For me this year it's Hokies Basketball and Sweet Potato Mash from a recipe I got from Iron Hill Brewery in Hershey.
Do you stuffing or not? Mine is no onions.
Cranberry sauce with or without the berries or not at all? I prefer without.
We do two Turkey meals because of both grandparent houses. Get one fried and one baked. I prefer fried.
What else makes the table?
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Fried pork chops and fried potatoes cooked in cast iron on a wooden stove in Craig County. My god, I miss those days.
From scratch sausage and sage stuffing and gravy.
This is the God's honest best recipe/technique for it.
Neese's Extra Sage sausage is a godsend for it too.
That's the exact recipe I use. This year and last I couldn't find sage sausage, so I just use extra fresh sage.
Also, you probably know this, but leftover stuffing is fantastic in a waffle iron, then topped with a fried egg and maple syrup.
Hot damn, I did know the waffle iron trick but an egg and syrup is an excellent idea.
Oysters. Don't care how they're served. Raw, steamed, baked, Rockefeller.
rocky mountain?
When I lived in Nebraska, yeah.
Turkey, butter horn rolls, sweet potato pie.
I'm really surprised you don't have Mac and cheese on your list, fireman
I think for my picky 12 year old we are making Kraft yes.
yeah sure you won't touch the stuff but it's your 12 year old who is picky
I'll eat Kraft for a summer cookout or quick meal post youth sports night.
Team, no turkey this year. Smoking a bunch of Cornish Hens. Sides are all the greatest hits. Best of which is my wife's garlic mash potatoes.
#teamnoturkey represent. Second year in a row smoking pork BUTT for us.
Hear hear! We did a beef tenderloin instead of turkey. Salt and pepper, good sear on all sides, herbed butter spread on top and in the oven at 425 until medium rare-medium. 🤤
We're skipping turkey and just doing dry aged ribeyes. Birds (and much of thanksgiving food) is overrated.
Indian spiced meatballs (kofta in yogurt) is what my daughter always has me make. Basmati rice and naan too. Planning on making aloo mater (potato, pea, onion and spices) and tomato rice as well this year.
That sounds amazing. Is anyone in your family Indian or is this dish just something you practiced/perfected over the years?
My wife is, ethnically, 50% Indian. Although she was born and raised in Canada, and she prefers to be called South Asian. Her dad was from what is now India but his family fled to Pakistan during Partition and India-Pakistan have that, you know, "thing" going on.
Although I learned to cook Indian in grad school as I was dating someone who was 100% Indian. And she was probably the best or second best cook I've known.
i made mac & cheese and mashed sweet potatoes with cardamom this year
i am team dark meat
i am team pie
i like the canned jelly cranberry sauce more but a good from-scratch cranberry relish is also p good
Is anyone not?
Kielbasa
borscht
Agree with the basics here but how you're all sleeping on green bean casserole here is beyond me. You can gussy it up or do it all from a can, idc.
Also fried (Cajun seasoning, peanut oil) or smoked (traditional herbs) turkey slaps
I made homemade green bean casserole for a dish this year
So I am navigating Thanksgiving with two new daughters so we are cooking Turkey and Ham this year. Sides are fairly standards, mashed potatoes, peas, stuffing, rolls, and salad bar. We have some Pecan and pumpkin pies.
Mac and cheese didn't make the list due to time constraints.
EDIT: P.S. one daughter will attempt to make cheese sticks so we shall see.
Hope your daughters are settling in. Hope your family has a blessed Thanksgiving KingJames!
Yeah last night was a lot for them as my aunt and uncle and sister/bil/cousins came and met them for the first time, but it settled down and was a bit better as the evening went on.
Started off with beef bourguignon tonight using brisket. I didn't cook it and while I'm very much a traditionalist in thinking brisket should be smoked, this was actually amazing.
For Thanksgiving must haves, for me it's: not working, alcohol to survive the in-laws, and probably a good scratch made gravy. I can put gravy on whatever shit show these yahoos concoct and it'll still be edible. Hell I've put gravy on "Thanksgiving Mango Quinoa Salad" before, and it was better than terrible. Going hunting on Thanksgiving is a dream from a pipe I've never had the pleasure of smoking.
TIC comments aside, hope all y'all and Hokies everywhere have a blessed Thanksgiving, and Go Hokies on Saturday!
gravy
stuffing
rolls
a napkin to keep the Beard clean
profit
Very traditional up in here for us. My kids like a good copycat Cracker Barrel version of green beans (I can't get them to eat anything casserole). Did a broccoli/bacon/cranberry/cheese salad for my mom. The standards like mashed potatoes and sweet potato casserole (sans marshmallows- yuck!) but a wonderful crust of brown sugar topping. Key Lime and Cherry cheesecake pies for dessert. Oh, I swung through and grabbed a gallon of each Chickfila sweet tea and lemonade for the kiddies. That will be the most expensive lemonade they will ever drink in their lives, spiked or not. PSA, always ask the price of their gallon of lemonade before paying.
Happy Thanksgiving fellow TKP family. Here's hoping there is enough of the good stuff to get us all through it, no politics at dinner, a good basketball game for our men's team tonight, and a Hokie win on Saturday! Cheers!
Team Chaos (daughter, her BF, their dog and cat) arrives tomorrow night for the weekend (I'll have a gumbo waiting for them); so we'll cook Saturday. Good news is everyone here is a more than capable cook so we'll share the duties.
I'm doing the meats...prefer frying a turkey if I'm going to eat one, but logistically it's too much of a pain in the chaos (i.e., manic, uncontrollable 50 lb pit mix...leaps like a deer, snaps like an alligator...every square inch of your body is in play) so I'm taking the easy route by throwing a turkey breast in the crockpot with some cream of something soups and letting it deal with itself. I'll fry some ham and make a ham gravy; and make some skillet cornbread tomorrow for use in dressing while I'm making the gumbo.
Daughter is making homemade rolls and biscuits; and she'll make/assemble the dressing as well (because she likes it like she likes it).
Her BF is doing the mashed potatoes (not the dance) and mac and cheese (their family tradition).
Wife will blanche/saute' whole green beans and make the desserts...trying a friend's recipe for pumpkin cheesecake this year and then some brownies and ice cream. She will also sous chef for our daughter; because that's the way it will work out. She'll also give me the stink eye if (when) I threaten to kill the dog.
If we can survive the dog without too many cuts and bruises and keep it from killing our cat (she will be locked away in my office or our bedroom), it will be a successful weekend. Maybe have a little fun in there, too!
Hosting for 12 people today. Unfortunately my daughter and her BF can't come now cause his parents both just got covid and he's been exposed since he lives with them, and therefore she's exposed as well. Can't risk getting my 85 year old dad and stepmother sick.
Turkey is in the oven. Did a 18 hour brine for the first time. Used a cooler, and it was pretty easy.
Sides:
Mashed potatoes
Sweet potatoes
Stuffing
Homemade Mac n cheese
Green bean casserole
Mini minced meat pies
Pineapple bread
Butternut squash soup
Cornbread
Cranberry sauce
Apple and pumpkin pies
Wishing all of you a happy Thanksgiving, and hope you enjoy being with family and friends that we often don't see enough. Please take time today between the food and football to tell them how thankful you are to have them in your lives!
Lastly, as my late Grandfather used to say at the end of grace every Thanksgiving, "May we ever be mindful of the needs of others."
My eyes immediately zoomed in on pineapple bread. Is that like a cake-type dessert or is it bread with some flavor? Guessing dessert.
It's a side rather than a dessert. It's a savory baked dish with bread, butter, eggs, sugar, and Pineapple.
1 cup sugar
1 Can crushed Pineapple drained well.
1 stick butter super soft.
*EDIT* - 4 eggs
Mix together well and work in
5 Slices of bread, semi-stale, cubed.
Put in shallow casserole dish 2-3" deep.
Bake 1 hour at 350.
Should be browned on top for some crunchies.
Thank you. I will have to try something like this.
I had this pineapple casserole at a Thanksgiving feast a few years back. Recipe was from Paula Dean. Served warm as a side but honestly could be a dessert. Pineapple, sharp cheddar, sugar, Ritz Cracker with butter topping. My people really liked it.
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And thank you as well.
yes! what is this pineapple bread???
(oh, you already answered)
DEVILED FUCKING EGGS
Here! Here! Can't believe I got this far down the thread before seeing this!
Add to it... PECAN PIE!
they don't throw nearly as well as a whole egg, the aerodynamics suck.
why do people eat eggs? when heat is applied they smell awful. eggs must vanish into something else so you don't know they are there...like nog, or ice cream, or cake, or cornbread.
otherwise they are just a little less damaging than a rock
You do not belong here sir. During the olden days you would have been in the stocks.
my wife would agree...for any number of reasons
Very basic and simple here.
It is my wife's stuffing. It is a wet stuffing (chicken broth and lots of butter) with the right amount of onion and celery. And it is perfectly moist. Used to do it in the bird but now just bakes it in a side dish and add a little turkey fat at the end. She could make gallons of this stuff and none would ever go to waste.
I do that exact dressing recipe, it's so damn good
"mashed potatoes" in the AM
Drove up to the in-law's in Western NY this year..... ~ 13 hours of driving over 27 hours but we were home late Thanksgiving night.
They are 'early' feast folk; Turkey is on the buffet at 12:00 noon sharp. In-Law's spread is pretty traditional:
Turkey (5 birds this year)
Mashed Potatoes
Sweet Potato Casserole (although it was in a crock pot this year)
Mashed Squash
Roasted Brussel Sprouts
Stuffing
Green Bean casserole
Roasted Broccoli with Parmesan
Cornbread Stuffing
Fresh Cranberry Relish
Deviled Eggs
Homemade Potato Rolls
There were also 13 different pies (with only 2 store bought for some school fundraiser) - Apple, pumpkin, chocolate creme, coconut creme, peach, and I don't remember the rest. Plus homemade chocolate brownies, a chocolate cake.
Since the leftovers don't really travel well - I brined a turkey breast that I will throw on the BGE tomorrow and make my own version of some of the sides on a smaller scale.
After several different approaches to the turkey over the years, the family now agrees they like smoked (300 degrees) better than fried, grilled or roasted.
Pepridge farms dressing, recipe on the bag.
Mashed potatoes made with butter and half-n-half, gravy with giblets stock and pan drippings.
Raw oysters
We did a croc-pot Mac-n-cheese this year.
Carrots braised with orange juice and honey.
Yeast rolls (frozen dough that rises in muffin cups all day)
County style green beans
Canned cranberry sauce
Pecan and apple pie
Peanut butter toast!!
I DID eat some fried turkey and some mashed potato.
Ocean Spray whole berry cranberry sauce!
Late to the thread, but the Thanksgiving dinner table must contain cranberry sauce that still contains ridges from the can it came out of. This is the hill I will die on.
Two cans...one for me and one for everyone else.
A beat down of LOLUVA.
Delicious bowl of UVA tears helps was down the Thanksgiving Holiday. Extra salty