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mcgee
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What's on your Thanksgiving Menu?
mcgee
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We are on our own for Thanksgiving again this year, and I'm cooking all of the side dishes/desserts. Mike usually smokes the turkey. I think I'd like to try something different this year from our usual casserole dishes. Any suggestions?
We usually have a roasted-chestnut and sausage stuffing, brown sugar-pecan topped sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, rolls and of course turkey. And pumpkin pie.
So... what's on your menu this year??
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Re: What's on your Thanksgiving Menu?
The ILs are coming and bringing some stuff and I haven't totally decided yet so this is what I think it's going to be.
Ham
Turkey
Stuffing/ Dressing (whatever you want to call it)
Sweet potato casserole
Green bean casserole
Salad
Pumpkin Pie
Birthday cake (for me
)
I feel like I'm forgetting stuff...
Turkey
Dressing (Pioneer Womans....SO delish)
homemade Cranberry Sauce and canned cberry
Gravy
Rolls
Mashed Potatoes
Butternut Squash Puree
Green beans
Pumpkin Piechocolate pecan pie
I'm cooking for the first time this weekend! I'm nervous, and excited. Here's what I was planning:
turkey
rolls
broccoli and cheese rice casserole
dressing
fresh green beans
DH has made an (odd) request for corn on the cob. So I guess I'll manage that too.
pumpkin pie
I'll also do raw veggies for people to snack on while I'm cooking: carrots, celery, pickles, etc. I think I'll also make some deviled eggs, too...
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We're going to my parents so I will help with most of the cooking, but my main contribution will be cake batter martinis.
I'm hosting Thanksgiving for the first time!! For TEN!! I'm in the process of losing my mind!!
Here's my menu - The linked ones are the recipes that I'm taking on.
Cider Glazed Turkey
Bourbon Gravy
Make-Ahead Mashed Potatoes
Honey Roasted Vegetables
Cider Rum Punch
My top secret Apple Pie recipe
Additionally we'll have
Split Pea Soup
Couscous stuffing
Green Beans
Salad
Pumpkin cheesecake pie
We are altering our menu a bit due to food changes / allergies in our family this year but so far I've been able to alter our fave's to be gfcfsf.
Organic pastured turkey
Herb stuffing
Mashed potatoes
Roasted butternut squash
Saurkraut and organic sausage
Garlic green beans
Salad
And I cheated and bought gfcfsf pies from bees knees.
52 Choices For Better Health
Can you share this recipe? About once a year I get a strange craving for sauerkraut. And sausage makes everything better IMO.
I've made Thanksgiving dinner for the past several years. Usually it's just the 4 of us (or 3, or 2, pre kiddos) This year it'll be us and some friends. The menu is looking like this:
Turkey, fruit and nut stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, maple glazed sweet potatoes, roasted brussel sprouts, cranberry sauce, spicy cranberry relish, cornbread and pumpkin pie with fresh whipped cream.
Yum! I love Thanksgiving!
ooh perk of the hubster's job is organic pasture raise turkey for super cheap
yippee. even though it's just the 3 of us, we're getting a whole turkey !
we'll do stuffing, rolls, mashers, gravy, green beans (i'm thinking oven roasted), cranberry sauce only comes from a can, but luckily there are plenty of organic options
uhm cherry cheese cake (b/c my aunt makes it every holiday and it's yummy) and maybe a pumpkin pie. no astroglide here though, we'll have real whipped cream 
I'd love to see your stuffing and green bean recipes! And if you don't mind sharing where did you get your turkey from?
I use this one, super simple, but I omit the sugar. Bubbies make the best saurkraut that you can buy in a store. I make my own though and it makes a huge difference in taste. Bubbies is oh so good though and filled with tons of live probiotics (if you don't heat it like this recipe calls for). We eat it kraut or another ferment raw with every.single.meal we serve. I'll probably serve raw garlic dill carrots on Thanksgiving since we will have cooked kraut. My kids actually ask for raw kraut though before meals so I might serve the purple one I have fermenting just to add some color to our plates and the carb fest.
52 Choices For Better Health
Stuffing is super simple! Homemade gfcfsf bread in the bread machine, cubed and dried, one onion, i celery stalk, 2 tbs of ghee, 2 eggs or egg replacer (I use flax and water), 2 cups homemade bone broth, parsley, sage thyme, pepper and sea salt to taste. Bake at 400 for 35ish minutes.
We got our turkey from www.freshpasturesfarm.com. I know Natural Grocers is selling turkeys too but have no idea if they are pastured or not.
52 Choices For Better Health
these were the two places we had to choose our turkey from and both are available in Austin.
https://www.diestelturkey.com/home.htm
https://www.marysturkeys.com/turkeyheritage.html
@YellowUmbrella, I love you.
@mcgee, we normally do plain old homemade cranberry sauce, but I think I'llbe giving this one a try this year:
https://www.lunchboxblues.com/?p=1033 (Scroll to the bottom of the post.)
On actual Thanksgiving Day, we're going to Cracker Barrel with my grandma, so whatever is on their menu.
On Friday, turkey, corn casserole, stuffing with maple sausage and craisins, crescent rolls, sweet potatoes w/marshmallows and pecans on top. I will probably pick up a dutch apple pie from a really good bakery here in town.