What is your favorite Thanksgiving Day food!?

[Gefn]

Just for fun….Hurray for Thanksgiving!

[Elderberry]

Southern Turkey Cornbread Dressing.

[Hoodat]

Gotta have cranberry sauce with that stuffing and gravy.

Of course, there's always crawfish.

[Gefn]

Gotta have cranberry sauce with that stuffing and gravy.

Of course, there's always crawfish.

I’ve never had this, but it looks so yummy!

Baby Lobsters?

[Elderberry]

I love crawfish more as an Étouffée.

[Elderberry]

I’ve never had this, but it looks so yummy!

Baby Lobsters?

Otherwise known as Crawdads or Mud Bugs.

[Cyber Liberty]

Just for fun….Hurray for Thanksgiving!

While my fave is Turkey, we're going to rotisserie a Chicken to go with the stuffing and gravy...no guests this year and the catz like chicken more.

[catfish1957]

Gotta have cranberry sauce with that stuffing and gravy.

Of course, there's always crawfish.

Crawfish in December?  My Yankee wife loves crawfish, but the first drive through places don't have the mudbugs available usually until mid January, and often as late a early February.

Me?  I used to frequent a bar in the late 70's- early '80's that served the stuff up free, and I got burned out on it.

[mountaineer]

Southern Turkey Cornbread Dressing.

Yes!

[libertybele]

My favorite meal of the year to cook (and eat). Turkey, sausage stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, mashed sweet potatoes (just mashed with milk & butter) cranberry salad, vegetable of some sort, zucchini bread, King's Hawaiian sweet rolls, pumpkin pie with homemade whipped cream, and pecan pie.

Usually we have an afternoon Thanksgiving dinner and then later on we eat leftovers and of course .... more pie!!! I love both pumpkin and pecan, so I normally do a little bit of both.

Leftovers again the next day .... yummmerific!!

[Free Vulcan]

Pee-can pie.

[libertybele]

Pee-can pie.

I've always pronounced it pe-can, but pee-can or pe-can is really hard to beat at Thanksgiving...and a dollop of whipped cream makes it even better.

[Free Vulcan]

I've always pronounced it pe-can, but pee-can or pe-can is really hard to beat at Thanksgiving...and a dollop of whipped cream makes it even better.

My southern relatives always pronounced it pee-can, while most up here in Iowa don't, and of course I have to remind them how to say it 'correctly.'

I can substitute pumpkin pie, but yes whipped cream or ice cream is a necessity. That gets me into a good sugar coma for watching the football game.

[roamer_1]

Thanksgiving night.

Pre-cut pumpkin pie, spray-on whip cream, 3am, buck nekkid, by the frigerator light.

Best.thing.ever.

[Gefn]

My favorite meal of the year to cook (and eat). Turkey, sausage stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, mashed sweet potatoes (just mashed with milk & butter) cranberry salad, vegetable of some sort, zucchini bread, King's Hawaiian sweet rolls, pumpkin pie with homemade whipped cream, and pecan pie.

Usually we have an afternoon Thanksgiving dinner and then later on we eat leftovers and of course .... more pie!!! I love both pumpkin and pecan, so I normally do a little bit of both.

Leftovers again the next day .... yummmerific!!

Leftovers sometimes taste better.

[Elderberry]

I have to have both pecan and pumpkin pies, in multiples, with plenty of ice cream.

One year my older sis made me a pecan pie, but she didn't leave it in the oven long enough and it didn't set. It made the best ice cream topping though.

[Cyber Liberty]

Pee-can pie.

P'Kahn, yankee....

[Cyber Liberty]

Thanksgiving night.

Pre-cut pumpkin pie, spray-on whip cream, 3am, buck nekkid, by the frigerator light.

Best.thing.ever.

You and your naked fridge stories....

[Cyber Liberty]

Pecan Pie is too damned good for me.  If I made it, I'd swallow a whole pie and that's good for about five pounds on my ass. 

[LMAO]

The turkey

I'm usually eating it as I carve it

[Right_in_Virginia]

Pecan Pie is too damned good for me.  If I made it, I'd swallow a whole pie and that's good for about five pounds on my ass.

Wait .... what??? People actually eat pecan pie?  I always thought there was one pie per family brought out year after year for the holidays ----just to keep the fruitcake company.

[Elderberry]

Wait .... what??? People actually eat pecan pie?  I always thought there was one pie per family brought out year after year for the holidays ----just to keep the fruitcake company.

Now I know that people think fruitcakes are a joke, but to consider pecan pies as a joke too is going too far. I take it you've never even tasted a fresh out of the oven homemade pecan pie. Or even a chocolate pecan pie. And if you've ever eaten just a slice of my Mom's fruitcake, you wouldn't joke about fruitcakes either.

[The_Reader_David]

The list is missing cranberry sauce/relish.  I like both the canned version we had growing up in the '60's and homemade versions cooked from fresh cranberries with candied orange peel (or better still kumquats, if you can find them).

[The_Reader_David]

Now I know that people think fruitcakes are a joke, . . .

Fruitcakes are a joke, unless you do them right, which involves copious amounts of (take your pick) brandy, rum or whiskey, in which case they are simply glorious!

[AllThatJazzZ]

Conventional Thanksgiving fave: Jalapeño dressing

Unconventional Thanksgiving fave: Crab gumbo

[Elderberry]

Fruitcakes are a joke, unless you do them right, which involves copious amounts of (take your pick) brandy, rum or whiskey, in which case they are simply glorious!

Whiskey sure makes pound and bundt cakes fantastic as well.

[Elderberry]

Conventional Thanksgiving fave: Jalapeño dressing

Unconventional Thanksgiving fave: Crab gumbo

Don't forget the Oyster Rockefeller!

[Idiot]

Southern Turkey Cornbread Dressing.

[roamer_1]

I have never had anything unconventional for thanksgiving. True to form, all the way along, entirely predictable, and enormously delicious.

[Gefn]

The list is missing cranberry sauce/relish.  I like both the canned version we had growing up in the '60's and homemade versions cooked from fresh cranberries with candied orange peel (or better still kumquats, if you can find them).

@The_Reader_David

Added!

[Gefn]

Don't forget the Oyster Rockefeller!

I love oysters! Mmm. Now I’m hungry…..


I thought the only things left at the end of the world would be cockroaches, fruitcakes and Keith Richards

[jafo2010]

In addition to all the normal stuff, we added french bread with a thick slab of butter and caviar spread across the top.  Truly yum!!!

[Right_in_Virginia]

Now I know that people think fruitcakes are a joke, but to consider pecan pies as a joke too is going too far. I take it you've never even tasted a fresh out of the oven homemade pecan pie. Or even a chocolate pecan pie. And if you've ever eaten just a slice of my Mom's fruitcake, you wouldn't joke about fruitcakes either.

   I just think pecan pie is sickeningly sweet.

[mountaineer]

I'd never heard of pecan pie as a TG dessert offering. I agree - too sweet.
We always went with pumpkin, apple or mince pie, but mostly pumpkin. I made a pumpkin cheesecake one year, which was good, but just not the same.

[libertybele]

  I just think pecan pie is sickeningly sweet.

I used to think it was way too sweet as well until I was given a different recipe ... now I love it.

[libertybele]

I'd never heard of pecan pie as a TG dessert offering. I agree - too sweet.
We always went with pumpkin, apple or mince pie, but mostly pumpkin. I made a pumpkin cheesecake one year, which was good, but just not the same.

Heck, any pie on Turkey day is wonderful! I don't make pies too often, and TG is a good excuse to make a couple. 

[roamer_1]

We will have pumpkin, apple, pecan, and cherry cheesecake...

[Free Vulcan]

We will have pumpkin, apple, pecan, and cherry cheesecake...

Oooh yes, cherry cheesecake. Grandma use to make something close called Cherry Yum-yum. Used to eat that till I got sick.

[Bigun]

I'd never heard of pecan pie as a TG dessert offering. I agree - too sweet.
We always went with pumpkin, apple or mince pie, but mostly pumpkin. I made a pumpkin cheesecake one year, which was good, but just not the same.

You would change your mind if you ever had one made by the lady of this house.  @mountaineer @Right_in_Virginia

And BTW: I still hate those syrupy, sickeningly sweet, concoctions that pass for pecan pie in some places.

[Bigun]

I voted for the Turkey, Stuffing, Gravy option but ONLY if the Turkey is deep fried by me personally and the stuffing is prepared according to our old family recipe and accompanied by copious quantities of homemade cranberry sauce.

[Smokin Joe]

Dunno why people are down on fruitcake. Especially with walnuts and pecans, I love the stuff. It's like White Man's Pemmican. (Survival food).

[Gefn]

I’m hearing a lot this year about salted turkeys.

https://www.americastestkitchen.com/recipes/3185-roast-salted-turkey

[mountaineer]

Dunno why people are down on fruitcake. Especially with walnuts and pecans, I love the stuff. It's like White Man's Pemmican. (Survival food).

Yeah, I'm not anti-fruitcake. Depends on the density of the nuts and fruit, I guess. My mother used to make mini-fruitcakes the same size as mini-muffins. They weren't bad. Even non-fruitcake lovers could handle a bite-sized one.

[Bigun]

Dunno why people are down on fruitcake. Especially with walnuts and pecans, I love the stuff. It's like White Man's Pemmican. (Survival food).

Best in the world @Smokin Joe

Collin Street Bakery

[Polly Ticks]

  I just think pecan pie is sickeningly sweet.

That's why you drink a cup of black coffee with it.   


I love all the traditional Thanksgiving menu items, but my favorite thing is the "food for the soul" .... time spent with family.  That's the most precious thing.

[Idiot]

We will have pumpkin, apple, pecan, and cherry cheesecake...

All of the above with the addition of Lemon custard.  And for a salad...my grandmother's pineapple salad, that contains pineapple, whipped cream, jello and diced pecans, covered in grated cheese. 

[Right_in_Virginia]

Oooh yes, cherry cheesecake. Grandma use to make something close called Cherry Yum-yum. Used to eat that till I got sick.

This is nice for Thanksgiving ....  apple pie cheesecake.  Yum!

[berdie]

This is nice for Thanksgiving ....  apple pie cheesecake.  Yum!

Oh my, @Right_in_Virginia! although I am a cheesecake "purist" I will occasionally have cherry topped...but this sounds delicious! Wish I had the recipe.

In answer to the poll....cornbread dressing and more cornbread dressing!

[roamer_1]

Oooh yes, cherry cheesecake. Grandma use to make something close called Cherry Yum-yum. Used to eat that till I got sick.

YEP. Mama's cherry cheesecake is a fixture, and the highlight of every family get-together... The last thing laid out, and the first thing gone. 

[roamer_1]

All of the above with the addition of Lemon custard.  And for a salad...my grandmother's pineapple salad, that contains pineapple, whipped cream, jello and diced pecans, covered in grated cheese.

We have something like that... Pineapple, green jello, walnuts, cream, and cream cheese all worried together...

And don't fault me on the walnuts... Pecans are a long way away, and cost a bit up in here.