp/pecan-pumpkin-crunch-recipe/index.html

That's probably it this year.

How's about you?

We ALWAYS have:

Homemade Stuffing
Turkey
Ham
Mashed Potatoes
Rolls
Green Bean Casserole
Homemade Noodles
Deviled Eggs
Chicken -n- Dumplins
Green Olives


**keep in mind we have 4 stops to make every Thanksgiving** I have a very mixed family & Wes only has one place to go **

Uh our Thanksgiving table will have whatever me and Mommy2Conner make (we are having Thanksgiving at her house)

I don't know what we're having yet. Dh's cousin and I are splitting the cooking and we haven't even talked about it.

We used to do Thanksgiving at my house (originally done by my grandparents)and the whole family would come we had around 50 people (cousins, aunts, uncles, etc). But since us kids moved off and my grandma is in the hospital they have it at a cousins house now.

When we have Thanksgiving at home it usually includes:

Turkey
Ham
Corn
Green Bean Casserole
Green Beans and Bacon
Chili
Peach Cobler
Pumpkin Pie
Chocolate Pie
Pecan Pie
Beer Wieners
Baked Beans
Gravy
Cranberry Sauce
Rolls

Everyone who came brought a dish so...it varied from year to year but those were constants Things that people always brought.

I miss home.


For Thanksgiving this year I am making squash casserole and am bringing the corn and cranberry sauce. Sarah is doing all the hard work.

Holy cow Tate! How do you eat that much on one day?

We start at 11am and everyone is usually gone by 9 pm. Its a ALL day thing.

People nibble all day and by the end of the day most of its all gone.

I am hosting Thanksgiving for the first time ever. So far there are 16 on my list (including us), and possibly 7 more at this point. Yes, Tate, the number keeps getting bigger. I'm FREAKING out and have no idea what to cook.

Get a BIG turkey and do stuffing and just do the normal easy stuff...don't over do it.

We got a 23 pound turkey. Do you think that's enough? We're having pernil, too (which is pork). Dh's cousin is making that. But she's so disorganized and indecisive she doesn't know what else she wants to make. So I'm thinking I'll make everything else.

23 should be plenty.

MrsRoboto wrote:We got a 23 pound turkey. Do you think that's enough? We're having pernil, too (which is pork). Dh's cousin is making that. But she's so disorganized and indecisive she doesn't know what else she wants to make. So I'm thinking I'll make everything else.

23 lbs. should be fine, as long as you have another meat. I would try to portion out the little stuff between all your guests so you're not stuck making everything. When my parents do Thanksgiving at their house, they usually are in charge of the turkey and mashed potatoes, I usually make my pasta salad, and everyone else brings something.

For us, it's usually:
Turkey
Stuffing
Sweet potato "pie" - just sweet potatoes and marshmallows, I think.
Green bean casserole
My delicious pasta salad
Corn
Cranberry sauce
Mashed potatoes [made with cream cheese!]
Eye mouth tart [it's a 7-layer berry tart that my cousin makes every year. My favorite dessert in the whole world!]
Some weird prune dessert one of my other cousins makes. I don't remember what it's called.
And the obvious assortment of pies.

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.