So, what is your Thanksgiving meal going to be?

[mjr]

In my immediate family, the three of us, our Thanksgiving "tradition" is to be non-traditional, for the most part.

My wife LOVES to cook the food, and she makes a lot of it from scratch.

The last couple of years, she's done a turkey carbonara roulade.

This year, we're kinda going Greek.

The roulade is going to have Feta in it. She's also making roasted Grecian-style potatoes instead of regular mashers. She's going to make that pumpkin stuff with the marshmallows on it. We're also having ramekin-sized pastichio, and some spanikopita. And she's also making a small amount of pumpkin lasagne for our kiddo.

She's also making a cranberry sauce with a little bit of Gentleman Jack in it (good stuff!), and homemade stuffing.

What's funny is we're not the least bit Greek.

[darkroxas45]

Me and mom are doing ours the day before because of her work. I might cook everything. No clue as to what yet though.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Cold cut sandwiches, stale chips and lukewarm soda, unless management cheaps out. Then I will have to settle for lukewarm bottled water.

[BookstoreEscapee]

We always go to my uncle's. Food is pretty traditional, turkey and all the trimmings.

[Seanette]

I know I'm roasting a turkey, even though it'll just be the two of us, and DH doesn't like turkey. I love that leftover bird, and have ample freezer space to preserve what I can't eat in a reasonable time. I also appreciate how the place smells when turkey stock is brewing from the carcass.

DH will probably want ham, which we have. I don't know about side dishes yet.

[Aragarthiel]

I still haven't decided if I'm going to Hubs's parents' with him or to my mom's alone, since I haven't spent Thanksgiving with my own family in years. The in-laws do a traditional dinner (though always without the necessary, ever-loved mashed potatoes), but pizza is my family's traditional Thanksgiving food. After having no family close enough to invite us over and no money for our own traditional dinner, we started doing pizza and movies.

[darkroxas45]

I know I'm roasting a turkey, even though it'll just be the two of us, and DH doesn't like turkey. I love that leftover bird, and have ample freezer space to preserve what I can't eat in a reasonable time. I also appreciate how the place smells when turkey stock is brewing from the carcass.

DH will probably want ham, which we have. I don't know about side dishes yet.

Can I suggest Corn bread pudding a la Alton Brown?

[BookstoreEscapee]

The in-laws do a traditional dinner (though always without the necessary, ever-loved mashed potatoes)

Blasphemy!

How can you call it traditional if there are no mashed potatoes?

[Sliceanddice]

smoked turkey, maybe cranberry sauce (ive put in a request for lingenberry sauce instead), deviled eggs, meimei's special stuffing, green beans, maybe a salad and aunt kathy said she might do baked sweet potatoes. The boy is on a low carb diet and so far its looking like its going to be 7 of us at the dinner.

Oh did i mention my other aunt has been kind of bitchy already to my mom and she most likely wont be involved. Not cause we won't invite her, but because she one daughter with 6 kids in town, another daughter with 3 kids, a son she bought a house for and a son wo may or may not still be in jail at the time. Our bet is she is going to have dinner with her kids at the house she bought.
In fact i was just about to post this story

[lordlundar]

Sorry, but in my case, it's not a case of "is" so much as "was".

And it was ham, scalloped potatoes, sweet potatoes, mixed veggies, and jelly salad.

[firecat88]

Whether my parents and I eat at our house or go over to Denver to have dinner with my uncle, aunt, and cousins (or they come over here) remains to be seen. Dinner will very probably consist of turkey, homemade cranberry sauce, mashed sweet potatoes, rice, and either cornbread stuffing or just plain ol' cornbread.

Oh, and there will be pie.

[Erinesque]

For our family, this is the first Thanksgiving since my dad died. Traditionally, we've always done a big meal, usually with me cooking. I'd roast a turkey, do my brie in puff pastry with cranberry sauce, squash, pumpkin pie, etc.

This year, as my mom, sister I have discussed, having a large family meal would make us feel sorry for ourselves, and so we've decided to do something vastly different, such as making a meal at the church, to feed the community, rather than sitting around feeling melancholy and missing dad.

[Rodimal]

Papa Murphy's like usual.....My wife works in retail.

[Aragarthiel]

Blasphemy!

How can you call it traditional if there are no mashed potatoes?

That's my question. They've heard enough half-hearted complaints from me about it that I keep thinking maybe this year they'll finally make some, but nope. It never happens.

[EricKei]

The standard spread, most of which will be made by my brother (I try to stop him and let the rest of us cook, of course , but he insists on making his wonderful food...Oh well We'll just have to suffer)...WITH made-from scratch, skin-on mashed potatoes. With plenty of garlic if I have anything to say about it.