How many different foods are usually on your Thanksgiving table?
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November 26th, 2014
Whether you cook or someone else does, how many different foods are there to pick from? You don’t have to list them all (but feel free to do so) you can just give a number.
Bread counts and so do chips, crackers and dips. Please separate out food that is presented at your arrival before the main meal starts. Give a number for both. Gravy counts too.
When I cook thanksgiving I make, turkey, gravy, stouffing, potato somehow, green beans somehow, cranberry jello, and often buy a ham to serve as well. One or two dessert options. If my parents are there I add baked sweet potato. So that’s 10 or 11 items. I don’t serve bread or put out any sort of appetizers.
My MIL added a couple non traditional Thanksgiving foods this time, but didn’t subtract anything, except that she never makes the cranberry, sometimes I bring it, but not this year. The amount of preparation is overwhelming for me to watch. I think there will be 12 different foods/dishes, including dessert. She was going to do an antipasto type thing also, and I talked her out of it.
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We cook Thanksgiving every year. Been eighteen years now.
This year, we are hosting fifteen people. Here is our menu:
APPETIZER
Stuffed mushrooms
FIRST COURSE
Stuffed Shells
Escarole Soup
MAIN COURSE
Turkey
Spiral Ham
Stuffing, Corn Bread
Stuffing, Sausage
Cranberry Sauce
Mashed Potatoes
Fried Apples
String Beans
Maple Carrots
Yams
Gravy
Dinner Rolls
PIES
Apple
Blueberry
Cherry
Banana Cream
Pumpkin
Pecan
Everything is homemade except the pies and rolls which we get from a local bakery.
PRE-MEAL:
Whatever happens to be lying around
MAIN MEAL:
Turkey
Mashed Potatoes
Dressing
Gravy
Sweet Potato Soufflé
Baked Macaroni and Cheese
Deviled Eggs
Green Bean Casserole
Broccoli Casserole
Dinner Rolls
Fruit Salad (occasionally)
BEVERAGES
Several Sodas
Sweet Tea
DESSERT:
Pumpkin Pie
Cheesecake
Pecan Pie
Chocolate Dream Pie
Cookies (occasionally)
I would tell you, but you’ll think my family and I are totally nuts and put us away. It is mind boggling. We all go early to assist in the cooking.
None, my food usually goes on a plate…mostly.
The traditional dxs family table consistently consists of the following:
Turkey
Mashed Potatoes
Bread Stuffing
Meat Stuffing
Cranberry Sauce
Green Bean Casserole
Peas
Corn
Heavenly Salad
Sweet Potato Souffle
Bread
There are never any appetizers. For drinks, there’s wine and water.
We don’t eat dessert until much later, after everyone has slept and/or taken a hike in the woods.
Here’s the dessert list:
Pumpkin Pie
Apple Pie
Ice Cream
Coffee
Tea
Chocolates
Various Cookies
Turkey
Stuffing
Mashed Potatoes n gravy
Salmon dip
green bean casserole
Fruit salad
home made bread
Pecan Pie
Pumpkin pie.
And this year I discovered an awesome recipe that I’m sure will be a staple at all future Thanksgivings, Apple Pie In A Jar
This year, it is just my partner and I. We’re making a roasted chicken, stuffing, mushroom gravy, mashed potatoes, pumpkin risotto, and I’m undecided on dessert.
Cheese, crackers, olives, pickles. These are appetizers and are always out before anyone arrives.
Mashed potatoes, stuffing, some sort of sweet potato dish, creamed corn, glazed carrots green bean casserole.
Pumpkin pie for dessert. I hate pumpkin pie.
Turns out my MIL is going to put out some nosh for when people arrive. Assorted olives, a couple different types of nuts, and I am not sure what else.
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