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infamousmk
infamousmk Posts: 6,033 Member
edited October 5 in Food and Nutrition
What is your favorite food of Thanksgiving? What can you live without? Do you have any unique or unusual Thanksgiving traditions?


I'm probably most excited for mashed potatoes and gravy. And my MIL makes a pretty good cold cranberry salad that's way better than the junk in a can. Although, if I have the opportunity to taste some junk in a can, I always do.. makes me feel like a kid again!

I'm in charge of the sweet potato casserole this year! I make the best sweet potato casserole!

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  • tiedye
    tiedye Posts: 331 Member
    I love a heap of stuffing with a large spoonful of gravy :D
  • Ryoku
    Ryoku Posts: 35 Member
    Stuffing is my favorite.
  • quitmakingexcuses
    quitmakingexcuses Posts: 906 Member
    And my MIL makes a pretty good cold cranberry salad that's way better than the junk in a can.

    I read MILF. Hahahah! :laugh:
  • curlyclo
    curlyclo Posts: 243 Member
    I LOVE mashed potatoes. That's probably what I'm looking forward to the most. That and pie.

    Also, my grandmother's green beans are freakin' awesome.
  • PennyNickel14
    PennyNickel14 Posts: 749 Member
    Rolls and Stuffing and then casseroles. I love me a casserole.
  • SweetestHoney
    SweetestHoney Posts: 95 Member
    I making fat free with skin potato salad!
  • maxwellcoffeebean
    maxwellcoffeebean Posts: 66
    mine is either stuffing or this thing that my aunt makes every year. its a sort of cheesy rice and broccoli casserole. so delicious!
  • Lillemeddy
    Lillemeddy Posts: 94
    My favorite is our family tradition "Corn Thing". It's been a part of the four Thanksgivings I've celebrated since I moved to America. Corn thing is basically Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix mixed as usual - but with butter, cream corn and sour cream added. It is DELICIOUS!
  • Elzecat
    Elzecat Posts: 2,916 Member
    I love the canned cranberry sauce even though I know it would be better to make my own...

    We have a small family--and what family there is, is mostly out of state. And my mom doesn't really like turkey...so for the 3 of us (me, mom and grandma) we usually do something else, like roast chicken or cabbage rolls (cabbage and meatballs)...this year my mom is making pot roast and baked potatoes. But she DOES bake a pie...from scratch...that's always the best part!
  • Elzecat
    Elzecat Posts: 2,916 Member
    My favorite is our family tradition "Corn Thing". It's been a part of the four Thanksgivings I've celebrated since I moved to America. Corn thing is basically Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix mixed as usual - but with butter, cream corn and sour cream added. It is DELICIOUS!

    this sounds SO bad for you...but so delicious! lol
  • Kslice39
    Kslice39 Posts: 146
    mMmmm i LOVE mashed potatoes w/gravy and deviled eggs! my mom makes the BEST deviled eggs ive ever tasted and i can not pass one up! stuffing, turkey, green beans, cranberry, etc i can all live without lol

    my nana also makes the BEST chicken fried steak in the WORLD!!!(she makes this every thanksgiving and christmas) and there is NO WAY i could ever give that up! i would definitely be able to classify nanas homemade chicken fried steak with gravy and #1 on my list!
  • justanotherbrickinthewall
    justanotherbrickinthewall Posts: 156 Member
    I make kugel for Thanksgiving, and oh my god it is too delicious.
    I also really love stuffing that has dried cranberries and apples in it :)
  • rosebarnalice
    rosebarnalice Posts: 3,488 Member
    Our unusual tradition is that we completely ditch traditional meal items in favor of a day-long movie fest where each person picks a movie (total of 5 for the day), and then is responsible for making an appropriate dish and drink inspired or related to the movie.


    My movie this year is "Monty Python's Meaning of Life", for which I am making a low-fat grilled "salmon mousse" with fennel, and a drink I invented made with creme de cacao and bailey's mint called a "wafer thin mint."

    My sister's movie is "Watership Down" for which she is making a rabbit food salad [e.g., raw veggies and dip], and "hraka"--mini chocolate & oatmeal crumbles rolled to look like rabbit droppings.

    It's REALLY fun!
  • PennyNickel14
    PennyNickel14 Posts: 749 Member
    My favorite is our family tradition "Corn Thing". It's been a part of the four Thanksgivings I've celebrated since I moved to America. Corn thing is basically Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix mixed as usual - but with butter, cream corn and sour cream added. It is DELICIOUS!

    I make this. This is Delicious. Changing my vote to corn thing
  • CakeFit21
    CakeFit21 Posts: 2,521 Member
    I love Thanksgiving. Growing up I got sick of having turkey every year so we started doing themes. Regional Thanksgiving dinners. We used to do lobsters a lot. Even now I can live without the turkey, though I've started to enjoy it more recently. For several years I did all the sides without the bird, though getting a good gravy is much harder that way. The only thing that is absolutely mandatory is pumpkin and apple pie. I need to have both. Caramelized nut tart made it's debut last year and it may have become a regular part of the line-up. This year the nut tart will be grain free.
  • withervein
    withervein Posts: 224 Member
    Turkey. Oh man the turkey is the point of the whole dinner.

    Also PIE! PIES FOREVER! Gimme that pumpkin pie! The whole thing.
  • Moonbeamlissie
    Moonbeamlissie Posts: 504 Member
    I like the things I cant get on a daily basis.. So sweet potato casserole, turkey, green bean casserole.... Can't think of anything else off the top of my head. Most however, I can live without.
  • Moonbeamlissie
    Moonbeamlissie Posts: 504 Member
    My favorite is our family tradition "Corn Thing". It's been a part of the four Thanksgivings I've celebrated since I moved to America. Corn thing is basically Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix mixed as usual - but with butter, cream corn and sour cream added. It is DELICIOUS!

    I make this. This is Delicious. Changing my vote to corn thing


    I think that is called Corn Pudding lol
  • smketchum
    smketchum Posts: 94 Member
    I am so boring - not a fan of gravy or stuffing or sweet potatoes, but I do LOVE turkey and especially the leftover turkey on sandwiches. What I look forward to the most is the turkey and the apple pie. Mostly just family :). And the turkey. Did I mention the turkey?
  • SabrinaJL
    SabrinaJL Posts: 1,579 Member
    What I look forward to the most is chocolate chip pecan pie with homemade whipped cream. The turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, etc.... I make at other times during the year. I only make chocolate chip pecan pie on Thanksgiving.
  • kleavitt1992
    kleavitt1992 Posts: 592 Member
    stuffing and deviled eggs
  • andi_isit303
    andi_isit303 Posts: 30
    i look forward to pretty much everything on thanksgiving.
    but oddly enough, i never buy cool whip ... and i bought cool whip for the pie.
    yeah, im weird. whatev. :)
  • MaraDiaz
    MaraDiaz Posts: 4,604 Member
    Throw me a giant drumstick and I'm pretty happy, although sweet potatoes with marshmallows are a close second.
  • bmqbonnie
    bmqbonnie Posts: 836 Member
    My favorite is the cranberry sauce (I dump it on everything, especially good on the sweet potatoes) and the pumpkin pie. But this year I'm hanging out with some people that always just get food from an Italian restaurant, which is fine by me. Teh turkey is overrated.
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