So what is everyone cooking for Thanksgiving?

[YoshidaYui]

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This year I have a whole chicken which I will be making. I call it cinnamon chicken, as I oil it up and add cinnamon all over the bird. I also have one baked potato, some gravy, I made stuffing from scratch, and probably drink a ginger ale. I also have ice cream bars for dessert.

It will just be me this year and may be a couple of friends who were online to keep me company. One year I did crab and it was awesome but I can’t afford it this year.

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This was taken a few years ago.. When i roasted a bird!

[KentuckyWoman]

1. Corn chowder

It's a tradition in my family. Weird but so is my family.

[wnylib]

16. Not that weird, IMO.

Corn is native to North America. Corn chowder goes back to colonial times.

[lamp_shade]

2. Prime Rib. Seriously...

Hardly anybody in my family is a big turkey lover, so for the last 2-3 years we've done beef.
Two weeks ago at Publix prime rib was $15.49/lb. Yesterday - $9.99/lb

[TexasTowelie]

3. Hungry-Man turkey TV dinner. nt

[pazzyanne]

4. Cornish Game Hen with stuffing...

...Sweet potatoes, Finely ground cabbage/ carrot/ onion coleslaw, homemade cranberry sauce, butter horn rolls, and pumpkin pie. I am also spending Thanksgiving alone.

[bdamomma]

31. Sounds Delicious!!!

you are not alone you have the DU family!!!!

[pazzyanne]

38. It was!

I don't know what I would do without my DU family. Thanksgiving blessings on all!

[jerseyjim]

5. No cooking here...

Picked up three turkey diners from New Monmouth Diner for my wife and I, and my cousin.

[catbyte]

6. The usual suspects, lol. Turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, veggies, pumpkin pie.

Actually, I'm going over to friends and they're doing the turkey and potatoes, I'm bringing a sage/sausage/apple/cranberry dressing and pumpkin pie. I'm making cranberry/orange relish with fresh ginger, too.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

7. Green bean casserole and macaroni salad.

My brother and his wife are hosting the family gathering, and they're preparing the turkey and stuffing,

Everyone else in the family is bringing other dishes, and they wanted me to bring my macaroni salad because they enjoyed it so much on July 4th. I said it wasn't really standard Thanksgiving fare, so the sister-in-law told me to bring a green bean casserole too!

It's just the egg-sugar-vinegar mixture, cooked and cooled ahead of time for an extra "dressing", that makes the mac salad taste better than most around here. It's more common in the South, I think.

It's my first time making a green bean casserole, so I'm just following an online recipe that received good reviews.

[EYESORE 9001]

8. Nothing today

Last Saturday was the only day everyone could get together, so that’s when we had TG. My wife and I are going to a restaurant later, along with another couple and an elderly gent who lives on our street. It’s a relief not having to contend with all the hullabaloo again.

[kozar]

9. Downsizing ours,

Instead of the whole smear this year as it is just LilBit and I, I’m trying a twist.
We will have the whole smear, but over 3 days.
Going to make 2 different smaller portioned sides each day to go with turkey, to hopefully keep her interested in leftovers.
We shall see.
Happy Thanksgiving All, we are thankful for you.

KozandLilBit

[SoBlueInFL]

23. That sounds a lot like what my husband and I do all through December. We don't do any big r/o

meals. Lots of delicious foods spread through the entire month a little at a time. It prevents stress and overeating!

[TurboDem]

10. A ham and turkey sandwich.

Naps off and on all day while I get caught up on laundry. I have four glorious days off and I intend to do as little as possible.

[MOMFUDSKI]

11. Making an apple pie and

a pumpkin pie to take to friends' house. They are making turkey, stuffing, wild rice, the usual. I make the crust yesterday and shaped it into hamburger-style patties. Then it has to sit overnite in the frig for the gluten in the flour to develop. Rolls out real well that way. Happy Thanksgiving to all at DU! Love you guys.

[FloridaBlues]

12. Baked Turkey breast with bacon on top, potato casserole glazed carrots

Home made cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie.

[2naSalit]

13. Making quasi-traditional dinner...

For two, maybe three, at my hiking buddy's house. Turkey, stuffing*, potatoes and yams mashed together, green bean casserole, apple salad, pumpkin pie and apple pie. Afterward we'll sit around and play cards and games until I decide I've had enough and go home.

*Friend is allergic to sage so I'm making a bacon, garlic and walnut stuffing with Morel mushrooms and green bell peppers - uses rosemary and thyme. The gravy is drippings and currant jelly, sounds crazy but it's amazingly good. I've made it in the past and everyone was impressed, got the recipe from a sister some forty-five years ago.

Hope you have a good day.

ETA: And cranberry relish, fresh berries and an orange, like a chutney, a little brandy helps! None of that canned stuff!

[woodsprite]

14. Does it sound bad to say "I don't know yet"?

It’s just my hubby, daughter, and I. We’ll be doing a 15 lb turkey on Sunday. It’ll be the first T’giving in for our future DIL in her first house. She made settlement on the 18th, so we’ve all been working hard to get her house ready for her and her 2 roommates to move in.

I’m thinking tonight I’ll have sour cream and dill smothered haddock, spinach, roasted potatoes, and cherry upside down cake served with ice cream for dessert. Maybe I’ll get fancy top the spinach with minced hard boiled egg. Plan to play a game after dinner (Clue or Monopoly) or watch a movie and snuggle with our future grand dog.

On Sunday we’ll have our turkey (15 lb), gravy, sausage stuffing, green bean casserole, sweet potatoes, apricot brandy cranberry sauce, and pies (pumpkin and cherry).

The treat for me today is that we’re going to be babysitting Daisy while my son/GF go to her big family dinner at a relatives house who doesn’t like pets. Daisy is a doll baby, but strong as an ox, so I’m hoping she does well walking on leash for me.

[FlyingPiggy]

15. I'm doing Cornish hens this year. Just wanted something a little different from turkey

And smaller but somewhat traditional. Plus we love Cornish hens. We’re also having stuffing, cranberry sauce, mushroom in a wine reduction, and steamed green beans. Apple pie for dessert.

[Generic Brad]

17. Homemade sushi - and that's the entire meal

We have some barbecued eel, we'll cook some salmon. We will have some shredded egg, seasoned shiitake, cucumber, and avocado to roll up in our seaweed.

When you're watching your weight, sodium, and cholesterol you have to go a different route.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

18. Traditional Hungarian Stew with bread bowls,

Cornbread, mashed potatoes, green beans and pumpkin pie.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours and enjoy your meal.

[SoBlueInFL]

19. It's hard cooking for one but it sounds like you're making things r/o

that you like and that's what counts. I hope you have a wonderful day!

My husband and I are having:

peppercorn pork loin
dressing (Bell's mix improved with this recipe)
roasted Yukon Gold potatoes
collard grens
roasted Brussels sprouts
roasted butternut squash
deviled eggs
yeast rolls
sweet potato pie
Nantucket cranberry cake
pumpkin bread

I won't have to cook for three days!

[niyad]

20. Nothing. Going to a friend's house for saumon en croute. I am bringing pie (marie

callender).

[alittlelark]

21. My contributions - pumpkin roll, sweet potatos, cornbread stuffing.

Friends doing turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, cranberries, Lemon pie and cherry pie.

YUM !!!

[DFW]

22. My wife and I are catching up on paperwork and neglected stuff from 7 weeks of running everywhere

So, we'll order a pizza with garlic, artichoke hearts and mushrooms, and let that be that.

Tomorrow, the usual gang of Germans and Austrians will show up (the Dutch are headed for Qatar for the soccer championships this year), and we have a 10 Kilo turkey ready. The stuffing mix and cranberries have arrived from North America, so we are ready.

Yoshida Yui, if you are in touch with the Enterprise, and can have yourself beamed over here, we'll be glad to make room for one more!

Dōzō !!

[JHB]

24. Not cooking, but on the wish list:

[Happy Hoosier]

25. Classic Turkey feast... one of my favorites!!

I love the classic turkey feast, and I am very good at preparing it, if I do say so myself!

Chestnut dressing
Gravy
Roast vegetables
Country style green beans
Sweet potatoes
Fried apples
Pumpkin pie

Pretty classic and delicious!

[LAS14]

33. What are country style green beans?

I gave my daughter-in-law a choice of my 3 kinds of green beans:

Southern (cooked for hours with bacon until they practically turn to sugar)

Greek - Cooked till very tender with tomato, some sort of herb (varies) and garlic.

Fresh - Just past crisp with butter and lemon.

She replied that my son wants fresh, she wants Greek, and their German exchange student wants southern. Easy peasy choice. It's my responsibility to broaden the exchange student's culinary experience of American cooking.

[Happy Hoosier]

35. Similar to southern...

Fry up the bacon and onions until they are slightly carmelized… then add beans, spices, chicken broth and cook for about am hour.

[JuJuChen]

26. I'm cooking nothing! Buying my dinner this year, very lazy lol

[SYFROYH]

27. boneless T-roast, keilbasa, collards, sweet pot, acorn squash, and pies.

[Deep State Witch]

28. Pumpkin Cheesecake

We're going out, because we're on keto and my aunt isn't. So, the three of us are going out to dinner at a local restaurant. She'll get our desserts, and we'll come home to keto pumpkin cheesecake.

[zanana1]

29. I'm using the last of my frozen spaghetti sauce.

It will be spread over a layer of boiled pasta, emboldened by a shake or two of Parmesan cheese to be followed by a scoop of black raspberry ice cream.

[a kennedy]

30. Yup, we bought all the traditional turkey dinner stuff from our grocery deli.

Done with cooking, we’ll just plate up nuke it and eat around 2:30 or so.

[LAS14]

32. This is the second year we've happily passed the honors on to our son and his wife.

I know we'll have mashed potatoes, turkey gravy, and green beans, provided by yours truly. But the rest will be a happy surprise.

[Sky Jewels]

34. maple-grainy mustard glazed tofu

- mashed potatoes
- stuffing with chestnuts
- green beans and shallots
- vegan corn pudding
- raw Brussels sprouts salad with apples, pistachios, shallot vinaigrette
- cranberry sauce with oranges and pomegranate seeds

Skipping desserts because Covid hit us last week and it will just be two of us.

[Raftergirl]

36. Turkey

Cranberry sauce
stuffing
Baked sweet potatoes
Roasted brussel sprouts with pancetta and mushrooms.
Roasted beet salad

and a speciality cocktail called New England Rum Express, has dark rum, apple cider, thyme-flavored simple syrup, limes/lime juice splash of club soda. Have some great cheeses and crackers to go with cocktail.

Kid and gf both sick with something (tested neg for CV so far) so are not coming T’day through the weekend but didn’t know until yesterday morning so I have a lot of food for onky the two of us. We did cut out the roasted squash medley tha H was going to throw on the grill.

[mvd]

37. Costco Thanksgiving ready to cook meal

That will last the 2 of us a few days. Everyone have a happy Thanksgiving!

[Niagara]

39. The main event is a Jennie O oven ready turkey.

It goes from freezer to oven, it comes in a bag and it stays in the bag during cooking, it's boneless and no electric carving knife is needed. Easy peasy.



Additional fixings are mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, and gluten free biscuits.

[Demsrule86]

40. Today I made Chicken Divan with rice, and salad. For dessert butterscotch pie. I also cooked

a turkey breast and a medium turkey for tomorrow. I am making green bean casserole with fresh beans and real onions and a creamy sauce that does not contain soup! I can't eat gluten so I have been making my own for years. I will also make a cheesecake tonight and a chocolate pie in the morning...I cheated and bought a frozen apple pie as my son hates gluten-free crust and I simply can risk using flour. I am very allergic. Two of my kids are seeing their inlaws today and we will have Thanksgiving at my oldest daughter's house...the first time. We have been making an apartment for my youngest in the basement. Both she and her fiancee are staying here so we have no room...should be done in a couple of weeks. It has been very relaxing today...just the four of us...hubs, daughter, fiancee, and me.

[spanone]

41. Baked chicken, baked potato, veggies (peas, carrots. corn), salad.

Various libations.

[beaglelover]

42. We're going out to a restaurant this year.

Our good friend who hosted all the holiday dinners died suddenly In August of a stroke. It’s a bit of a sad day thinking of all the fun holiday memories with him and the rest of our group of friends.

[Tree Lady]

43. Turkey breast

With potatoes, gravy, green beans mushrooms, cranberry sauce and chocolate cheese cake for hubby, strawberries and cream for me. Just us. Didn't feel like traveling and I am on a sugar detox. Hubby would rather stay home so it's all good. I started day going to a dance class.

I left out the booze making Dark & Stormy's for hubby.

[highplainsdem]

44. Ham, salad, sweet potato, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie. Not much of a

holiday feast, but I'm ill with a bad cold and so are the people I'd hoped to spend the holiday with, who aren't really up to roasting the thawed turkey but aren't entirely sure it's okay to leave it till tomorrow.

Some Thanksgivings just don't go as planned.

But I have the phone, and DU, and plenty of memories of really nice Thanksgiving feasts with a crowd, to sustain me.

And beer, lol.

That cinnamon chicken sounds really good, too. Bookmarking...