Any Thanksgiving specialties?

luvmykids wrote: I'm drooling every time I see a post about the Canadian Thanksgiving, it just makes me that much more anxious for ours!

My favorites are my special signature sweet potatos and cranberries, even if we do Thanksgiving at my moms I still have to bring my own

Anyone else have a signature dish? Or what are your usuals?

mom2my2cuties replied: I always make my Cranberry Relish. Which isn't as special now since Andrew sells it on his website - but it was my memaws recipe and so it's like she is still there when I smell it cooking ....OH! And Memaws special cornbread dressing.

CantWait replied:
How do you make your sweet potatoes, if you don't mind sharing? I bought some, and I really don't want them now because I don't wanna do the same old same old.

Our Lil' Family replied: One year I made my mom's recipe for cornbread dressing at my dad's house and now I have to make it every year, by requst of my step mom!!!

CantWait replied:
What's cornbread dressing? Is it like a dressing like gravy, or a stuffing?

luvmykids replied:
Mine end up mashed in a casserole dish with a pecan/brown sugar crust. If that sounds good to you I'll give you the recipe.... they're always a big hit.

punkeemunkee'smom replied: I usually make about 15 pies for Thanksgiving Everyone has come to expect a Pumpkin or Pecan (I have a secret ingredient) and I make whipped cream to go with them At my parents house it is tradition that all the girls tear the bread up for the stuffing...one of my favorite pics is my dad holding Tay over the big bowl in the kitchen and she has a piece of bread in her hand helping Mimi make stuffing on Thanksgiving-she was 6 months old

C&K*s Mommie replied: I have three:

Dressing (preferably with the onions and celery 86ed ) & cranberry sauce (the jelly not the whole kind)
Sweet Potato casserole full of pecans
My FIL's ham

CantWait replied: Not a pecan lover, but otherwise pretty sounds like my sweet potatoes with the brown sugar.

mckayleesmom replied: I make awesome homeade mashed potatoes and yummy black eyed peas.

mom2my2cuties replied:
Cornbread Dressing is like Stuffing/Dressing made with bread...except it is made with Cornbread. Seems to me to give it more body.

It usually has Cornbread (I use one Jiffy and one regular) and boiled eggs, onions, chopped celery (I usually skip this), chicken broth, stuff like that

hawkshoe replied: I can't do thanksgiving without brown bread. My mother always had it and I love it. My inlaws are italian and don't make it. I always bring a loaf to share.

MyBrownEyedBoy replied: I make special scalloped potatos. I use both sweet potatos and russet potatos and I layer them in a pattern so it is really pretty and really yummy.
I also make an apple-blackberry pie in addition to pumpkin and instead of a top crust, I roll out the dough and use a star shaped cookie cutter and put stars on top.
Oh, and my grandpa's stuffing recipe which has sausage in it as well as the usual stuff.

Jamison'smama replied: Corn Casserole seems to be what I contribute most often.

MyBlueEyedBabies replied: I bake a mean Marie Callendars Apple Pie

For something I actually make I do the gravy. My mom taught me but this student surpassed the teacher in this dept.

gr33n3y3z replied: Ricky makes the homemade apple pies with homemade crust yummm

And we cook the turkey on the BBQ grill its so good that way

MyBrownEyedBoy replied: Does anyone fry their turkey?

Our Lil' Family replied:
OH YES, my daddy does! It's just about the only way I'll eat it now! YUMM-O!

CantWait replied: WOW everyone seems to have some really yummy traditional dishes. I wish I could try them all. Mine are pretty much the same boring stuff. DH and Robbie likes it that way though.

luvmykids replied:
Oooohh Kelly, you hit me where it hurts I LOVE fried turkey, my BIL does it so I'm begging him to do one for me this year.

MyBrownEyedBoy replied: I've actually only had it once or twice. Mom and Dad got a turkey fryer after I moved to Idaho and I rarely get to see them on the holidays. But it was the BEST. I think they do it every year now.