Here's my working list - changes possible, but for now this is what I'm thinking -

Turkey
Stuffing
Beet and goat cheese salad
Sweet potato au gratin
Garlic mashed potatoes
Roasted veggies - brussel sprouts, carrots, butternut squash, cauliflower
Haricot verts w/pine nuts and brown butter

Then dessert will be the classics - apple pie, pumpkin pie, etc.

What are you guys having?

Here's my working list - changes possible, but for now this is what I'm thinking -

 

Turkey
Stuffing
Beet and goat cheese salad
Sweet potato au gratin
Garlic mashed potatoes
Roasted veggies - brussel sprouts, carrots, butternut squash, cauliflower
Haricot verts w/pine nuts and brown butter

 

Then dessert will be the classics - apple pie, pumpkin pie, etc.

 

What are you guys having?

 

I want some of these things. Although I don't think the cauliflower belongs in the roasted veggies - use parsnips instead. Trust me on this.

I am not 100% clear on our menu, DW & DD2 will be taking care of it. I will be responsible for the all-important tasks of going for a run & watching football.

I'm sure it will include the basics:

- turkey

- stuffing (2 kinds - DW loves oyster stuffing, no one else does)

- potatoes (mashed & sweet - give me a plain sweet potato with nothing on it thanks)

- cranberry sauce (DW grew up with the stuff in the can, where the can imprints are a mark of quality, but I think I have turned her over to the real stuff)

- some kind of veggies

- pie (pumpkin & one other, probably chocolate cream)

DD1 as is tradition will not eat any of it (other than pie), and will probably make herself a PB&J sandwich or ramen noodles.

All the nasty stuff

 

Dried out overcooked turkey

greenbean cassorole (w/ Campbell's cream of mushroom soup)

cranberry sauce jell shaped like the tin can

gloppy mashed potatoes with no flavor

crescent rolls burnt on the bottoms

creamed pearl onions

yams smothered in brown sugar

 

lots of eggnog full of rum and bourbon

While we were in grad school, we had a Thanksgiving meal for those who didn't get a chance to go home - and it was just like this!  Except with cheap beer.  Ahh, memories.

 

While we were in grad school, we had a Thanksgiving meal for those who didn't get a chance to go home - and it was just like this!  Except with cheap beer.  Ahh, memories.

I first read this as "grade school", and then I got to the part about the cheap beer, and I was thinking wow that is a pretty liberal education system.

 

Haricot verts w/pine nuts and brown butter

 

 

What is this and do I like it?

ours is boring:

turkey (hopefully not too dry)

stuffing (maybe not boxed this year, we'll see)

mashed garlic potatoes (lots of garlic and butter)

maple glazed carrots (because we have LOTS of carrots from the CSA)

cranberry sauce (real AND fake because Phil likes the canned stuff)

MIL bringing turnips

desssert:

ANGEL FOOD CAKE (because it's the only think I know how to make GF)

Chocolate cream pie

peanut butter pie

fruit

what am I missing?

What is this and do I like it?

GREEN BEANS.  

And YAY for angel food cake!!

 

why couldn't you just say that?

 

seeing how we DESTROYED the last one, I figured it was safe to make again.

They're actually different, but essentially no one would care/know.  They are longer and thinner than green beans.

Plus, it sounds fancier that way.

My wife has to work 12 - 8 on turkey day so we will eat dinner with the in-laws on Friday.  My daughter wants to make pizza for Thursday.