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What are you having for Thanksgiving? - 11/17/2012 8:56:09 AM

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Fried turkey, sausage cornbread dressing, buttermilk biscuits, green bean casssrole, and pecan pie here.

*hides low carb diet for a couple of days*

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RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? - 11/17/2012 9:06:28 AM

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Baked turkey with bread and cranberry stuffing, fresh mashed potatoes and gravy, broccoli casserole, pumpkin pie and yeast rolls. And this week I will be making meals to hand out to the homeless masses that will be out begging for the holiday rush.

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RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? - 11/17/2012 9:12:27 AM

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Hey Grandpa, what's for supper.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCbw0BLS4m0&feature=related

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RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? - 11/17/2012 9:14:22 AM

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We are not having a dinner at our house so, a complete list is impossible.

What I know for a fact....

There will be turkey and ham
There will be pies
There will be sauerkraut and potato dumplings

I am making mini croissants cuz, the whole family would cry if I didn't.

I volunteered to make the yams this year. I am picky about my yams and don't care for anyone else's versions.

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RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? - 11/17/2012 9:16:26 AM

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Turkey and pumpkin pie. Likely Martinelli's. The rest of the menu is still in flux. One of the guests is a damn good cook, so she'll help decide the menu.

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RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? - 11/17/2012 9:16:43 AM

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Roast turkey (I brine the turkey 24 hours in advance, Himself roasts it on a Weber grill) , apple stuffing made with homemade wheat and cornbread, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce (a marvelous from scratch recipe that I love), green been casserole (very traditional), perhaps baked squash or some type of sweet potato dish.

A friend is bringing pumpkin pie with whipped cream and whole wheat rolls.

We will serve wine, but haven't decided on a specific one yet.

Note no appetizers or nibblers will be served, I like my dinner guests starved, so they have the *proper* attitude of Thanksgiving.

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RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? - 11/17/2012 9:18:59 AM

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A serious post meal nap

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RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? - 11/17/2012 9:26:32 AM

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Same thing I have had for every Turkey day I can recall :) Roast Turkey with Sage Stuffing, Mashed Potatoes, Gravy, Sweet Potato Souffle', Buttered Peas, Cranberry sauce, Cresent Rolls and of course Pumpkin Pie w/ real whipped cream. This is the only day of the year I refuse to break tradition in any way OR as I call like to think of it: my chance of being A Control Freak For A Day! lol. Everything possible is made from scratch, no 'new' recipes, just the traditional fare.

Like Chatte, I brine the bird the day before and also try and do as much prep work ahead of time. I think this is really my fav. holiday of the year!

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RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? - 11/17/2012 9:32:03 AM

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Hey, Level, it's good to see you back.

Turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, (the only thing MP makes) gravy, deviled eggs, fresh vegetables, (that whole appetizer tray gig) pumpkin pie, fresh bread, chocolate mousse, (yeah, that's Me) some kind of desert thing that clip wants to whip up, muffins in the morning while people are smelling food, and little odds and ends that I'm sure I'm forgetting.

My theory is to make enough that there are leftovers for at least a couple of days. After the "official" meal, y'all take yourselves to the kitchen and raid the fridge.

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RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? - 11/17/2012 9:32:31 AM

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That sounds wonderful !

And I so agree, Thanksgiving is about tradition to me, so I serve traditional food with as much of it made from scratch as possible.

Would you be willing to share your sweet potato souffle recipe? It sounds lovely.

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RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? - 11/17/2012 9:35:03 AM

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A serious post meal nap

Don't worry, Kana. I'll cover watching the football games for ya if you sleep through 'em.

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RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? - 11/17/2012 9:41:13 AM

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A serious post meal nap

Don't worry, Kana. I'll cover watching the football games for ya if you sleep through 'em.

It's all you. I haven't made it past 5 on a Thanksgiving w/o falling asleep for years. My sister goes nuts. 2+ turkeys, a ham, sometimes a duck too, something like 15 side dishes, lots and lots of deserts-I eat myself into a stupor every year.
When I was a kid i would walk the dog post meal, smoke a hooter and that would give me a second wind. Sadly those days are way behind me

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RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? - 11/17/2012 9:45:18 AM

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Is the typical food fayre of a country barely 2 centuries old, old enough to have anything called 'traditional'??

Maybe I'm being cynical but 2 centuries is barely long enough. lol.

For us?? Nothing out of the ordinary as we don't celebrate 'Thanksgiving' as a nation.

Just ignore me - I'm jealous!!!

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RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? - 11/17/2012 10:09:10 AM

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Roasted turkey, with bread, onion and mixed herb stuffing, gravy, mashed potatos, green beans (not casseroled), cranberry jelly done in a can shaped mould(lol). Dessert - pumpkin pie, pecan pie, pavlova, maybe a flan and whipped cream for all of the above. Drinks will be - fruit punch, coke, iced tea, hot tea and water - obviously not for all the same person.

and for me the best part of thanksgiving is the leftovers. Yum - cold turkey and stuffing , fried mashed potatos, turkey soup made with everything not eaten previously, desserts until you are tired of sugar!

Love thanksgiving because its a holiday i didn't grow up with so i have no expectations for it....... makes it way more fun.

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RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? - 11/17/2012 10:44:49 AM

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tra·di·tion/trəˈdiSHən/
Noun:
The transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation, or the fact of being passed on in this way.
A long-established custom or belief that has been passed on in this way.

So I say a great big yes, Thanksgiving fare (please spell this correctly) can have and does have traditional items, the turkey being but one. The green bean casserole is another.

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The green bean casserole was first created in 1955 by the Campbell Soup Company. Dorcas Reilly led the team that created the recipe while working as a staff member in the home economics department.[1] The inspiration for the dish was "to create a quick and easy recipe around two things most Americans always had on hand in the 1950s: green beans and Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom Soup."[1]
In 2002, Reilly presented the original recipe card to the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio.[2]

Since my son is the only person other than Himself who I would open a can of cream of mushroom soup for (he likes the green bean casserole as well), I'd say it's being passed down from generation to generation. I refuse, however, to use canned green beans as the recipe calls for; I've never bought them in my life.

You know, if you called the airlines now, you and yours could be here by Thursday, and then you'd learn first hand all about a 'traditional' Thanksgiving.

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RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? - 11/17/2012 10:48:06 AM

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Some great sounding meals, all.

LP, thanks for the wb.

As an aside, do those of you that brine... do you use it at other times, with other meats?

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RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? - 11/17/2012 10:48:48 AM

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Is the typical food fayre of a country barely 2 centuries old, old enough to have anything called 'traditional'??

Maybe I'm being cynical but 2 centuries is barely long enough. lol.

For us?? Nothing out of the ordinary as we don't celebrate 'Thanksgiving' as a nation.

Just ignore me - I'm jealous!!!

Of coarse its long enough!! Other countries have holidays we don't besides "sorry we killed your ancestors day" was the first post european holiday we came up with.

We also don't get "holiday season" where its assumed if you can reach a business contact they are with family "at the cottage, villa or traveling" for months at a time, every year about the same time...might as well do the thing americans are best at eating!

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RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? - 11/17/2012 11:11:40 AM

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Martha Stewart roasted turkey with gravy, garlic mashed potatoes, green beans, traditional stuffing, cranberry sauce, fresh rolls.

Pickle and Olive tray, Meat and cheese tray.

My brother will be having faux chicken and a special batch of stuffing (he's a vegetarian)

For dessert: Apple Crisp

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RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? - 11/17/2012 11:14:57 AM

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You know, if you called the airlines now, you and yours could be here by Thursday, and then you'd learn first hand all about a 'traditional' Thanksgiving.

Maybe it's slipped your mind but I've already mentioned in several posts that I've lived for 8 months in the US (mainly FL) and seen the likes of Halloween, Thanksgiving, Xmas and New Year. lol

I can remember sitting on the front lawn of my friends house in late December fixing all his little light bulbs on his outdoor animated decorations that were liberately sprinkled all over the place.
I'm sitting there at 9pm, cross-legged, in my shorts and a pair of summer sandals (nothing else), watching everyone walking past in heavy winter coats and hats and scarves wrapped around their necks.
They are probably muttering something like "who's that nutter on the lawn?".
Well, it was 75F there - that's hotter than a nice summers day in the UK!

I liked a lot of things about the US and if it weren't for some very grave things that I don't care much for I would still be trying to find a way to emigrate.

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RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? - 11/17/2012 11:16:21 AM

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Somehow I didn't realize you had lived here. In that case you know what 'real' and 'true' football is then.

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