Thanksgiving!

[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? :/)

[7rider]

Just DH and me for T-day.

Trader Joe's made our Thanksgiving dinner:
1/2 roasted turkey (pre-cooked....it's an experiment...we'll see how it goes!)
Scalloped potatoes (again, a TJ's pre-cooked experiment)
pearl onions (I'll need to fix those...DH loves 'em. I can take 'em or leave 'em)
Some sort of vege yet to be decided...green beans, mixed veges, who knows?
And a pumpkin pie if we can fit it.

Perhaps a bottle of Pinot.

After DH goes for his bike ride, and I do my training run (assuming this cold that I feel is coming on doesn't develop into anything), we hope to go check out the new Harry Potter flick (hopefully, they'll be showing matinees!). Then dinner in the evening.

[Zen]

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