I'm going to make a cranberry molded salad, butternut squash casserole, spinach casserole, corn bread for stuffing and apple crisp or apple pie. I made some pecan pie bars last night.

I'd like to bake a pumpkin cheesecake today.

Soup. I made some chicken, mushroom, wild rice soup last week and I loved it. Going to make it again today with the addition of artichoke hearts.

Nothing! Due to DD's and SIL's schedules, we had our official Thanksgiving dinner yesterday. I spent yesterday and Monday cooking, so today I will not touch any cooking appliance except a microwave. Kids cleaned up after dinner last night, including cleaning the turkey carcass which I will use to make stock tomorrow. BTW, breakfast this morning was leftover apple pie. :)

Pumpkin pie, coconut chess pie, and will get the cornbread dressing ready to bake tomorrow.

Not much :-) It is just me (and the dog) and while I plan on fixing a more or less "traditional" Thanksgiving meal, it is easily accomplished on the day of....roasted turkey breast (lots of leftovers for sandwiches!), a small baked dressing casserole, roasted yams and spinach souffle. I am perfectly happy with canned cranberry sauce - actually prefer it.

I am going to make a key lime pie today. I do not really care for pumpkin pie, can't take the over rich sweetness of pecan and apple is too ordinary. And the no-cook key lime is best with a day to set up properly.

tonight will make sausage stuffing, corn casserole, maybe a meatless baked ziti if DS's Vegan GF is coming tomorrow.

Not today, but on Sunday I was making lunch for Monday. Some friends were coming to my office for a semi-business semi-social lunch. I had planned to have food delivered from the restaurant downstairs, but learned late the previous week that they were closed due to Covid. So I had to cook and bring in food, place settings, etc.

I made a tomato & mushroom soup, starting with making a vegetable stock. My vegetable stock tasted like nothing. I had salvage it with some dried mushrooms and red miso. The soup turned out nicely.

I also made a roasted brussel sprout, golden beet and carmelized walnut salad with a Dijon vinaigrette. That was straightforward enough.

Lunch was nice. I had two HEPA air cleaners on high, the windows open, and we sat at opposite ends of the conference table. Such is Covid life, I guess.

They said it was the first meal they’ve had since March that wasn’t cooked by them or from takeout containers. We reminisced about the last party we went to, which was a “house party” at my place (she was running for Mayor then) which degenerated into a full-blown shindig that everyone there remembers because, well, it was the last gathering we all had before Covid distancing started.

Things have gotten so weird since those innocent times. Today, my friend can’t freely go out to restaurants because she’s on a so-called “kill list” circulated by extremists. She used to get around by bus, walking, and Uber. Now that is unsafe for her, so she had to buy a car. Well, a nice soup makes everything better, if only for a moment.

First, today I'm going to really clean my kitchen and organize my refrigerator. It's reached a point I'm sure there are some things in there expired ;0)

This afternoon I'll make the dough for refrigerator rolls to bake tomorrow. I'll make a pumpkin pie today too.

With just a small turkey and not a lot of sides, tomorrow should be a very easy day. I'm expecting wonderful smells from my freshly cleaned kitchen and will see how DH feels about putting the holiday lights up outside.

Most of my cooking gets done on Thansgiving, I did bake the country ham last night and will chop onions and celery tonight for stuffing tomorrow DIL bringing desserts tomorrow.

cranberry sauce, refrigerator rolls and I put the stuffing together and refrigerate until tomorrow. We like it better that way.

Nothing going on in my kitchen. Gonna heat chicken noodle soup and mini corndogs for lunch.

Lazy me I should be ashamed, I got all the stuff together to bake a sweet tater pie and then I saw a picture of Costco's pecan pie and ordered it. So I have a no cook smoked turkey breast, a frozen cranberry sauce portion, so the only thing I am making is dressing which I will do in the morning.

BTW a 12 inch pie is enormous. Most of the grocery store pies are only nine inches or so. I guess I could calculate just how much bigger this pie is, the formula is pie R squared, but trust me, it is MUCH bigger than a regular pie.

The duck and turkey are dry brining. Just finished the dressing, make ahead mashed potatoes, the baked potatoes so my child cake make duck fat fries, the apple pie is done. The cranberry-orange compote is done. I think we'll add the molasses ginger cookies to the baking tomorrow, and probably carrots. It's all ready to be put into the ovens, the crockpot turned on, or to be steamed. Not counting the duck fat fries because I'm not doing those. Also, I'm not a "bread" person and my baby wants rolls, so I shot them over a recipe and said have at it! We'll see if either of those get added to the mix.

Happy Thanksgiving!

photos added after. Check out the stupidity going on with the turkey-duck set up, HA!

Made an apple and a blueberry pie this morning. Took the apple to my daughter's house for their dinner

In Canada, we had our Thanksgiving last month. But I'm drooling onto my keyboard in reading about all this yummy food! lol!

explain "kill list"

• As stacey said, in Canada we had our thanksgiving last month. However, it’s our daughters birthday in a couple weeks so her family and our son and his wife are coming for dinner this weekend as everybody is committed other dates. DD chose Greek so here what I’m doing:

• Tzatziki, hummous olives and homemade pita
• moussaka
• souvlaki
• rice with peppers, tomatoes, prawns and feta cheese
• greek roast potatoes
• hopefully a Greek salad
• for dessert a triple layer spice cake with lemon curd filling and mascarpone whipped cream frosting

jrb, your Coconut Chess Pie, gave me thoughts of my sweet Mother. That was one of her favorite pies to bake. All of you all’s food sound delicious. I made dressing , will bake tomorrow and strawberry molded salad. Our turkey will be the Baskin Robbins ice cream cake that looks just like a turkey. It looks exactly like a real turkey. Was shocked to see when it was delivered today. Friend sent to us.

I want a coconut chess pie. Since we decided not to have a family Thanksgiving meal, DH and I ordered a roast turkey dinner for 4 with dressing, mashed potatoes, green beans, cranberry sauce, so I will heat and serve. Tomorrow we will make stuffed mushrooms, roast sweet potatoes, and berry cobbler. I decided not to make any food ahead, so tomorrow I would be busy and not miss having the kids.

Thursday is family potluck: we socially distance, portion out the food, and go home to eat.

I'm making the appetizers:

- Egg crepe sushi with lox and gomae wakame

- Inarizushi with diced carrots, shiitake mushrooms, and petit pois mixed into the rice

We're not pumpkin fans, but we'll be gifted with some since my 11-yr old grand-nephew makes pumpkin pies every year. He's pretty good in the kitchen, but then his dad, my nephew, is a much better cook than his wife, LOL. Our friends love the stuff so maybe we'll slide our portion into their Tupperware on Friday ;))

Friday we socially distance with our best friends, portion out the food, and we stay home as they drive back to their place.

- Roast brined chicken. Couldn't find suitable turkey parts, but we're not big turkey fans anyway.

- Sausage and onion stuffing. Using a new brand of brioche-type bread I found; seems promising.

- Fresh cranberry-orange relish. I'm going to toss in a jar of lingonberry jam as I have several jars of it.

- Gravy

- Dessert. I actually have not thought about what to make, probably lemon sponge pudding cake since I have 3 cartons of heavy whipping cream.

I just warmed up leftover crab legs from yesterday. No real cooking for me today.

Yesterday the brown and serve rolls, and pumpkin rolls were made. Today the stuffing, stuffed celery/olive tray , spinach dip, and the pumpkin pies were made and the table set. The remainder will be made tomorrow.

John Liu just curious, you don't have to answer if you don't want to. What did she do or say to get on a extremist kill list. What kind of extremist without getting specific.

Today I made the cranberry-orange sauce.

I simmered the onion, herbs, and giblets until the bones fell off the duck neck. It will morph into gravy tomorrow.

I boiled nine eggs and pickled three of the less disappointing ones. The shells would not come off the eggs, deleting my plans for deviled eggs, or thinly sliced eggs for salad garnish. The arugula salad may get a chopped egg garnish.

The Duck has been put through a million preparation steps. It will go in the oven tomorrow.

I baked the cornbread for the dressing.

Dd baked a rhubarb pie today. I bought a pecan pie yesterday and then someone sent us another in the mail so now we have too much. We'll do our cooking tomorrow. I like to keep the meal fairly simple. My vegetarian kid came home last night so I made a mushroom and rice dish for lunch. Tonight I made a grilled brie sandwich with cranberry sauce, apples and wine on sourdough bread that I found on Pinterest. I saved both recipes and plan to make them again.

Marilyn_Sue, I'm not usually a big fan of bread, but I had purchased some yeast rolls at a bakery for our Thanksgiving dinner. They were delicious and were perfect for the meal. I would love to have your recipe for yeast rolls, including instructions for storing in the fridge and how soon to remove before baking. Thank you!

Today I made our dessert. A strawberry cheesecake cobbler.🍓

I will do everything else tomorrow. We will be in no rush. Just us.

Google Portland kill list for answers to your questions to John Liu. Long story short, the extremists are the people who have made the kill list, not the people on the list.

Prepped veggies for our dressing today. Baked the pecans and browned the sausage also for the stuffing. Will add the rest of the ingredients tomorrow. Turkey will go into the oven, late morning. Mashed potatoes and veggies. Gravy will be made in the afternoon. - after the turkey is done. Cranberries and salad will also be on the table - can't wait!

Cranberry sauce, pumpkin cake and stuffing prep today. Going to have an easy Thanksgiving, my daughter and her fiancé are making most of the meal for our small family dinner. Just need to finish the stuffing and a couple of appetizers tomorrow.

I was also shocked and wonder what a kill list is? I mean ???

Ordinary day here so we had sous vide chuck roast and gratin dauphinois.

Cut up veggies, cooked sausage for stuffing, made a salad (it is better the next day), made spinach dip, Just a lot of prepping for tomorrow.

Islay Corbel--

Please describe "sous vide chuck roast" and "gratin dauphinois" to this ignorant cook.

Thanks.

Jakkom, being half Japanese I had to google Inaizushi. My Japanese mom used to make these with just sushi rice but just called them "the bag sushi" lol.

@jill302, would you be willing to share your pumpkin cake recipe, please. My mother made the most delicious pumpkin cake. I have Googled and haven't seen a recipe like hers - at least as I recall it. I am sure she used a whole can of pumpkin. Thank you.

My turkey is cooking 🦃🍗 (it's a smoked turkey)

I also made strawberry cheese cake cobbler

A plaid turkey!! How cool :-)

Have made cinnamon apples today in the Instant Pot; they are now cooling. Will be using all of my IPs later to cook green beans, potatoes for mashing/whipping, and turkey breast and when it is through cooking, will take it out to rest and make gravy in the drippings in the IP, Put the dry ingredients for the dressing two days ago and will add chicken broth to it today to bake; was going to put in a small crockpot, but decided to bake it instead. Have dinner rolls rising. Just me, but I still want a traditional-type Thanksgiving. All of my family decided we would not chance getting together due to the rapid increase of COVID-19 cases in our area.

Just me: sausage balls and scrambled eggs

Today I have the 3# turkey breast in the crockpot. Made a salad, no Potatoes, have frozen spiral squash to fix, and have the boxed dressing mix to prepare. If I was cooking a turkey I would make my own dressing but this is easier! Cranberry sauce and I just opened the wine to see if it was suitable for guests...which is just me!! 😊 Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

I was demoted to sous chef by dd. She's making the meal. I took the turkey out of the bag and removed the innards for her. She is baking it with herbed butter she made herself. I was told to cook the potatoes and make potato salad which I have done. No deviled eggs here. So far I'm following instructions.

I am trying again to make yeast bread. Using a no knead french bread recipe. As usual after forming in loaves it is about to finish the last two hour raising time without raising. Will stick it in the oven in a little while and then have it as bread sticks tomorrow. For whatever reason yeast stuff does not rise for me after forming or putting it into a bread pan. It does normally taste good so is not wasted.

Senior gal, chuck roast cooked in a bag with aromats at 54°C for 24 hours. Gratin dauphinois :

Thinly slice firm potatoes, put in a non stick pan and cover with milk. It's important not to rinse the potatoes as you need the starch.

Simmer for about 15 minutes with a crushed garlic clove.

Tip into oven dish, cover with a layer of cream and bake for 45 minutes.

For the post-post-Thanksgiving dinner, I’m making clam chowder. Basic recipe, potatoes diced and parcooked in duck stock, then shallots, garlic, scallions, slivered brussel sprouts sautéed in butter, add drained potatoes, add flour and herbs/spices/S/P, add a bagful of clam meat (frozen from Asian store), a bunch of T’giving ham diced, then milk, heavy cream, some stale bread buzzed in mini-Cuisinart, and a can of sardines mashed up (since there’s no actual clam juice, I wanted something seafood-y). I can’t find Old Bay but used enough other herbs/spices to approximate it. Simmering now and will add a bunch of minced parsley for color and before serving. It tastes okay, not the best clam chowder I’ve had by some distance, but will be acceptable comfort soup.

cooked a pork shoulder for freezer bags of pulled pork ....

After having turkey for 2 meals, decided to make some dumplings from Trader Joe's. I like mine dipped in half soy sauce, half vinegar.

we had leftovers today and I made rice pudding for dessert