I hope everybody has a great holiday with family and friends.
If you feel up to it, please post your favorite Thanksgiving tradition / food in the comments.
My favorite Thanksgiving food is pumpkin pie, or — even better — pecan pumpkin pie. Unfortunately, by the time we get to the pies I’m often too full to enjoy it. I need to eat the pie first!
Same good wishes to you.
Favorite tradition is to make an apple pie using a crust recipe handed down from my mother. Combine the crust ingredients the night before and bake it the day of. Off to do that now.
Love the whole panoply of Thanksgiving dishes.
My favorite is a homemade cranberry sauce I’ve been making for a couple of decades since I came across the recipe in a magazine. My daughters now make it for their in-laws, who give it good reviews, so it’s become a pretty solid family tradition. Even though I make ham and not turkey for Thanksgiving, it’s still a necessity on the table.
I always liked the part where everyone dresses in black.
Seriously though, I pretty much liked the standard Turkey (especially the white meat) and dressing. Sweet potatoes (or yams?) are alright. Along with those I prefer a conventional vegetable (e.g. green beans). Pumpkin pie is okay, with coffee of course, but I’ve never been a dessert freak. The other stuff (e.g. cranberry whatever and weird salads) ain’t my cup of tea.
When I was living with my parents I used to hate all that stupid football stuff blaring on the TV while I was trying to read.
I haven’t had a Thanksgiving dinner in a long time through. Where I live you can get that at some restaurants and hotels, but it is way overpriced.
Same to you and yours! We have our Thanksgiving a month ago north of the border, but our traditions are broadly similar. We eat most of the same foods, watch football (CFL in our case, although not everyone’s a fan), etc. People are less likely to travel long distances to spend time with family, though. It’s not quite as big a deal up here.
Google suggests that our pumpkin pies are less sweet but spicier than those from south of the border, though, so I think that’s a win for us.
Drove 250 miles to my daughter’s house near Dallas. Was nice not having to fix Thanksgiving dinner in my home for the first time in 10+ years. I was impressed at how well my daughter did fixing it for the first time. Her mother has absolutely zero culinary skills. She can make about 4 or 5 dishes, and when I say dishes, that’s really narrowing it down since she can’t fix more than one at a time. My daughter fixed about 7 dishes so I guess she inherited her culinary skills from me.
There really isn’t one Thanksgiving dish I like more than the others. It’s more the experience of them together. Separately, more of them are more like mehhhh… Pumpkin pie feels like Thanksgiving, but I’d not choose it ever if I was out for dinner and was given a choice of dessert.
Until becoming a married adult, Thanksgiving was a hit or miss holiday. Sometimes we’d gather and have a great smorgasbord and other times it was very low key. During both smorgasbord and low key occasions stuffing, turkey and cranberry sauce were staple menu items. Interesting thing, as much as we all loved cranberry sauce, it would usually be forgotten until after the meal. It would be consumed with leftovers following the holiday. These days, there’s debate over Ocean Spray canned cranberry sauce or homemade. Both work for me but other family members have more perceptive palates.