Spiced Cajun Turkey
Mesquite smoked rib eyes
Black forrest ham
Tossed salad
7 layer salad
3 bean salad
Pan fried yellow plantains
Pan fried green plantains
Pan fried yams
Creamed pearl onions
Green bean and onion ring casserole
Cucumbers and onions in cream and vinegar
Mom's cranberry sauce
Mom's rain gravy
Spicy cajun gravy
Mashed taters with garlic, rosemary, and fennel
Creamed corn
Mom's apple pie
Mom's pecan pie
Rhubarb pie
Sweet potato pie
Fresh fruit
Open bar non alcohol and alcohol.

Ham, mashed taters with gravy, green bean casserole, pumpkin crunch (pumpkin pie meets cheesecake).
Save me a slice of that pecan pie Spey!

Turkey
Stuffing
Taters
Some veggie or two
Some yam pie with marshmallows thingy (I think it's a New England thing, I don't remember it being part of any meal in WI)
Some other pie or two
Nap
Football
Homework

Don't really know of anything noteworthy beyond that but it will be simple since there will prolly only be about 6 of us. I'm not the main chef, just a participant. So far my only assigned duties are to peel the taters for cooking and mashing but I'll prolly get rooked into doing something else.

Roast turkey (Willie Bird organic free range from Sonoma)
Stuffing
Mashed potatoes
Gravy
Green bean casserole
Yeast rolls
Apple pie

Walt pinot noir


I’ll make turkey pot pies from the leftovers since it will just be three people.

Prime rib
Stuffing
Mixed veggies
Ice cream

I make a mean stuffing... and I don't need no stinkin' turkey to stuff it into, neither!

me too...I make a stuffing casserole that I cook up in a dish, and do not put any into a turkey. I put aromatic herbs and veggies into the bird...




Thanksgiving dinner will be a collaborative effort, thankfully...in years past I did all the cooking and finally griped about it last year...

Roast turkey with a couple extra thighs, since most of my family, especially my wife, prefer dark meat (guess that's why she was attracted to me in the first place)...me
Honeybaked ham...sister bringing
Chinese chicken pan fried noodles...sister bringing for the grand daughters
stuffing casserole...me
mashed potatoes...me...SIL's mom's fave
turkey gravy from scratch...me
green bean casserole...my SIL's mother will bring
cranberry sauce...daughter making from fresh berries
two kinds of pumpkin pie...daughter's fluffy recipe and SIL's mom's traditional recipe

Turkey
Stuffing...in the bird
Mashed taters
Roasted Butternut Squash
Creamed Pearl Onions
corn
peas
gravy
cranberry sauce
some snacks for the games(3-2-1 Dip...like crack,not BUTT, just addictive)

Having a BOTL from my local shop , who's alone for the 1st time since his wife died, over for dinner and football...


Hope you all have the best Turkey Day possible🍺 🍺 🍺

Menu was pretty much set two weeks ago.

Ordered from Chef Chai’s Pacifica restaurant:

Naked Jumbo Black Tiger Prawns made with a Lemongrass Garlic Vinaigrette
Soup - Roasted Kabocha Pumpkin and Lobster Bisque
Entree - Roasted Turkey with Thai Sticky Rice, chestnut stuffing, giblet gravy, young French long beans, baby carrot and cranberry apricot chutney
Dessert - Chocolate cake with pumpkins mousse and French berries.

Daughter is gonna make mashed potatoes
SIL doing his Green Bean Casserole using a recipe from a h.s. classmate of mine
Son is bringing fresh poke and Hamachi for sashimi
Wife is gonna make cranberry jello and Pumpkin Surprise for dessert

I was hesitant about ordering the meal since I genuinely like turkey and the leftover meals afterwards. I fear there won’t be enough turkey to last 4-5 days.

Just the wife and I this year - we’ll see the kid Saturday.

Turkey, Ham, stuffing, green beans, Crudite (that’s a veggie plate with ranch), mashed potato with garlic and parsley.
French bread - but also Burn-N-Serve roles (tradition)
Punkin pie with whipped cream.
Chardonnay and Pinot noir
Cognac and Scotch



Hope all you boys have a great one!

Hah, HD, we are pouring Walt Bob's Ranch, and Flowers Meeting Camp Ridge for Pinot Noirs. We are also pouring Seghesio Home Ranch, and Deaver Vinyards Old Vine for Red Zinfandels.

Best how-to-make stuffing video, evah!

We’ll be having a few Walt and Dutton Goldfield Pinots for certain!

Pinot has become my standard Thanksgiving wine. The daughter has got into petite Syrah so I’ll have a bottle on hand.

22.5 lb Texas Turkey aka brisket, 10lb pork shoulder, 15lb and 17lb cajun fried turkeys, 8 gallons of jambalaya. One of the turkeys will be replacing the chicken in my 10gal jambalaya pot. =p~

four of us this year, which is double last year...

turkey
stuffing
mashed
gravy
roasted butternut and carnival squashes
roasted Brussels sprouts
green bean casserole
cranberry sauce of some kind (for color)
desserts (supplied by the others)

Les Rocailles Rose 2019 (French Alps)
Coteaux Bourguignons Gamay-Pinot Noir 2018 (I'll give it a little chill)

who you hosting...Mexico?
Dat's a ton of food bro!

Only 12 people but we want leftovers. 😁

Prolly turkey and ham with all the tryical stuff, at our oldest son'e MIL's house. My coffee and my wife's yam dish too.

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Just feast on the blessings that the LORD bestowed upon us, and his love, grace, we share with our families and friends.

interestingly (at least to me) is that we have no word in English for the parents of our married children's spouses...does that make sense?

In Yiddish, my married daughter's in-laws are called our machatunim...the "im" makes it plural, the "ch" is pronounced as if you are clearing a pube from your throat...ma-cha-Tun-im

I'm gud wif wirds.

Beer for today.

Centennial IPA
Rubeaus
Back Woods ****
KPA Cinnamon Vanilla Cacao