What's on your menu for Thanksgiving?

[homemaker carol]

We've already had our Thanksgiving, however I'm interested to see what's on your menu for Thanksgiving dinner. And do you have the large meal for lunch or for dinner?

[Sara]

Not sure when we'll eat. Probably around 3 or 4. We bought a huge turkey this year. It was on a good sale and I plan on using every last bit of it. LOL

We have the standard fare and nothing funky.
turkey
mashed potatoes
sweet potatoes
butternut squash
corn
dinner rolls
gravy
candied carrots
stuffing
homemade cranberry sauce

desserts we have pie
appetizers we have cheese, summer sausage, crackers, fruits, raw veggies and dip

We wouldn't have the squash or sweet potatoes if it wasn't for me. I wanted to make cole slaw but don't feel up to it when again it's something only I like. LOL

[Sara]

Gosh we eat a lot of veggies. LOL
Gabe picked up white yams. I've never had them. This could be interesting.

[AmyBoz]

We are having:

Turkey
Corn
Corn muffins
Mashed Potatoes
Sauteed Mushrooms
I may make homemade biscuits. We'll see. :)

Dessert:
Apple Pie
Cherry Pie

Pretty simple and basic, but comforting and yummy, and definitely enough to put us all in a coma for the rest of the day.

We eat around 2ish and my parents are coming over.

[Michelle]

We are going to my sil's, so the only things I know we are having for certain (because she mentioned it on the phone yesterday) are turkey, mashed potatoes, veggie crudite, and a fruit platter. My sil requested that I make sunshine cake (vanilla cake mix w/mandarin oranges...frosting is Cool Whip w/vanilla pudding mix and crushed pineapple. I made it for Easter, and even though it's easy and more of a spring/summer dessert, she insists that I make it :lol:

I may make a chocolate cream pie to bring too. Will see if Dave wants that since he likes it so much. :chef:

[Sara]

I noticed on FV, a lot of people make cranberry relish. I might try that for Christmas. I think my kids would like it.

[homemaker carol]

They mentioned cranberry relish on Oprah yesterday and if you go to her site, the recipe is suppose to be there.

[Sara]

Thanks. Most seem to be cranberries, apples and oranges. :)

I am baking the white yams right next to the sweet potatoes. Everything I can find on them online says they're more like regular potatoes.

[homemaker carol]

I've never ate them nor sweet potatoes. Interesting they have white ones because I seen white pumpkins this year called "ghost pumpkins". Wonder what they tasted like cooked up.

[Sara]

Well, the white yams tasted exactly like regular sweet potatoes. We have a lot of leftover sweet potatoes. LOL

[Michelle]

I love sweet potatoes. I just bake them, mash them w/a little butter, s & p....so good.

Sweet potatoes were Kathryn's very first solid food (other than the baby rice cereal). She LOVED them. Didn't really like them for a few years after that, and now she loves them again.

[Sara]

I love them too and that's how I make mine, too. I was so happy that Zachary ate some sweet potatoes and butternut squash this year. It was great. First year he's tried them on his own and said he liked them.

Earlier in the day, the kids walked into the kitchen as Gabe had his hand shoved into the turkey cavity to pull out the "parts" and the kids were all in shock. I guess they just never saw an uncooked turkey or anyone reaching into one before. They were all saying they weren't going to eat any turkey. LOL It was just so funny. Nothing says Happy Thanksgiving like the memory of your dad's hand shoved up a turkey's butt.

[Michelle]

too funny :laugh:

[homemaker carol]

Now that's funny.