Canadian Thanksgiving

[B-17]

What is everyone who celebrates(?) it eating tonight?

-Turkey, with stuffing-- craisins, sunflower seeds, thyme, and rosemary. And bread
-Mashed potatoes, with garlic and butter
-Applesauce with some cinnamon on top
-Turnip
-Boiled carrots
-Brussels sprouts
-Apple pie
-Apple crisp

That is my somewhat modest feast. What about you?

[Tigger29]

Grr I'm hungry now!  THANK YOU VERY MUCH!  I wouldn't mind so much if I didn't start a DIET today! haha

I know Thanksgiving isn't for another five or six weeks here in the US but here goes.

I usually make the Turkey.  It has turned out fantastic the last five years now so I see no reason to stop there!  I just roast it in a large turkey pan covered in foil (forget those bags that's cheating!) stuffed with a cornbread stuffing mixed with onions, apples, and raisins!  Sounds weird but it's actually quite good!  I surround it with onions, carrots, peppers, celery.. and just about any other vegetable I can think of.  The last two years I used a special kind of pork rub with it that I got at a local farmers market.  Every two hours I'll remove the foil and baste it with its own juices then recover it and put it back in.  The final two hours of roasting is done without foil on top to give it time to brown on top properly.

Then I take the finished turkey to my G/F's parent's house where they host a large party.. usually about 25-30 of us and there are never any turkey leftovers!  Even my G/F's dad gets (jokingly) angry because he pulls a leg out and the bone pops right out of the meat!  It just melts in your mouth!  Before my wife left me three years ago we'd host Thanksgiving at our house (I should say I'd do the cooking, cleaning and setup while she played on the computer).  I miss those days but things work out well with my G/F's parents now as her mom has more oven space for desserts!  YUM!

There was actually only one year I roasted the turkey for too long.  It didn't turn out so well.  Actually I have a video of it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spmqbs8YCW8

[Gooss]

Happy Thanksgiving!

[B-17]

Tigger... Wow, that sounds good-- if I hadn't already eaten my own turkey, you would be making my mouth water

[MiloMorai]

What, no punkin pie with whipped cream? For shame!!!

[shotgunneeley]

Save the neck for me, Clark! 

Here is our usual list of country fixin's:

-Oven cooked Butterball Turkey and then hickory smoked
-Oven cooked Boston Butt Ham and then hickory smoked
-(On occasion, grilled duck kabobs wrapped in bacon and skewered with peppers)
-Sister Shubert dinner rolls
-Turkey-n-Dressing
-Cranberry Sauce (me favorite)
-Boiled Corn
-Purple Hull Peas with Homemade chili sauce

-Chocolate Cake
-a fruit cobbler of some sort, usually peach or blackberry
-Pumpkin pie with whip cream

We'll serve up to 19 if we get the entire family in (granparents, aunts/uncles, cousins, etc.) and make it last for at least two days after Thanksgiving. We always spend the holiday at our deer camp where we fish, ride 4-wheelers and hunt anything that will fit in the frying pan. Arkansas always plays LSU the Saturday after Thanksgiving so that's usually the big cap off to the holiday.