spedteach

Thanksgiving is Thursday!!!! Can you believe it?? My oh my, time does fly doesn't it/???? Well, with the big dinners coming up, and since I'm having people over my house and will do lots of cooking, food has been on my mind..(umm...when isn't it???) so let's do a food for thanksgiving thread. What is your all time, I can't live without this food on the table at thanksgiving???

I'd have to say, hands down that my all time favorite Thanksgiving food is mashed potatoes and gravy.........YUMMY!!!

Anyone else have something they love to eat so much that they'd be disappointed if it weren't served on turkey day?????


Sped teach

I AM

Gotta be the gravy, also. I pour it over the whole plate. Gotta have it w/ bisquits and eggs the next morning too.

LovingMom

Ummmm....gotta be Sweet potatos...swimming in butter and with marshmellow on top. Pumpkin Pie with whipped cream is a very close second. I won't be doing Thanksgiving this year so I will need someone from the board to have some and think of me.

smoke gets in my eyes

Scalloped oysters.

jojo

Besides all the obvious choices I would have to chose a fruit salad that my family has made for 5 generations. It is sooo good but a pain to make so only have it on Thanksgiving. Also marshmellowy sweet potatoes. I'm getting hungry just thinking about it!

Ann

Turnip (I think you Americans call them rutabegas, but turnips are the large ones). Mashed with lots of butter and a big dab of brown sugar.

And a neck-on-neck fave is the stuffing. A nice sage stuffing with nothing weird added.

We had our Canadian Thanksgiving in October, but in honour of all my American friends I will be cooking a turkey anyway. I love turkey.

P.S. LovingMom - get yourself a big ole pumkin pie and whipped cream and just have a feast because you are special.

Gabe

Thanksgiving that are traditions in my family. One is pumpkin bread, made from a recipe from a long-time family friend. This is breakfast on Thanksgiving morning. A slice of that and a cup of coffee is just Heavenly. The other is pumpkin-cheesecake pie (two layers...cheesecake on the bottom, pumpkin on the top). I rarely have mashed potatoes and gravy or stuffing, so those are favorites of mine as well.
Merely smelling the turkey roasting on Thanksgiving is a treat in itself. This year, I have added carmel/apple pie to the Thanksgiving line-up. Because hey...you can never have too much pie.
I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving. As always, I will be counting all my SR friends among my many blessings.
Peace,
Gabe

Alongtimegone

Stuffing is by far my favorite, and the lyrics to this song I send out (as a new tradition) every year to friends and family!



Artist: Don Henley
Album: Inside Job
Title: My Thanksgiving


A lot of things have happened
Since the last time we spoke
Some of them are funny
Some of 'em ain't no joke
And I trust you will forgive me
If I lay it on the line
I always thought you were a friend of mine

Sometimes I think about you
I wonder how you're doing now
And what you're going through

The last time I saw you
We were playing with fire
We were loaded with passion
And a burning desire
For every breath, for every day of living
And this is my Thanksgiving

Now the trouble with you and me, my friend
Is the trouble with this nation
Too many blessings, too little appreciation
And I know that kind of notion—well, it just ain't cool
So send me back to Sunday school
Because I'm tired of waiting for reason to arrive
It's too long we've been living
These unexamined lives

I've got great expectations
I've got family and friends
I've got satisfying work

I've got a back that bends
For every breath, for every day of living
This is my Thanksgiving

Have you noticed that an angry man
Can only get so far
Until he reconciles the way he thinks things ought to be
With the way things are

Here in this fragmented world, I still believe
In learning how to give love, and how to receive it
And I would not be among those who abuse this privilege
Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge

And I don't mind saying that I still love it all
I wallowed in the springtime
Now I'm welcoming the fall
For every moment of joy
Every hour of fear
For every winding road that brought me here
For every breath, for every day of living
This is my Thanksgiving

For everyone who helped me start
And for everything that broke my heart
For every breath, for every day of living
This is my Thanksgiving