What are you contributing to Thanksgiving dinner?
Not necessarily something you’ve made from scratch, just which part of the meal are you providing whether you actually cooked it or not.
I chose the last option even though I do know what it is. It’s just a day off work for me. Since I’ll be alone (no family in the area and husband away on business) I’ll probably make a burger & broccoli, then go to the movies.
That sounds nice. Wish I could just do that.
I don’t envy you. Being alone is not as pathetic as it might sound to some. I don’t mind being alone, I don’t have to put up with extended family drama, I’m not a holiday person anyway, and I don’t cook. And I can sleep late!
I’m taking a tray of macaroni and cheese, plus several fruit pies. My husband’s extended family has a big Thanksgiving dinner at the church, then we and his sister’s family stay with his parents for the rest of the weekend noshing on leftovers. Thus, I’m bringing several pies. Also a five-pound bag of clementines, explicitly for weekend eating.
If things go like they did last year, there won’t be any mac and cheese left over.
Sis and I collaborate on Thanksgiving dinner at the folks’ house(Yikes! We’re old enough to be in charge). This year, I’m fixing the bird, dressing and gravy. She’s fixing most of the rest of the side dishes and Mom will chop veggies at the kitchen table if she feels up to it. We bake pumpkin pies together the night before, usually splitting a bottle of wine during the process.
There is an upside to being in charge. 
Hopefully it will just be me and the wife this year, so I will make everything. Most years I make everything but dessert, leaving that for the rude guests who insist on bringing their own food for some reason. Yes, I am the inverse-Marney demanding that people not bring any food for dinner.
This year is going to feel strange. For the first time in 15 years I won’t be the head chef and for the first time in probably 20 years I have no cooking duties whatever.
This year the dinner will be at one of my sisters’ house. She’ll be cooking the turkey, and my other sisters and I will be bringing other things. I plan to bring two pies, one storebought Dutch apple pie, and one pumpkin pie I will bake myself - with canned pumpkin and a premade crust,as I don’t quite feel secure enough in my cooking skills to make my own pie crust from scratch.
We’re not doing an extended family dinner this year – too expensive, too much work, and lately, too much waste. Some in the family don’t think it’s a problem to say they’ll be here and then they don’t show up. Or they’ll show up with a new girlfriend and her kids and we end up eating in shifts. Bah humbird.
My daughter’s coming over with smoked salmon and barbecued pork, and I’ll be fixing her favorite chicken-rice casserole. Hubby’s roasting a duck – he’ll eat the whole thing.
We are eating at Grandmother’s house (even though Gmom is in the nursing home a mile away - her home is vacant, clean, and it’s better that we go in now and again to run water through the pipes and stuff.) Mom’s oldest sister is in from Washington, and bunking at Grandmother’s. She will bake the ham and turkey. Mom (across the street) will do the dressing, pumpkin pie, sweet potatoes, greens, and cranberries. Middle sister is making macaroni and some other veggies and banana pudding. My in-laws are joining us, and will bring the appetizers. A cousin is bringing crab stew. I’ve been asked to make breads and pecan pie, and I’ll probably make a chocolate dessert as well. I don’t know who else is bringing food, but no one will be hungry, and no one will have to run around like a maniac handling everything. (And each of us is making something that we are really good at, so no “great pies, but the turkey was dry” afterwards.)
I volunteered Thanksgiving as one of my working holidays, the other being Christmas Eve with the promise of Christmas day and New Year’s Day off. If I were home I might cook everything, or go to the Casino to eat. But I’m working, and I’m not playing makeup, either. I’ll go to the Casino for a nice dinner when they’re not as busy, it will be more enjoyable. Poll needed an “unable to acknowledge Thanksgiving dinner due to other obligations” option.
We’re going to a neighbor’s place this year and she’s providing most of the meal. We’re bringing mashed sweet potatoes.
Boyfriend and I are going to my sister’s. I’m bringing a pie and a new sweet potato dish I’ve been wanting to try. Last year we drove 12 hours to his sister’s place, I’m looking forward to the much shorter commute this time around!
After reading the poll a little closer I could’ve voted “A dish and dessert” instead of “one or two dishes”.
My parents are in their eighties, but they refuse to relinquish the roles of family patriarch and matriarch. They are providing the venue and the turkey, and the extended family are all bringing the sides.
My main objective for the holiday is to stay off I-95 so I will see my extended family another time. Hearing that we’d be in town a nice friend invited my son and me to join her family for dinner.
I believe he response of “just yourselves” was sincere when I asked what I could bring. Since showing up empty handed might give me hives I will bake some cookies which they can choose to put out or not. Since it’s Thanksgiving I will likely make mincemeat tarts.
One or two dishes
I’ve been destroying smoked boneless turkey breasts lately and if Mom isn’t making turkey, I’ll make two of those.
If turkey is already spoken for, I’m strongly leaning toward Chile Verde. I just thawed some that I’d frozen and is still damned good. I think it would go well as a secondary turkey gravy, too.
Not much going on Thanksgiving wise here. For some reason it isn’t celebrated in Angola.
I do know what it is, but this year it’s a non-issue for me. I have to work 2-11 PM, and have no family or friends to sped it with, anyway. I’ll fix something easy for lunch and go to work. End of story.
Ordinarily, I’d cook everything. But it’s become the SO’s job to make the green bean casserole and the sweet potatoes. I’m in charge of the turkey, the stuffing (yes, stuffing – I’m looking at you, Alton Brown!), mashed potatoes, gravy, and roasted Brussels sprouts.