Thanksgiving Dinner ~ Yum! Yum! ~ What do you have on the menu this year?
By Wordjunkie
@Wordjunkie (435)
Canada
October 8, 2010 4:12pm CST
I can't stop thinking about Thankgiving Dinner this weekend! We always have turkey with all the trimmings, sausage dressing, gravy, potaoes, carrots, turnips, squash, and desert of course apple pie with vanillia ice cream and chocolate pie with whipped cream. Yummy! 
I know that our neighbors in the US don't celebrate Thanksgiving until next month, but we in Canada have our Thanksgiving in October. Do you celebrate Thanksgiving? What does your family have on the menu for Thanksgiving?
I know that our neighbors in the US don't celebrate Thanksgiving until next month, but we in Canada have our Thanksgiving in October. Do you celebrate Thanksgiving? What does your family have on the menu for Thanksgiving?5 responses
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
9 Oct 10
I figured you were Canadian when you said Thanksgiving in Oct. I think that is a much more intelligent time to have it than November and I always have thought that.
This weekend, my former church has a church dinner. We hear Canadian English and Quebecois French during the meal. Lots of Canadians will come down and have church dinner with us. I consider it my Canadain Thanksgiving (my great grandparents on one side came from Trois Rivieres -spelling? Not sure where in Canada the other ones came from). Usually the church has the following:
turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, turnups mashed with butter, cranberries, rolls, butter and a choice of apple pie or pumpkin pie, there's also coffee or milk. I'm not sure why we have turnups. Have never figured that one out, but we have as long as I can remember. Strange thing is that I eat a little more of them every year.
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@Wordjunkie (435)
• Canada
9 Oct 10
Yes, I cannot imagine handling Thanksgiving right before the rush of Christmas but it is what you get use to, right?
They must be Acadians are they? I have Acadian blood in me, my fathers family was Acadians both sides and back about 200 years in my area, they were some of the first settlers in my area. If your other family were Acadians too, they likely were from the same general area, Atlantic Canada; so either Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, or PEI, Newfoundland is part of Atlantic Canada too but most Acadians come from the first four provinces.
Turnips are big here, especially at Thanksgiving, I think mostly because they are local vegetable, as well as the rest of the veggies found in my Thanksgiving dinner. Maybe the church cook them for the Canadians, LOL. Most here have cranberies as well, my family does not particularly like them though so we omit them. 
@Cookiebear (159)
• Canada
9 Oct 10
We usually have the traditional Turkey Dinner's with all the trimmings as well.
There is nothing more delightful then going home for Thansgiving, you never find another Thanksgiving feast as furfilling to you then what you are used to from your childhood.
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@Wordjunkie (435)
• Canada
9 Oct 10
So true Cookiebear, we often follow what we remeber as a happy thanksgiving from the past.
@ElicBxn (63594)
• United States
8 Oct 10
When mom was cooking it we had turkey, stuffing, gravy, potatoes, some kind of veggie or two, green beans often and apple and pumpkin pies.
Last year I did it both with my brother and my roommate's folks, this year... well, my bro broke up with his girlfriend and I haven't met the new gal and mom is even more disabled than last year, so I don't know what, if anything I'll be doing with him (the less the better in my opinion.)
at the roomie's folks I'll have some turkey and potatoes and stuffing probably good thing gravy isn't an integral part of my ability to enjoy a meal...
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@Wordjunkie (435)
• Canada
9 Oct 10
The main dish to me is not negotiable at Thanksgiving but I do the cooking so I am not putting anyone out by being stuborn about it. I love turkey and could easily live on turkey and chicken.
We used to go to my parents years ago but after some of or children came along that got harder to do. Two of my children have left home now but they always come for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. Its nice to have the whole family together for these dinners.
@hardworkinggurl (37063)
• United States
9 Oct 10
Every year it is my responsibility to make sure the gigantic dinner and festivity blossoms, but this year, a first for me I may be gone all of November. My boyfriend is an actor and he has a major assignment out of town and well he wants to take yours truly with him, Yippee..
Anyways I feel so guilty, a little though as I have never missed a Thanksgiving feast, then I thought just yesterday why can't we be thankful any day so I decided if in fact we will be gone we are leaving one week prior to our Thanksgiving, so I came up with the idea why can't we celebrate and this way no one will miss the wonderful feast I normally make on the big day.
So I am crossing my fingers that my boyfriend get this big part and I can have sometime away as it truly has been a bad year for me, as then I would have the big feast also as I am sure God would want us to be Thankful no matter what day it is.
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@Wordjunkie (435)
• Canada
9 Oct 10
Oh yes, thats right it does not really matter what day you celebrate. In fact, the Canadian Thanksgiving is actually Monday, but we are celebrating and having our dinner on Sunday, simply because it is easier on those who have small children and need to have them off to bed early on a school night.
And woot, woot on the going away with the boyfriend much more fun than cooking a big old meal.
Hope it all turns out the way you plan and have a Happy Thanksgiving workinggurl no matter when you celebrate it.
Hope it all turns out the way you plan and have a Happy Thanksgiving workinggurl no matter when you celebrate it. 
@Wordjunkie (435)
• Canada
9 Oct 10
Many have sweet potatoes here as well but my family are not particularly crazy about them so we don't bother with them. Squash is my family's favorite, we have butternut squash which I cream, it is very good.
