[THANKSGIVING 2010] What's your Thanksgiving like?

My traditional Thanksgiving has been celebrated in Texarkana.

My aunt and uncle live on a little ranch outside Texarkana, AR, and they have a big Thanksgiving every year. It has the typical: fried turkey, roasted turkey, ham, cornbread dressing, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, more vegetables and casseroles than you can imagine. But one of my aunts makes it incredible. Every year, without fail, she brings over a dozen different kinds of pie. And they're all wonderful. It is amazing.

After we eat dinner, we all pile outside for horseshoes and other games of minimal exertion.

That being said, this year, I'm breaking with tradition. I'm going to a cousin's house on the other side of the family in Crystal Beach. This is the first time that he's hosted Thanksgiving, so I don't really know what to expect. He told me to bring drinks.

 

We don't like Turkey. Ham and chicken are our traditional main courses and we follow convention with sides dishes. Instead of pumpkin pie for dessert, it's sweet potato pie and Sock-It-To-Me cake.

My wife's sister (married with one child) live 2 minutes away and they always come over. It's funny because my wife has been hinting about not cooking and sister-in-law is near panic. My wife's niece and nephews will usually come by also. We are thinking about firing up the pit instead of the oven.

I don't think we've ever been a guest at Thanksgiving instead of the host. It might be a nice change of pace.

 

Usually me and the wife tailgating at the cows game, typically just a small turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and lots o beer before we go to the game.

 

Just a small gathering for us - mom, dad, sister, and me. We'll do our traditional vegetarian feast with Tofurky roast, homemade mashed potatoes with cremini gravy, roasted garlic asparagus, wild rice stuffing, green bean casserole, and cranberry sauce (I prefer canned to fresh, but we'll have both). Then dessert is apple-cranberry crisp and this pumpkin pie/cake thing my parents like. I wanted to make homemade sweet potato cheesecake but I'm thinking it's going to be too much work.

The rest of the day is spent watching football with my dad and pretending like he knows what he's talking about (ex. Sunday's Texans game, he gets SO ANGRY that the Texans don't attempt an onside kick after their touchdown to put them up one).

As long as controversial subjects don't come up, it should go pretty smoothly!

We usually go to sleep early to do the Black Friday stuff, but Friday morning is my grandpa's funeral, so that puts a damper on things.

 

I love thanksgiving!

Salvadorian tamales
Turkey, mac and cheese.
roasted potatoes
lots of pies

 

I was not aware that Salmon was a vegetable. I actually worked at a salmon hatchery and I am pretty sure they are fish. I know it tastes like fish.

For Thanksgiving, I go mountain biking with about 800 of my closest friends on Mount Tamalpais just north of San Francisco. The ride is called the appetite seminar, and several of the people who invented mountain biking participate. Joe Breeze, Charlie Kelly, and some years, Gary Fisher. I think it's about a 17 or 18 mile ride. It ends with kegs of free beer.

Then, Turkey, gravy, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, something green, French bread, pecan pie, lots of beer, wine, and football.

 

spending it at the in-law's place in college station with my parents and sister coming as well. hopefully we'll have a major announcement for them all. :grin:

 

holy

crap


then you'll have to return to deliver said major announcement to a certain MadMax and his bride.

 

i'll probably let you know sooner...hopefully we'll find out for sure today, but the test this morning was positive!

 

wow!!! awesome!!! good for you!

 

3-10 nuff said....

 

FAIL!


Bloody Marys
Mimosas
green beans
sparkling wine
sweet potatoes
rose wine
turkey
red wine
ham
beer
vodka
salad
whiskey
pie
Absinthe

 

I'm volunteering with a local organization and from 9 AM to 1 PM I'll be serving the less fortunate or those who don't have anybody to spend Thanksgiving with as well as delivering meals to those who cannot come in person.

Then I have to go two places.

1. My family and I am doing a fried turkey, greens and maybe chicken and dumplings there while the rest will be done by others.

2. My lady's family will be next and I just go there to eat a second time and we end up playing Cadillac later that night.

 

a gallon of beer

 

my lady friend and i are cooking thanksgiving for the first time at my house i just bought this year - nice.

and this woman can cook! (a turn-on of course)

and i'm getting together with about 15 friends to play some turkey foot ball on thursday morning too.

 

thanks, eric!

 

At my in laws: A quiet dinner (5 adults, 2 kids) followed by a laid back night of board games.

At my family's gathering: A drunken swarm of humanity (30+ adults, god knows how many kids) loudly eating a spectacular bonanza of food followed by unimaginable chaos and cacophony due to loud games and even more booze.