What dishes are included in your feast?

[davedove]

One of the single Soldiers from my unit will also be over. If any of them can't make it home, I always offer mine for the holidays. I guess you can call that the non-typical tradition in my house.

But it is a very typical, and commendable, tradition on a military installation. I never had to worry about being away from family on Thanksgiving when I was an enlisted man because there was always a Sergeant to invite me over.

[BEEDEE]

We add a Pavlova for dessert. It's a New Zealand thing - egg white meringue with whipped cream and fruit on top. This year its raspberries with a triple raspberry coulee over the berries. So who counts calories on Thanksgiving anyway!

Brian

[Riverkilt]

My late mother used to make up lemon merangue(?) pie for desert. But booze was the main dish at our family Thanksgiving gatherings. I mean think about it. Both my parents were descended from the same three Mayflower families. One of them was John Alden who was in charge of the beer. Water didn't keep on the transatlantic trip so everyone drank beer, which did keep.

They must have had some beer left after they arrived in Plymouth...or at least knew how to make it. So my guess is that for the first Thanksgiving the Mayflower folks invited the Native folks for beer and turkey. Really. You can look it up in the history books....somewhere or other....Todd...save me here....had to be, right??

Ron

[Kilted Surveyor]

Rotisserie Turkey, Brussel Sprouts w/ carmelized shallots and onions. Deer sausage stuffing with fennel, garlic and thyme. Buttermilk & green onion biscuits. Peanut Brittle Salad (it is a Belgian dish handed down from my Great-Great Grandmother. Ground up peanut brittle, little marshamallows, whipped cream, amaretto and vanilla. Sounds like a desert but it is isn't). Pumpkin Praline pie and Apple Pie w/ Cheddar cheese.

I cook the meal and my Lovely Bride does the desserts.

[Pleater]

Rabbit is a traditional seasonal dish at harvest time.

We don't celebrate Thanksgiving, but we do have 'Harvest Festivals'.

As a child I remember the roast rabbits and rabbit casseroles which used to appear when the farmer cut the wheat in the fields behind our house.

The rabbits killed by the dogs were roasted, but the ones which were shot had to be cut up to find the pellets.

Anne the Pleater

[vmac3205]

Rabbit is a traditional seasonal dish at harvest time.

We don't celebrate Thanksgiving, but we do have 'Harvest Festivals'.

As a child I remember the roast rabbits and rabbit casseroles which used to appear when the farmer cut the wheat in the fields behind our house.

The rabbits killed by the dogs were roasted, but the ones which were shot had to be cut up to find the pellets.

Anne the Pleater

Love rabbit. We were in Prague, and part of out hotel was apartments with permanent residents. One such place had a cage with a couple of rabbits. As my travel companions walked by, she gave out a sigh along with..."ahhh hassenpfeffer on the hoof"

[McMurdo]

Does she use rolled or cut oats, Glen?

I have absolutely no idea, but I'll ask her.

[Jack Daw]

Yesterday, I went to my brother's for Thanksgiving. We had fried turkey, which was a first for all, along with the usual ham, cornbread dressing, cranberry sauce, ambrosia salad, and pecan pie. Next to brussel sprouts, I do hate green bean cassarole the most. My 22-year-old niece made a greenbean cassarole. It was undercooked and watery, but I ate it like it was my favorite dish. I hope to get a reward in Heaven for that.

I brought the Blue Bell ice cream and the most delicious pecan pie ever made. My secretary made it for me. Because my sister-in-law had already purchased a pecan pie and chocolate pie, I got to take home the whole of my pecan pie. Oh, what joy!

[Carolina Kiltman]

Pretty much the traditional, but roasted chicken instead of turkey. (There were only five of us present, and we didn't want to have too many leftovers.) Cranberry sauce made with fresh cranberries, orange peel and port wine. Chestnut dressing, and mincemeat pie with both rum and brandy in it.

Note on holidays, a Priest once told me that while it was possible to commit gluttony on a feast day, one had to really work at it!

[Rob Wright]

For my family, I usually prepare a pork loin, this year I rubbed it with fresh herbs and spices and marinated the loin over night in a mix of chunky cranberry sauce and orange juice. The loin was slow cooked in the crock pot. Mashed taters with gravy made from the drippings of the loin, peas, stuffing, potato-sweet potato casserole, biscuits, pumpkin and blackberry pie, beer, wine, and cocktails.

Rob