Your favorite Thanksgiving dish?
By katsmeow1213
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
United States
November 25, 2010 4:38pm CST
What dish do you look forward to most for Thanksgiving dinner? Is it the turkey, the stuffing.. maybe the pumpkin pie? Is there are special dish you or a family member makes each Thanksgiving just for that holiday?
I don't do much of anything special. I used boxed stuffing, canned yams, gravy from a jar, frozen squash (which I add brown sugar and maple syrup to just like mom used to do), pre-made pies. The only thing I make from scratch every year is the green bean casserole, and I still haven't perfected that.. but my kids love it... oh, and the mashed potatoes are from scratch as well as a special treat because through out the year we'll usually do instant mashed potatoes to save time.
But the thing I look forward to the most isn't on the table at Thanksgiving... it's the left overs! I love making sandwiches with the left over turkey and some cranberry sauce! I've been so looking forward to this sandwich that I wanted to make the turkey a few days ago just to have the sandwich sooner! I might make one of these sandwiches later, if I ever stop feeling so stuffed!
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9 responses
@AmbiePam (93738)
• United States
27 Nov 10
I always look forward to my Nana's tabouli. She makes it for me on Thanksgiving or Christmas, and this year it was Thanksgiving. We didn't have cranberry sauce this year which surprised me. But everything else was really great. I skipped the mashed potatoes because it tasted like someone had just dumped a bunch of butter in them. But it was all good, and the stuffing was the best I've had in years.
@AmbiePam (93738)
• United States
27 Nov 10
It is a mix of barley, lemon juice, tomatoes, green onions, and can contain something like mint, but I don't ever eat it with mint. It is also spelled two ways. The spelling usually indicates which kind of tabouli the person has made. My grandmother's is more Mediteranean. The other way to spell it is usually the recipe used in countries around the Middle East or India.
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
29 Nov 10
Sounds like a salsa sort of.. but without the spice of the jalepenos. Do you eat it as a side dish or as a garnish?
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@jillhill (37354)
• United States
27 Nov 10
Sounds like the meal I make...and there is nothing wrong with it at all...I love the stuffing and sweet potatoes....I make my sweet potatoes with brown sugar and butter and put marshmallows on the top and bake until toasty brown. The stuffing is Stove top...and I love that too! I however am making creamed turkey and biscuits from the leftovers....for supper tonight. My son's family took home part of the turkey and they are having the same. Yummy!
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
29 Nov 10
Think I'll try that next year, thanks.. sounds so good!
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
27 Nov 10
A lot of people make their sweet potatoes with marshmellow. Do you still use the canned yams for that? Do you mash them up?
@danishcanadian (28955)
• Canada
26 Nov 10
I really love how it all goes together, but if I had to choose, I'd have to say I love the stuffing. :)
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
26 Nov 10
Hi kats! Happy Thanksgiving! It's 7:00PM and I still haven't
eaten or neither has the bf! I'm not feeling well and I never
want to eat after "cooking" all day. I purposely got up early
(10:30AM)lol to get the bird ready and it's been ready for
hours. When I cook it, I never feel like eating it until later
on in the evening! I also made boxed stuffing, canned corn,
canned yams, biscuits, but the gravy is homemade! And I really
wanted a turkey sandwich since a brought the frozen bird home
on Monday! Looks like that's going to be the first way I'm
going to eat!
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
26 Nov 10
What amazes me is how it takes you all day to prepare the dinner, but only 5 minutes to scarf it down, then another half hour to clean it all up. Just crazy! Almost makes me wonder what is the point. We ate a couple hours ago and I'm almost ready for my turkey sandwich now.
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
26 Nov 10
We don't celebrate Thanksgiving but at Christmas I use boxed stuffing but add other things to it to give it a home made taste! You sound as if you have everything under control in your kitchen. I have never made a successful green bean casserole so please et me have the details when you get this down pat
It sounds like you had a good Thanksgiving. Blessings
It sounds like you had a good Thanksgiving. Blessings@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
26 Nov 10
Well my issue is the beans. I do not like canned green beans but the frozen ones never come out right. I suppose I have to pre-cook them before adding the rest of the ingredients but I just haven't done that yet. Normally I try to just thaw them first.
Anyways, it's really simple as all you need is cream of mushroom soup and french fried onions along with the green beans. The exact recipe is usually on the soup or fried onions.. you need about 1 cup of milk as well.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
29 Nov 10
Though I haven't had the opportunity to enjoy my favorite Thanksgiving dish for several years because of the fact that we are expected to spend the holiday with my husband's side of the family, my favorite things that I would love to enjoy for Thanksgiving is greenbean casserole and also broccoli casserole. My mother in law doesn't fix either of those dishes, but my mother does when we've been able to eat Thanksgiving dinner with her.
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
29 Nov 10
Well if you're going to your in-law's again next year why not make those dishes yourself to bring along? That's what I'd do.. and they'll probably appreciate the gesture. I also make my green bean casserole at Christmas.. so you could do it then as well. Christmas to us is like another Thanksgiving dinner.. only usually with ham instead of Turkey, though one year I did both on Christmas because I was not sick of turkey yet!
@GardenGerty (160879)
• United States
25 Nov 10
Pies of all kinds is what I would probably say. Actually my favorite part of Thanksgiving is the games on the table afterwards.
@ravinskye (8237)
• United States
27 Nov 10
Do you put the cranberry sauce on your sandwich? I think the thing I look forward to the most is my mom's stuffing. She makes fried stuffing. She makes the stuffing from scratch with ripped up bread, eggs, celery, onion and salt and pepper. Then she forms it into a patty and fries it in butter. It is soooo good! She made extra for me so I could take some home. I also look forward to the left over turkey. When we were kids we would eat the leftovers usually that evening after having dinner at my grandmothers. My dad makes this special sauce and we'd dip our turkey in it. I like it with cold turkey.
@aurorastorm (1131)
• United States
27 Nov 10
My favorite dish on Thanksgiving is also one I make every year, the stuffing. Love it so much and pray every year that there is some left over, but I guess everyone in my family likes it as much as I do and so there is never left overs for the next day. I also love turkey and making an open faced turkey sandwich the next day.
