Thanksgiving Dinner!

[Lady of Longbourn]

Who is having thanksgiving and what you making?? Anything special? New?

Going to visit family?

 

[atl22]

Having a delayed T-Day on Saturday so more family can visit from NorCal. Typical T-Day menu with the big bird, stuffing, homemade sweet potato pie, roasted brussel sprouts (my fave), string beans, mashed potatoes , yams with marshmallow, pumpkin pie, etc.

It's a mixed family (Mexican and Chinese - gotta love California) so I'm making homemade chicken tamales, chicken mole, and some enchiladas. There will be some Dim Sum, too. Oh, yeah, and homemade Sonoran salsa, slow-roasted for hours.

 

[ISupportHer]

Typical for us too, Turkey, etc. Won't have a lot over though. Kids and their families going elsewhere but all getting together for desserts in the evening

 

[Jawn]

My wife's mother said last year that she was done hosting Thanksgiving, so my wife's youngest sister is hosting this year. They are fixing a bird, ham, and stuffing. Everyone else is bringing "something" with no set menu, but I'm sure we'll have a bunch side dishes and desserts. I am making my wife's grandmothers appetizer recipe for spinach balls. They are spinach balls with chicken stuffing, garlic, eggs, and Parmesan cheese mixed in and baked. Very yummy. I think I am the only one that has made them since she passed 8 yrs ago, but everyone recognizes them and they disappear fast! My wife is making a peanut butter chocolate pie.

There will be about 30 people there and we will all leave waddling like ducks because of all we eat. :)

 

[ISupportHer]

LOL, OK, MY opinion but:

Spinach balls and roasted brussel sprouts? :(

;) to each their own, of course. My son-in-law is of Italian descent and when my daughter went to his parents, it was a huge gathering with mostly pasta dishes. It's not WHAT you eat, or don't eat for that matter. It's the giving thanks and being with family as you can.

Was going to say this maybe in another thread but my friends here will be a part of my Thanksgiving again this year as I pause for a silent acknowledgment of the importance of our sharing here. I stop and will give thanks for many individuals here but also for the forum collectively. Also a remembrance or acknowledgment that some here will find the holiday stressful. Some with stress from presence of a lot of family and perhaps some stressed by the absence of family. And a host of other reasons.

ISH

 

[anni]

Two turkeys, one over-cooked because my sister is doing it and we're all too polite to tell her she can't cook ( so eat it and smile and nod ), my Mom's stuffing she won't tell anyone how it's done ( heaven, too ), gallons of gravy, string beans with almonds, I'm taking home made rolls, Ginger Bread Men and cupcakes, my son will bring his homemade beer ( also gallons ), a tofu nightmare of some sort for my vegetarian son, mashed potatoes, yams, and roasted onions.

Probably 25 people, I think, the most important being my grandson, at least he and I both think so.

 

[Jade-]

Everyone's meals/plans so far sound really good and like alot of fun.

I will be driving for an hour to pick my youngest son up from the halfway house. He is getting an 8 hour pass. Instead of spending the whole day stressing and worrying about what he may do when he isn't in my sight, I'm going to focus on the main thing....he's alive. And I am thankful for that.

My other 2 sons may or may not be here. If dinner is at 6, I have to tell my middle son it's at 2, because he is always running about 4 hours late. My oldest son may forget that it's Thanksgiving at all. He may show up the next day. But I may get lucky this year and they both may actually show up....on time and on the right day.;)

I do plan on cooking a turkey, stuffing, all the usual things. Dinner will be ready when the house is full of smoke or when we hear the smoke alarms....hopefully we hear the alarms before we see the smoke this time.

I do like Thanksgiving though. It's my favorite holiday. I always manage to find something to be thankful for, no matter what is going on in my life.

 

[cherryblossom]

When is Thanksgiving? It all sounds great! I like the sound of those spinach balls Jawn, they sound yummy! And I love ginger bread men!! I hope y'all have fun :D

 

[Lady of Longbourn]

I do like Thanksgiving though. It's my favorite holiday. I always manage to find something to be thankful for, no matter what is going on in my life.

Mine too! I've been through so much shit, its nice to have a holiday to be thankful for things instead of material goods. ( my father loves Christmas for that reason, he WANTS)

 

[Lady of Longbourn]

it posted before I was ready ( no idea what I pressed).

Cherryblossom, its on the 4th Thursday in November. So the 25th this year.

I'm planning on the usually turkey dinner. My favorite part of smells the turkey cooking all day. Then finally sitting down for dinner, haven't eaten all day. My husband is already worried that I was start panicking. He's already trying to find places we can eat at if it all goes wrong. lol Surprised he's not asking for Indian food to go with it. But I guess a big turkey for him to eat sounds perfect to him. And our cats!

Grateful for our daily bread kinda of thing.

 

[kers]

I am going out to eat with my family at a restaurant. Generally I oppose that sort of thing, because I think nobody should have to work on a holiday. But it will make it easier to deal with the PTSD triggers, so I am all for it.

Afterwards I plan to come home and have a large glass of wine. And maybe some Dutch apple pie, ooh, that's a good idea.

 

[cherryblossom]

Cherryblossom, its on the 4th Thursday in November. So the 25th this year.

Ok, thanks. Is it a national holiday? And Friday too? Is Thanksgiving celebrated anywhere else other than USA? Canada?
Sorry to sound really ignorant :oops: Just curious.