Thanksgiving Only Foods. Are there items that you or your family serve or have served only on Thanksgiving? (burgers, cream)

[hdwell]

The foods pretty much limited to Thanksgiving at our house include:
Turkey
Cornbread dressing
Giblet gravy
Green Bean Casserole
Sweet Potato Casserole
Cranberry Sauce
Mother-In-Law's famous jello salad with avocado, grapes, and pecans.

In addition we serve Mashed Potatoes, dinner rolls, Pies like Pumpkin and Mince Meat (which I like), sometimes pecan or apple. I have to watch my sweets and starch being a type 2 diabetic and now my wife has to watch her salt intake. So this will certainly be a different Thanksgiving for us.

[Happy in Wyoming]

Originally Posted by stan4

Don't eat breakfast biscuits.

Breakfast is normally something lame and healthy like fruit and oatmeal or occasionally unhealthy like bacon, toast, and hash brown.

Biscuits and gravy are a necessity in a BIG breakfast. However, prior to Covid, I had only had it in restaurants. After making it a few times at home I had an inspiration: plop a few poached eggs with just the tiniest tickle of cayenne on top. I can't claim that I only have it on Thanksgiving, however, but whenever I need some yummy comfort food to start the day..

[DubbleT]

My daughter started a holiday tradition that we call a heart attack casserole. It's so deliciously bad that we only indulge on the major holidays. Potatoes, onions, bacon, cheese, and mayo, OMG, I can feel my arteries hardening just thinking about it.

[Hemlock140]

We will do a turkey breast other times, also mashed potatoes and other Thanksgiving favorites. About the only thing we eat only on Thanksgiving is what we call "red stuff." It's made with canned cranberries, frozen strawberries, and pineapple bits.

[lookashiny]

We have several in my family. We don't generally have turkey on other days, plus creamed onions, cranberry jelly, and stuffing.

[evening sun]

cranberry sauce. The rest we do have atg other times during the year.

[oregonwoodsmoke]

Only for Thanksgiving? Pumpkin pie and bread stuffing for the turkey.


My mother used to make a home made cranberry sauce with fresh cranberries. I don't like cranberry sauce, so I have no idea where the recipe went. It seemed like a lot of work and involved a hand cranked food grinder.



I always hated yams until I discovered that it was the marshmallow candy topping I hated. I like a plain baked yam with just butter, but I make those several times a year, and actually never for Thanksgiving.

[oregonwoodsmoke]

Originally Posted by DubbleT

My daughter started a holiday tradition that we call a heart attack casserole. It's so deliciously bad that we only indulge on the major holidays. Potatoes, onions, bacon, cheese, and mayo, OMG, I can feel my arteries hardening just thinking about it.

Would love to have that recipe. I love artery clogging potato dishes.

[oregonwoodsmoke]

My Aunt Pearl has a baked onion recipe that I will make if there is an enormous crowd coming. I love it but small groups of people won't finish it off.


Fill a crock pot with sliced onions. Use yellow, white, or Walla Walla onions. Drop on an entire cube of real butter, put on a couple of twists of black pepper. Turn on the crock pot and cook for hours.



So delicious. Also wonderful with the prime rib at Christmas, but darn, it makes an awful lot of onions and the recipe doesn't work well if you cut the recipe down.

[oregonwoodsmoke]

I just thought of something else. Not Thanksgiving specific, but that time of year is when the persimmons get ripe and my father specialized in steamed persimmon pudding and he made these delicious persimmon cookies. They are "fall" foods, so we had them around Thanksgiving.