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   Hi littermates! I was talking with a friend who lives out east and we were discussing what we are having to eat on Thanksgiving. I was surprised at how different our menus are! Was wondering what you have on your table Thursday. I will be anxious to see if it is different depending on what part of the country you live in! Please share!

   We normally have: Turkey, cheesey mashed potatoes, corn, homeade stuffing, green bean casserole, yams with marshmallows, corn casserole, baked beans, orange jello salad, pickles, homeade bread, cranberry sauce, & deviled eggs. For dessert: pumpkin, mincemeat, and chocolate pies. (I LOVE pecan but am the only family member who does!)

   Posted 1 year ago by mollycat71 #

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   A brined turkey, stuffing with cranberries and mandrin orange, green bean with water chestnut casserole, pecan candied yams, red skinned mash potatoes, scallop corn, cranberry sauce, and a relish tray. Dessert is easy, pumpkin pie and apple pie. I don't do anything fancy, but it sure tastes wonderful!

   Posted 1 year ago by SoxsMom #

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   I would be completely happy at your Thanksgiving SM, sounds great!

   Posted 1 year ago by mollycat71 #

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   This year is simple but in the past: turkey, ham, green bean casserole, whipped potatoes, cranberry sauce (sometimes homemade, somethings canned), corn, stuffing (mom's was the BEST), carrots, peas, yams with marshmallows, huge relish trays, cheeses, nuts, and in Maryland no Thanksgiving dinner is complete without sauerkraut! And dessert always pumpkin pie and good coffee. Last few years I discovered sweet potato pie. Yum!

   Posted 1 year ago by Jetta and Boo Boo's Mom #

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   Turkey, gravey, cheesy mashed potatoes, mashed sweet potatoes, stuffing, cranberry sauce, corn with butter, green bean casserole, and apple sauce. Pumpkin and apple pies!

   Posted 1 year ago by gini #

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   My mom and aunt usually make turkey, garlic mashed taters, rolls, cranberry sauce, moms mac & cheese, stuffing, peas and deviled eggs. Dessert is chocolate pie and cheesecake :)

   Agh, I am sooooo hungry right now thinking about it lol

   Posted 1 year ago by roxysmommy #

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   turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes (sometimes), stuffing, winter squash, green beans, fruit salad (someimes), banana nut bread (sometimes),cranberry orange nut relish, pumpkin pie with whipped cream...

   Posted 1 year ago by CSBM #

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   I make a turkey, gravy(sometimes with mushrooms), mashed potatoes, stuffing (my mom's recipe) sweet potatoes, peas or brussel sprouts,or string beans, canned cranberry sauce, some sweet baby gerkins, black olives, pumpkin pie/whip cream for dessert(sometimes lemon meringue too),& sparkling grape juice to drink. My mom always put a small glass of apricot nectar to drink at each plate also. I can't wait to eat a yummy dinner!! Plus, I will start my Christmas cards and watch any good movies on TV. :) OH BOY!!

   Posted 1 year ago by bumblebee #

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   All this food/meals sound yummy!!! Mmmmm.....

   Posted 1 year ago by bumblebee #

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    I know BB, making me very hungry too!

    Posted 1 year ago by mollycat71 #

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    My dear brother and sister-in-law love Thanksgiving, as do the rest of us when it comes to eating! Linda makes a great big fresh turkey (I do the honors with the gravy because no one else will even try), her homemade stuffing, mashed potatoes, carrots, peas, sweet potato casserole with marshmallows on top (my contribution),red jello with apples and nuts,(my brother's favorite), fresh rolls and butter, and, of course the pumpkin pies (and an apple pie for my brother who doesn't like pumpkin.) I also like to have sparkling juices to drink--I bought 4 bottles this year, cranberry, apple, cherry and pear nectar-yum!

    Posted 1 year ago by MaxandCali'sMom #

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    When my parents were still alive and my brother and his wife came to share Thanksgiving with us we usually had ham, black-eyed peas, sweet potatoes (minus the marshmallows!) and/or scalloped potatoes, salad, and homemade from scratch banana-orange spice cake. The ham was a 3 to 4 inch thick center cut slab that we'd coat on top with brown sugar that had some ground cloves, ground nutmeg, onion powder, garlic powder and a pinch of dry mustard mixed in then pour ginger ale in the baking pan until it covered the top of the ham, bake it until done and enjoy some of the most delicious ham there is!

    Posted 1 year ago by Marnet #

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    I will eat anything as long as it's vegetarian. However, I always purchase paper napkins decorated with beautiful turkeys.

    Posted 1 year ago by preciouskitty #

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    we always go over my MIL now that my mom is gone...we usually have Turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, Sweet potatoes(never know what she might do with them), rolls, stuffing(hers is stove top while my mom was homemade)not that I am complaining...I LOVE stove top :). Waldorf salad(pineapple, marshmallows,pistacio pudding) Baked beans, veggie, usually corn.
    My mom ALWAYS had everything we have but instead of the Waldorf salad, she made what she called Ambrosia. HUGE bowl of fruit, marshmallows, whipped cream, OMG..sooooo good. My MIL and I eat it but no one else will. When the girls get older, i will put it back into circulation :)

    Posted 1 year ago by cricketsmama #

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    When Mom was alive, and we had 20-30 family members over for the big feast it was: turkey, sage and giblet stuffing (in and out of the bird), cranberry sauce with orange, and the cranberry jelly out of the can, homemade gravy, green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes (with marchmallows), potato salad, corn, carrots, huge relish and olive trays, two or three kinds of dinner rolls, Waldorf salad (apples, celery, nuts in a creamy sauce), red jello with apples, orange jello with mandarin slices. Dessert included fruit cake, banana and zucchini bread, cherry, apple, pumpkin, and mincemeat pies, ice cream and a pineapple/pistachio pudding and cool whip thing... sigh.... and then we would eat turkey sandwiches while watching football that evening!!

    Posted 1 year ago by nawlins catmom #

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    Now in NOLA, thanksgiving includes other options.... oyster or andouille sausage dressing, cornbread dressing, mac and cheese, lasagna (italian influence), stuffed mirlitons, gumbo, turducken (chicken inside a duck inside a turkey, with stuffing between the layers...yummmmm), sweet potato and pecan pie and boiled seafood (usually shrimps). so much good food, so little time!

    Posted 1 year ago by nawlins catmom #

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    My absolute favorite Thanksgiving dish is cheese grits, but I don't know if I'll be having any this year. Chris and I are making vegetarian breakfast sausage casserole and tofurkey. I'm mostly looking forward to the pumpkin and pecan pies. Nom nom nom.

    My family always has so much food with cheese. I think it's a Southern thing. We have cheese grits, potato goody (potato, cheese, sour cream, cream of mushroom soup), broccoli cheese rice, mac and cheese, cheesecake (some years). You get the idea. :) Also, the traditional stuffing, turkey, ham, cranberry sauce, and bread.

    Posted 1 year ago by libbykate09 #

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    Hey Lainy ive been living in Maryland for 9 years and i have never heard of the sourkraut .......hmmmmm lol

    Posted 1 year ago by jinxedfairy #

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    Back when there was lots of family getting together our traditional dinner was: Turkey with Oyster stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes (no marshmallow), salad, relish tray, canned cranberries, fresh cranberries, rolls, green beans (not the casserole), followed by pumpkin and mincemeat pies. Usually preceeded by nuts and a cheese platter.

    Posted 1 year ago by TrufflesMom #

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    In the past I have made meatloaf with the usual Thanksgiving trimmings, but this year I have been thinking of just doing hamburgers at home with some of the things I like. (I promised the cats this year that I would spend time with them for the day.) However, I was just thinking that I haven't had a tuna noodle casserole for a long time and I might make that instead.

    Posted 1 year ago by LadyKat of IA #

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    I am getting hungry just by reading all of your special menus! Years ago when we had a big mob gathered it was turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes & gravy, yams, green beans/not casserole, carrots & peas combo, cranberry relish, mandarine orange jello mold, relishes, pumpkin pie, apple pie & chocolate pie topped off with coffee! Unfortunately I also remember waddling away from the table with no intention of caluclating the calorie intake either!!! It has been pared down since then depending upon with whom it is shared. I once did a vegetarian celebration with tofurkey/ugh, never agian!(The side dishes & desserts were good tho.)

    Posted 1 year ago by jeankit #

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    The good food addict in me knows what Thanksgiving is: Amateur Day (that's what we in the program call it!)

    And yes, JF, sauerkraut very much a Maryland tradition. Might be more Eastern Shore but we often had it (once we were told of the tradition). Been here 42 years...

    Posted 1 year ago by Jetta and Boo Boo's Mom #

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    Turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, corn, green beans, dinner rolls, cranberry sauce, wine...but the best part is the late-evening turkey sammie on a dinner roll!

    Posted 1 year ago by JoanfromNewJersey #

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    I agree Joan, I always look forward to that turkey sandwich! with sweet gherkins and miracle whip on white bread tho! sometimes, I'll be brave and add a spoon of cranberrry sauce.

    Posted 1 year ago by paulajeanne #

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    I'm with ya on the miracle whip! Oh and I love sweet gerkins!

    Posted 1 year ago by JoanfromNewJersey #

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    I love lumpy gravy. I know most folks don't, but then again, it's that white flour-addict in me!

    Posted 1 year ago by Jetta and Boo Boo's Mom #

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    On Thanksgiving my main food groups are as follows: Never-ending heaps of fluffy, homemade mashed potatoes, and unlimited amounts of pumpkin pie with whipped cream. Everything else on the table is just garnish in my humble opinion. =)

    I have had the vegetarian turkey (Quorn is the brand) but its a bit dry and I don't like gravy one bit. So Potatoes and Pie for me!

    Posted 1 year ago by Momma Bear #

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    My Mom used to put out a wonderful spread with turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, stuffing, gravy, cranberry/orange/apple relish (made fresh), salad, veggies (don't remember specifics), rolls, jello, pickles of several kinds, olives (both black and green), wine, coffee, milk, pumpkin pie with real whipped cream. Since she has passed (2.5 years ago), and my kids do their own thing on Thanksgiving (past 10 years)... I either go for a hike or visit with a friend.
    If I go to someone's home, I generally make a fresh cranberry and apple pie to take along.

    Posted 1 year ago by 2 Popoki #

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    We are chicken people. The chicken is cooked in advance and the rich broth is used to make the cornbread dressing, with the white meat chicken all through the dressing. Sometimes a turkey is then cooked separately, depending on how many people are coming. But there's so much chicken meat in the dressing, that a separate bird is totally optional. Mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, fresh cranberries, relish tray, peas/carrots, rolls, pumpkin pie, pecan pie.

    Posted 1 year ago by lisaeylau #

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    I am with Joan, I am all about the Turkey sammies and sweet pickles!

    Posted 1 year ago by mollycat71 #

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