Sounds delicious! Have a wonderful holiday celebration!

Happy Thanksgiving, chase and everyone else from Canada!

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to all our Canadian friends and all of Canada!

That sounds like a mighty feast, Chase. So...start putting out feelers to family members who might want to do it next year. Offer to help with the menu planning, and to come help with the bird, as well as bring your famous XYZ. Once they've done it once or twice, and gotten the hang, it's easier to transition to full on guest mode. :)

We're having our meal on Sunday. I made the mashed potatoes with cream cheese and sour cream today. Tomorrow I'll make the turnip puff.....both of these dishes can be made in advance.

I'm trying a roasted butternut squash, brussels sprouts, with bread cubes, walnuts and cranberries instead of the usual bread stuffing/dressing this year. It looks and sounds so good. We're having turkey, potatoes, turnip puff, the butternut squash dressing. Apple pie for dessert. It's actually a toss-up between apple pie and butter tarts. We did buy a beautiful bag of apples at the orchard today though.

It's crazy weather this year. Few trees have turned colour and tomorrow is going to feel like 30C with the humidity. Usually at this time the leaves have peaked and it's cold.

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving, chase and all my fellow Canadians. I will be thinking of you and your spanakopita when we celebrate Thanksgiving here next month. I think I may have to add that to our menu.

Happy Thanksgiving! You're so lucky; we have to wait another month + then cram in xmas right after.

Oly, that's one thing I love. ..our Tday is early enough we can do turkey all over again for Christmas !

Jasdip, we are up in Haliburton , the leaves are just about at their peak. Nice enough weather we may get one more boat ride in before the docks come out Monday.

It's been a perfect Fall after a miserable Summer. ......but I'll take it all

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving to all in the north. You're not the only ones suffering a late Fall. We Yankees aren't doing much better. It's been a very disappointing season this year. Trees that are coloring up are muted tones and the current temps are in the 70°s. Mother Nature has not been very agreeable this year. I shudder to think what she might have in store for winter.

Wonder if I started early tomorrow morning if I could be there in time? Sounds wonderful!....I could bring some Maytag Blue!

Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! (and all my friends and family there!)

Sharon, your menu sounds perfect. I also think your timing is perfect, although I don't mind turkey for Thanksgiving and then a month later at Christmas. Other family members grumble, though. (Yeah, I'm looking at Elery) And so, I have both ham AND turkey, and it all works out.

Annie

I too love that our TG is in October. If we want turkey again at Christmas, it's okay.

Chase, we were in Bracebridge and Algonquin Park last week, no colour, just dull, dull browns, and the leaves were already starting to fall. Just this week we were in Barrie, and usually throughout Alliston and Cookstown, the hills are ablaze with colour.

Leaves are lovely here this weekend........but dropping like crazy.

Chase, your menu hit it out of the park; your Spanikopita, especially, reeled me in (probably because I've made it over a hundred times).

Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Day After!

Sol

Sol, same old ,same old.....I change it up a bit but am usually met with significant resistance...apparently I can add too the menu but not remove from!!!

A sincere thanks to all my wonderful Cooking forum friends who have enriched so many of our meals and memories.

All done on my part...pretty much...the boys have just finished the docks and the boats..... the girls are in the hot tub drinking wine ( I taught them well) . Boys to the showers and then it's happy time. That's is until the damn hockey game comes on !!!

Off to do...well nothing actually ! Wine time !!!

Momj47--great giggle! Not that either of them looks at all like where I live. An automatically changing by solstice and equinox "seasonal" widget brought it home to me. The sere, gold/brown "Autumn" colors are high Summer (end of June through September) where I live (Southern California), where "fire season" is also important for the propagation of native plants. The new greening is something that happens in Autumn and runs through Spring. We do have mountains, and they do get snow, but it's not a common sight in most of the area. Still, we have the holidays whose decor is dictated by the Northeast. :)

Are there parts of Canada that have different looks for the holidays than the greeting card norms?

We aren't having turkey this year. I promised my daughter chicken pot pie. For me though, I am making a side of cranberry sauce (extra tart) and pure wild rice in a baked squash (you know, for a festive look?). I will make a salad on the side for the rest of the family and guests as not many are fans of wild rice. I will definitely miss the turkey and am jealous of some of the above menus.

For dessert pumpkin pie and mini apple crisps.

Happy Thanksgiving! Wish we could celebrate in October too.

Will be thinking of you and all LA tonight..I know you are away from the worst but stay safe...and Mrs too. I think she is closer to harms way/.

Enough is enough Mother Nature.......maybe if we were nicer to her she would be nicer to us.

Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian friends!

Chase, Your dinner sounds lovely! Burp! ;-)

Happy Thanksgiving! I could eat turkey at least once a month!

Sue