Thanksgiving in America

[one...two...tree 2,762]

For those who've never eaten a turkey before - who's cooking the bird?

Here's a list of what my family (mom) would traditionally prepare for Thanksgiving:

Roasted Turkey

Honey Baked Ham

Stuffing

Sweet Potato Casserole (with mini-marshmallows on top)

String Beans

Cranberry Sauce

Gravy (made from the broth of boiling the neck and heart)

Ambrosia

Sweet Peas

Mashed Potatoes

Rolls

....

Desserts:

Pumpkin Pie

Pecan Pie

Apple Pie

Minsmeat (sp) Pie

...all of which were topped with whipped heavy cream.

[Carlawarla 1]

Hey Steven your Mom's meal sounds good! After many many years of preparing Thanksgiving dinner in Canada (the second Monday in October), I'm looking forward to

having someone else do it this year! My in-laws have Thanksgiving in their home, and my MIL is a fabulous cook! I've been for one Thanksgiving meal with them before I moved down here, so I know it's good. I really don't like the green bean casserole. I know it's a tradition here though! Matter of fact, my MIL referred to it as the "required GB casserole". I know that not many people even had a taste of it the time I was here before. haha What a waste.

My in-laws also have a brown sugar or syrup glazed carrots instead of the peas. Ambrosia salad...MMMMMMMMMM a favourite of mine...especially for dessert!

Where are you having Thanksgiving dinner?

Carla

[Carlawarla 1]

I just read what I'd wrote, and realized first of all it was in the Philipines thread..........

and second it was for those that hadn't eaten turkey before!

Sowwy!

Carla

[fish 0]

Steven,

I've never eaten the "BIRD" other than ground turkey we buy every now and then (that doesn't count right?). My mother-in-law will be the one doing all the cooking. We are from the south so my mother in law cooks the best home style food I know especially beans (I hate it back home), biscuits and cornbread love them now. Anyway, everyone in the family say she cooks the best roasted turkey so I'm excited about that.

Oh her pecan pie and strawberry cake are both to die for yum yum yum

For those who've never eaten a turkey before - who's cooking the bird?

Here's a list of what my family (mom) would traditionally prepare for Thanksgiving:

Roasted Turkey

Honey Baked Ham

Stuffing

Sweet Potato Casserole (with mini-marshmallows on top)

String Beans

Cranberry Sauce

Gravy (made from the broth of boiling the neck and heart)

Ambrosia

Sweet Peas

Mashed Potatoes

Rolls

....

Desserts:

Pumpkin Pie

Pecan Pie

Apple Pie

Minsmeat (sp) Pie

...all of which were topped with whipped heavy cream.

[David-and-Mae 15]

For those who've never eaten a turkey before - who's cooking the bird?

Here's a list of what my family (mom) would traditionally prepare for Thanksgiving:

Roasted Turkey

Honey Baked Ham

Stuffing

Sweet Potato Casserole (with mini-marshmallows on top)

String Beans

Cranberry Sauce

Gravy (made from the broth of boiling the neck and heart)

Ambrosia

Sweet Peas

Mashed Potatoes

Rolls

....

Desserts:

Pumpkin Pie

Pecan Pie

Apple Pie

Minsmeat (sp) Pie

...all of which were topped with whipped heavy cream.

Would you be kind enough to adopt us over the Thanksgiving? I promise, I won't eat much. Hehehe... Boy, what a feast for you guys!

I had turkey before. That's our main dish (along with glazed ham with slices of pineapple) during our wedding reception. It was my first time to have it with cranberry sauce and baked beans topped with fried onion. This Thanksgiving, David and I will be going up to Nebraska and spend a week there with my in-laws. They're all the best cooks I've known so far so I'm not sure yet who will cook the bird. We will be buying it though...

HAPPY THANKSGIVING ALL!

--Mae

[*JG* 2]

My mouth is watering at all that food.

[MissStacey 1]

It will be my first Thanksgiving here in the Southern US. In Canada, my mom always did:

Roast turkey stuffed with white bread stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, whipped turnips and carrots, canned peas, canned cranberry sauce, dinner buns.

I'm excited for Mel's menu. We are having a lot of people over so we are doing both a deep fried turkey and a turduckin. A turduckin is a turkey, duck and a chicken. All the bones are removed and they are stuffed inside each other with a layer of stuffing between each. I have never tried either a deep fried turkey or a turduckin. He is doing oyster dressing- never tried that either. He is also doing some special sweet potato recipe that his grandmother always made. Homemade cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, gravy, and whatever else we feel like doing.

[JelloShotGirl 0]

first we are going to the Macys Thanksgiving Parade(surprize for my hubby) then we are going to go home to my folks house

Roast Turkey made SpanishCaribbean style(hard to explain, using spanish spices ......etc)

pumpkin soup

stuffing/cranberry sauce

veggies

sweet potatoes/yams

rice

this year we will be adding Pancit LOL

sweet potato pie

pumpkin pie

mmmmm yummy lots of carbs! LOL! Happy THanksgiving to everyone!

[alexandra8886 0]

For those who've never eaten a turkey before - who's cooking the bird?

Here's a list of what my family (mom) would traditionally prepare for Thanksgiving:

Roasted Turkey

Honey Baked Ham

Stuffing

Sweet Potato Casserole (with mini-marshmallows on top)

String Beans

Cranberry Sauce

Gravy (made from the broth of boiling the neck and heart)

Ambrosia

Sweet Peas

Mashed Potatoes

Rolls

....

Desserts:

Pumpkin Pie

Pecan Pie

Apple Pie

Minsmeat (sp) Pie

...all of which were topped with whipped heavy cream.

we're going in Las Vegas for thanksgiving..will celebrate with my parents-in-law..but seeing your menu..where's your address?

[joemaria 0]

We're going to celebrate it a day advance to my parent-in-law's house then go out of town making his day offs from work just me and my hubby...but my biyenan will cook fried turkey in peanut oil which she said i will really like, she's a good chef so no doubt!

Happy Thanksgiving to all!!!

[eau_xplain 2]

For those who've never eaten a turkey before - who's cooking the bird?

Here's a list of what my family (mom) would traditionally prepare for Thanksgiving:

Roasted Turkey

Honey Baked Ham

Stuffing

Sweet Potato Casserole (with mini-marshmallows on top)

String Beans

Cranberry Sauce

Gravy (made from the broth of boiling the neck and heart)

Ambrosia

Sweet Peas

Mashed Potatoes

Rolls

....

Desserts:

Pumpkin Pie

Pecan Pie

Apple Pie

Minsmeat (sp) Pie

...all of which were topped with whipped heavy cream.

Yummmm!!

First Thanksgiving dinner that I prepared we had:

Roasted Turkey

Stuffing

Sweet Potato Casserole (with mini-marshmallows on top)

Green beans (with dried onions on top)

Cranberry Sauce

Gravy

Mashed Potatoes

Seafood bisque

Cornbread

For dessert we had:

Pumpkin Pie

Pecan Pie

The turkey came out pretty good considering it was my first attempt.

This year it's just going to be hubby, myself and my son. Not sure yet if my stepson will be joining us. So, we just got a small turkey and maybe just have a small dinner for us.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Hey Steven your Mom's meal sounds good! After many many years of preparing Thanksgiving dinner in Canada (the second Monday in October), I'm looking forward to

having someone else do it this year! My in-laws have Thanksgiving in their home, and my MIL is a fabulous cook! I've been for one Thanksgiving meal with them before I moved down here, so I know it's good. I really don't like the green bean casserole. I know it's a tradition here though! Matter of fact, my MIL referred to it as the "required GB casserole". I know that not many people even had a taste of it the time I was here before. haha What a waste.

My in-laws also have a brown sugar or syrup glazed carrots instead of the peas. Ambrosia salad...MMMMMMMMMM a favourite of mine...especially for dessert!

Where are you having Thanksgiving dinner?

Carla

We were going to visit my family in Arizona, but Jinky started working at Macy's so we're going to have a small gathering of ourselves. Jinky keeps saying we should skip the turkey and have chicken...LOL. I'll be doing most of the cooking, so I just hope the turkey comes out tender and juicy for her first turkey.

I just read what I'd wrote, and realized first of all it was in the Philipines thread..........

and second it was for those that hadn't eaten turkey before!

Sowwy!

Carla

LOL...it's okay...it's Thanksgiving afterall.

Edited November 13, 2007 by Mister Fancypants

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Steven,

I've never eaten the "BIRD" other than ground turkey we buy every now and then (that doesn't count right?). My mother-in-law will be the one doing all the cooking. We are from the south so my mother in law cooks the best home style food I know especially beans (I hate it back home), biscuits and cornbread love them now. Anyway, everyone in the family say she cooks the best roasted turkey so I'm excited about that.

Oh her pecan pie and strawberry cake are both to die for yum yum yum

LOL...same here for Jinky. We buy the ground turkey as a healthier alternative to beef or pork, but she's never tasted the 'BIRD' in its natural form.

I love pecan pie .....we're gonna get ours from Costco...but hats off to my mom for all the years that she made most of everything from scratch.

It will be my first Thanksgiving here in the Southern US. In Canada, my mom always did:

Roast turkey stuffed with white bread stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, whipped turnips and carrots, canned peas, canned cranberry sauce, dinner buns.

I'm excited for Mel's menu. We are having a lot of people over so we are doing both a deep fried turkey and a turduckin. A turduckin is a turkey, duck and a chicken. All the bones are removed and they are stuffed inside each other with a layer of stuffing between each. I have never tried either a deep fried turkey or a turduckin. He is doing oyster dressing- never tried that either. He is also doing some special sweet potato recipe that his grandmother always made. Homemade cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, gravy, and whatever else we feel like doing.

LOL...I wondered what the hell a turduckin was. Sounds all good though. Enjoy your first Thanksgiving here, Stacy! Let me know how that turduckin tastes.

first we are going to the Macys Thanksgiving Parade(surprize for my hubby) then we are going to go home to my folks house

Roast Turkey made SpanishCaribbean style(hard to explain, using spanish spices ......etc)

pumpkin soup

stuffing/cranberry sauce

veggies

sweet potatoes/yams

rice

this year we will be adding Pancit LOL

sweet potato pie

pumpkin pie

mmmmm yummy lots of carbs! LOL! Happy THanksgiving to everyone!

Oh, Pancit would make an excellent addition! Good thinking! Enjoy your Thanksgiving together with the family!

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Yummmm!!

First Thanksgiving dinner that I prepared we had:

Roasted Turkey

Stuffing

Sweet Potato Casserole (with mini-marshmallows on top)

Green beans (with dried onions on top)

Cranberry Sauce

Gravy

Mashed Potatoes

Seafood bisque

Cornbread

For dessert we had:

Pumpkin Pie

Pecan Pie

The turkey came out pretty good considering it was my first attempt.

This year it's just going to be hubby, myself and my son. Not sure yet if my stepson will be joining us. So, we just got a small turkey and maybe just have a small dinner for us.

That sounds like a great meal! Well even if you make a lot, the leftovers are tasty!

[Amby 490]

Your thanksgiving meals all sound fabulous! Last year I made my first ever Thanksgiving and we were in England.

I made:

Turkey

Ham

Chicken & Dumplings

Green Bean Casserole

Herbed Stuffing

Buttered Corn

Glazed Carrots

Mash Potato

Collard Greens

Pumpkin Pie

Pecan Pie Apple Pie

Oatmeal Cranberry & White Chocolate Cookies

Also appetizers: cheese platter, pigs in a blanket & spicy meatballs

We had about 12 people over and there was nothing left. Everyone took food home and I made tons thinking we'd have leftovers.