Roast with potatoes and gravy and corn or broccoli and cheese, OR maybe Chicken and dumplings with biscuits. I don’t do desserts too much , sometimes peach cobbler.
Mine is fried chicken, rice and gravy (Louisiana native here), biscuits, salad/raw fruit of some kind, and either bread pudding or strawberries and cream over pound cake.
So. . .how YOU doin’? How’s your mom and them?
Reservations.
Depends - for me I would ask mrAru to do the classic grilled steak, huge baked potato and a tossed salad with his homemade olive oil balsamic vinaigrette. He likes the classic Thanksgiving turkey dinner - stuffing baked outside the bird, mashed yams no marshmallow, apple pie.
Although we both like the classic New England corned beef, cabbage, carrots, onions, celery, potatoes or the classic roast chicken done on a bed of potatoes, carrots, onions, celery. [For my birthday last Sunday we roasted a duck on a bed of red cabbage, baby potatoes, pearl onions, baby carrots and large chunks of celery seasoned with salt and pepper. Very basic and very tasty.]
It depends on who’s coming to dinner.
For the Fella, it would be pot roast with carrots and potatoes. For his boys, baked mac and cheese. For my siblings, chicken pie.
Dessert for any of them would be cooked chocolate pudding or traditional’nanner pudding.
So many good suggestions here. Why not consider roast turkey with stuffing, potatoes and green beans? I like this dinner on any fall/winter night, not just Thanksgiving.
When I’m making a special meal (think “Sunday dinner”) for the extended family, I’ll make swiss steak, scalloped potatoes, deviled eggs, either coleslaw or cucumber salad, green beans, and homemade rolls.
Since that meal takes a good six hours to make, if I’m just doing comfort food for the nuclear family, it’s beef stew or spaghetti with salad and garlic bread or maybe potato soup with cornbread. If I were making a meal with my own tastes in mind, I’d make a bean soup with vegetables (and, again, cornbread).
If it’s cold outside: On the rare side, roast beef, with roasted potatoes and onions, fresh green beans, and gravy.
If it’s hot outside: Ribs, slaw, pasta salad.
For him: grilled seasoned pork chops or chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, and gravy, and green salad. Or lasagna or spaghetti. In fact, he keeps an eye on how much spaghetti sauce is in the freezer, and will tell me if he’s getting low. And we had hamburgers and fries last night, and he mentioned several times that he really, really likes homemade burgers and fries.
For me: I like pot roast and New England boiled dinner, and also roasted turkey. Boy, do I love roast turkey. And I think that home roast turkey sandwiches are much better than the stuff from the deli.
For my husband, it would be lasagna, made with my own, homemade tomato sauce. I guess it would be a toss up between that, my Cuban black bean chili, and/or a smoked turkey with mashed potatoes, and corn.
For myself, I would choose fried chicken, buttered/peppered hominy, and fresh biscuits.
For myself, a big pan of enchiladas, with Redford beans on the side.
My husband would probably want lasagne.
Chicken fried steak. Pot of beans cooked with ham. Cornbread. Best home cooked meal ever.
Or peas instead of green beans. Mix’em up with the mashed potatoes! 
This thread inspired me to make my favorite homecooked meal: oven-roasted chicken and vegetables. I do the chicken plain, with a little olive oil. The vegetables are fingerling potatoes, carrots, butternut squash, red bell pepper, shallots, fennel, with a few kalamata olives, rosemary, and sage thrown in for flavoring. Yum.
Barbecue ribs, roasted vegetables, mac and cheese, and romaine lettuce dressed in Thai peanut dressing.
Or I like making a large spread for breakfast with biscuits and gravy and pancakes and bacon and cut fruit and eggs and coffee and juice.
I’m seriously thinking there should be some recipes posted. Here is my comfort food.
Chicken and Rice:
Cream of mushroom soup
Cream of celery soup
Cream of chicken soup
One cup of rice, preferably Uncle Ben’s converted rice
Chicken breasts (I prefer boneless)
Mix the soups and the rice along with some melted butter, lay the chicken on top.
Bake at 350 F for 45 minutes or so. Eat and enjoy!
Depends on who it’s for…and I don’t currently have anyone who would opt for their first meal back to be from me.
So I’ll throw this out instead - when I came back from a five week work stint in Europe, I asked my Mom to make her home made spaghetti sauce. Served with spaghetti, of course. It’s what I grew up on, and dang it, I missed it!
We do our version of Thanksgiving dinner 3 or 4 times a year. And once I tried doing just the breast of turkey, but we like the whole thing because we make soup out of the carcass after stripping off the meat 
Roast chicken, roasted potatoes, and sauteed greens of some sort.
Growing up an everday meal had three dishes one of each important part…protein, starch and vegetable. I stick to this even now as it is all you need.
Roast chicken is a universal food for anyone that eats meat. It just smells of happy fuzziness for all.