Thanksgiving USA (2025)

lilbopeep

lilbopeep

🌹 Still trying to get it right.
This is my tentative menu (which can change at any time LOL)

Appetizers (Lunch)

"Spanakopita" Spinach Pie (8"X8") (Homemade)
Semolina Bread (instead of crackers)
Wine cheese spread
Sopressata
Trader Joe's:
Brie
Smoked cheese
Cave aged Blue Cheese

Entrée (Dinner)

Roasted Turkey
Turkey Gravy (Homemade)
Stuffing (Homemade)
Mashed Yukon potatoes (and Turnip Root)
Green Bean Casserole (Homemade)
Steamed Brussels Sprouts
Sweet Potato Casserole (NO marshmallows)
Jellied Cranberry Sauce - Canned
Creamed Pearl Onions (Homemade)
Cranberry/Tangerine Relish (Homemade)
Dinner rolls - Store-bought

Dessert

Whipped cream (Homemade)
Apple pie (Homemade)
Pumpkin pie (Homemade)

Beverages

Sparkling Cranberry Apple Cider (Non-Alcohol)
Trader Joe's Spiced Apple Cider (Non-Alcohol)
White Wine
Soda
Eggnog (maybe)
 
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I'm working Thanksgiving Eve @ $50 an hour.
Ty and the family will be in the Carolinas again.
Jeff is going to PA to see Kasey the night before, then to his Dad's.

Sometime before actual turkey day, we're all going to Sauder's Barn restaurant and have their holiday meal together.
Jules, Pam and Brian, me, Jeff, Jon, April and whoever else wants to join us.
 
lilbopeep said:
This is my tentative menu (which can change at any time LOL)

Appetizers (Lunch)

"Spanakopita" Spinach Pie (8"X8") (Homemade)
Semolina Bread (instead of crackers)
Wine cheese spread
Sopressata
Trader Joe's:
Brie
Smoked cheese
Cave aged Blue Cheese

Entrée (Dinner)

Roasted Turkey
Turkey Gravy (Homemade)
Stuffing (Homemade)
Mashed Yukon potatoes (and Turnip Root)
Green Bean Casserole (Homemade)
Steamed Brussels Sprouts
Sweet Potato Casserole (NO marshmallows)
Jellied Cranberry Sauce - Canned
Creamed Pearl Onions (Homemade)
Cranberry/Tangerine Relish (Homemade)
Dinner rolls - Store-bought

Dessert

Whipped cream (Homemade)
Apple pie (Homemade)
Pumpkin pie (Homemade)

Beverages

Sparkling Cranberry Apple Cider (Non-Alcohol)
Trader Joe's Spiced Apple Cider (Non-Alcohol)
White Wine
Soda
Eggnog (maybe)
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Whew!

Lee
 
We have two Thanksgiving dinners, Thursday at one of my niece's with my side of the family and Friday at the gun club with the wife's side of the family.

At my niece's, she usually does all the cooking. Now we have as few as 30 people there with the most being 53. When we built her house we included two ovens just for this event. There is 2 refridgerators and 2 kitchen sinks. She is well equiped for the event. We designed the room to handle 70. It is a blast especially seeing folks that you may only once a year. She usually has a ham from the oven and one from the smoker, same with the turkey. Three different kinds of potatos same with the stuffing. Lima beans, brussel sprouts, corn and numerous other dishes.

At the club we never know for sure how many will show up. Could be as few as 10 or many as 30. My wife and her sisiter fix the turkey and ham, whoever shows up brings side dishes and desserts. There is always enough food to feed an army.

We talk of combining the two affairs sometimes, but I don't think it would be as much fun. We have had affairs before where both our families were together but they don't mingle well. I'm the only mingler.lol
 
Has anyone used the NuWave Bravo Oven before? I just got one and would like some easy but good-looking Thanksgiving recipes.
 
For the past few decades I've only hosted Thanksgiving a few times. We usually get invited somewhere. This Thanksgiving we will be in Texas. I have family in various parts of the state. We are going to Austin this year to my middle daughter's house. They are smoking 2 turkeys. We are staying at my sisters house who lives 20 minutes from her. I will make a cold spinach dip (Knorr Swiss) with pumpernickel bread and veggies to dip, plus a non-sweet creamed corn that will finish on the smoker, and 2 whiskey and chocolate pecan pies.
 
Madmantrappper said:
We have two Thanksgiving dinners, Thursday at one of my niece's with my side of the family and Friday at the gun club with the wife's side of the family.

At my niece's, she usually does all the cooking. Now we have as few as 30 people there with the most being 53. When we built her house we included two ovens just for this event. There is 2 refridgerators and 2 kitchen sinks. She is well equiped for the event. We designed the room to handle 70. It is a blast especially seeing folks that you may only once a year. She usually has a ham from the oven and one from the smoker, same with the turkey. Three different kinds of potatos same with the stuffing. Lima beans, brussel sprouts, corn and numerous other dishes.

At the club we never know for sure how many will show up. Could be as few as 10 or many as 30. My wife and her sisiter fix the turkey and ham, whoever shows up brings side dishes and desserts. There is always enough food to feed an army.

We talk of combining the two affairs sometimes, but I don't think it would be as much fun. We have had affairs before where both our families were together but they don't mingle well. I'm the only mingler.lol
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My gun club is doing a wild game feed in December but not sure if that is in lieu of the Christmas party.

My wife and I are on our own for Thanksgiving, first time since we met in 1971. We are going to get a full Thanksgiving meal catered from Metropolitan Market. I’ll let her decide what to get. I’ll probably buy a smoked Turkey leg for myself. Of course we’ll have our own cranberry sauce and pie.
 
Cracker Barrel is open for Thanksgiving and also has take and heat meals. Also Asian restaurants will be open I'm sure, no bad time for Chinese takeout! And I do love Mexican food. I've eaten spaghetti on Thanksgiving before, too.

When I spent Thanksgiving a couple of times with my mom years and years ago when it was just the two of us (usually we went to my oldest brother's house), she made Cornish game hens with a wild rice stuffing one time and a roast chicken and sides another time. I haven't had Cornish game hen in decades. My mom wasn't a great cook for every day meals, but she could make a few elegant dishes and her desserts were amazing.
 
rickismom said:
It will be just me, Buzz and the dogs. Most restaurants around here are Mexican and not open Thanksgiving so not sure what we’ll do
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Just the two of us here too. And MIL, but she doesn't leave the house much, these days. So, I'll make meatloaf, of some kind, on Wednesday. Probably chicken apricot glazed. With that, I'm thinking baked yams and maybe Harvard beets. We'll take a plate of that over to mom on Thursday for her Thanksgiving dinner. Meatloaf is her requested meal, these days.

On Thanksgiving, I think I'll do turkey tenderloins in the sous vide. I'll fancy up some Stove Top stuffing, roast a pan of root veggies. Earlier in the week, I'll make cranberry sauce and a cranberry chutney too. And I'm going to bake some banana bread too. I have a bunch of frozen bananas (DH eats a banana every morning and when they start to get too ripe for his liking, I stick them in the freezer.) For dessert, I'm thinking of buying a couple of pies at Winco. They have Cyrus fruit and pumpkin pie on sale for $3.99! I don't think I can make one for that price...and Cyrus pies are soooooo good! One for mom and one for us.
 
Yep, just Kathy and me. I make the full traditional dinner, as we love it and love the leftovers. But neither of us are dessert eaters so I don't make one.

Lee
 
Ww will be in Texas with family! So glad the government shutdown ended and flights are back on track!

I'll be making my bourbon and chocolate pecan pies for sure.
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