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| Skeeter Registered user Username: Skeeter Post Number: 449 Registered: 12-2007 |
Just curious.... does everyone here celebrate Thanksgiving ? Personally... it is my favorite Holiday. A time to get together with family, friends and visit, cook and eat like I will only allow myself to at this time of year...LOL I thought it would be fun to see what everyone has for their usual Thanksgiving dinner. Anyone have meals that are traditional to your family ? Skeeter | ||
| Cortney Registered user Username: Cortney Post Number: 81 Registered: 8-2006 |
Well turkey, yams with marshmallows on top,stuffing, giblit gravy, green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie, fudge, cookies and of course we enjoy a glass of fine wine. My husband's Thanksgiving meal growing up was different than from what I prepare, but he likes what I make and eats everything minus the turkey- He loves the sweet wine though  , I love to listen to Christmas music while preparing the dinner | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 7727 Registered: 3-2004  |
I will be having Thanksgiving with my sister. We always make chicken enchiladas, like our Mom did and is traditional with out family, along with turkey, candied yams (sis makes yams without sugar for me - she is a good sis), We have pumpkin pie, pumpkin cheese cake green bean casserole, stuffing, mashed potatoes. I will be with my sister and her two sons and families. Her daughter and son in law are going to Colorado to the holiday. Diana L ps....Loretta does the string chicken and I make the enchilada sauce. Together we stuff the tortillas and watch them bake. | ||
| Philharris Registered user Username: Philharris Post Number: 1902 Registered: 5-2007  |
You bet I celebrate Thanksgiving. I have a Mayflower descendant who survived the first winter in the Plymouth Colony settlement and was at their first thanksgiving dinner. The Jamestown Colony had an earlier calibration, but I also descend from that colony. My Harris immigrant ancestor was one of the founders of the Rhode Island Colony and I also descend from the original Dutch family to settle on Long Island. So, I have a long history of family pioneering in the New World with much to be thankful for. P.S. Some claim James White descended from a Mayflower passenger, but I have proved that to be false. He is of the same 'White' family but his connection is several generations back in England. Fearless Phil | ||
| River Registered user Username: River Post Number: 5736 Registered: 9-2006  |
I'm going to eat at Cortney's then leave when her relatives get there. If they ask you what I'm doing, tell them I'm sleeping off a meat overdose. | ||
| River Registered user Username: River Post Number: 5737 Registered: 9-2006 |
P.S. I'll eat your hubby's share of turkey. | ||
| Skeeter Registered user Username: Skeeter Post Number: 450 Registered: 12-2007 |
Just realized I asked what everyone else fixes then didnt put down what I cook myself. LOL Ok, warning here... my husband always says I cook waaay too nuch stuff... oh well... maybe because I try to include something I know is each persons favorite. Roast turkey with stuffing, a roast, both turkey and beef roast gravy, mashed potatoes with heavy cream and butter (hubby sometimes sneaks into the kitchen and puts some green food coloring in it just to be onery) green beans, broccoli cheese casserole, corn, green salad, cranberry sauce, homemade dinner rolls, ahead of time I set out snack trays with chips + dips, pickles, olives, carrots,etc. Then dessert... ok, here is where I always make too much.... Pumpkin pies, cheesecake, pumpkin cake rolls with and without nuts, sour cream raisin pie with brown sugar meringue, milk chocolate fudge with and without nuts. either milk chocolate chip cookies or persimmon cookies. (I know I am forgetting something ) We dont drink wine, but usually mix up some kind of punch for the kids , have sparkling apple cider and the men sometimes have a couple "mixed drinks" well after dinner is over. Christmas is almost the same except last year instead of a roast we had a honey baked spiral cut ham, sometimes make divinity, and always have the grandkids over a couple days ahead to help make popcorn balls . I know I am forgetting something...LOL Oh,,, of course... Christmas Rogers Grandmothers handed down recipe for persimmon pudding cake (like a fruit cake for people who do not like fruit cake) | ||
| Skeeter Registered user Username: Skeeter Post Number: 451 Registered: 12-2007 |
oh,and sweet potatoes on the side of course... knew I was forgetting something. | ||
| Hec Registered user Username: Hec Post Number: 764 Registered: 3-2009 |
Ooh, Thanksgiving is bad for my belly. We do potluck style dinner and there is always too much food: the poor turkey, "vegetarian meat", chicken, rice and gandules, mash potatoes, sweet potatoes casserole, rice broccoli casserole, green bean casserole, potato salad, green salad, avocado salad, cranberry sauce, bread rolls, flan, pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, cheese cake, and other sweets. And of course the stuff I'm forgetting. By the end of the left-over week, I don't want to know any thing about all those things. Of course until Christmas. Hec | ||
| Hec Registered user Username: Hec Post Number: 766 Registered: 3-2009 |
WOW, Phil (with an L) I feel honored to share this forum with a bona fide, true blood pilgrim. Hec | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 7729 Registered: 3-2004 |
As a kid, Phil, when on of my classmates said they had an ancestor who came over on the Mayflower, I would tell them that their ancestors would not have made it through the first winter if my Indian ancestors had not helped them that winter. I never stopped to think that I was not born on the East coast, but that would stop the person from bragging. I have a sneaky attitude which comes out every so often. Diana L | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 10660 Registered: 12-2003  |
Oooh--yummy!! Skeeter, I think we'll join y'all...! Well, we always have roast turkey. That's actually fun for me to fix--probably in a way similar to the way wearing earrings is fun. It's such FREEDOM! (Besides, it tastes good!) Then, of course, mashed potatoes, yams fixed some way--usually with brown sugar, raisins, pineapple or apples, OJ...etc. A fresh veggie platter, some vegetable like curried caulifower, dressing, homemade rolls, pumpkin, apple, and pecan pies, cranberries, and whatever strikes my fancy. If my in-laws come, they bring the food they want to have, since they eat vegan. That works well. Colleen | ||
| Skeeter Registered user Username: Skeeter Post Number: 454 Registered: 12-2007 |
I love sweet potatoes :-) I bake them once in a while and for Holidays have made them with marshmallows a couple times but usually make them with brown sugar and butter. This year our oldest son Troy's Birthday falls on Thanksgiving so will be an extra special day :-) He was born 1 month after I turned 18 and our other son Jay was born 11 months later ON my 19th birthday. So for one month each year they are the same age. Francie | ||
| River Registered user Username: River Post Number: 5744 Registered: 9-2006 |
I may have to make it to Cortneys, then take off to Skeeter's. Well...a little wishful thinking on my part, but I would like to enjoy a meal with each of you. Maybe God put distance between us so I don't eat them out of house and home. Haa! River | ||
| Hec Registered user Username: Hec Post Number: 771 Registered: 3-2009 |
Hey, River, how about eating with me at the banquet in heaven? Oh, That will be a thanksgiving table!! Hec | ||
| River Registered user Username: River Post Number: 5746 Registered: 9-2006 |
Your on Hec, I heard they serve possum. Seriously, I wonder what that would be like, Jesus said in Matthew 26:29 But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom. If we knew, we probably would be walking out in front of cars to get there, I just cannot imagine. Every word the proceeds out of the mouth of God will come to pass. He is promising them this, even as knows they will forsake him so shortly thereafter. We can be assured that though we grow weak at times and do things that does not please him, he loves us enough to forgive. What a wonderful picture of our loving and caring savior as he looks forward to gathering his children at the banquet table. Exactly what this will consist of only God knows. But it is he that will do the gathering. Like little helpless children before an earthly father we have no control when death takes this body we inhabit. At times I feel so dumb and stupid before him like an Ox. But before he went to back to heaven (whatever that is) he told Peter, that if he loved him, to feed his sheep. He was not concerned for himself, but the sheep. We who are saved are the sheep of his pasture, and like all good shepherds he takes care of the sheep. He is the greatest Shepard of all time. When we are tired, he will give us rest, when we are thirsty he gives us of his Spirit to drink. River |
