First catch your child … 
Nah, they’re too fast for me.
Almost all vegetables are bitter to me, that’s why I don’t eat’em. I can just about tolerate them in a stir-fry, as long as they’re covered with whatever sauce I’m using to approximate Chinese stir-fryness. I like carrots, corn, and potatoes. Even plain lettuce leaves a bitter aftertaste. It sucks, I see recipes in magazines and the vegetables look so pretty and enticing, so I follow the recipe and take my first bite and realize I might as well be sucking on a bottle of that apple stuff you spray on your table legs to stop the rabbit from gnawing on them. Blech.
So. Homemade cranberry sauce flavored with cloves, cinnamon, and ginger. Turkey with an onion and celery and rosemary up its butt. Mashed sweet potatoes. Regular candied sweet potatoes with the marshmallows. Cornbread stuffing with chestnuts. Mother informed me last night that I will be making a green been casserole with those dried onion twig thingys on top, so…steamed with dill, garlic, and onions and buttered it is. She’s doing Christmas dinner, she can make the other kind then.
smiling-jack, for that dressing recipe, how much cornbread does it call for?
You are missing the tie that binds, the GRAVY. This giblet gravy recipe is as close as I’ve found to what my grandmother used to make and was a big hit at last year’s feast.
I couldn’t imagine Thanksgiving without the gravy. I’m a true Southern boy. 
Jammer