I want to wish everyone a nice Thanksgiving and a safe one. I am glad we don't have to travel. We are having our daughter and her clan over for dinner. The two boys are 15 and 18 years old and all they want is hamburgers. That is okay with me because we are having turkey and dressing with all the fixings. It will be a lot of fun. 

 

Maybe if you want to you guys could post what yall are doing for Thanksgiving.

Right back at you, Don!

 

We will spend time with my Mom. She lives in a retirement village. We'll all eat in their dining room and none of us has to cook!

Thanks Don,

Wishing you and everyone else a nice, safe one also.

2 hours ago, hawkeye10 said:

I want to wish everyone a nice Thanksgiving and a safe one.

Thanks Ron...

Same to ya buddy...

harvested game bird here , easy on the trimmings...

Edited November 20, 20187 yr by Stick486

My brother, his wife and I go to a buffet dinner at the Holiday Inn here.  No muss and no fuss go home filled full of great food.

Usually they have

Turkey-Ham-Roast Beef and Fish rounded out with stuffing-mashed potatoes-corn-green beans and salad.

Finish up with a wall of tables filled with different diserts to choose from.

Our daughter and several of the grandkids will be here, along with a friend or 2. My wife (who doesn't do the cooking anymore) still thinks we should have everything every individual wants to eat. I'm more of a "here it is, take or leave it" kind of guy. So we have spirited discussions about what to fix for dinner.

Me the wife and one son. She is makin turkey & dressing, sweet potato casserole , rolls, string bean casserole , tea and not sure what desert is . 

2 hours ago, HandyDan said:

My brother, his wife and I go to a buffet dinner at the Holiday Inn here.  No muss and no fuss go home filled full of great food.

Usually they have

Turkey-Ham-Roast Beef and Fish rounded out with stuffing-mashed potatoes-corn-green beans and salad.

Finish up with a wall of tables filled with different diserts to choose from.

 That's all??? 

 

Sounds more like a warm up appetizer to me. 

Thanksgiving Day is still undecided at the moment. Ex-SIL is planning to have the kids to travel to his parents for the day. If so, our meal will be delayed until Friday or Saturday; Wife, daughter and myself may go out Cracker Barrel or may do a non-traditional on the grill...shrimp, baked potatoes,slaw or a pot of vegetable beef stew.

 

Family meal will consist of turkey, ham, mashed potatoes/gravy, sweet potatoes, green beans, corn, dressing, salads and rolls; desert will be traditional pumpkin pie (I prefer sweet potato or squash) and pecan pie, my favorite but blueberry is really close 2nd. Miss my MIL's oyster dressing...it was the absolute best.

2 hours ago, HandyDan said:

My brother, his wife and I go to a buffet dinner at the Holiday Inn here.

Our old Holiday Inn used to have a dining room and the buffet. Our family went there a few times too for Thanksgiving years ago. The food was always great. We used to go there regularly after church for the Sunday buffet too. All ended when the Holiday Inn Express replaced it.

1 Thessalonians 5:18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

 

 

quiet day planned, just the two of us.  turkey, stuffing, sweet potato soup, deviled eggs, cranberry something, cheese cake for dessert.  and maybe something i've forgotten or not been told about.

 

Happy Thanksgiving all.

@Grandpadave52,

 

Your family meal is about half way there, add roast beef, three bean salad, roulade, corn bread, Brussel sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli, sweet rolls, a few different cakes, blackberry pie, and a few I'm sure I'm forgetting.

I myself would pass on the squash, and oyster dressing.

I'm about the only one that likes the pecan, and sweet potato pies, I bring them home if I leave any.

 

Edited November 20, 20187 yr by Larry Buskirk

@DAB,

You just reminded me some of what I was forgetting, the deviled eggs, cranberry sauce,

and my wife's home made CHEEEESE CAKE (She has to make one just for me )

48 minutes ago, Larry Buskirk said:

@DAB,

You just reminded me some of what I was forgetting, the deviled eggs, cranberry sauce,

and my wife's home made CHEEEESE CAKE (She has to make one just for me )

glad i could help make you happy and / or fat.  

 

1 hour ago, DAB said:

deviled eggs, cranberry something,

Reminded me too...always deviled eggs and cranberry something too...I don't eat cranberry anything but compensate by eating extra of everything else.

1 hour ago, Larry Buskirk said:

Brussel sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli,

Some combination of those generally also; forgot the carrots as well...

 

Now I'm hungry.

29 minutes ago, DAB said:

glad i could help make you happy and / or fat.  

 

I'm getting hungry again just reading these posts, I just ate half a pizza. 

 

For those of you that think having a tooth that's giving me grief is going to stop me from eating:

When I had my wisdom teeth taken out they had to remove the molars in front of them, so I had 8 teeth removed at the same time. This was before we were married, and the (now) wife was staying with her mom. She told the wife to bring me by after the surgery. She had a steak going in the broiler for me. (She had a cruel sense of humor) I looked at the wife, grinned, and pulled the gauze out  and ate that steak chewing only with my front teeth. Her mom couldn't believe it, it took me about an hour to eat it , but I finished it. The wife told her I'm sure he'd figure out how to eat even if his jaw was wired shut.

Edited November 20, 20187 yr by Larry Buskirk

Son, DIL and newest (8 months old) grand daughter, will be here for Turkey Day. Just breast meat, no bones, no dark meat. Oyster dressing using home made bread, French cut green beans and mashed potatoes. Sweet taters TBD. All kinds of salads. Son's birthday is on Thanksgiving and, DIL's is three days later. They requested momma's Boston Creme Pie for dessert. 

 

28 minutes ago, Gene Howe said:

Son, DIL and newest (8 months old) grand daughter, will be here for Turkey Day. Just breast meat, no bones, no dark meat. Oyster dressing using home made bread, French cut green beans and mashed potatoes. Sweet taters TBD. All kinds of salads. Son's birthday is on Thanksgiving and, DIL's is three days later. They requested momma's Boston Creme Pie for dessert. 

 

Pie?  did you say PIE!!!

 

we're on our way (all of us, or from your perspective, "all y'all")

 

i'll bring my own fork!

59 minutes ago, Gene Howe said:

momma's Boston Creme Pie for dessert.

 

30 minutes ago, DAB said:

we're on our way

 

get in line....

We, My wife and I, along with my youngest daughter, will be having dinner at my daughter-in-laws home. Her Mom, our 2 grand daughters with their other halves and the two great grand children. We were told to bring nothing but ourselves. That shouldn't be hard to do. Turkey, ham, all the vegies, muffins, pies,nuts,wine and more, just waiting to be enjoyed.

The one thing my son always asked was, each person at the table give a personal thanks, going around the table, for whatever you are thankful for on this day before having dinner. The tradition has lived on.

 

 Wishing everyone here a Happy Thanksgiving

Edited November 21, 20187 yr by It Was Al B