Thanksgiving!!! Who's Cooking? (and what?)

[christa]

I, being the only vegetarian in the family of such meat lovers, am going to have a difficult time finding things I can eat! I did it last year, but last year I wasn't on a diet. This year, I can't eat dairy or meat PLUS low calorie foods. Hehe, my family thinks I'm the most picky eater, ever.

Take a vacation from that diet, girl!

I wouldn't say that I'm on a diet, but I'm VERY conscious about what I eat. With the exception of Thanksgiving & Christmas! Gotta reward yourself for being so good throughout the year! Besides, ONE DAY of eating those cheat foods isn't going to turn straight to fat . . . trust me . . . it's not possible.

[Corinna]

I'm doing the cooking as we now have a person allergic to turkey. I'm doing Ham and turkey
Mashed potatoes
cranberries
olives
stuffing
for dessert
sweet potato pie
key lime pie.
I do thanksgiving and my daughter has Christmas when and if my son ever has jhis own place I will give him thanks giving and I'll do valentines day or new years eve.

[caseysmom]

I am cooking for about 10 people. Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, yams and probably simple green beans I don't really like too much with them either.

I love thanksgiving and it seems like the stores are trying to skip right over it, my daughter scrapbooks and we can't find any thanksgiving things, just halloween and christmas. It seems like thanksgiving is for everybody it is not a religious holiday, the whole country celebrates so I don't get it.

[Karen]

That's a great one, Karen! And funny thing you mentioned it because my hubby LOVES almonds! We actually keep cans of them to snack on through the week! I might do that instead of the bacon & onions . . . sounds healthier anyway!

Hey, glad I could help! At family functions now they have to put the almonds in a dish next the green beans and let people add their own so I can avoid a trip to the emergency room, but I used to like green beans that way!

[joycenalex]

this year eileen, alex the wonder dog, the meows and i will be having cornish hens(i have a coupon) greenbean casserole(i had coupons) sausage-cornbread stuffing/dressing (i had coupons for the jiffy mix), mashed potatoes and cranberry relish(i had a coupon). the dog LOVES the 1 tablespoons he gets of the dressing, i love the coupon thing and of course we all watch the national dog show and place bets on who wins the dog show.

[Uabassoon]

This will be my first Thanksgiving with Alexa's family. The tradition there is to order Chinese food and go watch a movie. So I guess no one is cooking. However I am thinking of making a pumpkin pie and bringing it over just because I really like pie.

[caseysmom]

Laura, The chinese food and a movie sounds great, I get kinda tired of turkey, what a fun, unconventional family you are joining.

[cyber-sibes]

I was just going to make a small dinner for hubs & me & a couple friends, but it turns out my two sons are both coming and two more friends and a whole family of friends - so now I'm cooking for 13! I got a 23 lb. turkey. do you think that's big enough? I'm making the turkey/gravey & dressing, cranberries, mashed potatoes, candied sweet potatoes (my favoirte), and corn. Friends are bringing wild rice -mushroom casserole, fresh rolls, and pumpkin & apple pies, and ice cream. Man, are we gonna be FULL!!!

P.S. My dishwasher broke last week. Please keep your fingers crossed the new one arrives on time!

[ParNone]

We're having a big family shindig at my Aunt's this year. 14 Adults, 9 kids and 8 or 10 dogs. My Aunt will be making at least Turkey and Rice Dressing and Chocolate Pies and who knows what else.

Me and Mom are gonna bring Turkey with Corn Bread Dressing (I don't care for Rice, even though Rice is the family tradition from our Cajun background), Ham, Potato Salad (we got German in our background too ) and Pumpkin Cheese Pie.

Then my sister'll bring Sweet Potato Pie, Watergate Salad and an Apple Pie. I have no idea what my cousins will make, but you can be sure there'll be enough food and pie for a lot of left overs. One thing us southerns love to do is eat.

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[sirrahbed]

We are having Thankdsgiving over at our oldest son's house. Chris is cooking the turkey, dressing, gravy and mashed potatoes (she makes the BEST mashed pots!!) Carol is bringing a couple of pumpkin pies, and Missy and I are bringing rolls, green beans and glazed carrots

I did find a recipe for "southern green beans" that I think I might try . . . it's just greenbeans tossed with minced onion and bacon pieces. Sounds like a dish that they serve at our favorite Roadhouse.

Sounds rather like our TEXAS green beans and soooo yummy! I fry up the chopped bacon until it is nice and crispy, add dried minecd onions (the flavor of the dried is so good I think) and then the SECRET ingredient is a bit of brown sugar....shhh!!

That last ingredient makes them taste wonderful and just like some I have had in southern restaurants!! YUM!

[luvofallhorses]

We are having it here at our house. My mom is cooking the turkey and I am going to help her out with all the other things, like usual. My Aunt Patty, My Uncle Ed, my second cousin Sammy, my Aunt Barbara, my cousin April, and hopefully my brother is coming...(he's been having car troubles lately..) and I haven't seen him since August. I love Thanksgiving, but not as much as I used to, because my grandmother (my mom's mother) passed away today 2 years ago. (I'll make a thread soon..)

[shais_mom]

We are going to my mom's brother's house.
I am fixing Green bean casserole.
I agree Karen - I like the frozen beans with it better but I bought a case of green beans for Keegan's diet so I am using the canned!
We never used to have it at dinners and I brought it a couple years ago b/c it is so easy and yummy and it was a hit so I have brought them every time since!

[joycenalex]

[QUOTE=ParNone]Watergate Salad and an Apple Pie.
what's watergate salad? is it a form of waldorf salad?

[ramanth]

In years past we had Thanksgiving dinner either at my mom's parents house or at my parents. And it was always what I considered traditional Thanksgiving fare.

Turkey
Dressing
Mashed Potatoes
Gravy
Yams (with marshmallows on top)
Green Bean Casserole
Cranberry sauce
Salad
Fresh baked rolls
Hor'derve's (consisting of deviled eggs, shrimp, and a relish tray)
and lots and lots of PIE!

Sometimes other dishes get tossed in but those are the ones that I look forward too. Mom and Grandma have always shared the cooking duties.

This year will be a full house. My mom is hosting and it'll be my parents, grandma, great aunt, myself and Andy, my sister and her new hubby, and my other sister and her new beau.

The past two years my parents were out of state so I spent it with Andy's family and their Thanksgiving dinner is very different to what I grew up to. But we still had fun.

[Samantha Puppy]

Dinner is with my family. My mom cooks a turkey, makes stuffing, sweet potato casserole and green bean casserole. Then we leave for my husband's family's get-together where we finish the night with desserts and booze.