What Kind Of Bird Are You Having For Thanksgiving? (Poll)

[toobfreak]

OK, are you having turkey or something else for your main course? And how will you be making it?
See poll above. Multiple choices allowed.
Also, what are your quintessential side dishes you /must/ have?
For me, they are whole cranberry sauce (not the jellied), stuffing, mash taters with thick gravy, and candied sweet potatoes.

 

[1srelluc]

Since everyone is either dead or working and it's just the wife and I this year, we are going to try Cracker Barrel's Thanksgiving meal.....It comes highly recommended from the locals the wife knows.

I did get a family-sized chicken and dumplings to go with it.....Just because.

 

[Thunk]

With a side of snufalupagus.

 

[toobfreak]

I'm also a big fan of potato salad, baked beans and 3-bean salad.

 

[Auld Phart]

OK, are you having turkey or something else for your main course? And how will you be making it?
See poll above. Multiple choices allowed.
Also, what are your quintessential side dishes you /must/ have?
For me, they are whole cranberry sauce (not the jellied), stuffing, mash taters with thick gravy, and candied sweet potatoes.

only turkeys I'll see are the ones on this forum.

 

[fncceo]

Eagle ...

 

[MarathonMike]

We got a 12 pound store bought. Just the wife, , my oldest son and I. I don't think she puts the stuffing in the bird anymore, I dunno I just baste and carve.

 

[toobfreak]

Since everyone is either dead or working and it's just the wife and I this year, we are going to try Cracker Barrel's Thanksgiving meal.....It comes highly recommended from the locals the wife knows.

I did get a family-sized chicken and dumplings to go with it.....Just because.

I've heard that before--- someone else once told me Cracker Barrel had a good thing going. But I think I only ate "out" once or twice in my life, growing up it was always with relatives on holidays then later when I was married, my wife came from a big family so every holiday, it was always with her folks, brothers and sisters.

Her family made every holiday a three day event (at least).

Christmases became a two month event: (three days at her parents, then every weekend well into January, each brother or sister had another Christmas party over their house as well).

 

[excalibur]

Duck breasts.

 

[Concerned American]

OK, are you having turkey or something else for your main course? And how will you be making it?
See poll above. Multiple choices allowed.
Also, what are your quintessential side dishes you /must/ have?
For me, they are whole cranberry sauce (not the jellied), stuffing, mash taters with thick gravy, and candied sweet potatoes.

I'll be roasting the bird with stuffing and basting until golden brown. I love whole cranberries as well, but we always have a can of jelly too. Mashed taters with giblet gravy. Sides will include yams, green peas and corn and my wife's famous ribbon salad. LOL, and maybe your orange-cranberry cream cheese pie to top it all off!

 

[toobfreak]

We got a 12 pound store bought. Just the wife, , my oldest son and I. I don't think she puts the stuffing in the bird anymore, I dunno I just baste and carve.

That is on the small side. I used to shop at a place where you accrued points with every purchase then come Thanksgiving, you were awarded a certain size bird for free. I usually qualified for something in the 20+ pound range.

I would carve it up and freeze the leftovers then have turkey meals and sandwiches for days. Back in the 70s I was new at a place and the boss was handing out birds to all the employees--- he had a wagon full of frozen birds and he climbed in and came out with one and gave it to me and told me to hang onto it; I said thanks. Turns out it was like a 25 pound bird and I think the boss intended for me to hang onto it for HIM, but he was too polite to take it back.

 

[toobfreak]

I'll be roasting the bird with stuffing and basting until golden brown. I love whole cranberries as well, but we always have a can of jelly too. Mashed taters with giblet gravy. Sides will include yams, green peas and corn and my wife's famous ribbon salad. LOL, and maybe your orange-cranberry cream cheese pie to top it all off!

Man, there just is no sub for whole cranberry sauce! Why anyone would use the purple jelly is beyond me!
But I never heard of ribbon salad.

Seems to me that orange-cranberry pie ought to not only go well with Turk dinner but ought to help you digest a big meal better too!

 

[Concerned American]

That is on the small side. I used to shop at a place where you accrued points with every purchase then come Thanksgiving, you were awarded a certain size bird for free. I usually qualified for something in the 20+ pound range.

I would carve it up and freeze the leftovers then have turkey meals and sandwiches for days. Back in the 70s I was new at a place and the boss was handing out birds to all the employees--- he had a wagon full of frozen birds and he climbed in and came out with one and gave it to me and told me to hang onto it; I said thanks. Turns out it was like a 25 pound bird and I think the boss intended for me to hang onto it for HIM, but he was too polite to take it back.

We always hosted after the first year of marriage. We got tired of traveling to everyone else's place and the parents welcomed the chance to get away from the work. We always cooked a 24 or 25 lb bird. Now we just host the daughter's family and roast a 15 pounder.

 

[Samofvt]

Eagle ...

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If that's the case, I'll be roasting fncceo : you dead and burned. don't care how you taste, radiated for all i know

 

[lg325]

Over at Oldest Sissies house Turkey ,Ham ,and all the fixings. She is a fine cook but I do miss my mothers cooking at these times . She never passed along hers and her Mothers recipes. She baked up a fresh ham , that is one not cured and it was a large one that took hours my mouth would water from the aroma. The next morning at daybreak us men went fishing or hunting so the women could finish all the preparations. At about 1pm the feast started. The ham ,turkey, wild game a platter of fried squirrel, all types of vegetables from sweet potato's to casseroles and fresh salads. Sweet Ice tea by the gallons, coffee. Banana pudding and all types of pies. My family and uncles , aunts and cousins ate until we couldn't any more then go out and throw the football around while the adult men sat around afire in the back of the property to target shoot and the women sat on the porch and gabbed until dark. I miss that life so much.

 

[Samofvt]

Traditional modern and American dish, thanks to all: Turkey shepherd's pie, with brown gravy and freshly cooked bread rolls.

 

[MarathonMike]

That is on the small side. I used to shop at a place where you accrued points with every purchase then come Thanksgiving, you were awarded a certain size bird for free. I usually qualified for something in the 20+ pound range.

I would carve it up and freeze the leftovers then have turkey meals and sandwiches for days. Back in the 70s I was new at a place and the boss was handing out birds to all the employees--- he had a wagon full of frozen birds and he climbed in and came out with one and gave it to me and told me to hang onto it; I said thanks. Turns out it was like a 25 pound bird and I think the boss intended for me to hang onto it for HIM, but he was too polite to take it back.

We used to always get 20 pound birds before the kids flew the next. Now that's just way too many leftovers to deal with.

 

[lg325]

Eagle ...

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Along with a manatee roast it should be a good feast for you all.

 

[Concerned American]

Man, there just is no sub for whole cranberry sauce! Why anyone would use the purple jelly is beyond me!
But I never heard of ribbon salad.

Seems to me that orange-cranberry pie ought to not only go well with Turk dinner but ought to help you digest a big meal better too!

I agree, but the kids like the jelly. The ribbon salad is a layered jello salad--green jello on the bottom, with a middle layer of a mixture of lemon jello, crushed pineapple, melted marshmallow, whipped cream, mayo and cream cheese and a red jello on top. Takes the better part of a day to put together but it is always good.

Jell-O Ribbon Salad Recipe - Food.com

This is the original Jell-O Ribbon Salad, as published in the Joys of Jell-O recipe book that my mom has had--probably since the 1950's. The holidays

www.food.com

 

[Samofvt]

Eagle ...

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and...and...there's a reason we don't eat those birds: they taste horrible . But i do hope you celebrate somehow, despite my spite. We can help each other in the end, don't you see.