Favorite Thanksgiving eats?

spyrosmom

spyrosmom

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So what is your favorite Turkey Day food?

I can pass on the turkey - I can eat that anytime, the sweet potatoes are normally over gooked up - I like them baked, not swimming in butter, sugar, and marshmallows. Creamed corn casserole is nasty. Green bean casserole looks like something the dog yakked up. I like fresh cranberry salad - but we eat that all winter, so it's nothing special. Can cranberries are weird.

My most favorite part of the whole thing?
Stuffing cooked in the turkey!!! Oh, YUM YUM YUM YUM!!!! And it only comes once a year. I could eat just that and be sooo happy.
And pumpkin pie - gotta have pumpkin pie.

What's your fave?

Nan
 
Everything!!!! There is something special about Thanksgiving dinner. Yeah, I know you can make turkey, mashed potatoes, vegetables, gravy, stuffing and all the rest of the stuff anytime of the year but it just tastes extra special on that day, at least for me.

Cheryl
 
My absolute favorite is sweet potato casserole. I do love the traditional Thanksgiving meal, but I could resist anything but the sweet potato casserole. However, this year I don't think it would be wise of me to make it since we're not having company and no one else in my family will eat it.:eek:
 
It used to be the pumpkin treats because I LOVE pumpkin, but now I eat it all year round and in so many different things that it has kind of lost that "special" feeling.

So now I suppose I would say the stuffing--or dressing, rather, since I don't cook it inside the bird--because that is something I do not make or eat any other time of the year.
 
spyrosmom said:
So what is your favorite Turkey Day food?

I can pass on the turkey - I can eat that anytime, the sweet potatoes are normally over gooked up - I like them baked, not swimming in butter, sugar, and marshmallows. Creamed corn casserole is nasty. Green bean casserole looks like something the dog yakked up. I like fresh cranberry salad - but we eat that all winter, so it's nothing special. Can cranberries are weird.

My most favorite part of the whole thing?
Stuffing cooked in the turkey!!! Oh, YUM YUM YUM YUM!!!! And it only comes once a year. I could eat just that and be sooo happy.
And pumpkin pie - gotta have pumpkin pie.

What's your fave?

Nan
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Vegan Mushroom Stuffing is my Number One Fave!
 
My favorite is the next day's sandwich. Turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and mayo on whole grain bread. Now that I am veg I skip the turkey and the sandwich is still great.
 
I'm headed to one of the Finger Lakes wineries for Thanksgiving dinner with my best friend from childhood, so I think my favorite thing on the menu with be wine and good company. As far as traditional foods, none of it is particularly special to me. On Christmas, however, my boyfriend and I make a nice rack of lamb. THAT gets me excited. Mmmmmm..... lamb.
 
My long-standing favorite is vegan (unstuffed!) stuffing made with lots of celery, with added apples and sunflower seeds.

My most-recent favorite is a goji-berry sauce I created last year.
 
i don't care for the turkey or alot of the traditional thanksgiving foods.

i love cranberries. my sister and my mom used to make this cranberry 'salad' in the food processor. now i probably wouldn't even want it. lots of marshmellows, cool whip..now i like just clemintines and homemade cranberry sauce. dressing made with mushrooms and wild rice or healthier version of cornbread stuffing. my kids love anything pumpkin. for their school's thanksgiving lunch, they really liked pumpkin mousse. so may give that a try sometime at home.

at christmas/new year's my mil makes this really yummy gumbo. she only makes it once or twice a year, so we all look forward to it. except one of my kids. he hates it. go figure.
 
I love cranberries, the stuffing inside the bird, lots of gravy. Home made rolls straight from the oven, I could eat all of them! But, now I'm GF so no more rolls and besides it did make me fat. I also really like dates with cream cheese. We always have those at the holidays, stuff the little dates with some cream cheese and did I mention they are fattening too? yup. . . :eek:
 
We already had our Thanksgiving in Canada, and if I remember correctly, I had the best spring rolls in town, from a little Cantonese vegetarian restaurant in Toronto called Buddha's. Maybe not traditional Thanksgiving food, but there ain't much traditional about me!

My favourite food for the holidays when I was a kid was sweet potatoes lightly fried in ghee, with roasted pecans, followed closely by green beans in lemon cream sauce.
 
Keep the turkey, hold the marshmellow tainted thing my family tries to pass off as squash, no love for the jellied cranberries.

But the stuffing....Oh the stuffing. :p
 
MidgetDogg said:
I'm headed to one of the Finger Lakes wineries for Thanksgiving dinner with my best friend from childhood, so I think my favorite thing on the menu with be wine and good company. As far as traditional foods, none of it is particularly special to me. On Christmas, however, my boyfriend and I make a nice rack of lamb. THAT gets me excited. Mmmmmm..... lamb.
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I spent the day at Seneca lake visiting the wineries there yesterday. It's such a fun day. What lake are you going to?
 
I went to a vegan pre-Thanksgiving potluck dinner yesterday, and there was an overwhelming choice of yummy stuff (I'm eating light today!).

The best was garlic mashed potatoes with beets and wild mushrooms, a mushroom gravy, and a couple of the stuffings.

I made a persimmon-pomegranate fruit salad that I think will now be a regular part of holiday meals. (Aside from some cranberry relish, it was the ONLY raw food at the event! No salads or anything!)
 
Mmmmmm.....Everything!!! But mostly, the leftovers the next day. Thats why I always want to host it, just for that reason!! ;)
 
Fresh homemade orange/cranberry sauce, stuffing and mashed potatoes!!! All things I never eat during the rest of the year. :D
 
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