What tastes like Home?

[JodyLynn]

Thanksgiving & Christmas dinner are always the same for us. My sister and her family are not here for Thanksgiving but they are for Christmas, so we have a T-giving redo.

Turkey
Mom's dressing (wouldn't be holidays without it)
Green bean casserole
Scalloped oysters
Corn casserole
Sweet potatoes
Rolls
Pumpkin pie (sometimes for Christmas there's an additional dessert, but almost always pumpkin pie is one of the choices)

 

[iluv2scrap]

MrsSoup, i agree with you. I like things the same, lol. I am such a creature of habit and we have the same meal for Thanksgiving and Christmas. You can anything you want but you can't take anything away, lol. I too have had a holiday meal at ex-inlaws and was so disappointed by their holiday meal as it was nothing like i was used to.

Our holiday meal:

turkey (sometimes my brothers family will bring a ham)
stuffing
mashed potatoes
gravy
green beans and carrots
cream corn
brown and serve rolls
salad (i think only my mom eats this, lol)
jellied cranberry sauce
black and green olives
celery w/cream cheese
pumpkin pie
oreo stuff

sometimes we have my chocolate fountain or other desserts, sometimes my sister in law makes homemeade rolls or green bean casserole, and sometimes they bring a ham, but nothing from above gets replaced, just added

 

[masslass]

Thanksgiving for me just has to include:

• roast turkey (brined before roasting so it stays juicy) and gravy
  mashed or roasted potatoes
  garlic green beans (saute green beans in a bit of olive oil and add chopped garlic and salt - delicious!)
  whole-berry cranberry sauce
  baked or mashed butternut squash w/maple syrup and butter
  rolls
  some kind of salad, usually romaine and spinach with oranges and walnuts and red wine vinaigrette
  pumpkin and apple pie

 

[Pam Spaur]

When I was growing up in Baltimore, everything was steeped in tradition. On Thanksgiving :turkey: , my foster mother's family always came to our house. She was one of five children. Each of the siblings were married, and there were all the cousins, 11 or 12 of us. Her parents were from (late) Victorian England. I loved their accents, except we couldn't always understand Pop's thick Cockney accent. We always had the same things: turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, veggies, cranberry sauce (jellied), rolls. But desserts!!! Ah, pumpkin pie, mince meat pie, but the very best was the English plum pudding with hard sauce. The grownups were around the dining room table, while we younger ones were in the breakfast and sitting rooms. Ahhhh, memories, memories. What I would give for just one more time....

:bigsnow:

 

[MissBrittany]

mom's sugar cookies straight from the oven, and mammaw's apple pie. often imitated, never duplicated!