Let's get cooking!

[spinbaby]

Busy, busy day. Rolls are rising, the turkey (only a 14-pound bird) goes in at noon, leaves to put in the table, green-bean casserole to assemble. Busy, busy.

This is one day the family won't go for anything different--the menu was carved in stone by my in-laws at the beginning of time. We have a standard roasted turkey, Pepperidge Farm herb-seasoned stuffing made with celery and onions, crescent rolls (I did convince them to eat the homemade kind instead of the canned kind), green-bean casserole, mashed potatoes, peas, gravy, canned cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, and pecan pie.

[Freddie]

1. Me too

I try to make the dishes that my Grandma, who was a wonderful cook, made with love. Her holiday specialty was her stuffing or what we PA Dutch call filling. Diced potatoes, celery and onions cooked soft in lots of butter, mixed with plain soft bread cubes, eggs, milk, parsley, salt and just a little pepper, baked in a pan. Green bean casserole, Cope's dried corn, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes with marshmallows, a relish tray, pumpkin and apple pies. Gotta get out of bed, put coffee on and get moving too! Have a great Thanksgiving!

[FarPoint]

2. Our two birds are in the oven.

Brett is making the Parker House Rolls...Other family members are doing appetizers, sides and pies.

[Freddie]

4. Remember the old commercial...

"Bring out the second turkey!"
I think it was for Alka-Seltzer. Have a great holiday!

[FarPoint]

6. OMG! Yea!

Hey...you also have a festive Thanksgiving Day!

No one will need antacids with my dinner!

[hobbit709]

3. Just took the cobblers out of the oven.

now all I have to do is fix my breakfast and head over to my brother's at 2.

[Arkansas Granny]

5. The pies are baked (2 each of pecan, pumpkin and buttermilk),

the sides are all assembled and ready to be heated in the oven, the dressing is ready to go in the bird, the giblets are simmering gently. The turkey goes in the oven at noon, so we are having a fresh cup of coffee while the pumpkin seeds are toasting. So far, everything is on schedule.

[mopinko]

7. i worked so hard cleaning and re-orging my kitchen for the last 4 days.

i'm too tired and sore to cook! luckily DH is the heavy lifting cook. hopefully later i will at least be in shape for some simple jobs.
might just force some kids to chip in, tho, so it might be good.

smoking the bird, dh is out getting it lit.

[mopinko]

11. this is why he is my prince.

kids were great, too.

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[fizzgig]

8. we'll get the turkey in the oven in a couple hours

our menu is a lot like yours except we're having brussel sprouts with apple and bacon instead of the peas and apple pie instead of pumpkin. everything is made from scratch except the can of crescent rolls. this is the first thanksgiving in years where dad agreed to do real stuffing rather than the pepperidge farms stuffing.

we still have to make the fried onions for the casserole and assemble and heat it, cook off the sausage and assemble the stuffing and bake the apple pie (that'll go in the oven after dinner).

happy turkey day!

[The empressof all]

9. Just finished wrapping goat cheese stuffed dates in prosciutto

I'll pop them in the oven just as folks arrive....

Turkey is in now. Dressings and sweet potato casserole will warm as I make the mashed and the gravy

Off to make the salad dressing


It will be yummers

[eridani]

10. BIL just took the turkey out of the oven to rest

House is filled with the savory smells of a very traditional selection of sides like everyone else. I may be politically radical, but I'm a total cornball traditionalist on holidays.

[eridani]

12. And DAMN but it was good

Plenty for leftovers and stock for turkey soup. Sides were they usual green bean casserole, mashed potatoes and gravy, cornbread stuffing, cranberry sauce, biscuits, apple salad with dried cranberries and cinammon, and for a couple of extra sides creamed cauliflower and corn with tomato salsa. Pumpkin muffins and apple pie for dessert, but that will have to wait a couple of hours.

[Aerows]

13. I made good old fashioned green beans this year

I just love them, and I wanted some fresh ones just cooked. They were delicious.