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Offline Amara

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Thanksgiving!
« on: November 15, 2018, 12:51:30 pm »
Let's do it; let's share our planned menus. Regardless of whether you are having turkey or not, I'd love to hear what you are planning. Even if you are doing ham with sides of ham, and water. (Remember that thread on the old board?  ;D)

Sparkling water and wine
Roast herb turkey
Oven-baked dressing with sage and thyme
Herb gravy
Dinner rolls
Cranberry sauce
Mosaic salad (my special green salad)
French green beans and shallots
Roasted endives with thyme
Black pepper pumpkin pie
White pomegranate tea
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Re: Thanksgiving!
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2018, 01:56:18 pm »
Well... I am not hosting TG but will be a guest so the exact menu will be whatever my host serves. From my end, though, I will be bringing wine and plan on drinking multiple glasses so my main menu consists of Cabernet Sauvignon.  ;D

We did Friendsgiving at a friend's house last weekend and the menu was:
Baked Cheese Crisps = appetizer
Smoked Turkey - they smoked it themselves and it was Delicious!
Stuffing
Mashed potatoes
Creamed spinach
Sweet potatoes
Roasted root vegetables
Pineapple casserole
Salad
Cranberry sauce
Rolls
Pecan pie
and of course wine

We had a feast!
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Re: Thanksgiving!
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2018, 06:44:05 pm »
We always have:

Roasted turkey
Mashed potatoes and gravy
Stuffing
Sweet potato casserole w/streusel topping
Green bean casserole
One other hot vegetable (this year it's corn)
Tossed salad
Rolls and butter
Birthday cake (my birthday is on Thanksgiving this year)

Five other guests were added last week. They are bringing a ham, and I don't know what else, but probably pie.
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Re: Thanksgiving!
« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2018, 11:01:48 am »
I am making

Turkey
Gravy
Mashed potatoes
Mashed sweet potatoes with brown sugar and pecan crust
Cornbread stuffing
Cranberry sauce
Green bean casserole
yeast rolls
green salad

for pre dinner munchies I'm making
Parmesan bread sticks
mini phyllo cups with brie, cranberries, honey and walnuts
Cheese and meat tray with crackers
veggies and dips
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Offline Amara

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Re: Thanksgiving!
« Reply #4 on: November 19, 2018, 12:07:56 pm »
Kimmers, I am curious about your appetizers. It seems to me that Thanksgiving is the one day of the year when no appetizers are needed due to the (usually) overwhelming amount of food. Do you find they work well or do you end up having a lot of leftover appetizers too?
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Re: Thanksgiving!
« Reply #5 on: November 19, 2018, 01:39:01 pm »
Thanksgiving has become an almost all day event at my house. We've got tons of people there usually several hours before the meal and the alcohol tends to flow freely so munchies are necessary.  Yes, there are usually leftovers, but once the dishes are done Thursday I will be done for the remainder of the weekend so that'll sustain us. 
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Re: Thanksgiving!
« Reply #6 on: November 19, 2018, 03:33:24 pm »
Yum!!

Turkey roasted with herbs, and gravy.
Cornbread dressing
Cranberry-orange sauce
Roasted carrots, potatoes, and sweet potatoes
Succotash (Yellow squash sauteed with green beans, corn, a little sweet bell pepper, thyme)
Hot spiced cider, iced tea, or coffee

We're having an open house in the afternoon, so we're doing cookies and several kinds of pie: sweet potato, pumpkin, apple, and my personal favorite, chocolate-molasses-bourbon-pecan.
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Re: Thanksgiving!
« Reply #7 on: November 23, 2018, 11:37:07 pm »
We don’t have Thanksgiving here in Oz. Looking at those menus, I wish we did. Yummo!

And Happy Thanksgiving!
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Re: Thanksgiving!
« Reply #8 on: November 26, 2018, 01:19:08 pm »
Poesie, you could start it! Choose a day for giving thanks, set a menu, and start the tradition. Who knows, maybe it will pick up.
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Re: Thanksgiving!
« Reply #9 on: November 26, 2018, 03:22:54 pm »
I agree, but if you want to have turkey, I'd suggest you do it in the cooler months.
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Offline STiG

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Re: Thanksgiving!
« Reply #10 on: November 26, 2018, 06:47:01 pm »
Canadian Thanksgiving is more of a harvest festival.  For Australia, fall would be April/May, I think.  Would you be able to have something similar?
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Re: Thanksgiving!
« Reply #11 on: November 27, 2018, 11:43:49 pm »
A harvest festival sounds doable. Probably in May since it’s usually properly cool by then (in my part of Oz anyway).
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