I Have My Turkey!

6 years ago

My youngest daughter went to a different Meijer yesterday and they had turkeys for $.38 a pound with a $30 purchase. She asked what size I wanted. I now have a 23 pound turkey in the freezer. Anyone else have their turkey: We will also have ham and chicken and noodles for our Thanksgiving. Also on the menu will be candied sweet potatoes, no marshmallows, dressing, broccoli, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, cranberry sauce, home made yeast rolls, pumpkin pie and black raspberry pie and some kind of salad. Who knows what else will be brought to the meal. We shall plan to have our meal around 1 or 1:30. Anyone else like to list their menu for Thanksgiving?

Sue

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annie1992

6 years ago

Mine will be fresh and so I won't pick it up until just a few days before Thanksgiving.

My menu keeps growing, LOL, and dinner will be the Saturday after Thanksgiving to accommodate everyone's work schedules. Amanda is a CNA in an assisted living facility and is working, making Thanksgiving nicer for "her" residents. My son in law is a police officer and since Ashley isn't able to work at this time, he's picking up some holiday pay. So, dinner is Saturday, and it doesn't matter to me, as long as we all get together.

Menu at this time is:

Turkey with two kinds of stuffing, bread/celery/onion/sage version for most of the family and cornbread/gluten free for Amanda and my southern husband Elery.

Mashed potatoes with turkey gravy

Fruit Salad to be determined

Broccoli with cheese for Mother

Green Beans for everyone else, LOL

Baked sweet potatoes, plain for me and for Elery, with brown sugar and marshmallows for everyone else

LindaC's cranberry Jezebel for me and Elery, Ocean Spray for everyone else

Homemade dinner rolls, either Sol's Honey Rolls or Grandma's Farmhouse White

Gluten Free sweet potato torte, Amanda's request

Raspberry pie from the berries I've been "hoarding" from this summer's picking, one cup at a time

Something chocolate

Maybe Banana Cream pie because I'm making crust anyway and my SIL loves it

Anything else goes, as I see recipes or decide something sounds good!

Happy Thanksgiving.

Annie

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artemis_ma
6 years ago
last modified: 6 years ago
I will be going in for surgery just prior to, or just after thanksgiving, so I am not planning a menu, but hope to join some friends for turkey. If able, I will probably contribute a salad, with some tasty ingredients in it. I would love to bring un-candied sweet potatoes - they're already sweet enough by nature -- but somebody else has already claimed a sweet potato dish of some sort (I can only hope they leave out the sugar...) At any rate i don't know if I'll be able to cook for that date, or not, anyway.

Ps, great price for your bird!
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suzyqtexas
6 years ago
Yes, went to Kroger yesterday and got one for 37 cents/lb with $25 purchase
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Sherry8aNorthAL
6 years ago
I always get a Butterball. They are prebrined without any dairy. I don't like to brine my own. Target runs them for $.99 at Thanksgiving and I got two. If I figure out where to put them, I may get some smaller ones for summer on the smoker.
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artemis_ma
6 years ago
Annie, sounds great!
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ci_lantro
6 years ago
Turk has been in the freezer (old school manual defrost) since I got a good deal last year around Christmas time. I had planned to cook him at Easter but plans changed.
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angelaid_gw
6 years ago
Have one in the freezer, not sure that is what I am doing for Thanksgiving though. We just spatchcocked a turkey for the grill a few weeks ago. It's just the two of us. I may just roast a chicken, with all the sides, and call it good.
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Anglophilia
6 years ago
Fresh turkey, always.
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seagrass_gw Cape Cod
6 years ago
I'm sad that we have reservations to eat out on T-day because I love my stuffing and I love dark meat and I love the smells of cooking, the steamy windows and putting Arlo Guthrie's epic song "Alice's Restaurant" on at noon and remembering all of the Thanksgivings that have come before. \

I sincerely doubt that they will be playing Arlo Guthrie at the Olde Yarmouth Inn next Thursday...but we chose to be in the company of others than to struggle to enjoy what used to be our favorite holiday with just the two of us.
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javiwa
6 years ago
seagrass: Save Arlo (LOVE "Alice's Restaurant"!) for Friday, and do Thanksgiving a day late. :) Occasionally, our family would be invited to other homes for Thanksgiving, but we missed the leftovers so much that we ended up cooking the day after.
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seagrass_gw Cape Cod
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Yeah, we will be shopping for turkey parts on Friday!! A long time ago (we live on the Outer Cape) I was cooking in advance on Wednesday of Thanksgiving and listening to WOMR, a community radio station in Provincetown. They had Alice of "Alice's Restaurant" on air interviewing her about that song. The windows were steaming and the house smelled like Thanksgiving and I wish I had recorded the whole thing - smell-a-vision and all.
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