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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThanksgiving food.... what's your favorite?
I'm aware that Thanksgiving meals differ by geographic region.
Families have their own traditions. My mom used to make sure we all had our favorite vegetable and we all had our favorite pie. Thank goodness there was some overlap, otherwise she would have needed 4 or 5 stove tops to pull it off.
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Turkey | |
3 (15%) |
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stuffing/dressing | |
15 (75%) |
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squash/sweet potato | |
0 (0%) |
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rolls/bread | |
0 (0%) |
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cranberry | |
1 (5%) |
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green bean (casserole) | |
1 (5%) |
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taters/gravy | |
0 (0%) |
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pie (tell us which one) | |
0 (0%) |
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I don't celebrate | |
0 (0%) |
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Rob is a dingbat | |
0 (0%) |
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samnsara
(18,207 posts)Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)So will need to reserve voting until I have sampled Rob is a dingbat.
hlthe2b
(105,775 posts)Oh, and Thanksgiving is not Thanksgiving without turkey, but really? Not exactly the best part of the meal (although I'm happy to use the leftovers afterward)...
Most of the sides, which vary, are my favorite. I'm not a big pie person, but I will still sample a little bit. Too much supersweet (yet delicious) pecan pie can send me into a coma, though.
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)I agree about the sweet part. The turkey alone puts me in a coma!
yellowdogintexas
(22,648 posts)doc03
(36,475 posts)EYESORE 9001
(27,418 posts)but I dont request it anymore, because nobody else will eat it.
Elessar Zappa
(15,369 posts)Ive never tried stuffing with oysters in it.
Haggard Celine
(16,988 posts)Can't wait! We'll have turkey and a ham, too, both of them smoked by a friend of my mom. I think we'll have some green beans, too, of course, and sweet potato pie. Going way off the diet today.
LakeArenal
(29,701 posts)evemac
(167 posts)d_r
(6,907 posts)Elessar Zappa
(15,369 posts)After that is a tie between the turkey and mashed potatoes, with plenty of gravy of course. Can you tell Im a gravy man?
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Patterson
(1,571 posts)MiHale
(10,596 posts)Cranberries are my favorite fruit, today is the day we celebrate all things cranberry
MontanaMama
(23,950 posts)This year I made gingerbread whoopie pies for dessert.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,623 posts)2 of each, so everyone can take some with their leftovers.
I have to agree with you on pumpkin. Never been a fan. Why don't you like pecan? Too sweet?
MontanaMama
(23,950 posts)But, the men in my house love it so I do make it from time to time for them. I dont eat it, however. Peach pie is my absolute favorite. Now youre making me want one
OilemFirchen
(7,153 posts)She would use canned whole sour cherries, stuff each one with a walnut half, then soak them overnight in wine (Manischewitz of course).
The cherries would then be carefully arranged in black cherry Jell-O - probably with a hint of wine as well. She never shared the recipe with me, but I think I got it right.
It was absolute perfection.
electric_blue68
(17,343 posts)but I'm mad for stuffing with sage in it!
There's also a wonderful meat stuffing: beef, chestnuts, a bit if tomato paste, a bit of garlic and a few other ingredients that my mom made. It maaay be of Greek origin
Fla Dem
(25,514 posts)NotASurfer
(2,303 posts)All of it. If it's a healthy or reduced calorie version, double up, because you need to eat twice as much to get the same effect. And it's impolite to not have at least one slice of every pie for dessert
Obviously I expect to be in a full tryptophan and sugar coma in a couple hours, posting while still coherent
yellowdogintexas
(22,648 posts)I absolutely can NOT resist it. Fruit Pie - either peach or cherry. Buttermilk, pecan, chess, chocolate, you name it I love it
I just generally love pie.