Americans! Thanksgiving!
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Our stuffing isn't stuffing. We call it dressing.
The distinction is important. My grandmother always said even if the recipe is the same...if it's in the bird it's been stuffed. If it's cooked OUTSIDE the bird, it's been dressed. I like the texture/consistency of dressing much better than the wet, weird, sogginess of the stuffing. *shudder*0 -
It's just my Dad and I now so the last few years he and I have just gone out to a restaurant for our Thanksgiving dinner. Been nice, but it's nothing like the big homemade spread. When my Mom and I cooked the Thanksgiving meal, our typical meal was:
- Roasted turkey
- Turkey gravy (boil the turkey neck and innards to make a broth and use that along with the juice in the turkey pan after the turkey has cooked to make the gravy.
- Canned jellied cranberry sauce (we were never whole cranberry people)
- Homemade cornbread stuffing/dressing (some regions call it stuffing even if it's not being stuffed into the bird, some call it dressing). We cook up a batch of cornbread the day before Thanksgiving to use in the dressing the next day. We stopped stuffing dressing into the bird in the 90s.
- Mashed Potatoes, mashed with evaporated milk, and with butter, salt, pepper to taste.
- Roasted veggies, usually brussel sprouts, carrots and/or butternut squash
- Campbell's cream of mushroom soup green bean casserole
- Yams (we usually eat them plain, but for the holiday our favorite recipe is to boil 6 medium sweet potatoes till tender, peel, mash with 1/8 cup butter, 1/2 cup brown sugar and pineapple juice from canned pineapple to taste (the pineapple juice adds a tang and breaks up the sweetness), mix in chopped walnuts, spread in casserole dish and top with pineapple rings, put a large marshmallow in the middle of each ring and a halved maraschino cherry on top of each marshmallow, bake at 400 degrees until the marshmallows have browned up). This is always a big hit at holiday potlucks at work.
- Dinner rolls
- A few homemade pies, usually a pumpkin pie (my Dad's fav) and a chocolate cream pie (my Moms fav) and a lemon meringue pie (my fav)
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michaela_g09 wrote: »you MUST have pumpkin pie lol just sayin' it's not thanksgiving without the pumpkin pie.... oh and stuffing. my two favs
I don't like stuffing. Or I guess it's the way my husband makes it...
Definitely want to have cornbread on the menu this year. It's seriously one of my favorite things ever.
And pumpkin and pecan pies for dessert.0 -
michaela_g09 wrote: »you MUST have pumpkin pie lol just sayin' it's not thanksgiving without the pumpkin pie.... oh and stuffing. my two favs
I don't like stuffing. Or I guess it's the way my husband makes it...
Definitely want to have cornbread on the menu this year. It's seriously one of my favorite things ever.
And pumpkin and pecan pies for dessert.
I do dressing. My mom used to make a cornbread and sage sausage dressing which is one of my favorite things ever. I make my own version of it now, which isn't as good as hers, but my family loves it.
I have a food microbiology background. I just can't do stuffing very well. I worry too much
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Almost everyone has the following menu:
Roasted turkey with stuffing
Mashed potato with turkey gravy
Cranberry sauce (canned usually)
Sweet potatoes (the mini marshmallow recipe is super traditional)
Green bean casserole (Campbell's recipe usually)
Pumpkin pie
Of course everyone does it a bit differently but this is the most traditional American spread.
Pretty much this! We brine our turkey because it just gives it that much more flavor. We make the gravy out of the drippings from the turkey. We don't really like pumpkin pie, but always have one anyway, in addition to maybe an apple pie or some other pie. And don't forget the ROLLS and BUTTER!!! Oh, and for the stuffing, we usually just make the kind that comes in a bag/box. I can't wait until Thanksgiving!!0 -
Oh. I guess dressing and stuffing is kind of different. One's a side dish! So edit my post before to say dressing.0
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My mom makes the best stuffing/dressing around. There are cornbread dressing people (often southerners) and white bread dressing people(often northerners). My mom, a native of Louisville, KY, a hybrid southern/midwestern town, combines both! Its brilliant. She sautees onions and celery, combines Stovetop stuffing and a whole loaf of white bread cut into cubes, adds copious amounts of poultry seasoning and chicken broths, bakes and bakes and just keeps tasting it until its just right. I've never tasted another recipe as good as hers. My husband (who obviously wasn't raised with the recipe) agrees. Her dressing is the best!0
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Cranberry Apple pie! tasteofhome.com/recipes/cranberry-apple-pie
We make cranberry sauce with crushed pineapple and raspberries in my house. Not as tart as the plain cranberry version and the kids like it better.
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Here in Texas I make inject my turkey's with a mixture of seasonings and fry(not greasy at all) them, mashed potatoes, cornbread stuffing, green been casserole, cranberry sauce, rolls. I also bake a nice big mix of pies like cherry pie, pecan pie, buttermilk pie, and pumpkin pie.0
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I grew up in the 60s with a mother that didn't make many "recipes" - much of our food came out of cans. Sometimes, our traditional Thanksgiving foods are looked at askance by visitors (and I'm sure will be by readers of this thread), and as the years pass, the kids in the family are replacing most of the canned foods with "real" foods.
If I had it my way, I would still do it my mom's way - it's what I grew up with, what I like, and what is "traditional" for me. Here it is, sad as may be
:- Turkey stuffed with simple bread dressing - torn up loaves of bread browned in scads of chopped onions, in Crisco and, if available, bacon grease. Soaked in the turkey juices, it is yum - we always fight over who gets how much of the limited stuffing.
- Mashed potatoes with real butter and reams of turkey gravy.
- Canned Princella cut sweet potatoes - a couple of large cans poured into a large bowl with all the juice, sprinkled with plenty of brown sugar, dotted with butter, and smothered in either mini or large marshmallows (depending on if we remembered to buy them before the stores ran out - and they do run out).
- Green beans. I don't like green beans, so no clue how they are cooked.
- Birdseye creamed onions - frozen.
- Canned cranberry jelly, sliced. The best part of the tradition is trying to get them out of the can in one perfect piece, accompanied by the familiar and satisfying "thwoop" sound they make when they come out of the can.
- Rolls - different kinds, Hawaiian sweet rolls occasionally, but I prefer buttermilk biscuits from the tube.
- Pumpkin pie. Always pumpkin pie.
All this must be accompanied by (mostly the men) watching American football. And followed by everybody, after finishing dinner, loudly proclaiming, while patting their bellies, that the tryptophan in the turkey is making them sooooo sleepy, and several folks taking a nap. Without this last part, it is not a true American Thanksgiving. (Shhhh . . . the tryptophan part is false - it's the sheer volume of food that does us all in - but don't tell anybody). 0 - Turkey stuffed with simple bread dressing - torn up loaves of bread browned in scads of chopped onions, in Crisco and, if available, bacon grease. Soaked in the turkey juices, it is yum - we always fight over who gets how much of the limited stuffing.
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This is pretty legit. Add in some rolls, cheesy potatoes, wine and bloody marysAlmost everyone has the following menu:
Roasted turkey with stuffing
Mashed potato with turkey gravy
Cranberry sauce (canned usually)
Sweet potatoes (the mini marshmallow recipe is super traditional)
Green bean casserole (Campbell's recipe usually)
Pumpkin pie
Of course everyone does it a bit differently but this is the most traditional American spread.
We have a fairly simple Thanksgiving dinner. The kids and their families come over.The food is fairly tradional,some of it from a box or can (what can I say, child of the 60s). Of course we have turkey but a must have is a big bowl of Stove Top stuffing. We have real mashed potatoes and gravy, Princella canned sweet potatoes, drained and rinsed that are mashed with a little nutmeg or pumpkin pie spice. We also always have my grandmother's macaroni and cheese casserole, Campbell"s green bean casserole, canned cranberry sauce and at least a pumpkin pie. If I feel ambitious, I'll also make an apple and a coconut custard pie. There are always at least 2 cans of black olives, a big bottle of dill pickles and some sweet pickles (the grandkids will have most of these gone before dinner). We don't have any bread or rolls but once in a while we'll have mashed rutabaga or peas and onions. This is our traditional dinner for all the holidays. If I changed it at all my kids would mutiny.:) We usually eat around 2:00 by the time all the kids are here. They usually go to work or their in-laws (for a second dinner or dessert) around 5 or so. If my husband and I haven0 -
at my house we do turkey, mashed potatoes, mac and cheese, stuffing, green bean casserole, cranberry sauce, gravy, popovers. Depending on who is coming, we sometimes add in sweet potato casserole and creamed spinach. And of course, dessert!0
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My family also adds in cabbage rolls. I'm not sure if that's our German coming through though.
In my family (also of fairly predominant German heritage), cabbage rolls are for New Years! Lol! :P Although, we make what I think is the 'Czech' version of cabbage rolls with sauerkraut, crushed tomatoes, and kielbasa. They're absolutely delicous.
I'm SO ready for Thanksgiving now! I'll be Googling some of the menu items you all have listed - it's nice to change things up from time to time - and some of those dishes sounded so yummy. In my family, it's tradition to - of course - burn the dinner rolls. We always forget about the damn rolls... Lol!
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Does any other eastern-ish coast Canadian have the infamous mashed turnip with brown sugar and butter? Only ever served at thanksgiving lol.
And yep, pumpkin pie and butter tarts for desert 0 -
Roast turkey breast
Sage Stuffing with walnuts
Mashed potatoes with real butter
Home made noodles in home made chicken broth
Deviled eggs
Home made cranberry relish
Home grown corn (froze)
Asparagus
Hot rolls
Pumpkin & apple pie with whipped cream
Candied nuts
Coffee,tea & milk0 -
Does any other eastern-ish coast Canadian have the infamous mashed turnip with brown sugar and butter? Only ever served at thanksgiving lol.
And yep, pumpkin pie and butter tarts for desert
I'm not east coast but we do the mashed turnip always with Turkey...not just at Thanksgiving
For our Thanksgiving dinner (yesterday) I did something different. Tried a butter cup squash mash. Split it in half, removed the seeds, coated the cut sides with a small amt butter, sprinkled with sm amt brown sugar, added s&p. Placed in container cut side up and foiled the top...baked approx 1 hr @350F. Scooped flesh out of the skin and mashed. Delicious!0 -
I believe a butter tart is about the same as our pecan tarts or pie. But without the pecans.0 -
My fav things is asparagus casserole, green bean casserole and one thing that is a must is DEVILED EGGs!!!0
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