Thanksgiving 2020

lilbopeep

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I have just started planning my Thanksgiving menu. Compiling recipes and creating a shopping list.
There are some new additions to my usual menu. Several are new recipes.

What are your Thanksgiving plans? Have you started thinking about it? :lmao:

I get bored so this gives me something to do.
 

lilbopeep

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Tentative Menu Plans (May change)

(Lots of variety. Small batches of each side dish/appy and a small turkey)

Appetizers

Cream Cheese, Green Olive and Walnuts Poppers
Marinated Mushrooms?
Stuffed Mushrooms?
Shrimp Cocktail

Entrée

Roasted Turkey
Green Bean Casserole (No Mushrooms & No Canned Soup)
Asparagus
Easy Baked Carrots
Creamed Pearl Onions?
Sweet Potato & Acorn Squash
Mashed Turnip Root, Red and Yukon potatoes
Steamed Brussels Sprouts
Stuffing/Dressing
Sautéed mushrooms?
Turkey Gravy (Homemade)
Cranberry/Tangerine Relish (Homemade)
Whole Berry Cranberry Sauce (Homemade)

Dessert

Apple pie
Pumpkin pie
Whipped Cream
Baked Churro Chips & Dips (NEW Recipe)?

Beverages

Soda
Sparkling cranberry apple cider
Trader Joe's Apple Cider
Trader Joe's Egg Nog
 
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SilverSage

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I'll do a turkey breast, with yellow turnip (aka rutabaga, aka swede), Brussels sprouts. I'll make the baked brandied cranberries I got from someone here years ago. Probably no dessert. That will be more than enough food for 2 of us, with leftovers.
 

Embryodad

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Turkey, and I like a 13 to 18 pounder the best.
All the trimmings..... only thing is there will be an pre turkey item.
"LASAGNA"..... / veggies .... five or six different ones.

pumpkin pies..... from scratch
 

lilbopeep

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We don't usually do a pasta course because my DD complains that it's too much. When I was a kid my family/aunts did the soup to nuts holiday meals. I miss those days but mom and all the aunts are gone now. :confused:
 

lilbopeep

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Well I slightly changed the menu. I've done most of the shopping except for the last minute perishable items. I'll finish my shopping on Saturday. And start prepping on Sunday (turkey stock, marinate mushrooms and the cranberry dishes which taste better after a few days).
 

lilbopeep

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Tentative Menu Plans (as of 11/18/2020, still may change after I go shopping on Saturday. Depending on how the vegetables look)

(Lots of variety. Small batches of each side dish/appy and a small turkey)

Appetizers

Cream Cheese, Green Olive and Walnuts Poppers
Marinated Mushrooms
Stuffed Mushrooms ?

Entrée

Roasted Turkey
Green Bean Casserole (No Mushrooms & No Canned Soup)
Asparagus (if they are thin and look good) ?
Easy Baked Carrots
Creamed Pearl Onions
Sweet Potato & Acorn Squash
Mashed Turnip Root, Red and Yukon potatoes
Steamed Brussels Sprouts
Stuffing/Dressing
Sautéed mushrooms ?
Turkey Gravy (Homemade)
Cranberry/Tangerine Relish (Homemade)
Whole Berry Cranberry Sauce (Homemade)

Dessert

Apple pie
Pumpkin pie
Whipped Cream


Beverages

Soda
Sparkling cranberry apple cider
Trader Joe's Honey Crisp Cider
 

Ironman

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Giving my 15# little buddy a brine bath before I smoke him Thursday . :love:
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QSis

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Mark, you are brining your turkey for 3 days??? Have you ever done it that long before?

Lee
 

Sass Muffin

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Only make what you like. AND you can eat in your jammies!!
Not in my jammies, but an old beat up comfy hoodie and jeans. Lol
The turkey will be done around 3.
Stuffing, gravy, Brussels sprouts, cranberry salad and pumpkin pie.
I considered making deviled eggs this morning but nahhh.
Caught some of the parade.
Talked to the kids and grandies.
They've all had a change of plans too.
Jeff is at his friend Jon's place to eat and watch football.
Ty and his fiancee and the girls are sticking close to home as her Mother is at Toledo hospital on a vent with covid.
 

QSis

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Ironman, love the looks of that salad!!

We don't eat until the evening, around 7:00. I've got the special dishes out, the table set and ice packs on the breast of the fresh Butterball turkey. Made the stuffing yesterday. Green beans are blanched, mushrooms sauteed in butter, and those two things will be reheated, tossed together, and topped with the fried onion rings (essentially a green bean casserole without the gunky mushroom soup). "Simply potatoes" (IMO, every bit as good as homemade). I'll make gravy from the turkey drippings, one of the very few times I ever make gravy. Relishes are the traditional olives, celery and cranberry jelly. If anyone wants dessert (no one ever does), I made Toll House cookies.

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lilbopeep

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Thanksgiving Dinner: (Hubs plate) Clockwise from top center steamed Brussels sprouts, creamed onions, turkey, mashed Yukon potatoes & turnip, sweet potato & acorn squash casserole, homemade cranberry & orange relish, homemade cranberry sauce, stuffing and gravy. Glazed carrots & sautéed mushrooms in center.

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QSis

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Tables and dishes look lovely, everyone!

Doc, you could have fed a neighborhood! I suspect Peep could have, too!

Lee
 
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lilbopeep

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Tables and dishes look lovely, everyone!

Doc, you could have fed a neighborhood! I suspect Peep could have, too!

Lee
Thank you.
You always say that. I don't make that much. Lots of variety in small amounts. I actually only make enough for dinner and one additional meal for 4 people. If there is any turkey left I make some soup. This year I had a pretty small turkey. I only saved the breast, legs and wings. The rest went out, we don't like thighs and I made stock from a couple roasted wings before Thanksgiving, so I don't need the bones. Not many leftovers.
 
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