What's on your Thanksgiving menu this year?

[Free For All]

I'm brining & smoking a turkey breast (w/applewood) plus:

-green bean casserole (a favorite, although I use cheddar cheese soup instead of mushroom).

-garlic mashed potatoes

-apple/pecan stuffing (baked outside of the turkey- I use a muffin pan to create individual servings and maximize crispness. I HATE soggy stuffing)

-green salad

-crescent rolls

-blue cheese stuffed olives

-chocolate pecan pie

-apple crisp

Followed by:

-football

-napping

Followed by:

-extra time at the gym to work it all off

[DukeCity]

-apple/pecan stuffing (baked outside of the turkey- I use a muffin pan to create individual servings and maximize crispness. I HATE soggy stuffing)

We're big fans of the "stuffin' muffins" at our house, too!

Haven't finalized our menu yet. We're going to some friends' house, so they're doing the turkey.

You didn't mention any beverages! We'll probably get a couple of bottles of bougelais nouveau, do some Cosmos (you know, with the cranberry juice and all), and maybe some port or scotch later (another friend of ours does a Port, Pie, and Poker party that night).

Bottom line: It's ALL good!!!

[Jazzmoose]

Maybe I'll have a turkey sandwich at work that day. With my finances, I couldn't turn down double time and a half...

[7/4]

Pressed Rat and Warthog.

:rsmile:

[BruceH]

The usual here. Turkey, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, etc.

[GA Russell]

I'm still hoping to be invited to catesta's!

If he doesn't come through, that's all right. Christmas is next month!

[Shawn]

Lon and I are going to break with tradition and have a Thanksgiving BREAKFAST this year...don't know what he's planning on cooking.

[JSngry]

Onion Sours

ButtWax Cereal Cakes

Slippery Feathery Sausages

Turkish Turkey De-Lite

Rolls & Duck Butter

Ice-Ed Tee

Pie.

[Col.Panic]

We're all Slayer fans, so dead baby with a side of virgin hearts.

[Tom Storer]

Here in France, where TG is naturally not a holiday, Americans typically pick an adjacent weekend to celebrate. Every year for decades we've been invited to a festive Thanksgiving weekend by a foodie friend who now lives in Chartres. So I don't control the menu, but typically it consists of roast stuffed turkey and a variety of side dishes. I make the sweet potato pie--the pumpkins here in France aren't quite the same variety, so it's hard to find pumpkin that will set properly. I prefer to use fresh sweet potato rather than overpriced canned pumpkin from some American specialty shop in Paris.

Our friend does a thing where she soaks Stilton cheese overnight in vintage port. It makes a sinfully rich confection, half cheese and half dessert.

I'd like to weigh in on the stuffing question. I am philosophically and aesthetically opposed to stuffing outside the bird. The whole point is to have it compact and moist, permeated with cooking juices from the bird. Otherwise, I'm sorry, it's not stuffing. It's faux stuffing and its proponents should be banned from the kitchen for life. That is all. Long live tolerance!

[Jazzmoose]

Sweet potato pie is better anyways.

[Free For All]

I'd like to weigh in on the stuffing question. I am philosophically and aesthetically opposed to stuffing outside the bird. The whole point is to have it compact and moist, permeated with cooking juices from the bird. Otherwise, I'm sorry, it's not stuffing. It's faux stuffing and its proponents should be banned from the kitchen for life. That is all. Long live tolerance!

Vive le difference!

BTW, that port-soaked Stilton sounds awesome!

[Peter Johnson]

Hey! Speaking of...where the hell has Chris been lately?

I'm still hoping to be invited to catesta's!

If he doesn't come through, that's all right. Christmas is next month!

[Tom Storer]

Sweet potato pie is better anyways.

*CLASP*

[Shrdlu]

Fish and chips.

[ejp626]

Usually it is mac n' cheese, mashed potatoes, green beans and sweet potato pie.

This year it will be baked ziti instead of mac n' cheese.

(Being vegetarian, it always seemed pointless to pretend I was just part of the crowd by eating tofurkey.)

[vajerzy]

I make peanut soup every year....kinda "Virginian"...

[medjuck]

Hearing that I'd ordered a turkey my daughter rebelled. Cancelled the turkey-- we're having lobster. (It's local lobster season here in Santa Barbara.)

[Tim McG]

What's on your Thanksgiving menu this year?

Every year we BBQ the bird.

I make a basil olive oil and rub the entire turkey with it then put several sprig's of basil in the cavity.

Rub in a liberal amount of sea salt and coarse ground pepper.

Add a cup of H2O to the bottom of the disposable roasting pan, cover with foil and let it cook with the lid cocked slightly open.

Additionally, I smoke the bird on the grill with pre-soaked hickory or mesquite wood chips and baste with the ensuing juices.

Takes about five hours [for a 20+ pound turkey] and the gravy is to die for

Edited November 25, 2009 by GoodSpeak

[JSngry]

I'd like to weigh in on the stuffing question. I am philosophically and aesthetically opposed to stuffing outside the bird. The whole point is to have it compact and moist, permeated with cooking juices from the bird. Otherwise, I'm sorry, it's not stuffing.

That's right - it's dressing.

[Soulstation1]

You Jive Turkeys!!!

[JSngry]

Hot buttered biscuits with turkey-face marmalade!

[BeBop]

Between the vegeterian (no dairy, no egg) schtick and having no frige or cooking tool, it's raw faves:

- carrots

- broccoli

- soy milk

- dessert apples

[Tim McG]

[Noj]

I look forward to this all year. Mom will make her usual juicy and delicious turkey which she knows how to bake without drying it out, along with her special stuffing which is my favorite part, ham, sweet cinnamon carrots, broccoli cheese casserole, garlic mashed potatoes and gravy, deviled eggs, and an assortment of pies. In addition my two sisters-in-law and my aunts will be bringing appetizers and other goodies. My favorite holiday.