What's on Your Thanksgiving Menu? - Green Cove Springs,FL

I am making a spiral ham from Costco (LOVE their ham) a small turkey roast, sweet potato casserole, chicken n dressing, mashed potatoes, broccoli rice casserole, green beans w/bacon, cranberry relish, pumpkin pie & some kind of chocolate cake. Although, your steak really sounds good! Enjoy! Happy Thanksgiving : )

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Pretty traditional for us. We will deep fry (second year for that) a big 20+ pounder. Hubby will go buy it still this week. Along with mashed potatoes, some sort of sweet potato thing (brown sugar and marshmallows probably), green beans, stuffing, jellied cranberries, rolls,gravy and MILs famous cranberry salad.

Its ground up cranberries, sugar, pineapple, walnuts, whip cream(real)..and probably something I am forgetting, but its delish!

Along with some pies and whip cream and vanilla ice cream. Then a nap!

As I said, we are pretty traditional for this holiday! WOnder if I can wear my "good" sweatpants? I think I will need the room! LOL

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I hope we have SOMETHING traditional. We're going to my MIL/FIL's house. He is Italian and we had Tday with them several years ago and it not what I expected.

My idea of traditional: Turkey, stuffing, mashed pots., sweet pots., green bean casserole, dinner rolls (homemade), and something sweet later. You know, protein, starch, starch, starch, more starch, sprinkled with a few veggies! Lol.

You sound so depressed about your tday. Put something you love on the menu!!

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We finalized the menu last night, hooray! Before dinner, we'll have spinach-artichoke dip with baguettes, and club crackers with roasted raspberry chipotle sauce over cream cheese. Turkey and gravy on the side for those who want it, crawfish dressing, cranberry sauce, baked sweet potatoes with a little butter, cinnamon, and toasted pecans, marinated green beans with bacon, my grandma's recipe for yellow squash, an apple cheesecake and a pumpkin pie. I have a guest that's bringing some white macaroni & cheese for the kids. It'll be 3 adults and 5 kids ages 2 to 9.

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We have a huge family on my husband's side. Everyone will bring something over to our house for our meal. We always have two large turkeys, a ham, mashed potatoes, rolls, corn on the cob, salad, green bean casserole, potato salad, pasta, veggies, and an array of desserts :-)

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Aunt will roast a turkey, make stuffing, and sweet potatoes. Uncle will smoke a turkey and likely some wild hog and deer. I am making green beans - not a casserole. I'm tired of making that casserole every year! Mom is making bread - OMG don't buy the store rolls. Get frozen dough (Rhodes), thaw it overnight, then snip the loaf into small bite size pieces (size of a pecan maybe) and dip each piece in butter. Plop into a loaf pan, let it rise in a warm kitchen or very low warm oven. Then bake 25 minutes. Buttery and super tasty. Toasty pieces on top, chewy pieces in the middle. Mmm. My mouth is watering. Not sure what all my cousins are bringing. I thought green beans wasn't enough, so I'm making cookies too, plus bringing some wine and juice boxes. :)

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Appitizers:
Deviled eggs,
Lil' Smokeys in a bbq and jelly sauce,
Dip and chips,
little savory pastry.

Main Course:
Turkey,
mashed potatoes with gravy,
green bean casserole,
macaroni and cheese,
stuffing (not in bird, stove top),
cranberry jelly,
orange salad,
crescent rolls,
and corn.
Pumpkin pie and strawberry cheesecake :)

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My MIL always makes the Turkey, stuffing, and mashed potatoes.
My Aunt is coming this year, so she will be bringing the cornbread dressing.
I make the sweet potatoes casserole, cranberry freeze, and an Apple and Pecan Pie.
Then the others make
appetizers-usually guacamole dip, spinach dip, and cranberry/feta rollups
broccoli casserole
pumpkin cheesecake

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Ham,
Turkey
Cornbread Dressing
cranberry sauce
Green bean casserole
sweet potatoes
Mashed potatoes
gravy
banana pudding
apple and pear pie
hawaiian rools.

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This is the first year I will be hosting thanksgiving in my own house for my whole family, so this is what i got on my to-make list:

turkey (Alton Brown's recipe)
ham
mashed potatoes
cornbread stuffing from scratch
corn
sweet potato fries
cranberry sauce for my FIL
big salad
crescent rolls
and maybe some roasted brussell sprouts
candied yams

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Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, fruit salad, salad, corn, apple and pumpkin pie, shredded beef green chilies, flour tortillas, and homemade salsa, and corn chips...LOL Check out my question I posted last week...LOL

http://www.mamapedia.com/questions/6706056074258219009

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We stay pretty traditional for Thanksgiving:

Fried turkey (husband doing)
Cornbread dressing
Giblet gravy
Green Beans
Mashed potatoes
Baked sweet potatoes
Cranberry relish (fresh cranberries, pineapple, pecans)
Vile jellied cranberry sauce (husband insists!)
Crescent rolls (must have from childhood)
Pecan pie
Pumpkin pie
Sweet potato pie
Apple pie
Mincemeat pie
Sugar cookies (kids don't usually eat pie)

We're eating late this year, so I'm also doing lots of apps:
Relish tray
Cheese & crackers
Jimmy Dean sausage cheese balls
Little smokies in chili sauce/grape jelly in crockpot
Knorr spinach dip w/ King's Hawaiian bread
Chex mix
Beer to wash it all down!

We will also of course watch the UT v. A&M game, but sadly I don't have much hope for my Horns this year - boo, hoo! Happy Thanksgiving to all!

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Well my mom called last night and said it will only be her and her husband, me and my husband.. So we are going to eat out!We have done this a few times.. It is a little glamorous to be served and not to have to clean up.

McCormick and Schmicks Downtown Austin..

I did order a Thanksgiving meal so we could have the leftovers, but since I a working a lot right now.. My mom said we are going out. No messy kitchens.

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Well, just yesterday everyone decided it was going to be at my house again and not my brothers as we had planned. So I just went out and got the Turkey. We will also have a ham, mashed potatoes, praline sweet potatoes, cranberry relish, brocoli casserole, green bean casserole, mac and cheese, creamed spinach and stuffing( my mom always makes 2 kinds, this year its cranberry, sausage pistachio, and a tamale stuffing). For sweet stuff we will have a cheddar and apple cobbler, chocolate pie and a key lime pie. It sounds like alot but we dont make ton of any one thing and we like leftovers because I wont cook Friday :)

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I'm also using the Alton Brown turkey recipe! Then there will be both sweet potatoe and reg mashed potatoes. Corn, green beans, honey baked carrots, rolls, then turkey shaped turkey cookies, pumpkin pie and jack daniels pecan pie.

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Turkey, cornbread dressing, mashed potatoes and gravy, cranberry relish (my special recipe), brussels sprouts, fruit salad. Pumpkin pie and buttermilk pie for dessert.

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I am making a road trip - LOL! I usually make my own pumpkin pie since no one in my husband's family does (they are pecan pie and coconut cake folks - YUCK) and it just isn't Thanksgiving for me without one:)

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Steak! I'm mapquesting Green Cove Springs, FL as we speak, lol.
We are having turkey, ham, green beans, carrots, dressing, potato casserole, homemade chocolate pie, pecan pie and fruit salad. There will 8 adults and 6 children. We can't wait!

Ah, well I just had to add hashbrown casserole because my daughter LOVES it...so:

Turkey
Ham
Mashed Potatoes
Hashbrown Casserole
Broccoli Casserole
Green Bean Casserole
Sweet Potato Casserole
Rolls
Gravy
Macaroni and Cheese
Dressing/Stuffing

I think that's it!!

We'll have an assortment of appetizers (spinach dip, veggies and dip, cheese/pepperoni and cracker tray, and not sure what else is coming.)

We'll also have pumpkin pie, a birthday cake (my dad's birthday is Wednesday), our first round of homebaked cookies, and whatever else anyone shows up with.

For dinner it's me, my husband, our 3 kids, my brother, my parents, my older sister and her boyfriend.

Turkey
Stuffing
Mashed Potatoes
Sweet Potatoes
brocoli bake
rolls
salad
pecan and pumpkin pie