Cooks Check In...What you making for your Thanksgiving dinner...

[debbierlus]

Anyone else here on cook duty this year?

Here is my very traditional menu:

Brined Turkey with Herb & Aromatic Stuffing & giblet gravy
Mashed Potatoes
Green Beans with Bacon
Butternut Squash
Homemade Cranberry Sauce
Dinner Rolls

Pumpkin Cheesecake
Apple Pie

Plus, fruit, cheeses, olives, and crudites. Wine & chocolates.

[soleft]

1. So what time should we be over?

I posted a few days ago that this year I'm trying a turduchen. Ordered it online.

[debbierlus]

2. We were just talking about turduchens at dinner. Please message me & let me know what you think!

I have always wanted to try one. Brining the turkey is about as far out as I have ever gone although next year I might try a deep fried one.

Dinner is at 3:00 p.m. sharp.

[soleft]

5. I'm going to have a regular turkey too, because no one else is into it

But I just had to try it. I'll let you know.

[bicentennial_baby]

3. Partial Duty:

Veggie Platter
3 dips: Tzatziki, Spinach/Garlic, Onion
Homemade Stuffing
Homemade Pecan Pie
Celery Boats filled with Chicken Salad and Peas

:9

[debbierlus]

7. Partial duty is BIG help...

Yummy help...

I love Pecan Pie!

[reyd reid reed]

4. I'm making a pretty basic dinner

Turkey with cornbread stuffing and gravy
Mashed potatoes
Green beans almondine and asparagus (because I don't like green bean casserole)
Green bean casserole (because everyone else does)
Smashed sweet potatoes with marshmallows.
Cranberry sauce
Dinner rolls


Pumpkin pie
Chocolate cream pie (2 of 'em)
Banana cream pie
Cherry-cheese pie
Pecan pie

Deviled eggs
Cheese ball and crackers
Chips and dip
Olive-stuffed cheese puff thingies
Various veggies
Sausage balls
Banana bread
Cranberry-orange bread
Lemon-poppy seed bread

I THINK that's about it.

[debbierlus]

8. Basic & BIG! You have enough pies to supply a bakery :)

Deviled Eggs...I love those things.

[reyd reid reed]

15. Once upon a time

I tried to make everyone's favorite pie for Thanksgiving.

I don't do that anymore.

[crim son]

6. That looks fantastic, debbierlus!

This is the first year in a long time I will be a *guest* at Thanksgiving and not the primary cook. Therefore my contribution will be only the pie: pumpkin and pecan. Hey, do you put orange zest in your cranberry sauce? A friend brought me three pounds of fresh cranberries from the family bog, and I want to make homemade sauce.

[debbierlus]

9. I do use orange...a little zest & a fourth cup of juice

It pops the flavor.

I sometimes go to my mom's house, but just wanted to stay home this year. It is going to be a crazy week because we are launching a vintage and antique Christmas show at my husband's gallery on Saturday, and we have to have that decorated by Sat eve (plus more food). And, I am doing Christmas Eve...

Christmas eve...when a middle aged woman's thoughts turn to prime rib and scalloped potatoes.

:)

Have a great Thanksgiving!

[crim son]

10. I'll remember the juice idea.

It sounds like you have a boatload of work ahead of you, and that you are probably capable of handling it. I hope it all goes well.

[Diana Prince]

11. My sister and I are cooking together

Turkey (her job)
Home made mac-n-cheese w/sharp white Vermont cheddar
Whipped sweet potatoes
Mashed potatoes & gravy
Cauliflower salad
Green bean casserole
Homemade cranberry sauce
Organic cranberry sauce (high fructose corn syrup sensitivities)
Dinner roles

Pumpkin pie
Apple pie
Mixed berry pie

Iowa pickles, olives, stuffed celery, sweet & dill pickles

[debbierlus]

14. Green bean casserole seems to be right up there with mashed potatoes

I think everyone who has posted has the green bean thing going on.

I have never made the traditional casserole. I am making green beans with bacon per Emeril Lagassi.

We will see how it turns out.

My sister would help with the cooking, but she is over eight months pregnant, so she has no duty other then to waddle to the table and eat.

[Shell Beau]

12. We all participate in cooking.

I am making a pumpkin bread with a pumpkin butter sauce.
My husband is frying the turkey.
I am also making broccoli/cheese/rice casserole. AND
I also made the cornbread dressing. (someone else made the giblet gravy, eeeewww)

The menu includes (the above and):
green bean casserole
homemade cranberry sauce
fried corn (don't ask me, it is a new dish)
homemade mac-n-cheese
deviled eggs
cucumber salad
sweet potato casserole
smoked Boston Butt
pork tenderloin
black-eyed-pea cornbread (kinda redundant since we are having the dressing but DAMN it is good)
homemade applesauce
homemade banana pudding
homemade chocolate pie
homemade apple pie
homemade pumpkin pie
homemade coconut cake
homemade pecan pie

Can I say GLUTTON!!!!!!!!!


Those are the dishes I remember! I always forget some!


Just remembered there is an eggplant casserole and something else that involves asparagus.


And just remembered the squash casserole!! What can I say we are Southern!!!

[debbierlus]

13. Wow. Mac & Cheese, 2 Porks, Turkey...

Frying the turkey sounds great. I have read a lot about that, but it is for another year. Everyone who has done it seems to just rave about the fried bird.

[Shell Beau]

16. My husband enjoys doing it. I heard somewhere (and I could SO be wrong)

that it isn't that much more fattening either. It is good. It is easy and quick; you just have to have the equipment to do it. And I noticed that peanut oil is WAY $$$$$ this year.


We don't mess around with food now!! Plus we have lots of folks over.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

17. My contribution: the Cornbread.

Fresh from the mix that comes from the box that I bought at the store.

Hey, that's as cook worthy as I can get. And it is good cornbread.

[Shell Beau]

18. But what brand do you buy?

Homemade is soooo much better and just as easy. Well, okay not just as easy, but damn it is good.

[Betsy Ross]

19. Cooking on Wednesday

cranberry sauce
cranberry relish
pumpkin pie
pecan pie
mashed potatoes
sweet potato slop (like pie without the crust)
stuffing (outside the bird for the vegetarians)
mushroom gravy

Thursday I cook the turkey, french beans, brussel sprouts