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Mine’s pretty traditional/boring:

Brined and stuffed roasted turkey

Brown gravy from turkey drippings

Cranberry sauce

Mashed potatoes (no skins, fuckov)

Balsamic brussel sprouts with pancetta

Green beans

Butternut squash soufflé 

Pumpkin amd strawberry rhubarb pies

Wines: French Rosé and red Burgundy

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Cocktail Hour:  

Cranberry-Range Spritz

Cider Whiskey Sour

 

Dinner:

Buttermilk brined turkey 

Brioche stuffing with chestnuts and figs

Fiery sweet potatoes (basically mashed sweet potatoes made with red curry and coconut milk)

Cider-glazed brussels

Cranberry-orange jelly (Port, Grand Marnier, and fresh cranberries molded into Darth Vader (fingers crossed it comes out))

Parker House rolls (scratch)

Galatoire's sweet potato cheesecake 

Wine (Not sure which ones yet)

 

I might be by myself with the dogs (might have a neighbor or two pop over), but I will eat well.  Fuck COVID.

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Had a mini Thanksgiving with my kids last night before they go back to their Mom's today. Since they already had 1 traditional meal with their grandparents, we went slightly off course with:

Ham

Roasted Potatoes

Asparagus

rolls

Cheesecake

Having a more traditional meal tomorrow with the GF(no pics) and a few friends

I'm smoking a turkey on the WSM

Dressing (using my late Grandmother & Mom's recipe similar to NMAS' recipe in the dressing thread)

Mashed Potatoes

Green Bean Casserole

Sweet Potatoes

Chess Cake (also my grand mother's recipe)

Pumpkin Pie

 

 

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Quite Standard, really:

Thursday

Smoked Turkey

Dressing

Mashed Potatoes

Gravy

Green Beans

Sweet Potato Casserole

Yeast Rolls

Pecan Pie

Pumpkin Pie

Roasted salted pecans (for appetizer)

Friday

Quiche

Dressing Waffles

Turkey, Sausage, & Shrimp Gumbo

All Skate Starting Tonight

Booze

 

 

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3 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

jealous...what kind of fish?

We have a mix of shit that's been caught by the participants (blue gill, crappie, northern pike) and some cod/whitefish that was bought at the grocery store.

The bluegills especially are delicious, but it's a lot of god damn work to get the meat off those little bastards.  Thankfully I don't have to prepare it, I just have to bring beer.

I should mention that these fish were all caught and cleaned this summer and have been in the freezer since August at the earliest.

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Just now, Zepol87 said:

I despise the damn things

Ha...I've never had one I really liked a lot that wasn't made by my grandma or mom.  Everything else we eat is traditional as hell so I figured it was a TDay staple for everyone.

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27 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

Ha...I've never had one I really liked a lot that wasn't made by my grandma or mom.  Everything else we eat is traditional as hell so I figured it was a TDay staple for everyone.

I think of it as a "family gathering" thing, but not specific to Thanksgiving.

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Standard stuff (smoked turkey breast, smoked ham, dressing, gb casserole, m&cheese, asparagus, rolls, deviled eggs, cherry & pecan pie. Plus a couple other sides from the DIL. The smaller pecan pie is for a neighbor.

Deviled eggs get topped with the paprika tomorrow.

 

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Went to the HEB today with absolutely no plan, just looking at what was around that looked good.  But I'm definitely out on turkey, because turkey sucks.

I found a 3-lb cowboy ribeye.  That'll do.

And then there were jambalaya-stuffed chickens.  That'll cover the poultry needs of anyone in the family who favors bird.

Aside from that, we'll have bacon & balsamic brussels sprouts, mashed potatoes, mashed sweet potatoes, rosemary sausage dressing, and some apple pie for dessert.

Wine is a 2007 Michel-Schlumberger Merlot and a 2012 Stag's Leap Cabernet.  Dessert wine is a port that I still need to pick up at the liquor store.

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Lazy Thanksgiving meal: 

Goode Company Smoked Turkey, carved

Goode Company jambalaya 

Ragin’ Cajun cornbread stuffing 

Ragin’ Cajun turkey gravy

Whole Foods mashed sweet potatoes with marshmallows 

Whole Foods mashed potatoes 

Whole Foods  mac and cheese 

Whole Foods orange cranberry sauce 

Homemade green bean casserole 

Pillsbury crescents 

Pie Factory sweet potato pie 

Pie Factory pumpkin pie 

Pie Factory pecan pie

 

 

 

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Just the two of us, but fuck it we are going all out. And eating leftovers for days and days. 
 

Specialty cocktail:
Smoked rosemary Negroni 

Menu: 
- Oven-roasted turkey, using Alton Brown's wet brine preparation
- Savory Sweet Potato Casserole (think browned butter and sage flavor profile)
- BLT oyster stuffing
- Green beans, with a shallot/butter/white wine sauce 
- Mac n cheese, mimicking the Luby’s recipe 
- Roasted Brussels sprouts (nothing fancy - just olive oil, salt, pepper)

Dessert:
- pumpkin pie ice cream pie (made yesterday, pictured below) 
- cranberry-pomegranate mousse pie

Here is the ice cream pie

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Smoked brisket

green bean casserole 

deviled eggs

Garlic mashed potatoes

Fruit salad (bananas, strawberries, grapes in vanilla yogurt)

Pecan pie

lemon meringue Pie

BIL is making some kind of creole Cajun dish as well.

My folks were going to bring a turkey and dressing, broccoli cheese rice and something else but they bailed due to rona.

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Normally we have a full house and host international students and single folks and serve a traditional meal with turkey and a lot of the dishes prepared above. Due to the plague happening, we are down to immediate family and reduced further as our Cali girl is going to stay put due to concerns about travel.

So, I asked the remaining family what they'd like and they came up with this plan:

Drinks are going to be varied but we have a full pantry so that may be determined later.

Duckling

Mashed potatoes

Dressing

Green beans, not the casserole--they hate that

Cranberries

Homemade rolls

Pumpkin pie

Day two will have the leftovers plus I will be adding sweet potatoes as the 'new dish' and probably another cream pie or lemon pie. If I have sweet potatoes left over then they will go in a pie, too. If the duck is consumed completely on day one, then we have a beef rib roast that will augment the sides.

 

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17 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Lazy Thanksgiving meal: 

Goode Company Smoked Turkey, carved

Goode Company jambalaya 

Ragin’ Cajun cornbread stuffing 

Ragin’ Cajun turkey gravy

Whole Foods mashed sweet potatoes with marshmallows 

Whole Foods mashed potatoes 

Whole Foods  mac and cheese 

Whole Foods orange cranberry sauce 

Homemade green bean casserole 

Pillsbury crescents 

Pie Factory sweet potato pie 

Pie Factory pumpkin pie 

Pie Factory pecan pie

 

 

 

Norman Rockwell is dead. 

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55 minutes ago, stork642 said:

no man GIF

How can you not have deviled eggs?  I thought that was assumed in these lists.  Get your act together Surly.  

Packaged as requested & ready to go in the fridge for kids to pick up. Saved 4 for us. Pie too.

(Vegan family getting Grandma’s home-baked vegan cookies &  a carton of their favorite fake “ice cream” from Whole Foods)

 

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Sister is doing the Turkey. I did the double-smoked ham on the BGE. Injected with maple syrup for 24 hours in fridge. Smoked for five hours at 250. Brown sugar and honey glazed for the last hour of the smoke.

Mrs. Tailgate is doing the classic green bean casserole.

Happy Turkey (and ham) day you crazy mofos.

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29 minutes ago, Tailgate said:

Sister is doing the Turkey. I did the double-smoked ham on the BGE. Injected with maple syrup for 24 hours in fridge. Smoked for five hours at 250. Brown sugar and honey glazed for the last hour of the smoke.

Mrs. Tailgate is doing the classic green bean casserole.

Happy Turkey (and ham) day you crazy mofos.

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Jesus that looks good. 

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55 minutes ago, Tailgate said:

Sister is doing the Turkey. I did the double-smoked ham on the BGE. Injected with maple syrup for 24 hours in fridge. Smoked for five hours at 250. Brown sugar and honey glazed for the last hour of the smoke.

Mrs. Tailgate is doing the classic green bean casserole.

Happy Turkey (and ham) day you crazy mofos.

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I said got damn.

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