View Full Version : What makes Thanksgiving dinner for you?
A traditional dinner varies based on who you're talking to. Ethnicity, religion, geography and plenty of other things play a part. Growing up in Baltimore, sauerkraut cooked with pigs tails was standard fare, they even served sauerkraut with turkey for school lunch. When I lived in the south most stuffing was made with cornbread. Now that I'm firmly settled in New Mexico I cook plenty of holiday posole and red chile so my wife's family feels at home. The worst Thanksgiving dinner I ever had was with my ex-wife's family. They were Wisconsonites. Dry turkey, boiled red cabbage, stuffing with nuts and raisins. I'm thinking much of the problem was them being bad cooks more than them being from Wisconsin.
Any unusual traditions, things you miss, things you have hated about Thanksgiving?
cdcox
11-23-2006, 12:01 AM
Cinnamon rolls in the morning.
Dinner:
Turkey
Sausage stuffing
Mashed Potatoes (my wife's are the best in the universe, bar none)
Gravy
Sweet potatoes
Green beans cooked in bacon and onions
Cranberry sauce
A bottle of Shiraz
Pumpkin Pie
Real whipped cream
Pretty traditional, but very well done.
Bowser
11-23-2006, 12:03 AM
Turkey dinner has flamed out around our house. Steak and shrimp is the new fare, with most of the old traditional sides. Kind of strange, but it works.
Archie F. Swin
11-23-2006, 12:09 AM
dressing
gravy
lots and lots of gravy
cdcox
11-23-2006, 12:15 AM
dressing
gravy
lots and lots of gravy
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KurtCobain
11-23-2006, 12:16 AM
It's all about the mashed taters. We've had a turkeyday dinner put on hold for two hours do to a tater crisis. Couldn't find an open store with decent potatoes after ours were found rotten.
so...taters. with gravy. and turkey. but mainly taters.
cdcox
11-23-2006, 12:19 AM
It's all about the mashed taters. We've had a turkeyday dinner put on hold for two hours do to a tater crisis. Couldn't find an open store with decent potatoes after ours were found rotten.
so...taters. with gravy. and turkey. but mainly taters.
?
Yeah, I'm thinking no matter what else you like to eat the mashed taters and gravy are important......or at least the gravy......taters are a wonderful gravy conduit.
KurtCobain
11-23-2006, 12:20 AM
?
That image made me feel dirty.
cdcox
11-23-2006, 12:25 AM
That image made me feel dirty.
It should. Our potatoes are still in the gound, surrounded by a natural encapsulment of methane. I'll go out tomorrow mornig at day break, and pull three random potatoes from the blessed mother earth. I'll present them to our savant goat. If he turns his nose at more than one of them, we'll fast forward to St. Patricks day. I've got corned beef and cabbage standing by just in case of such an emergency.
KurtCobain
11-23-2006, 12:29 AM
It should. Our potatoes are still in the gound, surrounded by a natural encapsulment of methane. I'll go out tomorrow mornig at day break, and pull three random potatoes from the blessed mother earth. I'll present them to our savant goat. If he turns his nose at more than one of them, we'll fast forward to St. Patricks day. I've got corned beef and cabbage standing by just in case of such an emergency.
You're a true man.
Chiefs Pantalones
11-23-2006, 12:58 AM
I just eat turkey, green beans, and cottage cheese. With a glass of water.
I piss my family off, lol.
But I have to keep my abs.
Bowser
11-23-2006, 01:01 AM
I just eat turkey, green beans, and cottage cheese. With a glass of water.
I piss my family off, lol.
But I have to keep my abs.
Your abs aren't going anywhere. Under the heaps of extra bodyfat I carry, I have the body of a world class triathlete.
Chiefs Pantalones
11-23-2006, 01:08 AM
Your abs aren't going anywhere. Under the heaps of extra bodyfat I carry, I have the body of a world class triathlete.
LOL, awesome
Imon Yourside
11-23-2006, 01:10 AM
It's all about the yams baby, and then for dessert i may throw in a little turkey as a sleep remedy.
Chiefs Pantalones
11-23-2006, 01:11 AM
Is that true? Turkey has never made me sleepy.
Imon Yourside
11-23-2006, 01:17 AM
Is that true? Turkey has never made me sleepy.
ya i forget what the ingredient is, but it has been researched and proven to be true.
Is that true? Turkey has never made me sleepy.
That's because you didn't eat a pile of potatoes, gravy and stuffing bigger than your head. I'd suspect you also didn't drink any beer or wine before/with your dinner. And you likely passed on the pumpkin pie and banana pudding......but hey, how was the cottage cheese?
I admire your restraint, but why?
Bugeater
11-23-2006, 01:28 AM
The one memory that really stands out for me is when I was in my early teens we went to my uncle's farm and slaughtered our own Thanksgiving turkeys. That was very enlightening to say the least.
Bugeater
11-23-2006, 01:31 AM
ya i forget what the ingredient is, but it has been researched and proven to be true.
It's called tryptophan, but carbohydrate overload can be a factor as well.
Abba-Dabba
11-23-2006, 01:31 AM
Smoked turkey
Cream cheese corn
Diced potatoes mixed in cheese, bacon, and onions
Warm hawaiian dinner rolls
Baked sweet potatoes drenched in butter and maple syrup
Cornbread stuffing
I always take a pass at dessert.
Abba-Dabba
11-23-2006, 01:35 AM
I didn't used to like cottage cheese. Now I mix in alittle taco seasoning and chopped green onions. Fanfuggintastic.
Chiefs Pantalones
11-23-2006, 01:37 AM
That's because you didn't eat a pile of potatoes, gravy and stuffing bigger than your head. I'd suspect you also didn't drink any beer or wine before/with your dinner. And you likely passed on the pumpkin pie and banana pudding......but hey, how was the cottage cheese?
I admire your restraint, but why?
Like I mentioned, I gotta keep my abs.
Really, I'm fit and in shape. I don't cheat the program I'm on. The only thing I'm doing that I feel kind of bad about is that I took this week off, as far as working out goes, to rest my body. I haven't had time off in that case in a lonnnggg time. And it's nice. But I don't wanna break my eating habits, so I will stay with what I usually eat or close to it.
Imon Yourside
11-23-2006, 01:50 AM
It's called tryptophan, but carbohydrate overload can be a factor as well.
Thank you for that, i heard it a couple of days ago but couldn't remember the name.
Nzoner
11-23-2006, 01:55 AM
Too many things to list but a few favs are my aunt's homemade dinner rolls,the mrs' green bean casserole made with cream of mushroom soup,the mrs' chocolate pie with chocolate graham cracker crust and lastly my absolute fav the homemade stuffing.
listopencil
11-23-2006, 02:24 AM
It's all about the potatoes. Mashed. Twice-baked ones make the table as well, but you have to have the mashed.
Ummmm, football? Chiefs football!!! Oh and mashed donkey on the side.
HemiEd
11-23-2006, 02:53 AM
Mashed Potatoes and Giblet Gravy. The Giblet Gravy is the most important part of the meal next to the turkey.
greg63
11-23-2006, 03:03 AM
What makes Thanksgiving dinner for you?
Food.
JBucc
11-23-2006, 05:14 AM
Alls of it
BucEyedPea
11-24-2006, 04:07 PM
Mine is traditional but begins with a favorite from New England.
I had it here this year.
A lobster bisque topped with generous chunks of real lobster.
A field green salad with chopped pear, goat cheese, walnuts with raspberry-walnut vinaigrette dressing.
An organic free-range turkey with herbed bread stuffing.
Gravy ( came out real moist)
Whole Berry Cranberry sauce
Butternut squash lightly sweetened with real maple syrup and nutmeg plus butter.
Organic
Mashed potatoes with gravy.
Organic, mashed with their skins still on.
Steamed green beans with sliced mushrooms; served in minced garlic-butter
White Wine, Cranberry Juice or organic natural cider; Coffee
Choice of pies: pumpkin, pecan ( no time to make an apple this year)
All organic ingredients served with organic whipped cream sweetened with honey.
htismaqe
11-24-2006, 04:10 PM
Mine is traditional but begins with a favorite from New England.
I had it here this year.
A lobster bisque topped with generous chunks of real lobster.
A field green salad with chopped pear, goat cheese, walnuts with raspberry-walnut vinaigrette dressing.
An organic free-range turkey with herbed bread stuffing.
Gravy ( came out real moist)
Whole Berry Cranberry sauce
Butternut squash lightly sweetened with real maple syrup and nutmeg plus butter.
Organic
Mashed potatoes with gravy.
Organic, mashed with their skins still on.
Steamed green beans with sliced mushrooms; served in minced garlic-butter
White Wine, Cranberry Juice or organic natural cider; Coffee
Choice of pies: pumpkin, pecan ( no time to make an apple this year)
All organic ingredients served with organic whipped cream sweetened with honey.
Goddamn hippies.
BucEyedPea
11-24-2006, 04:12 PM
Goddamn hippies.
ROFL I hadda feeling someone would think that.
I'm not really. And it all looks like regular fare...just tastier and more natural.
PS I never tell anyone that the pumpkin pie is made with silken tofu and real maple syrup until AFTER they eat it...they can't tell at all and like it a lot more.
I miss my grandma's homemade noodles. I don't care much for turkey gravy. I was spoiked having her noodles to put on my mashed potatoes as a kid.
greg63
11-25-2006, 12:05 PM
I miss my grandma's homemade noodles. I don't care much for turkey gravy. I was spoiked having her noodles to put on my mashed potatoes as a kid.
...Sounds painful. :p
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