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We decided to have Thanksgiving on our own this year, after many years of big meals with lots of people. It is just the 5 of us, so I had to limit the menu a bit to the family's *favorites*.

 

Eta: that morning I will make breakfast casserole.

 

Honeybaked Ham (we all like ham better than turkey)

Green bean casserole (a must for dh)

Parker House rolls (my must have)

Dressing (cornbread)

Sweet potato pudding

Cranberry and orange sauce (whole berry)

Chocolate chip pecan pie

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Ooh, I love seeing everyone's menu. We are hosting this year - the in-laws. But it's not that many people.

 

Mid-day Noshes:

*butternut squash bruschetta

*pumpkin dip

*spicy pecans

*Mushroom's favorite aged gouda

*prosciutto with pear

*veges for noshing

 

The Grand Meal:

*turkey

*gravy

*cranberry, apple, pecan sauce

*sweet potato casserole

*spoon bread

*succotash (with the bushel of pink eyes I got this summer that's still in the freezer!)

*green beans

*bacon and apple bread stuffing

 

The Desserts:

*pumpkin cookies with cream cheese frosting

*apple crisp

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We're doing two dinners. One on thanksgiving and the other on the Sunday following.

 

Thanksgiving (just us):

Ham

"Funeral" Potatoes

Rolls

Salad

Chocolate Silk Pie

 

Sunday after (us plus four guests):

Turkey

Cranberry sauce

Mashed potatoes & gravy

Rolls

Green beans

Salad

Veggie tray

Apple Pie

Brownies

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Roasted turkey

Whole berry cranberry sauce

Cornbread dressing

Dinner rolls

Mashed potatoes and gravy

Mashed sweet potatoes

Corn

Green beans

Salad

Pumpkin pie

Apple pie

Chocolate cream pie

 

Yes, it is a carb-fest. And yes, there is a lot of food there for just the five of us. But we we eat leftovers for days, and I will freeze some of it (both as completed recipes for later meals and as components for crockpot meals).

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Dinner will just be 5 of us (us plus my mom)

 

pumpkin soup served in pumpkin shells - I'm serving this before the turkey comes out of the oven.

 

Turkey

homemade gravy

orange cranberry sauce

mashed potatoes

wild rice and mushroom stuffing

cornbread

mixed greens

 

Desserts

pumpkin pie

apple pie

chocolate pie

pumpkin custard

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Ooh, I love seeing everyone's menu. We are hosting this year - the in-laws. But it's not that many people.

 

Mid-day Noshes:

*butternut squash bruschetta

*pumpkin dip

*spicy pecans

*Mushroom's favorite aged gouda

*prosciutto with pear

*veges for noshing

 

 

I am SO coming to your house for this! :D. My family will be lucky to have some stale cereal and a juice box before the big meal!

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It will be my mom, grandmother, brother and his family (4 total), and us:

 

Turkey

Apple Onion Stuffing

Baked Sweet Potatoes

Mashed Potatoes and Gravy

Green Beans with Bacon and Onion

Cranberry Orange Relish

Rolls (with honey butter)

Pecan Pie

Pumpkin Pie

and possibly a Pumpkin Dump Cake

 

SIL will be bringing Sausage Cheese Dip for snacking

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MMMmmmmm!! A breakfast casserole is a wonderful idea - now I'm wondering if I should run back to the store :D.

 

We are having some 18 ppl over and I am looking forward to it immensely!

 

Turkey

Ham

Dressing (cornbread, in bird and out)

Gravy (with Giblets and without!)

Cranberry sauce (jellied - must have!!!!)

Sweet potatoes (Grandpa's famous brandy recipe)

Broccoli-cauliflower casserole (me)

Potato casserole (me)

Green bean casserole (me, but I make it for my bro!)

Bread (friend)

Salad (friend)

Carrot salad with raisins (tentative - got ingredients before I knew friend was bringing salad)

 

Dessert:

Pecan Pie (bro - traditional)

Pumpkin Pie (bro)

Triple Choc Chip Cookies (bro)

Cake (friend's daughter)

 

Oooooooo I am SO SO SO hungry now!! laff

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I've posted ours in a couple of other threads, I think, but here's what my house full of vegans/a vegetarian always eat.

 

Bagels for breakfast.

 

Snack items during the afternoon: chips, nuts, olives, those revolting fried onion things, etc.

 

Dinner is:

 

- Potato pancakes

- Cinnamon applesauce

- Mashed sweet potatoes baked in a pan lined with chopped pecans

- Cornbread muffins

- Green beans sauteed with onion and garlic

- Some kind of rice

- Usually a second potato (mashed?) because neither child is thrilled with the latkes

- Cranberry relish (which is yummy on the cornbread)

- Sparkling white grape juice

 

It's always just the four of us for Thanksgiving. We've been making more or less this same meal for the holiday for a couple of decades, now.

 

We don't bother with dessert, because we're all too full from dinner to consider more food until the following morning.

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We decided to have Thanksgiving on our own this year, after many years of big meals with lots of people. It is just the 5 of us, so I had to limit the menu a bit to the family's *favorites*.

 

Eta: that morning I will make breakfast casserole.

 

Honeybaked Ham (we all like ham better than turkey)

Green bean casserole (a must for dh)

Parker House rolls (my must have)

Dressing (cornbread)

Sweet potato pudding

Cranberry and orange sauce (whole berry)

Chocolate chip pecan pie

 

I would love to see your breakfast casserole recipe. I've tried a few lately but they haven't gone over very well. :D

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I'll have 10 at my house this year. We'll be having:

 

Turkey (smoked on my Big Green Egg)

dressing

mashed potatoes

gravy

cranberry salad (family recipe that came from my Grandmother)

whole wheat rolls

Spinach salad (with cranberries and almonds)

green beans

 

pumpkin & pecan pies for dessert

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Smoked salmon and reindeer sausage for snacks. Usually with sharp cheddar cheese, but this year I picked up DS15's favorite treat - Mahon cheese from Majorca. I didn't even know where Majorca was until I googled it!

 

Regular meal - 8 or 10 of us this year, with drop-ins.

Turkey

dressing

gravy

mashed potatos with cream cheese and butter

roasted garlic sweet potatos (DD10 can't eat regular potatos)

rolls with homemade apple/red current jelly

salad.

 

gingerbread cookies and some type of pie (probably apple)

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Starters

Spicy Maple Walnuts

Cheddar-Cayenne Coins

Olives

 

Salad

Cranberries with Marshmallows a la Irene

 

Main Dish

Brine Roast Turkey with Sage Butter Rub

 

Sides

Green Beans with Lemon Vinaigrette and Parmesan Breadcrumbs

Cranberry Sauce with Orange and Walnuts

Rustic Mashed Potatoes

Wild Rice Bread Dressing with Apple, Apricot and Sage

Cinnamon Glazed Carrots

Rutabaga with Cream and Nutmeg

Butternut Squash a la Pam

Traditional Sweet Potato Crunch

 

Dessert

Chocolate Pecan Pie

Double Ginger Pumpkin Tart

Apple Pie a la Christina

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I am still trying to decide.

 

So far, I have:

 

Cranberry-orange-pecan bread for breakfast

 

Nothing yet for light lunch and snacks but will be looking over this thread for ideas plus I actually have time to look at my magazines in the next two days:001_smile:

 

Dinner-

fresh turkey with gravy ( I never use either frozen or Butterball since I don't want weird things injected to my meat).

stuffing

mashed potatoes

whole cranberry sauce (which I can have just a midgen since it is bad for people who take my medicine)

green beans - not sure yet how I will prepare them since youngest has suddenly developed allergies to citrus and don't want to much of that

rolls- haven't decided yet whether I will bake or buy them

no decisions yet on dessert

 

We are only having the four of us. Son isn't coming home.

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Roasted beet salad

Pumpkin bisque

Turkey and giblet gravy

Cornbread dressing with apples and pecans

Cranberry jam

Quick rise rolls

Candied sweet potatoes

Green bean and wild mushroom casserole with fontina (okay, fine, it's green bean casserole!)

Pumpkin pie

Caramel pecan pie

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My daughter and I are eating at my parent's house. We are having a meatless Thanksgiving. We are eating on Wednesday instead of Thursday bc I work.

 

Appetizer tray- boiled eggs, baby pickles, cherry tomatoes, chips, and momma's dip (don't know what she does but it's good)

 

Dinner- hashbrown casserole, brussel sprouts and cauliflower gratin, green beans, corn, fried okra, and stuffing with dinner rolls and garlic bread

 

Dessert- lemon merigune pie and a cheesecake sampler

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Breakfast: cinnamon rolls and fruit salad

Appetizers: veggie dippers, assorted crackers, clam dip

Main meal: mixed greens with gorgonzola and apples, turkey and gravy, cornbread stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes with molasses-ginger butter. green beans with bacon and scallions, rolls of some kind (one kid wants crescents, the other wants homemade molasses rolls), cranberry-orange sauce

Dessert: Dutch apple pie, pumpkin pie, pumpkin custard

 

This thread is making me hungry! I think we will make the cranberry sauce this afternoon. I have the kids polishing the silver now to get that chore out of the way.

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Mid-day Noshes:

*butternut squash bruschetta

*pumpkin dip

*spicy pecans

*Mushroom's favorite aged gouda

*prosciutto with pear

*veges for noshing

 

I only have had pecans, but this sounds so good!

 

Starters

Spicy Maple Walnuts

Cheddar-Cayenne Coins

Olives

 

Salad

Cranberries with Marshmallows a la Irene

 

Main Dish

Brine Roast Turkey with Sage Butter Rub

 

Sides

Green Beans with Lemon Vinaigrette and Parmesan Breadcrumbs

Cranberry Sauce with Orange and Walnuts

Rustic Mashed Potatoes

Wild Rice Bread Dressing with Apple, Apricot and Sage

Cinnamon Glazed Carrots

Rutabaga with Cream and Nutmeg

Butternut Squash a la Pam

Traditional Sweet Potato Crunch

 

Dessert

Chocolate Pecan Pie

Double Ginger Pumpkin Tart

Apple Pie a la Christina

 

Your whole menu is full of things I love. That sounds like a delicious way to cook rutabaga.

 

My menu -- but I may fiddle around with it after looking at all the posts here.

 

Butternut Squash-Apple Soup

 

Herb Roasted Turkey with Shiitake Mushroom Gravy

Chestnut-Sausage Stuffing

 

Roast Sweet Potatoes with Miso-Scallion Butter

Roast Heirloom Potatoes, Shallots, Carrots and Parsnips -- or cinnamon glazed carrots (above), or both

Green Beans with Tarragon Cream -- maybe I'll try the beans w/ lemon vinaigrette (above), sounds lighter

Honey Glazed Onions

 

Cranberry Sauce with Port Wine

Cranberry-Orange Relish

 

Mini Corn Muffins

Parmesan Bread Sticks

 

Watercress, Pear and Walnut Salad

Poppy Seed Dressing

 

Sweet Potato Cake with Brown Sugar Icing

Cranberry Upside Down Cake

Indian Pudding

Baked Pear Compote

 

Oh, and a Costco pumpkin pie.

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Dinner for 23 (I really hope we have enough)

 

turkey and gravy

ham (added to stretch the meal)

rice

candied sweet potatoes

macaroni and cheese (dh's specialty)

green beans

dressing

cranberry sauce (from a can - I can't do everything)

homemade rolls (ds's specialty)

whatever desserts the extended family brings

 

I think that's it. I better go shopping. :tongue_smilie:

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Carrot Soup

Turkey- one fried, one baked

Gravy

Mashed Potatoes- LOADED

Sweet Potato Ravioli

Butternut Squash Risotto with mushrooms- stuffed

Pumpkin Bread

Whole Wheat Rolls

Sausage and Walnut Stuffing

Green Beans- with dijon mustard and almonds

Pecan, Chocolate, Pumpkin, Apple, and Minced Meat Pies

Pumpkin Cookies with Cheesecake Frosting

Copious amounts of wine

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Meal:

roast turkey and gravy

sage dressing

sweet potatoes (w/pineapple chunks and marshmallows)

mashed potatoes

cheesy broccoli and rice casserole

mandarin orange salad

whole berry cranberry sauce

dinner rolls

butter

sparkling pear juice

apple cider

water

 

dessert:

apple pie

pumpkin pie

turkey cookies (made by kids)

whipped cream

coffee and tea

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Turkey

Ham

Cornbread Dressing

Mashed Potatoes

Gravy

Sweet Potato Souffle

Cheesy Broccoli Rice Casserole

Green Bean Casserole

Asparagus (cold w/ Lemon Vinagrette)

Frisee and Apple Salad w/ Dried Cherries and Walnuts

Crescent Rolls

 

Pumpkin Pie

Pecan Pie

Deep Dish Apple Pie

 

Dh does the turkey in the roaster, MIL makes the dressing, and the dc and I do everything else. Mashed potatoes and gravy will be make ahead recipes. I partially bake the rolls on Wednesday, and pop them in the oven for the final browning just as dinner is served. I spread the cooking out over 4 days.

 

And we eat nothing but leftovers for at least 4 days afterwards.

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We have a ridiculous amount of food for six people. I tried to cut a few things from the menu but my sister-in-law thinks it is better to keep everything on the list, just make a smaller quantity. Not sure how that is going to work!

 

Starters: crab dip, crackers, carrot and celery sticks, olives

 

The buffet: turkey and gravy; dressing made from King Arthur's stuffing buns (rising as I write); mashed potatoes; sweet potato something or other; creamed onions; broccoli; caprese salad; steamed green beans.

 

Dessert: pie and ice cream. I have yet to decide what kind of pie I am making. Pumpkin has been the tradition but last year I made pear pie which was a hit.

 

Washed down with champagne and red wine. :cheers2:

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green beans-mashed potatoes--turkey/dressing/gravy/cranberry sauce (home made)--rolls--pumpkin cheesecake,sweet potato pie, and probably a bundt cake or two.....for breakfast I'm making a quickie recipe I found a few days ago using rolled out crescent dough filled with cream cheese/cinnamon sugar and maybe scrambled eggs.....

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MIL and I are sharing cooking duties. Whole Foods is providing the turkey and stuffing, I'm cooking the rest of the sides, MIL has the salmon and desserts. Yum!

 

Turkey

Salmon (for the non turkey lovers)

Dressing

Stuffing (yes, both)

Cranberry sauce

Gravy

Green Bean casserole

Mashed potatoes

Cooked Carrots

 

Apple Pie

Gullac (Turkish dessert)

Flan (maybe)

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Ooooh, maybe I should add corn pudding, I do love it so!

 

I make a Triple Corn Spoon Bread that is divine!!! It's like a cross between corn bread and corn pudding. (And yet I don't like corn bread dressing. Go figure). I've made it with the fat-free/low cal stuff below and used full fat, and it really doesn't taste any better with the full fat.

 

 

1 cup fat-free sour cream

3 tablespoons stick margarine or butter, melted

1 large egg

1/2 cup chopped onion

1 (15.25-ounce) can no-salt-added whole-kernel corn, undrained

1 (14 3/4-ounce) can no-salt-added cream-style corn

1 (8 1/2-ounce) package corn muffin mix

Cooking spray

Preparation

 

Preheat oven to 350°.

Combine first 3 ingredients in a large bowl; stir well with a whisk. Stir in onion, corns, and muffin mix. Pour into an 8-inch square baking dish coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350° for 1 hour or until pudding is set and lightly browned.

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muffins for breakfast

 

crudite and barefoot contessa's oniondip

cheese and crackers

pickles, and olives

 

dates with pineapple wrapped in bacon

rye toasts with onions and parm, broiled

 

stuffed shells

salad

 

mashed turnips

brussel sprouts with lemon and garlic

gingered carrots

balsamic green beans

creamed pearl onions

 

scalloped potatoes

roasted sweet potatoes casserole

cornbread apple sausage stuffing

onion knot rolls

 

two kinds of cranberry sauce (mine and canned)

 

turkey

 

clementines, figs, and nuts

torrone

 

two apple pies

two pumpkin pie (pumpkin is now in the oven)

chocolate cheesecake (barefoot contessa)

 

espresso

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It's just my little family for turkey day this year. We don't do leftovers great and we will be leaving for about a month a week later. I wasn't even going to make a Turkey, but then The Husband's work gave us one...now I feel like I should!

 

So, we'll do turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, corn, and 3 different pies. You can tell where my priorities lie... :D

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I'm unsure what time we're eating, so that will determine whether I add cocktails & appetizers (If needed: Maple glazed brie w/ apples & pears & stuffed mushrooms for apps and cranberry champagne cocktail)

 

Turkey & Gravy (MIL bringing)

Sausage, Apple & Cranberry Dressing

Sour Cream Mashed Potatoes (w/ cream cheese & sour cream)

Either sweet potatoes or squash (SIL bringing)

Corn Pudding

Green Beans w/ caramelized onions

Whole berry cranberry sauce w/ apples

Spinach salad(SIL bringing)

 

Dessert:

Costco Pumpkin pie w/ fresh whipped cream

Apple/Pear/Ginger Pie

Chocolate Pecan Pie

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We have 13 for dinner this year. Our menu, which never varies from year to year....

 

Turkey

Apple sausage stuffing

Mashed potatoes

Sweet potato casserole

Butternut squash

Green bean casserole

Cranberry sauce (homemade, whole berry)

Creamed pearl onions

Roasted brussel sprouts

Lion house rolls (if you're from UT you know what I mean)

Pumpkin, apple, and apple-cranberry pies

 

The best part of Thanksgiving, for me, is eating a sandwich in the evening, which is why we eat early. My favorite, favorite sandwich of the year.....white bread, with iceberg lettuce, mayo, turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sauce. I wait for it all year!

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Dinner for us is, as always, at my brother's house. I have no idea how many of us there will actually be this year as my brother always invites everyone he knows that have no other place to spend the holiday. Numbers always vary.

 

Dinner will be:

 

turkey

ham

mashed potatoes

green beans

chicken and dumplings

rolls of some sort

sweet potatoes

green salad

cranberry relish

deviled eggs

pumpkin pie

apple pie

chocolate coconut cake

peanut butter blossom cookies

and usually some other sort of dessert that SIL decides to try

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It's just the 5 of us for Thanksgiving. I do the big meal no matter what. It's the memories for our children of the house smelling up so good all day and mom makings lots of food!

 

  • Turkey
  • Bacon Mac/Cheese
  • Drop Biscuits
  • Stuffing
  • Cranberry Sauce
  • Mashed Potatoes & Brown Gravy
  • Corn
  • Pumpkin Pie
  • Cherry Pie
  • Sweet Potatoes
  • Deviled Eggs

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There will be 10 of us for the big meal which will be at lunch, usually around 1pm and then there will be at least 8 of us having dinner (leftovers) and our lunch meal will consist of:

 

Turkey

Ham

Cornbread Dressing

Mashed Potatoes

Gravy

Noodles

Praline Sweet Potatoes

Green Bean Casserole

Green Salad

Cranberry Jello Salad

Homemade Rolls

 

Dessert:

Pecan Pie (2)

Pumpkin Pie(2)

Cherry Cheesecake

Strawberry Pie

Apple Pie

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I make a Triple Corn Spoon Bread that is divine!!! It's like a cross between corn bread and corn pudding. (And yet I don't like corn bread dressing. Go figure). I've made it with the fat-free/low cal stuff below and used full fat, and it really doesn't taste any better with the full fat.

 

That's my recipe too!!!

 

I just called my mother to get it. I'm like, I want to make that spoon bread you got out of a magazine years ago that we all love. She's like, oh, it's so easy, you just dump all these different things of corn together and bake it.

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Boneless Turkey Breast Banquet for 4-6

$69.99 / $11.67 - $17.50 per person

Roasted Turkey Breast (3 lbs avg.)

1 32oz Spinach Artichoke Dip and Crackers

1 32oz Mashed Potatoes

1 32oz Vegetable Stuffing

1 32oz Cranberry Relish

1 32oz Gravy

6 Dinner Rolls

1 Pie (Apple or Pumpkin)

 

And I added sweet potatoes to the deal. :D

 

It's just the four of us and we want to be lazy. All I need is drinks and whipped cream.

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Total of 6 here:

 

Turkey

Cranberry Sauce

Mashed Taters

Green Bean Salad (one guest will bring)

Deviled eggs (another guest will bring)

Candied Yams

Olives, Spanish & Black

Crackers with Hot Artichoke Dip

Homebaked bread/rolls

Cheese & Veggie Platter for snacking

 

Prune Cake

Pumpkin Pie

Pecan Pie

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