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• 1 Sandra Mort // Nov 27, 2008 at 8:07 pm

  We didn’t do a Real Thanksgiving Dinner. We had vegetable soup (made by the 10 yo), mashed potatoes with onion gravy, grilled cheese on whole wheat and fried chicken (home grown, home processed, home cooked).

  Now we’re having a storebought pumpkin pie and homemade whipped cream.

• 2 TexAnne // Nov 27, 2008 at 9:03 pm

  I ate a big bite of the CC forum. Whoo, tasty!

• 3 CapnMarrrrk // Nov 27, 2008 at 10:10 pm

  Oscar Mayer Wieners and Bubble Tea Chai while watching a Lord of the Rings Marathon with my wife.

• 4 kit // Nov 27, 2008 at 11:11 pm

  Sandra: Some of ours was storebought too. We had a great time eating, our guests just left.

  TexAnne: Well done. :D

  CapnMarrrrk: Sounds like a very pleasant evening.

• 5 Ella // Nov 28, 2008 at 2:22 am

  Uh, I made some really nice tomato soup, but it’s less to do with the holiday and more to do with the fact my vegetable soup ran out. *g* Sorry, no ritual gluttony for the Jews? I’ll catch up with you during Christmas/Hannukah. :D

• 6 Jorgon // Nov 28, 2008 at 8:03 am

  First Thanksgiving for my daughter so it was a pretty big affair.

  Turkey, Honey Ham, Mashed Potatoes, Yams, Stuffing, Corn, Green Beans, and Lime Jello Salad.

  For Dessert, three pies. Pumpkin, Pecan, and Vanilla Custard. Pretty good feast for 10 people and a 9 month old!

  Oh yeah, can’t forget the Sister Shubert Rolls.

  Happy Feast day to all…the day after leftovers are my favorite part.

• 7 skzb // Nov 28, 2008 at 2:02 pm

  Sounds yummy!

• 8 Becca Stareyes // Nov 28, 2008 at 9:13 pm

  My aunt regularly hosts a giant Thanksgiving meal to have the family (three generations under one roof) and any friends who needed somewhere to go — this year it was twenty diners, plus three babies too young for solid foods.

  We had a lot of the classics (turkey with gravy, mashed potatoes, candied yams, cornbread and potato stuffing, and canned and homemade cranberry sauce, cooked squash, rolls), plus a good vegetable selection (mushroom and nut casserole, broccoli casserole, cooked spinach, and beet and pear puree). Plus a cheese dip and cooked shrimp while the guests were coming in. Sadly the cooked carrots, the original batch of gravy and the minestrone soup suffered a cooking accident when a bottle of olive oil exploded near the end of cooking.

  Also, three types of pie (pumpkin, apple and berry), cheesecake, brownies, cookies and some chocolate place markers made by a cousin.

  I think I sampled only half of that. And was flying, so I couldn’t bring leftovers home, unless I wanted to donate them to the people working at Logan Airport’s TSA on Black Friday. (Which they probably couldn’t eat anyway, with security concerns being what they are, which is a waste of good food.)

  General consensus is that my aunt has some kind of superpower to successfully get all of this to the table hot at the same time. (It seriously took both Wednesday and Thursday to prep everything, and most of Friday to clean up.)

  I mention this because it gives one a serious appreciation of food. (My aunt and her eldest daughter are serious about food and another cousin’s husband owns a restaurant in Boston. Sadly, he was working on Thanksgiving, so my cousin just had to bring the kids alone.)

• 9 GWW // Nov 28, 2008 at 10:28 pm

  My wife and mother inlaw do Thanksgiving for me since I’m not in the US anymore.

  We had:

  Turkey
  Stuffing
  Grilled Asparagus with garlic and butter
  Beans
  Roasted potatoes
  Roasted pumpkin
  Ham

  Then pumpkin pie with fresh whipped cream

  Then a cheese course with about 5 cheeses and a french baguette, including this really subtle earthy chedder which I fell in love with, I think I’m going to divorce my wife and marry the cheese. Or become a mormon so I can marry both.

  Champagne while cooking and a few different types of wine depending on what we were eating while we were eating.

• 10 Star Straf // Nov 28, 2008 at 11:42 pm

  Thanksgiving at Holly’s - 29 people at the table

  Mushroom soup
  turkey
  ham
  mashed potatoes
  gravy
  cranberry sauce
  broccoli
  cauliflower
  salad
  anadama bread
  cranberry bread
  butternhorns
  —
  biscotti
  scotch balls
  pecan pie
  french silk pie
  apple crumble
  lime ice cream
  nutmeg icecream
  chocolates

  ice wines
  reisling
  pinot noir
  port
  laphorig
  patron
  coffee

• 11 Tati // Nov 29, 2008 at 6:39 pm

  My brother shot a cottontail (rabbit) and we added that to the dinner.—while my mother made faces and reminisced on past pet Lagomorphs.

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