OT: What's your Thanksgiving menu?

I am cooking this year for the first time in 3 years. First year hubby and I were together I went all out, since I wanted to make a good first impression with his family. They didn't touch any of the so-called "fancy" stuff I made: wild rice-stuffed acorn squash, Frenched green beans with garlic cream sauce, homemade stuffing, and acorn squash with brown sugar and butter. They wanted plain old mashed potatoes and Stove Top stuffing. Literally, all that "fancy" food went to waste. This year, I am making what they will eat. I am doing two 12 pound turkeys, since we will have at least 14 people, one will be made traditional-style, with the butter injections, etc. and the other will be made using an old salt pork method. Green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce (jelly and berry), butter rolls, salad, average appetizers. Apple, pumpkin, and cherry pie for dessert. The only "fancy" thing I'm making is Red Garnet yams whipped with heavy cream, cinnamon, and vanilla. I don't think anyone will eat those, but I want to make them anyways. Good luck with your dinner!

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We are doing all this and broccoli casserole and carrots and minus the pumpkin cheesecake lol

Quoting Megara:

What will you be eating this Thursday?  We always seem to go overboard trying to do way too many things, so this year I have cut it down to the basics:

Breakfast of pumpkin muffins, coffee and juice, then dinner....

Turkey (grilled)
Gravy
Cornbread Dressing
Corn on the Cob (grilled)
Sweet Potatoes
Mashed Potatoes
Green Beans
Honey Rolls
Cranberry Sauce
Pumpkin Pie
Pumpkin Cheesecake (can you tell we LOVE pumpkin?)

 I don't look forward to doing all the cooking at 38w6d preggo, but I'm going to. I think that maybe, just maybe DH will help me. That is if he doesn't go deer hunting...Anyway, I have a pretty simple menu because I just don't want to be all fancy and we're only having anywhere between 3-9 people, I think. Nobody will say for sure if they are coming!

Turkey (oven baked of course)
Stuffing
Green Peas
Corn on the cob
Mashed potatoes
Green beans (DH is allergic to peas)
Cranberry sauce
Rolls

For dessert:
Sweet potato pie
Apple pie
Cherry pie
Butterfinger pie (mine all mine darn it)

I think that's it...

 We are having:

Turkey

stuffing

Mashed Potatoes/gravy

sweet potatoe pie

green beans -fresh from my grandmas garden even lol

corn

rolls - my aunt is making them homemade

cranberry sauce

pumpkin pie & apple pie - I'm making them from scratch!

plus we will have pickles, olives, these ham rolls my grandma makes (very yummy) and some veggies to munch on while we wait for dinner lol. there are going to be like 20 of us in my aunts house, so its going to be a blast! yay!! :) can't wait!

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Turkey
Ham
Gravy
Mashed Potatoes
Cranberry Sauce
Rolls
Stuffing
Yams
Green Bean Casserole
Beans
Fruit Salad
Cinnamon Apple Pie (mine homeade)
Cheesecake (my special recipe hehe)
Pumpkin pie
Banana creme Pie
Chocolate Pie
Lemon Mar. Pie

I think that is it, but I am pretty sure I forgot things..everyone makes a ton of stuff haha!

 

3 turkeys- 1 deep fried, 1 deep pit and 1traditional

green bean casserole

mashed tators

stuffing

candied yams

jalapeno cranberry sauce

regular cranberry sauce

black eyed pea dip

beenie weeines wrapped in back with brown sugar

pumpkin pie

pumpkin cheescake

and Im pretty sure thats about it lol

Mind you there are only 8 adults and 1 kid that are going to be there on thanksgiving. lol I don't know what my sister and I were thinking.

Oh and the turkey I bought for the oven is 23pounds. lol.  My sister bought a 16 pound turkey and a 12 pound turkey.

Quoting preggomama26:

3 turkeys- 1 deep fried, 1 deep pit and 1traditional

green bean casserole

mashed tators

stuffing

candied yams

jalapeno cranberry sauce

regular cranberry sauce

black eyed pea dip

beenie weeines wrapped in back with brown sugar

pumpkin pie

pumpkin cheescake

and Im pretty sure thats about it lol

Mind you there are only 8 adults and 1 kid that are going to be there on thanksgiving. lol I don't know what my sister and I were thinking.

That reminds me of my first Thanksgiving w/ DH's family!  The mashed potatoes and dressing were from a box.  I volunteered to make my mom's holiday honey rolls, and I was the only one who ate them, everyone else preferred the canned biscuits!  I have since taught DH to appreciate them, though!

Your yams sound really good, care to share the recipe?

Quoting mrsflorea:

I am cooking this year for the first time in 3 years. First year hubby and I were together I went all out, since I wanted to make a good first impression with his family. They didn't touch any of the so-called "fancy" stuff I made: wild rice-stuffed acorn squash, Frenched green beans with garlic cream sauce, homemade stuffing, and acorn squash with brown sugar and butter. They wanted plain old mashed potatoes and Stove Top stuffing. Literally, all that "fancy" food went to waste. This year, I am making what they will eat. I am doing two 12 pound turkeys, since we will have at least 14 people, one will be made traditional-style, with the butter injections, etc. and the other will be made using an old salt pork method. Green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce (jelly and berry), butter rolls, salad, average appetizers. Apple, pumpkin, and cherry pie for dessert. The only "fancy" thing I'm making is Red Garnet yams whipped with heavy cream, cinnamon, and vanilla. I don't think anyone will eat those, but I want to make them anyways. Good luck with your dinner!

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