Mushroom soup
turkey
ham
mashed potatoes
gravy
cranberry sauce
broccoli
cauliflower
salad
anadama bread
cranberry bread
butternhorns
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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

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.

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.)

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.

TexAnne: Well done. :D

CapnMarrrrk: Sounds like a very pleasant evening.