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Re: What Thanksgiving foods do you love?
By: sandisadie Date: November 17, 2021, 1:03 pm
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I've always loved roasted turkey with gravy made from the
juices. We make our own cranberry sauce with the whole berries.
We always have mashed potatoes and usually green beans. This
year we are going to have sweet potato pie instead of pumpkin.
What I like best though, is having a toasted turkey breast
sandwich with mayo the next day.
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Re: What Thanksgiving foods do you love?
By: lakey Date: November 17, 2021, 1:37 pm
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I have all the traditional Thanksgiving foods, except I always
get a smoked turkey. It has more taste than regular turkey. I
hate to admit this, but my preference for cranberries is the
jelled stuff that comes in a can. You just open the can and plop
it into a dish. If there are going to be a lot of people, I also
make that cranberry relish in the Cuisinart with fresh
cranberries, an orange, and sugar.
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Re: What Thanksgiving foods do you love?
By: Jayhawk Date: November 17, 2021, 2:29 pm
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the bloody mary(s) I drink while preparing the meal;
the appetizer plate with olives, sweet pickles, etc.;
dark meat from the turkey;
sweet potatoes (but not with a bunch of syrup and marshmallows);
pie and coffee.
I like roasted veggies, but we always have the "traditional"
green bean casserole.
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Re: What Thanksgiving foods do you love?
By: Rho Date: November 17, 2021, 9:17 pm
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My cousin always Bar-B-Qd one turkey because the one in the oven
wasn't enough for the big group gathered.
But my favourite of the entire meal was the carrot cake.
Cousins friend who baked the cake also baked for local
restaurants.
The stuffing and also jello/coolwhip mold were a once a year
treat. Our group was busted up a few years ago as the 'kids'
got married and went to celebrate with in-laws and their parents
followed.
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Re: What Thanksgiving foods do you love?
By: Asharah Date: November 18, 2021, 12:05 pm
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[emoji884]Turkey, mashed potatoes with gravy, crescent rolls,
and cheesecake for desert.
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Re: What Thanksgiving foods do you love?
By: Winterlight Date: November 19, 2021, 9:13 am
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[quote author=Lilipons link=topic=2210.msg71767#msg71767
date=1637163360]
When I was a child there were holiday dishes that were a given
even if they made no sense or few if any family members liked
them.
Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter dinners always began with a
glass of tomato juice and a relish tray. For some reason,
although we drank orange, apple and grape juice on a regular
basis, tomato juice was considered something to be reserved for
holidays. The relish tray consisted of celery stalks, olives,
radishes and pickle slices. It was an odd way to start a meal
but, thinking back on it, the relish tray was always present
when we went to the Cedar Inn for my parent’s anniversary
dinner.
[/quote]
I was reading old Thanksgiving menus from restaurants and
magazines for a presentation I had to do at work, and the relish
tray was a standard going back to Victorian times. They usually
added carrot sticks as well. Also, they mentioned in the 1950s
menu I found that tomato/clam juice was the appetizer of choice.
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Re: What Thanksgiving foods do you love?
By: peony Date: November 19, 2021, 11:11 am
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[quote author=Winterlight link=topic=2210.msg71857#msg71857
date=1637334815]
[quote author=Lilipons link=topic=2210.msg71767#msg71767
date=1637163360]
When I was a child there were holiday dishes that were a given
even if they made no sense or few if any family members liked
them.
Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter dinners always began with a
glass of tomato juice and a relish tray. For some reason,
although we drank orange, apple and grape juice on a regular
basis, tomato juice was considered something to be reserved for
holidays. The relish tray consisted of celery stalks, olives,
radishes and pickle slices. It was an odd way to start a meal
but, thinking back on it, the relish tray was always present
when we went to the Cedar Inn for my parent’s anniversary
dinner.
[/quote]
I was reading old Thanksgiving menus from restaurants and
magazines for a presentation I had to do at work, and the relish
tray was a standard going back to Victorian times. They usually
added carrot sticks as well. Also, they mentioned in the 1950s
menu I found that tomato/clam juice was the appetizer of choice.
[/quote]
It could be a regional thing. I grew up in the midwest and I'm
not sure about today, but back in my day a relish tray was a
usual thing. (Not the tomato juice, but the celery, carrot
sticks, olives, and so on.)
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Re: What Thanksgiving foods do you love?
By: holly firestorm Date: November 19, 2021, 11:22 am
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peony, I grew up in the Northeast. I don't know if it was a
regional thing so much as something that was fashionable in the
latter half of the 20th century. I know a lot of restaurants
used to put out a dish of things like olives, cheese, celery,
like they put out a basket of bread, like an appetizer. I think
that's where people got it from, or vice versa.
I think many people still put out that little appetizer thing
before meals, but, probably with different stuff.
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Re: What Thanksgiving foods do you love?
By: AnnNottingham Date: November 19, 2021, 4:52 pm
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Growing up, Thanksgiving and Christmas were always the same
meal. It always started with sweet gherkin pickles and
manzanita olives. Both of those are still my tradition, though
I'm the only one who can stand either.
Turkey
Stuffing (my mom broke up the bread, sauteed the onions and
celery, the whole thing.)
Mashed potatoes
Peas with onions
Rolls
Lime Jell-O with mandarin oranges (still my tradition and no one
else loves it like me)
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Re: What Thanksgiving foods do you love?
By: Rose Red Date: November 19, 2021, 5:22 pm
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My family isn't originally from the US. We celebrate with plenty
of food on Thanksgiving but not the traditional American feast.
I eat turkey and mashed potatoes plenty throughout the year so
It wasn't a big deal to have it on that one day.
It wasn't until I started working and the company provided
Thanksgiving lunch that I tasted stuffing. I love it! Especially
the ones with big chunky bread pieces.
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