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Due to our hybrid ethnicities and cultural influences, ours is:
All natural turkey (organic, no hormones, cage free)
Corn bread dressing
Mashed potatoes
Flash frozen organic corn
Cucumber/tomato/avocado/red onion salad
Sauteed German red cabbage made with very low sugar
Butter
Giblet gravy
French green beans cooked in bacon/garlic, plus almond slices
Home cooked cranberries with very low sugar
Lingonberries
Low carb fresh biscuits
Fresh blueberries, raspberries and black berries layered in heavy whipped cream (made with vanilla and stevia (no sugar)) = parfait
Iced tea
Zevia (non sugar cola, more than one kind)
Water
Red wine
Someone had posted a pear salad earlier, and that inspired me, though I went sans pears because they are problematic here (I can't wait to move back to CONUS!!!!!)
I am making a pumpkin pie, with fresh whipped cream. Two other people will buy pies, I put in a request for something chocolate, and a pumpkin / haupia pie that is locally made.
What about a pot of mulled wine that can be served from the stove? Did that one year and it was pretty popular.
Thank you. Those recipes sound yum. I asked about the pies, because I am thinking that I need something besides pumpkin. I think I'll add something chocolate. I know, not traditional, but a few of my guests are hard core chocolate lovers. It will make them happy.
I'm glad you've been able to find pears! The coconut boubon sweet potato casserole sounds like a winner.
While I like the idea of mulled port, a few guests - and I know who they are - are going to want a chilled cocktail with hard liquor, as opposed to a spiced fortified wine. Maybe I'll add that too. Good to sip while making last minute preparations.
Thank you. Those recipes sound yum. I asked about the pies, because I am thinking that I need something besides pumpkin. I think I'll add something chocolate. I know, not traditional, but a few of my guests are hard core chocolate lovers. It will make them happy.
I'm glad you've been able to find pears! The coconut boubon sweet potato casserole sounds like a winner.
While I like the idea of mulled port, a few guests - and I know who they are - are going to want a chilled cocktail with hard liquor, as opposed to a spiced fortified wine. Maybe I'll add that too. Good to sip while making last minute preparations.
ALWAYS have to keep the cook happy!
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Man everyone's Thanksgiving meals sound delish! We're hosting my brother and my husband's co-worker this year. That'll bring us up to six people. I'm excited, it's always been just our little family since we moved to Wyoming.
Our menu:
Two smoked turkey roasts
Homemade mashed potatoes and gravy
Green beans with bacon and garlic
Crock pot dressing (trying something new)
Strawberry pretzel salad
Hawaiian rolls
Roasted Turkey
Baked Ham
Cranberry Sauce (eww...the only one who likes it is my husband, and he likes it from the can)
Turkey Gravy
Mashed Potatoes
Greasy Rice (made from the ham drippings)
Dressing
Sweet Potato Casserole
Green Bean Casserole (I could do without...but my mother-in-law LOVES it...and her preferred recipe is the one from the can...so that's how I'll make it!)
Baked Macaroni and Cheese
Collards
Butter Beans
Buttered Corn
Fried Apples
Ok, I just finished my final shopping list, and that makes this thread a bad idea, because I know y'all will come up with a bunch of stuff I want to make instead.
We have been playing musical chairs with guests, 3 of our small group can't make it, which is good because now we do not have to start the turkey the night before in order to have it ready for the early dinner they needed. So we have a group of 7, which includes one set of neighbors.
Our other neighbors are cooking dinner too, so all of them will come over here for a bit, and then we will all go over there for a bit.
Anyway... here's the menu:
Lychee stuff with cream cheese/candied ginger/sherry
Spinach/arugula with gorganzola/apples/pecans/cranberries and Dijon dressing
Biscuits (NOT home made, I wouldn't do that to guests), and cranberry/orange/honey butter
Traditional stuffing
mashed potatoes and home made gravy (one day I will get it how I want it. Maybe this year?)
Green bean casserole (from scratch!)
Smoked turkey
assorted pies and booze
We will be at our granddaughters for Turkey day. I know pretty much what we will be eating and it is a lot. There will be 15 to 18 of us, I am not sure of the exact number as she is inviting some friends we hace all known for years, but don't know if the adult kids will be coming
Of course,
Turkey: probably smoked ( i hope her husband doesn't over cook it this year)
potato casserole (our older daughter will bring that)
dressing
green bean casserole
brandy, coconut sweet potatoes (sound about like the bourbon one)I bring that
fruit salad Friends bringing that)
winter green salad (daughter is bringing that)
cranberries ( think I am going to combine a couple of the recipes some of you posted)
3 pies: ( no idea what kind but made by our 12 year old great granddaughter) she loves to bake and has been doing the desserts for the last couple of years
a few appetizers ( oldest granddaughter who is the mom of our dessert fixer)
Of course plenty of adult beverages ( host love his top of the line scotch, as do all the guys that will be there. The gals will mainly drink wine and a few are non drinkers, how they ended up in our family who knows)
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nty of adult beverages ( host love his top of the line scotch, as do all the guys that will be there. The gals will mainly drink wine and a few are non drinkers, how they ended up in our family who knows)
