Thanksgiving Day Menu

**HD Lady** · 11-09-2011, 11:13 AM

What's on your menu for Thanksgiving Day?

**Beach Runner** · 11-09-2011, 12:15 PM

Thanksgiving 2011

Thanksgiving Morning
Julie's Pumpkin Muffins
Low-Fat Sausage-Egg Casserole
Ambrosia

Thanksgiving Dinner
Appetizer
Marinated Mushrooms
Cruditées
Nuts
Main Course
Turkey
Mom's Dressing
Bean Casserole
Lauren’s Lemon-Garlic Green Beans
Tomato Pie
Lauren’s Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Gravy
Cranberry Sauce
Yeast Rolls
Iced Tea
Dessert
Sweet Potato-Pecan Pie with Chantilly Cream
Cherry Pie

What's your menu, HD Lady?

**scooterbug44** · 11-09-2011, 01:08 PM

breakfast varies, lunch is a snack, dinner is the main event - and everything is cooked with real food and from scratch!
cocktail hour - apps are an insult to the chefs who have been cooking for days, so none are served
cranberry, pecan, apple, and pineapple jello salad w/ yogurt and poppy seed dressing
turkey cooked on grill (dibs on a drumstick)
mashed potatoes
stuffing
gravy
cranberry orange or zucchini walnut bread
green beans with bacon or glazed carrots
pumpkin, pecan, apple, and/or mincemeat pies

**HD Lady** · 11-09-2011, 02:30 PM

Your menu's sound yummy!

Mr. HD likes the traditional stuff, so I usually keep the same basic items on the menu from year to year:

Turkey roasted with fresh herbs n garlic
Mama's Oyster/cornbread dressing
Mashed Potatoes w/giblet gravy
My version of a green bean casserole
Fresh Cranberry Relish
Yeast Rolls
Home baked pumpkin pie w/whipped cream

DD · 11-12-2011, 10:11 AM

Well, I'm hungry now. I think I'm gonna order a fried turkey again and make the rest.

Cornbread Dressing/Gravy
Whipped Potatoes
Sweet Potato Casserole
Green Bean Casserole
Baked Apricots
Ambrosia
Cranberry sauce

Maybe another veggie of some sort
Pies, cheesecake--tbd

**Beach Runner** · 11-12-2011, 11:02 AM

Looks like we're all pretty traditional with our menus. I've often thought about doing something funky such as Paul Prudhomme's andouille sausage dressing. But we love Mom's old recipes and the traditions and memories of them so much that I always cook turkey, dressing, gravy, and bean casserole like she used to. We've added our daughter's recipe for green beans with roasted elephant garlic and lemon juice plus her mashed potatoes with rosemary and roasted elephant garlic.

Anyone out there do something different?

DD · 11-12-2011, 11:15 AM

BR, I usually do try to do one new and different dish, but the fam really only likes the same old stuff. Guess you can't mess with tradition. The only thing that's usually a hit is some new dessert.

**Beach Runner** · 11-12-2011, 11:30 AM

Originally Posted by DD

BR, I usually do try to do one new and different dish, but the fam really only likes the same old stuff. Guess you can't mess with tradition. The only thing that's usually a hit is some new dessert.

Someone told us that last year she tried a different menu. Her family complained. So she's going back to her old menu.

We have had to change up our Christmas menus now that Beach Jacket is married. We prepare our main meal (a beef tenderloin) on Christmas Eve (we used to have chili and then the big meal on Christmas Day). We have a Christmas Day brunch after opening presents, and then the chulluns head for north Atlanta to have Christmas Day dinner with JP's parents. Hubby and I eat leftovers from the previous night. Yum.

DD · 11-12-2011, 12:29 PM

yeah, i know. our Christmas meal plan changes almost every year. we don't have a specific menu or time. i never know until the last minute who's coming and when. we usually do our main meal on Christmas Eve and then a simpler meal on Christmas Day. Or leftovers.

**bluecat** · 11-13-2011, 10:01 AM

Too much in the world is changing, gotta go with traditional for Thanksgiving. Christmas is different, the son is home from Sowal,he does most of fixing for Christmas day. Sometime we have a beef loin ,sometimes it's a low country boil.It's all about spending time with the ones we love.

DD · 11-13-2011, 10:58 AM

so true, bc. i like the idea of the boil!

**SneakyPete** · 11-13-2011, 04:18 PM

I don't eat meat so I bring the sides to go along with my family's traditional turkey and dressing.

Baked yellow squash casserole with fontina cheese and fried shallots
Mashed rutabagas with butter, cream, kosher salt and pepper and a bit of fresh nutmeg
Vegetarian gravy (for the rutabagas)
A big salad "bar" with homemade creamy mustard dressing
Cane syrup pecan pie (homemade crust, naturally)
Lemon cream cheese pound cake

DD · 11-13-2011, 04:46 PM

Yum!

**scooterbug44** · 11-14-2011, 10:04 AM

I eat turkey once a year - Thanksgiving dinner and then a weekend of leftovers. You don't mess with perfection!

**Beach Runner** · 11-23-2011, 07:08 PM

Okay, so here's an unusual Thanksgiving menu. Hubby's sister in Wisconsin is preparing trout, shrimp, and lobster for Thanksgiving. No turkey.

**kathydwells** · 11-24-2011, 05:54 AM

Homemade yeast cinnamon rolls with cream cheese glaze for Thanksgiving Morning.
Buttermilk Cornbread dressing
Chocolate chip Pecan Pie
Regular Pecan Pie
White Chocolate Bread Pudding
Yeast Rolls
All made with love from scratch by me!

Those are my contributions to our dinner. My daddy is doing the Turkey this year. There will be Mashed Potatoes, Green Bean Casserole, Macaroni Salad, Pumpkin pie, and whatever my sister in law, and nieces bring.

Pretty traditional. I have always thought about mixing it up a bit and doing something totally different that the traditional Thanksgiving fare, but no one else is on board with me!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

**Beach Runner** · 11-24-2011, 06:50 AM

Originally Posted by kathydwells

Homemade yeast cinnamon rolls with cream cheese glaze for Thanksgiving Morning.
Buttermilk Cornbread dressing
Chocolate chip Pecan Pie
Regular Pecan Pie
White Chocolate Bread Pudding
Yeast Rolls
All made with love from scratch by me!

Those are my contributions to our dinner. My daddy is doing the Turkey this year. There will be Mashed Potatoes, Green Bean Casserole, Macaroni Salad, Pumpkin pie, and whatever my sister in law, and nieces bring.

Pretty traditional. I have always thought about mixing it up a bit and doing something totally different that the traditional Thanksgiving fare, but no one else is on board with me!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Sounds great, Darlene.

I decided to make a little change. I saw Ina Garten do a rub on her turkey -- garlic, rosemary, thyme, rosemary, mustard, sage, salt, pepper, and olive oil.

Have a great Thanksgiving!

DD · 11-24-2011, 07:47 AM

Darlene, those rolls sound heavenly!!! I seem to remember you said you would come here and make those for me sometime.

**scooterbug44** · 11-24-2011, 10:45 AM

Originally Posted by Beach Runner

Okay, so here's an unusual Thanksgiving menu. Hubby's sister in Wisconsin is preparing trout, shrimp, and lobster for Thanksgiving. No turkey.

That is only acceptable if they are allergic to turkey!

**Iris** · 11-25-2011, 10:10 AM

Very traditional and I really don't want to see any leftovers....tried giving the neighbors all of them to take home.

Breakfast:
Bacon
Eggs cooked with Herbes de Provence

Afternoon Meal:
Roasted Turkey
Honey Roasted Ham outside on the grill
Buttermilk Cornbread Dressing
Homemade gravey with mushroom(forgot the oysters in the fridge)
Peas and onions (out of a can!)
Pistachio Salad
Fresh whole cranberry sauce
Sweet Potato Souflle
Yeast Rolls (sister's)
Pecan Pie (first one I ever cooked and easy)

Of course Bloody Mary's and wine.

After Texas beat TAM, had a small yeast roll with a tad of ham.

**Beach Runner** · 11-25-2011, 11:16 AM

Originally Posted by scooterbug44

That is only acceptable if they are allergic to turkey!

It's kind of weird to me too. No turkey allergies. She's a vegetarian. But maybe she's a vegetarian who doesn't eat things that walk on land?

Thanksgiving dinner at our home was a great success. All of the fresh herbs really add a lot to my cooking. The family was anxious to take home leftovers. Heck, they bring their own plastic containers. LOL.

Hope that you all had the satisfaction of people enjoying your hard work. Very gratifying.