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We have all of the traditional food items and enough to feed a large army all for our small family (us, family of 4, one set of grandparents, one other grandparent, two each aunt & uncle, one cousin and their spouse and one child and my sis and her husband).
We LOVE deep fried turkey. It is sooooooooo moist and juicy. And I don't have to cook it which is even better.
Ham
Tamales - homemade (not by me but I wish I knew how)
Cornbread dressin
Mashed potatoes (although I have cheated the last few years and made them the night before then that morning add sour cream, butter, grated cheese, bacon bits and then bake them. YUMMMMMIIIIIIEEEEEEE).
Homemade creamed corn
Green bean casserole
Canned green beans from the summer garden
fruit salad
baked sweet potatoes (there is a recipe that can make it hard to drive after eating them )
rolls
and butter along w/ sweet iced tea
For dessert on Thanksgiving:
pumpkin pie w/ real whipped cream to top it
pecan pie
chocolate pecan pie
pumpkin roulade w/ the yummy cream cheese filling
homemade coconut cream pie
homemade coconut cake
and anything else that we feel like making
For dessert on Christmas:
all of the above along w/
Red Velvet Cake - from scratch w/ a YUMMY icing that is NOT the cream cheese variety
LOL!!! Are we a bunch of pigs or what.
Then top it all off w/ a nap while the Cowboys play.
We're veggie.
I do a wicked potato leek pie for the holiday.
The meal is rounded out by plenty of traditional sides (green beans, corn, homemade cranberry sauce...). I don't like pumpkin pie, but I love pumpkin soup (go figure...) so we start with that. We finish with my SO's cheescake (not so traditional, eh?) and everything is washed down with Champagne. I love Champagne. I think of T-day through New Year's as "Champagne season".
Oh lord, how could I forget the cranberry.... My head would be on the chopping block if I forgot the cranberry sauce. Even my kids LOVE the stuff. Of course they all like that jellied kind that comes straight out of the can then sliced. I also buy the whole cranberries in the can. I like the dried ones in green salads and they make it so pretty colorful. Add some chopped pecans or walnuts, crumbled gorgonzola cheese and a rasberry vinigrette dressing.
I like the dried ones in green salads and they make it so pretty colorful. Add some chopped pecans or walnuts, crumbled gorgonzola cheese and a rasberry vinigrette dressing.
LOL!!! In the summer use fresh strawberries and slice them and I like to use Romaine lettuce as it is the deeper green color (besides it is my favorite type of lettuce, that and spinach). Or better yet I do like to mix the romaine and spinach.
By the way if anyone is going to serve turducken please count me in. I've been meaning to order one for Thanksgiving for quite a few years and always forget. If you happen to be serving seafood stuffed turducken I'll be your best friend for life!
Just moving this thread back up because I like to hear about everyone's menus.
I know what you mean. I'm thinking of hiring a private investigator and showing up at momof2dfw's house for din-din...Darn, that menu has got me losing sleep with food lust! I could always show up and if they look too different from me...just say that I'm the redheaded stepchild who's come home for Thanksgiving dinner
Oops...I forgot...can't do that this year I'm hosting Thanksgiving myself this year and my kitchen is going to be crowded, plus three kids running around and one friend who's coming wants to do a Pork Loin Roast as well on my smoke/grill and smoke it. We did it once this past summer...yumilicious! But I'm doing a full Turkey, stuffing (with none of that nasty organ meat stuff..ick and NO raisins or plums in it...ick!), steamed green beans with bacon and white onions, garlic mashed potatoes in a HUMONGOUS bowl, sliced Cranberry sauce, black olives, sweet yams with brown sugar glaze, bacon-wrapped pineapple squares on toothpics baked until the bacon is crisp (OMG good!), sauteed mushrooms with chopped garlic and butter. Then dessert... I've decided to do Isabella's Flan recipe I've seen on here. I love flan, but never made it. A custard pie with drizzled caramel over it, chocolate cake with buttercreme frosting, vanilla cake with vanilla buttercreme frosting, pumpkin pie with whipped cream, pecan pie, apple pie, and a chocolate pudding pie. The other thing I'll have are homemade cream puffs. There will be champagne ( I like Freixenet Cordon Negro as it's relatively inexpensive but really good sparkling wine), red Merlots and Cabernet Sauvignons from California, and maybe Blue Nun white wine.
Last edited by MoMark; 11-10-2006 at 07:13 PM..
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