Buttered egg noodles. Tradition in many parts. Both my Grandmothers made egg noodles when they hosted Thanksgiving. From rural Tennessee and the EasternShore. That tradition was lost back in the 70's. My mother taught school working up until the day before so she needed to simplify. Carb on carb on carb and smaller gatherings deleted them.

We make them at some point over the holidays. I usually add sautéed leek, peas and mushrooms so I've changed the tradition a bit. DH is the noodle maker. Time consuming with all else going on but he enjoys it...just not for Thanksgiving day...even finding the time a week ahead gets complicated.

I'm the only one in my family that gardens and makes my own stocks and really cooks at all. My MIL makes turkey and dumplings next day as their tradition. They are from the Oregon coast.

We often have Spätzle for Thanksgiving, especially when we go to Alpine Village in Torrance. I don't have my recipe here, but there are some in this thread.

No noodles -- that's one of the meals AFTER -- with the leftovers! But DH's family used to serve them on Thanksgiving -- I thought it strange. His family LOVED them!

I know Italian familys where there is always a pasta dish on the table....almost noodles.

My MIL made noodles at Thanksgiving. That was the first time that I ever encountered it. Noodles??? With dressing, mashed potatoes, and hot rolls. Green bean casserole (the cream of mushroom soup one), sweet potatoes out of a can, candied. At least the rolls were home made because I insisted and made them. Otherwise, it would have been those inedible sawdust brown 'n serve rolls. She did make the noodles from scratch but I never ate any. Too weird what with all the other carbs.

No noodles here for Thanksgiving but like Martha, we often included them in meals after Thanksgiving, using up leftover turkey.

Cilantro, it's funny you mention Brown N Serve rolls. My Grandmother lived with us and always baked all of our bread but for SPECIAL occasions, like holidays, she'd buy Brown N Serve as a treat, LOL. Now I'm thinking how foolish I was as a child, I had constant access to delicious homemade bread and all I wanted was the white squishy stuff...

Annie

Marilyn Sue. My mother often made homemade noodles and cooked them in chicken stock. Always served over whipped potatoes. As a kid it was one of my favorites. I make it myself but not often and everyone loves it..

We never had noodles over potatoes, we had either noodles or potatoes. Grandma often made chicken and noodles the same way she made chicken and dumplings, with an old stewing hen and a long cooking time, using the meat from the chicken and the resulting broth to cook the noodles or dumplings. Our dumplings were always fluffy biscuit type dumplings dropped into the hot liquid, and noodles were thick homemade egg noodles, dropped into the hot liquid. Elery's family in Tennessee makes what they call dumplings, but we would have called those noodles, they are a flat egg noodle dough, cut into squares and cooked in the chicken broth.

Now I've seen the combination at local restaurants, chicken and noodles over mashed potatoes. I've also seen the square noodles that Elery's family calls dumplings, sold in Amish stores as "pot pie" noodles, so there's another name altogether.

Annie

Never heard of noodles for Thanksgiving, but then until I moved to KY, I'd never heard of serving mac and cheese with Thanksgiving dinner, either! I think it sounds horrid!

I've never heard of this either. We have potatoes (always) and some other veg like carrots or green beans. No need for another starch imo.

I think if you serve food that you and your guests like that is about all that matters. Macaroni and cheese would be okay with me. We accept whatever family and friends bring to our meals and are happy for their company. We live in farm country for the most part and many recipes are from way back in this area and many of them traveled this way from the east.

Sue

Chicken & Noodles served over mashed potatoes is one of my favorites that my grandmother would make. Love it!!

It wasn't a holiday thing though . . .