THANKSGIVING (for the US)

[maherwoman]

Hey guys!

I just wanted to post something to see what everybody's doing for my favorite holiday, and maybe what you're cooking (if you're cooking) and where you're going, etc.

We're having (of course) turkey (probably one that's about 12lbs), stuffing, cranberry sauce, brocolli & cheese (melted cheese), candied and marshmallowed yams, and maybe something else, not sure what.

This will be my second Thanksgiving cooking our own meal...and last year's turned out so nice, I can't wait for this year's!!

And this year, I'm thankful for RO, all my friends here, having the time to homeschool my daughter, the amount of time I've been able to spend with my dad, having a vehicle that'll get us to my dad's (3 hr drive) safe and sound as often as we want, having our company FINALLY start being prosperous, so we can start breathing financially...and of course, our bunnies and kitties, my daughter, and my wonderful husband. So much to be thankful for!

So...tell me your menus! I'm curious to hear!

Oh! And tell me what you're thankful for!!

Hugs all around!

Rosie & the Warren :bunnydance::bunnydance::bunnydance::bunnydance::bunnydance::bunnydance::bunnydance::bunnydance:

 

[cheryl]

maherwoman wrote:

candied and marshmallowed yams

Aww lookie at that,the first thing i spotted was Marshmallow :hearts:

Anyway Rosie..what are Marshmallowed yams?..i'm quite curious,they sound yummy too!

Also have a wonderful Thanksgiving

Cheryl

 

[maherwoman]

I have to admit, as I wrote it, I thought of Marshmallow, too...

Basically, you peel yams, slice them into about half-inch slices, put them in a baking dish, put a tad of water in the bottom of the dish, lots of pats of butter on top, and sprinkle enough brown sugar on top that you can hardly see the yams. Bake them (not sure how long...), then take them out, add big marshmallows on top, then put back in to brown the marshmallows..and you're done!

The result should be loads of mushy and sweet yams, along with lots of yummy yammy sweet syrup in the bottom of the dish.

cheryl wrote:

maherwoman wrote:

candied and marshmallowed yams

Aww lookie at that,the first thing i spotted was Marshmallow :hearts:

Anyway Rosie..what are Marshmallowed yams?..i'm quite curious,they sound yummy too!

Also have a wonderful Thanksgiving

Cheryl

 

[tundrakatiebean]

My mom cooks (wonderfully) for our thanksgiving and her mom is coming up, she's diabetic, so the basics that Ma always cooks are: turkey, ginger yams, stuffing, pumpkin pie, mashed potatoes, cranberry jello salad (ew), apple salad, rolls, whipped cream, and we always have cranberry jelly from a can



I am SO excited. But we have to go to the shootout games after our thanksgiving dinner at lunchtime

 

[ChompersMom]

This will be the first year I am NOT eating a home cooked meal for Thanksgiving . I accepted my boyfriend's invitation to eat with his family only to find out they are going out to eat :nonono:. His response "Well, they have 'thanksgiving type' foods." Yeah but do they have cranberry sauce?? sparkling cider?? and more food than I can eat??? Prob not!! :tantrum: Oh well, at least I'll enjoy eating with his family but come on..some traditions should not be broken

 

[gentle giants]

Ah yes. the sweet potatoes with the smushy marshmallows on top..... Sorry, had to pause to wipe away the drool. :biggrin2:Those are a fav of mine, that and the pumpkin pie, the big soft warm rolls that my aunt makes..... *sigh* Too bad I'm eating with my husband's family this year, instead of mine!

 

[Bo B Bunny]

We'll go to my mom's for lunch..... nice big feast of turkey and all the works - more than we need LOL! Then we'll rush across to the other side of Indianapolis to my hubby's parent's and have dinner there.

Friday I will get up super early and SHOP!!!

 

[stephiemarie78]

With the price of gas we didn't want to make the 2hour drive to my parents house. Plus his dad and best friend didn't have plans, we didn't want them sitting at home alone.

yesterday we went and got a ham, turkey, stuff to make green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, candied yams, deviled eggs and cranberry sauce. His dad is bring seafood stuffing!!

I learned my lesson last year we waited till the night before to go to the store and get stuff to make candied yams and well BIG HUGE mistake. They are my FAV.

This is my Candied Yam recipe. If you've never had it its easy to make and VERY GOOD. I usually double it!

1 can yams
1/2 cup condensed milk
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup butter
1/2 Bag marshmallows
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon cinnamon

Drain Yams, put them in your baking dish. Pour Condensed Milk over yams, add your brown sugar, vanilla extract, butter, cinnamon and marshmallows on top.

Bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees F or until sweet potatoes are tender and marshmallows and melted.


Trust me If i can make it you can.

 

[Haley]

Rosie you left out the Mashed Potatoes! AndPumpkin Pie too! Those are essential

We just had a pre-Thanksgiving today at my Grandmas since she will be out of town next week. It was wonderful. Im so full right now but still munching on leftovers (there goes the diet ).

Im thrilled because since I only usually have class on Wed, Thurs, Fri, my classes are all cancelled for the week! I still have work and student teaching Mon-Wed but its great to have a break from classes!

Mike and I will go to my parents house and eat and then over to his parents for dessert. I love Thanksgiving!

Im thankful for so much this year: my friends here on RO, my family, but above all, forthe health of my babies. I am so thankful my Max is still here.

 

[SnowyShiloh]

Yay for Thanksgiving! I was actually going to make a thread like this myself. My boyfriend and I STILL don't know exactly what we're doing. This will be the first year he's not with his family. We were both going to fly down to Anchorage, but it was just going to cost too much for me. My boyfriend was just going to go, but his mom thought he should be with me (she's a very nice lady even if she doesn't love bunnies!) and he agreed. I told him over and over that it was completely fine with me if he went, but he didn't want to.

I'd like to have a couple friends over, but the problem is everyone's flying home! We have a few other friends who might be staying in town and I'd like to meet up with them.

I love cooking and actually made my first Thanksgiving dinner when I was 17. I made Alton Brown's recipe for brined turkey, as well as scalloped potatoes, mashed potatoes, rolls, roasted carrots, wild rice and chestnut stuffing (it was incredible, too bad I lost the recipe), pumpkin pie and a couple other things. It was all from scratch and I was quite proud of myself.

I'm planning to make:

-turkey using this recipe: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/A-Simply-Perfect-Roast-Turkey/Detail.aspx
-mashed potatoes made with salt, pepper, milk and fat free sour cream (they are wonderful in spite of no added fat)
-sweet potato casserole (I'm going to use either Rosie's or Stephiemarie's recipe. They both sound delicious!)
-green bean casserole (2 cans green beans, 1 can cream of chicken soup though I might make my own white chicken sauce base, 3/4 cup milk, french fried onions)
-mac and cheese (my family always has macaroni and cheese on Thanksgiving. I'm just going to buy one of those little Stouffer's frozen packages because they're so good)
-homemade rolls using this recipe, they are great:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Blue-Ribbon-Overnight-Rolls/Detail.aspx
-homemade cranberry sauce (my boyfriend is actually going to try to make it, he doesn't really cook and is excited to make it. We're just going to use the recipe on the bag of cranberries, maybe with some cinnamon added)
-pumpkin cream pie because Paul doesn't like regular. Going to use this recipe, but put the Cool Whip on top so it's firmer (I made it before and it was very yummy but very soft):
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Pumpkin-Cream-Pie/Detail.aspx

If there were going to be more people, I'd also make corn pudding (delicious southern recipe from my grandmother), stuffing, another pie and a couple other things.
Last year I had to stay in the dorm on Thanksgiving because I was a resident assistant and was on duty. I had frozen mac and cheese, frozen twice baked potatoes and sparkling cider. Not fancy, but I was happy with it! D

Also, maherwoman, do you have that recipe with more specific measurements? Like, what temperature, how long does it need to bake, can the potatoes be boiled first (my oven will be completely occupied by the turkey), how much water? It sounds so good!

Edited to say: I found the wild rice and chestnut dressing! I think I'll have to make it this year, too. It was really good and not too hard to make. The store was out of fennel so I just left it out, and I roasted my own chestnuts:

http://www.williams-sonoma.com/recipe/recipedetail.cfm?objectid=5364F18D%2DAC42%2D484A%2DB579F3048F7374B2

I'm excited! I already have it all planned out when I'm going to make what.

 

[undergunfire]

Mashed potatos smothered in sour cream, green beans with crunchy onions sprinkled through-out (or something like that), salad, citrusy cranberry sauce, rolls, sparkling cider, ice cream, and dutch apple pie.

:inlove:

No turkey, gravey, or stuffing for me. I hate turkey :yuck. Infact, I really don't even eat meat anymore, maybe a ham sandwhich once a week. Meat isn't satisfying. I am happy with veggie stuff.

 

[cheryl]

maherwoman wrote:

I have to admit, as I wrote it, I thought of Marshmallow, too...

Basically, you peel yams, slice them into about half-inch slices, put them in a baking dish, put a tad of water in the bottom of the dish, lots of pats of butter on top, and sprinkle enough brown sugar on top that you can hardly see the yams. Bake them (not sure how long...), then take them out, add big marshmallows on top, then put back in to brown the marshmallows..and you're done!

The result should be loads of mushy and sweet yams, along with lots of yummy yammy sweet syrup in the bottom of the dish.

cheryl wrote:

maherwoman wrote:

candied and marshmallowed yams

Aww lookie at that,the first thing i spotted was Marshmallow :hearts:

Anyway Rosie..what are Marshmallowed yams?..i'm quite curious,they sound yummy too!

Also have a wonderful Thanksgiving

Cheryl

Well Rosie..i have to tell you that i have never heard of a yam before..so i had to Google it...and it's like a sweet potatoe or something?

Cheryl

 

[tundrakatiebean]

Yeah, it's like a sweet potato, I have a hard time telling the difference...

 

[cheryl]

tundrakatiebean wrote:

Yeah, it's like a sweet potato, I have a hard time telling the difference...

Ahhhh,ok thanks

 

[Leaf]

I have a Thanksgiving confession:



I hate pumpkin pie. My Grandma makes several each year. Each is an individual, a little different from the others. She prides herself on her pies...

Of course, I have to eat some of the pies - I don't like crust so I try to take bites with filling (gag) only. I try to swallow it as fast as possible without chewing too much and I douse it with a lot of whatever I'm drinking.

As soon as noone is looking I pitch whatever I haven't eaten into the trash if I can't stuff it down a passing pet.

Of course... my Grandma thinks I LOVE her pie since I "eat it all" - and everyone thinks I have a "way" with the family pets since they are always near me.

 

[tundrakatiebean]

:laugh:Leaf, that is awesome!

 

[undergunfire]

Leaf wrote:

]Of course... my Grandma thinks I LOVE her pie since I "eat it all" - and everyone thinks I have a "way" with the family pets since they are always near me.

Ahhh hahahaha! That is GREAT :laughsmiley:!

 

[amberelizabeth]

i can't wait for thanksgiving....i've already starting starving myself so i can eat A TON! haha.

we always have it out at my mom's, the whole family comes out. we eat at 1 and then relax play board games, go on a walk, shoot clay pigeons, then reheat the food around 5-6.

after that we all lay around the fire and watch a christmas movie! it's one of my favorite holidays.



our foood is outrageous. we always have WAY TOO MUCH! These are my favorites though: turkey, gravey, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, sweet potatos, cesar salad, pumpkin pie, oh and it goes on and on.

YES I WILL EAT ALL OF THAT! hahaha. i looove good food!

 

[maherwoman]

Ya know, Leaf...you're not alone on that one...I'm so picky about pumpkin pie, I prefer to just tell people I don't like it, lol!! I don't like it cinnaminy...I don't like it nutmegy...I just wanna taste the PUMPKIN. Not many people make it simply to highlight the PUMPKIN flavor in it...it's SO hard to find!

So, yeah...that combined with the fact that my sweet tooth is practically non-existant ...makes it hard for Rosie on Thanksgiving when everyone's eating pie, and she's sitting there looking sheepish, until someone eventually, inevitably asks, "Aren't you gonna have some pie? You know they have pie, right? They have apple, pumpkin, pecan..." and I have to go into my whole explanation of "I have an almost non-existant sweet tooth...I'm picky on pies even when I HAVE a sweet tooth..." It's kinda embarassing, because without-a-doubt, the majority of the group I'm eating with then gasps in horror at a non-existant sweet tooth...always has to mention how much I'm missing out...and then I explain that I grew up literally allergic to milk (we're talking rash and vomitting), so I didn't have the ability to cut the sweetness of things with anything, and now that I'm NO LONGER allergic to milk, I just don't like the flavor...on and on. And ya know, at the core of it all...I don't feel I'm missing out on much...I'm perfectly happy eating second helpings of the main course (and sides) for my dessert! But yeah, it's pretty much the same exact conversation every time ...LOL!!

And thus the main reason Rosie likes having Thanksgiving AT HOME, haha! :biggrin2:

 

[katt]

i work from 6 am to 2:30 on thanksgiving. . . so i will be going straight from work out to my parents house. . . where i will get there just in time to eat myself sick, then fall asleep a cuddled up with my dog on the couch watching the football game with all the guys (hey, i mean, what is thanksgiving without a little football?)

this year, i am not cooking anything! my mother is doing all the work, and i think both my older sisters are bringing out sides! my help will simply be the phone call to my mother before leaving work "need me to pick up anything?"

thanksgiving isn't really a big deal to me! in fact, christmas isn't all that big to me either! i much perfer halloween! (i like to celebrate the wiccan halloween, and the more well know 'trick-or-treat' one myself)

but i can say i am looking forward to the pie, and the green bean cassorole! yum!