Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We deep fry our turkeys every year. We also have a ham and chicken and dumplings and giblet gravy and dressing. Our sides are green beans, macaroni and cheese, and candied yams and rolls. Desserts are lemon pie, chocolate pie, red velvet cake, coconut cake, and 15 layer chocolate cake. This actually IS my dream Thanksgiving menu because my family does it so damn good.

Would you be willing to divulge these recipes? Please, please, please!

I truly wish I could but my MIL and her sister do the chicken and dumplings and it's a very long process I cannot even understand. It requires SPECIFIC thin frozen dumplings and many hours of boiling and whatnot. And my MILs OTHER sister does the 15 layer cake and I cannot even comprehend how she gets it all so thin and perfect. We actually toyed a couple years ago with the idea of putting together and printing a family cookbook full of these recipes because we started to realize that once these women are gone, their recipes will be too.

I love this thread.

Turkey
Cornbread Stuffing (with tons of celery and onions)
Mashed Potatoes
Bourbon Sweet Potatoes with Pecans
Cranberry Orange Relish
Green Bean Casserole (the old school kind)
Roasted Cauliflower, Brussels Sprouts with balsamic glaze
Corn Casserole
Creamed Onions
Spiced Peaches
Parker House Rolls

Pumpkin Cheesecake
Caramel Apple Pie
Vanilla Ice Cream

*turkey

Pigs in a blanket
crackers/ cheese/ fig jam
Hot mulled cider

urkey
Gravy
Stuffing
Sweet potatoes w/ marshmallows
Corn pudding
String beans
Cranberry & orange relish

Pumpkin pie
Apple pie
Pecan pie
Vanilla ice cream
good chocolates

^ oh my goodness and I forgot parker house rolls and sweet potato biscuits. And lots of butter.

I want my whole family there (34 of us now) with tons of food and pretend that I'm not pregnant so I can drink a ton . Lots of great wine and hard drinks.

Appetizers:
baked brie and crackers
mixed olives and nuts

First course:
butternut squash bisque
endive cups with chopped orange, walnuts, goat cheese

Main Event:
Giant farm-raised brined roasted turkey with lots of fresh herbs roasted with veggies (winter squash, brussels sprouts, parsnips, and rutabagas or beets)
chestnut stuffing
green beans almondine
creamed onions
mashed sweet potatoes with candied pecans and craisin topping
mashed potatoes with gravy
ginger orange cranberry sauce

Dessert:
pumpkin pie
apple pie
pecan pie
sour cherry pie
vanilla ice cream and whipped cream
coffee

Charcuterie plate

BBQ'ed turkeys (we do 2 or 3 every year) brined for 12 hours before hand

Apple and sage stuffing

Cranberry stuffing

Brussels Sprouts with pancetta, onion and garlic

Artichokes roasted with garlic and lemon

Cheese and herb gougeres

Roasted sweet potatoes

Crispy potato strings

Cranberry orange mold

Pumpkin pie

Butterscotch pie

Pecan Pie

This is what we have done for the last few years and it is pretty darn awesome.

Anonymous wrote:We deep fry our turkeys every year. We also have a ham and chicken and dumplings and giblet gravy and dressing. Our sides are green beans, macaroni and cheese, and candied yams and rolls. Desserts are lemon pie, chocolate pie, red velvet cake, coconut cake, and 15 layer chocolate cake. This actually IS my dream Thanksgiving menu because my family does it so damn good.

Would you be willing to divulge these recipes? Please, please, please!

Turkey. Basted with butter. Stuffing for the rest of my family. Cranberry-orange compote. Roasted butternut squash. Salad. Roasted green beans. Creamed mushrooms. Kielbasa. Sauerkraut...orange rice, tomato gravy, two kinds of cheesecake, strawberry jello and ice cream---all done together, it's weird and mousse-y---cream cheese pound cake, ice cream, coffee and at least four different kinds of mixed drinks. Afterwards, the guys go watch football, the little kids play in the basement, and the women wash the dishes. There are so many people you eat in sittings, and the men eat first. Someone pinches the kids feet under the table and pretends they aren't, and the noise is amazing. I miss it so much.

Chocolate turkey.

Appetizer

butternut squash soup with a parker house roll

Main

roast turkey and cranberry wellington, mashed sweet potatoes, green beans almondine

Desserts

pumpkin mousse, apple tartin, pecan pie tarlets, coffee

or whatever the Barefoot Contessa is serving

Anonymous wrote:Hamachi
Uni
Tako
Ikura

That's odd. I didn't know the Japanese made Turkey sushi. Is there mashed potato sushi? How about stuffing rolls?