Thanksgrubbing - What's On the Menu?

First of all, there's got to be enough dark meat to go around. Or sauce basted white meat with some spice jumpin' off.

Favorite side dish: Macaroni, baked with the crunchy tops and corners. Several oven mitt gauntlets have been thrown down in the family over macaroni corners. :mad:

Beyond that though....the fights really come over the Sweet Potato Pies! Pumpkin pie gets no play up in our fam. Have to be down with SPP.

Other treats are roast duck (personal favorite), deer (yes, my Granddad and uncles shoot Bambi...and Thumper), rabbit (good, just watch the bones). Deer is also good for venison sausage!! Magnificent with chilled beer (Heinekin...just keep the bathroom free).

Last but not least, the hub upon which the table turns, ...Collard Greens! If there are no collards we might as well not eat.

Not to forget: Thanks for being this fortunate with the bounty above.
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Well...first and foremost Turkey. I'm like the father in Christmas Story, I spend most of the year dreaming of Thanksgiving and Christmas turkey...so much so that I usually cook one in July. I probably pack away about 2 lbs of it at each sitting. I can't get enough. White meat, dark meat, skin...I'm an equal oppertunity devourer when it comes to turkey.

Sides? To be honest, I'm a simple man...to me, sides are just plate decorations for the turkey. Sure, there's the usual suspects...mashed potatos, biscuts, green beans...I have a few bites of them all and then head back to the bird. I do have a few favorites like sauted green beans with bacon and red pepper...and a favorite from my wife's side of the family, pink jello made with cool whip and frozen strawberries that's whipped until it's a fluffy goop, but if they weren't there, I wouldn't mourn the loss.

***Edited out tangent about the side of pity that will ultimately come with this Thanksgiving's meal***
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Turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy, sweet potatoes with little marshmallows on top, these special kind of Sunshine dinner rolls, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, pecan pie...sometimes we throw in corn (for digestion). Edit in...devilled eggs. They're like a family staple for every holiday.

The drama over our Thanksgiving dinners is always over whether or not we actually have this traditional spread or not and who squawks over it. Mom loves to cook and usually every year she wants to try a new recipie that she's found on FoodTV for one of the things mentioned up there. Either it's cornbread and cranberry and pecan stuffing instead of the normal junk or homemade whole cranberry sauce instead of the jellied canned stuff. Occasionally she'll try to substitute something for something bizarre like a pea salad (barf). One year, she bought a turkey breast instead of an entire bird. I was scandalized.

If anybody's seen Stouffer's commercial for like, instant dressing, and knows the cranky old lady who snarks at the end, "What's next, Thanksgiving in a box!?" I've been accused of being that lady. Mom made the accusation with glee.

However, this year Mom's started working full time as a sous-chef in a tea house, and I have been grocery shopping, planning and cooking meals for the family, and prodding Dad into eating on the weekends.

I believe that leaves Thanksgiving under my jurisdiction this year.

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As a side note, my favorite thing to eat on Thanksgiving is the stuffing that has been cooked inside the bird. I could just eat that like...forever.
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Normally, Thanksgiving for me would be spent at my parents, or my grandmothers house.

In those days It was all about the bird, how the bird got cooked, and getting some of it, of course when our family would get together, they'd really get together, we'd always have a humongous turkey, and a good size ham with the pineapples on the outside with brown sugar (yum!) LOTs of creamy mashed potatoes, deviled eggs, baked macaroni and cheese, green beens, some kinda greens(kale or collard greens), Turkey gravy, ham gravy, and our family recipe for cole slaw (I know their doesn't seem to be much to this side, but when it's made like we make it, well damn!) their are multiple logs of cranberry sauce (the canned variety, usually ocean spray:P) sweet potato, pumpkin, chocolate, and apple pies, my grandmothers secret recipe chocolate cake(/drool).

Well the last 2 years and this one upcoming, I'll be going to my wife's mothers house for thanksgiving, things are simpler their, not as much food, not as many people(which is good it's own way), but still inviting.

their's no ham, ham gravy, cranberry sauce, SPP, cole slaw, greens, chocopie, or grandma's cake, But it's doable... I guess...
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Deviled Eggs!!! I forgot about those! AHHRRRrr! Damn, this thread's making me hungry as a hostage.

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Keer wrote:Deviled Eggs!!! I forgot about those! AHHRRRrr! Damn, this thread's making me hungry as a hostage.

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It's making me hungry, and I just ate breakfast like an hour ago. (Hamchop and hashbrowns.)

As a side note, this morning Mom and I postured and butted heads like antelope on the savanna...and it's not really clear who will be doing the majority of the cooking come Thursday, but we'll both be in the kitchen. Probably with flaring nostrils and pawing hooves and snapping towels at each other.

Though, we both find it pretty funny and make a joke out of it. I drew a cartoon of us with...wait for it...antelope horns and snorting steam out of our nostrils on the grocery list, and we had a laugh.

Dad's steering clear. /snerk
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Deep fried turkey, home-made mashed tater's with a little bit of cream cheese mixed right in, broccoli casserole with crumbled up crackers and a layer of cheese baked right on top of it, pie pie and more pie...

These are a few of my favorite things.
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Krusshyk wrote: broccoli casserole with crumbled up crackers and a layer of cheese baked right on top of it.
Damn...I forgot I like that side dish too...not as much as the turkey, but I like it.
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Dwilah wrote:
As a side note, this morning Mom and I postured and butted heads like antelope on the savanna...

...but we'll both be in the kitchen. Probably with flaring nostrils and pawing hooves and snapping towels at each other.

....I drew a cartoon of us with...wait for it...antelope horns and snorting steam out of our nostrils on the grocery list, and we had a laugh.
LOL! I have seen this before. Grandma vs. The Aunts! Can't wait for that 'toon. Sounds like a good one for the family scrapbook. I'm sure that scene has some sort of commercial application.

"This week on the Food Network/Animal Planet/Discovery Channel...Domestic Diva Smackdown!!!" :D
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Hmmm, maybe I'll make Paprikash.

Black Friday starts at 3 AM so I can be at work by 4. Don't want to spend the day before working my tail off in the kitchen. If the other two want turkey, et al, they can take me out to dinner.
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Keer wrote:Deviled Eggs!!! I forgot about those! AHHRRRrr! Damn, this thread's making me hungry as a hostage.

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Dude I just went out and bought sweet potatoes... baked one and ate it.

Talk about a thread affecting you! :P
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Well, I'm spending Thanksgiving alone this year as my family is flying back to IL for the holiday =( I'm not very big on turkey but maybe I just haven't had it prepared in the right way. My mom's turkey always comes out a bit dry and I find myself thirsty. We usually have lots of side dishes! My favorites include cranberries, mashed potatoes, green bean caserole(green beans, cream of mushroom soup, and crunchy onion things on top) rolls, cream corn.

Don't forget about desert! We usually have cake, pumpkin pie and pecan pie.

For this year, Boston Market and booze..
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Illbleed wrote:For this year, Boston Market and booze..
Is that so bad? I'm not so sure. :)

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My brother is getting married next summer so this year Thanksgiving is at his house with my mom bringing the turkey and her mom bringing the ham. I'm wondering if there's gonna be some competition here. Me, I volunteered to bring the green bean casserole and some corn and a dessert. Haven't decided what that should be yet...Maybe I'll just run to Bakers Square for a tripleberry pie...

As far as what's good to eat? EVERYTHING. Except the jello stuff - I'll pass.
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