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The dreaded green bean casserole with mushroom soup and crispy onions. We would otherwise have a nice fresh green vegetable, but everyone expects the other thing.
Also, cranberry jello salad, and creamed onions, which nobody really eats.
We eat turkey/chicken, dressing and all the trimmings several times a year. The first year we were married my MIL made green bean casserole and couldn't believe I had never heard of it much less eaten it...."and you were born and raised in the south?" And it went downhill from there
Haha. My new DIL was raised in Puerto Rico and had never had the green bean casserole before. She loves it, so we will always have to have it.
I have to add pecan pie. Though it's just about my favorite thing on earth, served warm with cream, I will only allow myself to have it once a year. Way too rich.
I tend to only do my grandma's sage, cornbread, and onion dressing at Thanksgiving, because it's a multistep pain in the butt (but so good). Everything else I might do other times throughout the year. I love green bean casserole, and make it as often as possible year round.
I spoken to so many people who have told me about special items that only go on the menu at Thanksgiving. I talked to one person who said that her mother made Baked Macaroni and Cheese as a side dish; she made it on Thanksgiving only. I know of another family who always have Sweet Potato Pie.
I had an aunt who froze tomato juice in ice cube trays and added it to glasses of tomato juice. My mother always served stuffed tomato the evening before. My wife would spend hours preparing consumee, always served cold. These dishes only appeared at Thanksgiving.
Does your family have some special Thanksgiving Only dishes?
A whole turkey.
Tater tots. (I love Tater Tots, but they bloat me and are super fattening. So I eat them only once a year. As many as I want.)
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