Buncha mashed potatoes, buncha green bean casserole, some turkey, and three or four beers. There’s gonna be other stuff served, but that’s what I’m having.
I think I posted our menu once before but once more for posterity.
Peking Duck (which has been hanging in the garage since Monday night)
Turkey Breast w/ homemade gravy
Lamb and Rice stuffing with pine nuts (Lebanese, Family Tradition)
Cornbread stuffing
Green Bean Casserole
Green Bean Stew (Lebanese, Family Tradition)
Corn
Rolls
Pumpkin pie w/whipped cream
Ice cream
Prilosec (Before we eat.)
Booze, lot-n-lots of booze. (Mainly rum, but with some Jack and vodka thrown in for shits and giggles)
I’m going to my parents, and my mom being the single most unambitious cook in the world, it will most certainly be the same as every year since I can remember (I guess that’s okay, since it’s supposed to be traditional):
Roast turkey
Stuffing made with pre-packaged croutons, celery, onions and pork sausage
Real gravy
Mashed potatoes
Frozen corn niblets with butter sauce
Sweet potato casserole with little marshmallows
Brown & serve rolls
Homemade Waldorf salad (my contribution – she always asks me to bring it, and it’s embarassingly easy to make)
My sister’s homemade cranberry chutney (yum!)
My sister’s homemade blackberry cobbler (also yum!)
Honestly, I could make a whole meal from the stuffing with gravy and the chutney, but I’ll probably also have a hunk of turkey because, after all, it’s turkey day!
Anybody having turducken?
My wife is out of town and my brother is just going to have a nasty turkey for dinner, so I’ll probably just stay home and whip something up.
Maybe chicken paprika.
Now if only those stupid football games would get off my TV, it would be the perfrect Thanksgiving.
I won’t know until I get there, but it could be Puffed Rice, or perhaps a frozen burrito.
I never remember it’s Thankgiving until I find the store closed and it’s only 7pm, so I’m stuck with whatever’s in the back of the cupboards.
We had ours way back in October, it was your typical turkey dinner–the fowl itself, stuffing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, green beans, apple pie with ice cream. drools happily
Each of us is responsible for at least 2 dishes* - Every year we vow not to over-cook and fail miserably.
**Mom ** - Roast Turkey, Giblet Gravy, Non-Giblet Gravy, Cornbread Dressing, Mashed Potatoes, Turnip Greens
**Me ** - Sweet Potato Casserole, Asparagus Casserole, Deviled Eggs, Orange-Cranberry Sauce
**Sister ** - Broccoli Casserole, Casserole to be named later
**Brother ** - Bourbon Pecan Pie, Chocolate Chess Pie
*Sister-in-law ** - Green Beans
*Hey, at least she’s bringing something.
shE. Thorp and I are having the prix fixe menu at Cafe Flora.
I’m a bit bummed because we weren’t supposed to be home for Thanksgiving - we were supposed to be in Virginia. But the snow apparently has other ideas :(. So we ran by the supermarket after our failed attempt to get on the road and we got our traditional Thanksgiving favorites. Oddly enough, I had picked up a roasted turkey breast last week with plans to cook it one weekend, but it’ll be our turkey for tomorrow. (It’ll only be the two of us, plus the cats).
So, our menu is:
Stuffed mushrooms (stuffed with bread crumbs and parmesan cheese, among other herbs and spices)
Pumpkin soup (a family tradition on my side - my favorite, favorite holiday dish)
Turkey breast
Cranberry-raspberry relish
Green bean casserole
Candied yams
Roasted garlic mashed potatoes
Rolls
Pumpkin pie
Egg custard pie
Dinner for counts 14:
Turkey
Honeybaked ham
Bacon and pineapple hors d’oeuvres (tasty and simple)
Crudité platter
Cornbread stuffing with oysters
Cornbread stuffing without oysters
Romaine and gorgonzola salad w/ candied walnuts (my pet project)
Gravy (also mine)
Champ (another of mine - a friend’s recipe though)
Regular mashed potatoes for the onion-love-impaired
Cranberry and mandarin orange sauce (my husband’s baby)
Cranberry punch (also his)
Green bean casserole (My SiL’s specialty - I hates it precious, I hates it forever!)
Rolls
Pies:
1 large pumpkin
2 pecan
1 apple
I’m sure I’m missing a few things in there somewhere.
Roast turkey w/ bread stuffing
Mashed potatoes w/ giblet gravy
Green bean casserole
Creamed corn
Sweet potato souffle
Dinner rolls
All good, but nothing fancy. And since my mom, my brother, and my sister all have birthdays this month, I am at this very moment baking a ginormous cream cheese poundcake which I am going to decorate (the Wilton Way [sup]TM[/sup]) with buttercream icing.
I wonder if my menu can win some sort of contest for “most food that came from a box.” 
My mom and brother and a long-time friend of the family are coming here tomorrow, and we’re having: [ul][li]tortilla chips and salsa (from Tostitos)[/li][li]a 7-lb turkey breast (from Shady Brook farms – not quite a “real” turkey, but this will be my first time roasting something with bones in it :eek: )[/li][li]stuffing (from Stove Top)[/li][li]gravy (from Heinz)[/li][li]corn (from Green Giant)[/li][li]mashed potatos (from Betty Crocker)[/li][li]apple pie (from Mrs. Smith)[/li][li]ice cream (from Häagen-Dazs)[/li][/ul]
My family is certifiably insane with the amount of food we prepare for the holidays. Keep in mind this is to feed at most 12 adults and one child.
2 injected and deep fried turkeys
1 Honeybaked Ham
2 huge dishes of cornbread dressing with chicken and turkey meat in it
Deviled eggs
Broccoli and cheese casserole
Macaroni Salad
Whipped sweet potatoes of some kind, likely with the marshmallow stuff on top
Fried corn
Green Beans
Baked apples
Caramel cake
Chocolate Pecan Pie
My contribution is the dressing.
I’ll be working, so I’m making food I can easily bring in and reheat. Turkey is out.
Teriyaki salmon steaks
Lobster risotto
Mixed vegetables with cheese sauce
Lemon crunch pie
We might do that on Christmas but I’m having trouble getting the SO to wrap her mind around the “duck” part. She’s not a duck person.
Dinner for five: The in-laws and Grandma are coming from three hours away for dinner:
Turkey and stuffing
Cranberry sauce
Mashed potatoes
Gravy
Corn
Seasoned green beans
Southern green beans with ham
Oven-baked rolls
Pumpkin pie
Pecan pie
followed by a nap!
Menu for Le Maison Du Nix:
Cornbread dressing with chicken meat on top
Smashed taters
Green bean casserole
English peas
Canned cranberry sauce (Mom’s the only one who eats it)
Rolls
Pumpkin pie
Oatmeal raisin cookies
My poor SO is gonna be alone for Thanksgiving. I invited her to have it with my folks, but she can’t spare the gas. 