What Recipes Do You Always Have At Thanksgiving?
Marilyn Sue McClintock
6 years ago
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Comments (10)1. Do you have any special traditions you always do on Thanksgiving? * We always get up and turn on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on tv. I've watched it every year since I was a kid and love it. For me, (and now my family, too) it's the "official" start of our Thanksgiving and the holiday season. We watch it as we get our special T'Day family breakfast ready and, afterwards, while we get our part of the meal ready to take down to our friend's home for Tday dinner. As we make our breakfast together, we always toast the day with eggnog, another big tradition. 2, What special foods do you serve? * Our Thanksgiving Day dinner is always the same and we love it. Turkey with Oyster Stuffing; mashed potatoes & gravy; homemade (awesome, yeasty!) crescent rolls; candied yams; my cranberry orange relish; a fresh veggie tray with homemade Ranch dip & a cheese tray, as appetizers; condiment tray with various olives, pickles, etc; Caesar salad with Mandarin orange sections; pumpkin and pecan pies; mulled apple cider; wines and coffee. I've probably left something out, but that's basically been our dinner for the past 20-plus years. Gosh, I love this meal! All of the above are made from scratch by us, too. My friend is a home ec teacher and an incredible cook. 3, Do you still serve the dish people inwardly groan when they see, whether it is green bean casserole,candied yams, or something else, because "it just wouldn't be Thanksgiving without it"? * Nope, we all seem to love everything on our menu. 4. Do your family and guests dress up, or wear jeans? *We wear dressy casual clothes. 5. Visit, watch tv, go hunting (critters or retail goodies), what do you do in the afternoon? * We visit. The guys watch some of the football game(s). In the evening we sometimes play "Catch Phrase" or "Apples to Apples" 6. Host or guest? * Guest, as we host Christmas. These are our best friends and neither of us have any family here in state. But, this year both their kids are living in the Dallas area and their daughter and fiancee have bought a (huge) new home. They can't make it here and invited all of us to come and celebrate Thanksgiving there with them. We told our friends to go, but we aren't going ourselves. It's flu season and DH doesn't want to take more than Thursday thru Sunday off away from his patients. And, he HATES, HATES, HATES the thought of half of those days off being taken up with traveling on the two busiest/worst travel days of the year. (Sigh) So, we're celebrating by ourselves at home for the first time. It'll be festive, but different for us. 7. Do you eat at noon or dinner? * At our friends' home we eat around 2PM and then have a supper of the yummy leftovers around 7PM, but this year ~by ourselves~ we'll probably eat around 6PM and save our leftovers for the next day's dinner. 8. Do you have overnight house guests? *No Lynn...See MoreDo you 'adjust' recipes to use what you have on hand?
Comments (24)I am so glad to know that there are so many people here who "play" like I do when cooking. My husband and I have a running joke...if he comments that something I made is especially good, I tell him to enjoy it because it will likely never be exactly the same again! Of course, he's a very good husband, who knows what to say, and tells me that it's o.k. if it never comes out the same again, as it will just be a different kind of delicious. Honestly, I joked in a prior post about it being a birth defect, but I do wonder if it's something genetic. My mother, bless her heart, was a perfectly horrid cook, and her mother was possibly worse. To be fair, they neither of them particularly liked to cook, but did it anyway to feed their families. When I think how hard it would be to do something every day, several times a day, that I didn't like doing, I can't blame them. I made my first "experimental" dish when I was about 6 years old. I decided to make desert for the family, and came up with "peanut butter soup with strawberries". Of course, I hadn't the technical skills to produce what I had in mind, which was sort of a peanut butter milk shake of sorts with chunks of strawberries...so what I ended up with was a bowl of milk with lumps of peanut butter and sliced strawberries in it. Oh well, live and learn! I still think that a peanut butter milkshake with chunks of strawberries in it would be pretty good, but I've never tried to make it again....See MoreDo You Have a Recipe You Are Wanting to Make?
Comments (25)I just made the following cranberry sauce. It smells wonderful. I love nuts and truly wanted to put in the walnuts, but several who will be here tomorrow for Thanksgiving Dinner cannot have nuts, so I did not add them. Also, I could not find raspberry juice, but did find an Ocean Spray Cranberry-Raspberry and used that. PAUL’S HOMEMADE CRANBERRY SAUCE This stuff is to die for. Paul works in our frame shop in St. Augustine, and like us he loves to cook. When he offered to bring his homemade cranberry sauce to Thanksgiving dinner I didn't hesitate in accepting. Bursting with flavor it represents a delightful departure from the canned sauce we're all so used to. Wonderful flavors and the crunch of walnuts...mmmm...terrific. 1 cup real maple syrup 1 cup cranberry or raspberry juice 1 bag fresh cranberries 1 medium orange, zested 1 cup walnut halves or pieces Combine syrup, juice, zest and cranberries in saucepan. Bring to a boil, lower to medium heat and cook until cranberries pop open, about 10 minutes. Skim off any excess foam and add walnuts. Stir to combine and refrigerate to chill before serving....See MoreDo you have Thanksgiving (and other holiday) plans?
Comments (54)Cases are the highest ever here in PA at almost 5000 today. I have not been in anyone's home for nine months except for my daughter's. They live a few miles from me and both work from home and have since March. Their son has his first real job after just graduating from college in the spring and mainly works at home too. He does fieldwork occasionally. We all ate at a newly opened seafood restaurant last Sat. to celebrate husband's birthday but we were at a large table outside on their porch near no one. Today I read it's four times more likely you'll get covid from eating inside at a restaurant versus the gym or even church. I guess we'll have thanksgiving at the daughter's house and the only extra person will be my son-in-law's 86 year old mother who lives in a retirement community. But if my daughter doesn't want to do it I'll understand....See MoreMarilyn Sue McClintock
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