Friends invited us to go out to a buffet with them. My husband may work, so I will go without him....but I will also probably cook a turkey, etc., so we can have that at home. I am not crazy about the dressing (or much else) at the place we are going.

My husband is going to be out of town so I am not sure what I am doing....I will probably fix a full meal here at my house for my family and parents and possibly one brother.

I always cook for Thanksgiving. But, it's just 6 of us, but still a lot of work. To be honest, I would love to be invited and not be the one cooking.

haven't a clue...so it might be just dh and I....actually don't mind as much as Christmas...and even that is now minus one xsil (no loss) and now 1xdil (sad about that)

Our daughter, son in law and two of our grandsons will be here this year. We're doing a spiral sliced smoked ham and whatever else they want. They are moving to Oklahoma City from Dover, Delaware that week. It's going to be nice having them so close!

My daughter & her family are going out-of-state to attend sons graduation from Army basic training. So I will spend it at her house with Schultz and his girlfriend Claire. No turkey dinner for me. I will however get to spend 10 days with the doggies.

Well it will just be my husband & myself-well of course Calico Kitty & Biscuit. We just did a turkey breast last Tue. & have enjoyed the leftovers. But I love turkey!! Will do a small turkey, dressing in the crockpot, asparagus casserole, mashed potatoes, gravy & a can of cranberry sauce.

I have no idea what we might do. Will need to be inspired by you good people.

Janey, that asparagus casserole sounds good. Would you mind sharing your recipe, please.

Current plans are for daughter and two granddaughters to celebrate Thanksgiving at my house. We are veering a bit from the traditional fare; here is what is on the menu at this point in time.

Roasted Hominy for snacking

Greenberg Smoked Turkey

Potato Casserole with Sour Cream, Onion, and Cheddar

Green Beans

Broccoli, Cauliflower, and Brussels Sprouts Casserole

Sweet Potato Slices with Thyme

Cornbread Dressing

Hot Rolls

Pumpkin Cake with Chocolate Chips

I plan to cook the traditional Thanksgiving Dinner for 11 of my family... DS and wife will not be here this year....they will be in Hawaii watching our Kansas Jayhawks in a basketball tournament. I hate to have it without them, but with grandsons in college, that is the only time they will be home...Saturday they will be going to other side of family and Sunday they have to go back.

Going to brunch at my youngest daughter's apt (1.5 hours away) and then back home. My oldest daughter and 2 granddaughters are also going. If oldest daughter fixes dinner that evening I'll go there and if not I'll just stay home.

Sigh. I don't know. I have elderly relatives who were poorly over the Summer but are doing much better now. Even so, she's declared she can't go to Thanksgiving (with the Thanksgiving aunt), which is an easy hour's ride. If that persists, I may have to cook for them. If they can manage sitting in the car, however (there's no shortage of people to drive them), then it'll be the usual thing at Auntie's. My annual task is to bring the guacamole. Since I was fourteen.

I discovered a can of "pumpkin pie" filling in my pantry, which was probably a guy interpretation of "canned pumpkin" which I use for cake. I was thinking it might be good mixed with cream cheese, and maybe some lemon juice and pepper, or maybe some buttermilk if it needs thinning, as a warm dip. I have a ramekin with candle setup which would be easy to take. I'm going to try it out this weekend. Depending on what Auntie wants (or Cousin, really), I might also bring a vegetable dish and/or dessert.

Working that day, signed up for it. We're probably going to have a potluck. The kids and I are going to have our dinner the weekend before since I'll be off that weekend.

Thanksgiving morning I'll get up @ 5am, stuff the turkey(over 20lbs), make a huge meal with tons of left overs. While the turkey's in the oven we go run 5.5 miles in the Garden Of The Gods. Come home, shower, then eat, then go back over to the house and get back to the remodeling. In the winter we work really long days.

I will host as usual. This year DD and her family will do Thanksgiving with his family, but I will have my two sons, DIL, sister and BIL with DH and me. I do just the traditional thing. Usually my sister makes the salad, veggies and dessert. I do the turkey, dressing, gravy, corn pudding, sweet potatoes, twice baked potatoes, cranberry sauce, pumpkin bread and a few other things. No one starves!

I'm hosting for the third year in a row, and I hope to continue! I usually do everything but this year my stepdad is doing the turkey so that he can easily keep the carcass and drippings for soup since I am a vegetarian and won't use them.

Our daughter and grand daughter lives 800 miles away, so I do not expect they will be here for such a short visit. My 2 sons are near enough to be with us for lunch. I'll do what I did last year; Take us all out to a family restaurant the serves a great buffet, and the cost is very reasonable. The wife won't have to bake a turkey and I won;t have to clean up the kitchen. The down side: no stuffing, gravy, and cuts off of left over turkey to snack on for the next day or two.

I'll be nearing the end of eye surgery. During the month of November, cataract affected lenses in both eyes are to be removed and replaced. I'm not looking forward to this, but both surgeries should be finished just before Thanksgiving. Hopefully, I'll have something to be thankful for on Thanksgiving.

Don't let them kid you, getting old is not a bed of roses. There are thorns.

Jem, I had cataract surgery last year and found it to be very tolerable. Zero pain involved, just a lot of self administered eye drops several times a day.

The best thing is that my old, extremely myopic and astigmatism affected lenses were replaced with lenses that can see perfectly!

It's still a miracle to me. If there is anything I can do to help you feel better about the procedure, please let me know.

Family gathering at my son's home. We prep/cook for two days! Friends come over later in the afternoon, and we all feast together. Fun!

We're going to my BIL's about a half hour away. At this point I know MIL and FIL will be there, along with BIL and his three kids. Not sure yet if SIL will be able to make it; she's a nurse and has been off the last couple of Thankgivings. We'll take wine and a couple of side dishes or dessert. DH's cousin and his family may come as well. We'll visit my dad in the nursing home some time during the day.

One daughter and I will go to NYC to spend Thanksgiving with my second cousin, her daughter who will be hosting and their spouses. My older daughter already lives in NY and my brother will be coming down as well for the festivities. We will probably just bring pies because we won't have access to cooking facilities. Daughter has a very small apt. so my brother will stay with her, and my other daughter and I will stay in a nearby hotel with the dog. Confusing, isn't it?

I have formal Thanksgiving dinner for seven - husband, daughter, stepson (coming in from CA, staying with his mother), stepson's mother and her husband, and a dear friend of the family. The menu has been voted on over time so that I mostly make the same things every year: pate, creamy fall vegetable soup, turkey with gravy, some type of cranberry sauce, sausage and chestnut dressing, oyster and cracker crumb dressing, corn pudding, brussels sprouts, banana cream pie, pumpkin whiskey pie, and a fruit pie. After dessert we have nuts, fresh fruit (especially grapes and persimmons), fennel (because I'm Italian), and chocolates. We start eating early, around 1:30. Later we all sit around in front of the fire, practically stupefied, and I serve mulled cider spiked with applejack to complete the stupefication. I make it all because when it comes to entertaining, I am a control freak. Also, I have a small kitchen.

And I use the Perfect Turkey button on my Electrolux oven for a perfect turkey!

I forgot I am also making something with some persimmon pulp my neighbor gave me. Probably will try the recipe for a baked pudding she gave me.

Sue

I'm working that day so it's just another Thursday for me

We will celebrate with my family on the Sunday before, there are 6 of us and our oldest brother is coming home with his wife so it will be the first time in several years that we will celebrate all together. We're going to my younger brother's new home, I'll make fruited wild rice dressing with dried apricots and cherries, it's yummy. I'll also bring a corn pudding as it's become a favorite. My family will eat pretty much anything and are willing to try new things. On Thanksgiving day we will host my husbands family. I enjoy their company but they are boring when it comes to food. Always the same thing, turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, and corn. Husband's mom always made the dressing, very bland and mushy - not my favorite. She passed away a couple of years ago so now I can atleast do my dressing. Sister in law will do green bean casserole. They don't like change but I usually try to introduce them to something new. This year I think it will be beets and carrots as my garden here in Southeast Wisconsin is still going. I have it under hoops and we are still getting carrots, beets, peas, lettuces and kohlrabi. They won't do sweet potatoes at all. Boring. We will smoke the turkey if the weather permits.

Upon buying the new house, I told everyone, "Thanksgiving's at my house this year!", but I've yet to make concrete plans. I did see turkeys in the case yesterday. I'm ready!

WalnutCreek just saw your request, my husband loves asparagus casserole.

Asparagus Casserole

2 cans asparagus spears

1 can cream of mushroom soup

1 cup Ritz crackers-crushed

2 hard boiled eggs-sliced

2 cups grated cheddar cheese

Drain asparagus, save 1 can of asparagus liquid to mix in the mushroom soup. In a 8x8 casserole dish put in 2 layers in the following order asparagus, cheese, crackers, eggs, soup mixture. Bake at 400º for 30-45 minutes.

20 crackers make 1 cup.

The first time I made this I thought it sounded like a very odd combination! But we do enjoy it. Hope you do, too!

Thank you so much, janey. That sounds wonderful.

I can't remember the last Thanksgiving that I didn't do all the cooking, LOL. But this year DH and I will have our first Thanksgiving by ourselves. My youngest (8 years old) grandson was picked for a special football team to play in Las Vegas at Thanksgiving, so daughter and her family will be there. My son and daughter-in-law are spending Thanksgiving with her brother. Two of my brothers live out of state and the one brother who lives near is driving my mother (Mom lives with us) to visit my brother in Oregon for Thanksgiving. You know, I'm actually looking forward to it, LOL. I see two juicy rib eyes in my very near future.

We may go to our grandson’s new homes about 6 hours away if
the weather permits if not we will stay home just the two of us and I will make
tacos neither of us care much for turkey. I’m hoping we get to go we have
a new great grandson we haven’t gotten to see much of so far.