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

[BackAgain]

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.

Seagull.

 

[hjmick]

For last few years it's just been the wife and I... kids all on the west coast, rest of the family scattered about... I keep telling her it's too much work for just the two of us... that I'd be just as thankful with a pizza... but she's having none of it... insists on doing the work... bird, dressing, potatoes veggies, pie...




Fuck, I'd rather have pizza...

 

[TNHarley]

Im going to my moms thursday. Turkey, rolls, one half oyster dressing, other half chicken and dressing, mac n cheese, mashed potatoes cranberry sauce and probably a pumpkin pie.
This weekend im going to smoke a turkey breast and make some cranberry BBQ sauce. Maybe smoke some cream cheese and some stuffed baby sweet peppers for a side.

 

[Crepitus]

He said to no one's surprise.

 

[martybegan]

I am in charge of mashed potatoes.

My sister and brother in law handle the turkey. Standard turkey, using a 2 probe meat thermometer.

We also have a small ham.

 

[toobfreak]

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

Makes sense, Sue, I will have to give that a try.

 

[flewism]

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 done that

 

[toobfreak]

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

Well, for one thing, we are relieved of the heat and humidity of summer. It is much cooler out so people are indoors so it is fitting that the days are shorter and the night is long. This also affords more time with family and TV specials. And it is mid-fall/early winter so usually the weather is not that bad yet, plus most of all, it signals the coming of Advent and the beginning of the festive holiday season!

 

[toobfreak]

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

Yes the sweet potatoes are a must, no sweet potato casserole is safe near me, which is why I tend to steer away from having sweet potato pie as desert with the dinner too.

 

[1srelluc]

I've done that

So how was it?

I don't expect it to be like what we would normally fix ourselves.

 

[gtopa1]

Oz? Seattle?

Australia; near Brisbane.

Greg

 

[toobfreak]

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

Sounds fabulous. I loved smoked meats, I've never had carrot souffle but it sounds interesting--- especially if you can get fresh, sweet, tender carrots (nothing beats growing them yourself in a sandy loam), and scalloped potatoes are delectable, I can never get enough of them! The homemade cranberry sauce sounds fantastic and I love a good Brussel Sprout with butter, again, if you are lucky enough to grow them fresh all the better (though they are a spring crop)--- but keeping mites and other little bugs out of them can be a bitch--- the little bugs just love the tender leaves. And kale salad sounds good, I like the roughage compared to lettuce and occasionally buy a head of kale even as a lettuce substitute for sandwiches!

 

[Concerned American]

Australia; near Brisbane.

Greg

I have a friend who lives in Brisbane. I've never been there, but photos look nice. I get it now, Oz. Seattle is known as Oz as well because of its nickname "the emerald city."

 

[toobfreak]

Fuck, I'd rather have pizza...

Maybe you can work out some sort of turkey pizza, with a little cranberry sauce and maybe some sweet or scalloped potato mixed in with perhaps a little jalapeno pepper?

Would be interesting to try.

 

[toobfreak]

I have a friend who lives in Brisbane. I've never been there, but photos look nice. I get it now, Oz. Seattle is known as Oz as well because of its nickname "the emerald city."

I have a friend in New Zealand. Fabulously beautiful place.

 

[Concerned American]

I love a good Brussel Sprout with butter, again, if you are lucky enough to grow them fresh all the better (though they are a spring crop)

I didn't realize they were a spring crop. We have them in the stores up here on the stalk right now. Maybe they're coming from Chile.

 

[Concerned American]

Maybe you can work out some sort of turkey pizza, with a little cranberry sauce and maybe some sweet or scalloped potato mixed in with perhaps a little jalapeno pepper?

Would be interesting to try.

I just pulled a loaf of orange cranberry bread out of the oven. I'm going to give your recipe for the pie a try tomorrow. I love this time of year.

 

[White 6]

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.

We are actually doing the big bird event. All kids, grandkids coming, along with inlaws and maybe an outlaw. So, it will be the 23.5 lb turkey, that has been thawing, along with multiple pans of PJ's dressing, giblet gravy, mashed potatoes, rolls, wide variety of vegetables (including that damn greenbean casserole I hate) and desert pies and cobbler obviously including pumpkin pies mostly cooked by daughter and PJ's sister. The two extra leaves of the dining table, as well as the linen will come out, along with gold leaf china and silver, only seen once a year. Gallons of southern sweet tea will be consumed, along with Kalua eggnog for adults. All will be obligated to take as much leftovers as possible after the event. Yep. We are conservative traditionalists, all the way down to my carving the bird onto platters and giving thanks for another good year before the dining begins. My brother will not be there, but I will be smuggling a platter into the cardio/vascular floor of Jackson Madison County General Hospital.

 

[gtopa1]

I have a friend who lives in Brisbane. I've never been there, but photos look nice. I get it now, Oz. Seattle is known as Oz as well because of its nickname "the emerald city."

I lived in Europe for a year but haven't been to the USA. My parents had friends in the US but since they passed away (parents) we've lost touch. From about 1974 onwards they went to the US about twice a year; one year the baby of the family went to Disneyland FOUR TIMES on four separate trips. lol

In what part of Brisbane do they live? Probably about a two million to one shot that I know them. lol

I noticed two posters here that live in New York. I was very tempted to ask if they knew each other; about a seven million to one shot.

Greg

 

[toobfreak]

I didn't realize they were a spring crop. We have them in the stores up here on the stalk right now. Maybe they're coming from Chile.

Better put: they like carrots are a cool-season crop. Hot weather makes things like brussel sprouts, cauliflower and broccoli to bolt (the plant turns to all stem, shoots up and goes to flower instead of producing a big vegetable).

But if you have weather in the upper 50s, 60s and lower 70s, you can grow them any time of year.