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

[toobfreak]

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.

My mother-in-law had a thing for cooking, she was at it for days. It would have been a crisis for the family not to be there. Shotguns would come out.
I remember one year the snow was so bad that I was afraid to go down the hill to the parents house.
We had to park in a driveway at the top of the hill (a relative of the family) then WALK all the way down.
The mother was in tears that we might not get there (my wife was the oldest child).

 

[toobfreak]

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.

Sounds like my wife's family. About 200 of them would show up, they would rent a pavilion in a park then about 50 of them showed up each with a trunkful of food.

No one left there without putting on at least ten pounds.

 

[White 6]

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.

A lot of that dead thing, going around, at our age, too.
I wish you and Mrs. 1srelluc, a very happy Thanksgiving.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

Granted if the place isn't too busy, I will be at Golden Corral. I was there last year, and the place was so busy that my mom and me actually had to share our table with another couple, but they were nice.

God bless you and them and my mom always!!!

Holly

 

[The Duke]

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.

One o'them there mooin' birds. And it's Sirloin Tip, and I'll be broiling it Prime Rib style.
It's pretty efficient with the electric, really.
I know how to do a bird, too.
That's broiling too, but you gotta watch that til it gets just so and pull it, then go down to 350.
You could go down lower for longer after that, but that's not the official way I learned it.
It's perfect when the wing tips are brownish while you're letting the oven go down to 350.
Oh, and you flip the bird, too. That one's important.
If I was to be 'sperimentin' with it, I'd crisperize the outside, then oven smokerize it low and slow.
The one that taught me that, her birds were always natural, and always juicy.
I'm probably stupid to doubt her 350 method.

 

[Crepitus]

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.

Tacos.

I hate holidays.

 

[gtopa1]

Thanksgiving sounds like a lovely event. We don't hold it in Oz. But I might just do it this year and celebrate Trump's win for which I am TRULY THANKFUL!!

Greg

 

[Concerned American]

Thanksgiving sounds like a lovely event. We don't hold it in Oz. But I might just do it this year and celebrate Trump's win for which I am TRULY THANKFUL!!

Greg

Oz? Seattle?

 

[SweetSue92]

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.

Turkey roasted upside-down in a turkey roaster, flipped in the last 30 minutes or so. Makes for a juicier turkey, the juices flow down

 

[SweetSue92]

Thanksgiving sounds like a lovely event. We don't hold it in Oz. But I might just do it this year and celebrate Trump's win for which I am TRULY THANKFUL!!

Greg

Thanksgiving is by far my fave American Holiday. I love November, for one thing. It's also Peak Americana in my opinion

 

[SweetSue92]

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.

My sister makes an amazing sweet potato casserole. I don't know why she asks me what she can bring--sis you already know

 

[1srelluc]

A lot of that dead thing, going around, at our age, too.
I wish you and Mrs. 1srelluc, a very happy Thanksgiving.

Thanks.

Yeah, I could not see messing with it much this year.

 

[1srelluc]

Sounds like my wife's family. About 200 of them would show up, they would rent a pavilion in a park then about 50 of them showed up each with a trunkful of food.

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No one left there without putting on at least ten pounds.

Yep, my uncle rented a fire hall in Ft. Valley, Virginia for 20+ years for Thanksgiving.

Sadly, people started dying-off at a pretty good clip....The covid did it in for good, then my uncle died and that was it......But it was a good run......No complaints.

 

[Moonglow]

Chinese buffet fer me

 

[Innocynioc]

I don't like the lumpy cranberry sauce. I much prefer the cranberry jelly from a can.

 

[Zincwarrior]

A lot of that dead thing, going around, at our age, too.
I wish you and Mrs. 1srelluc, a very happy Thanksgiving.

Yes its the Wife and I this year. In December both kids coming in, so we save all the good stuff for then.
We are having Steaksgiving.

 

[Thunk]

Turkey is fowl!

I'm gonna fry me up a nice blobfish

 

[Thunk]

I was trying to thunk of a thanksgiving dinner for kitty...but kitty doesn't like any treats. She only eats her cat food.

Then I remembered...Kitty LOVES the liquid I pour out of a can of salmon. I pour it in a bowl & she comes running...So that's what she's gettin'.

 

[Rawley]

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.

Two Turkeys - smoking one and frying one. Carrot souffle, green beans, scalloped potatoes, popovers, homemade cranberry sauce, brussel sprout and kale salad

 

[Rawley]

Tacos.

I hate holidays.

He said to no one's surprise.