Thanksgiving!

[redrhodie]

The last few years I've made a vegetarian dish to share at Thanksgiving, usually a recipe from 101Cookbooks.com

This year I was assigned dinner rolls. ONLY DINNER ROLLS (they were very specific). I guess if it isn't deep fried turkey, mashed potatoes w/ gravy, and cheese with some broccoli--they aren't happy

That's obnoxious. So because they don't want it, you can't have it? What, is there no room in the house for one more dish?

Being who I am, I'd somehow fill the rolls with spinach, just to bug them.

[indysteel]

I am so jealous of all these wonderful dishes. DH and I are going to my parents on Thanksgiving. My mom is a decent cook, but a couple things work against her on Thanksgiving: (1) A blind adherance to the dishes she's been making for the past 50 years of married life; and (2) a tendency to overcook things. Her dishes are not exactly inventive or fresh tasting. Think green bean casserole and lifeless peas and carrots.

I've offered over the years to contribute some dishes, but my mother is also a control freak and will have none of that. DH and I will try some things for our New Year's dinner together instead.

At least it's what I'm used to. DH and I spent the last two Thanksgivings with his family and family friends, and they don't do much more than microwave premade food. It's a crime against humanity. The first year I actually found myself pretty offended by it. Nothing says the holidays like Stovetop Stuffing.

Anyway, Happy Thanksgiving to all. Enjoy the day!

[jessmarimba]

I'm going to make a pecan pie and green bean casserole but I'm probably going to get dinner to go from the Chili's up the street. It's just me, and I'm trying to clean the house to put up Christmas decorations, so I don't feel like cooking for myself!

[limewave]

That's obnoxious. So because they don't want it, you can't have it? What, is there no room in the house for one more dish?

Being who I am, I'd somehow fill the rolls with spinach, just to bug them.

Lol. Good idea!
It wouldn't be the holidays without obnoxious relatives

[MomOnBike]

I'm not cooking this year, just going to a friend's house. I'll be taking butterhorn rolls.

On the years I do cook, the menu is very specific - I am NOT allowed to get creative. My family has decreed that there be:

Turkey with a chorizo/veggie corn bread stuffing - I make the bread a few days before, it's a raised bread with a lot of corn meal and whole corn in it.

Mashed 'taters and gravy. It is almost impossible to make enough.

Cranberry Chop-Chop Good Stuff - that is, cranberries chopped with jalepenos, red onion and lime juice. Sounds like it should be awful, but we eat it plain by the spoonful.

Brussels sprouts with mustard lemon sauce

Butterhorns - complete with a call to my brother bragging about how my butterhorns are better than his. (They are)

Cranberry pound cake. I think it weighs in at 1,000 calories a crumb, but it is so worth it.

Wine. In the cook. In the stuffing. In the gravy. In the icing on the cake. In glasses on the table. (Oops, I think I spilled some. That's OK, have another glass.)

That's what I have no choice but to serve. Guests are free to bring any dishes that make them happy.

[jessmarimba]

Wine. In the cook. In the stuffing. In the gravy. In the icing on the cake. In glasses on the table. (Oops, I think I spilled some. That's OK, have another glass.)

My family makes wine Jello for holidays. Pretty good

[skhill]

I'm heading over to my brother's for the big meal. It's leg of lamb for us-- his partner got food poisoning from an undercooked turkey once, and so we don't go there. There will be mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce from a can, and something green.

My contributions: dessert! Crustless pumpkin pie (brother's partner has celiac), and an apple/cranberry something (maybe pie, maybe gluten-free cobbler). And if I get energetic, I'll bake cornbread, maybe even make stuffing.

The pumpkin's roasting in the oven right now! yum!

[OakLeaf]

MoB, that cranberry relish sounds wonderful! I'm so inundated with great-sounding cranberry recipes this year (also thought I might use some of the blueberries I have in the freezer) - might have to make them two ways.

[Becky]

I like the sounds of that cranberry relish too!

We're at the in-laws for Thanksgiving this year, as we continue the eternal rotation back and forth between families.... DH's family are very much classical Thanksgiving people, and don't believe in lightened-up anything. It all must be drowned in butter and heavy cream. So I don't bring anything, but I do help with the cooking and cleaning.

(Sorry for the rant....can you tell that I'm not in the Thanksgiving spirit this year? :/)