What's for Dinner, Thanksgiving, Nov. 28, 2025

[NJCher]

I'm having my Thanksgiving tomorrow. Like I do every year, I take this day for gardening because it is the only day other than Christmas where leaf blowers aren't going at full blast.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

[SheltieLover]

1. Turkey, vinegar slaw, cranberries, & green olives

Enjoy!

[DFW]

2. Ours is on the 28th as well. If you are hungry, best skip to the next post.

We'll have between 15 and 20 people over, Germans, Austrians, USA, maybe Netherlands.

Our Turkey is about 12 kilos this year. Gravy is made from the run-off from the oven. We got imported stuffing mix and fresh cranberries from New England (my wife makes THE best fresh-made cranberry sauce in the world). We'll also have grated red beet salad, sweet potatoes, mashed (as in mashed this afternoon by out granddaughters) white potatoes, String beans sautéed with mushrooms, a green salad with a sesame-teriyaki dressing, plus a bittersweet chocolate mousse and a strawberry mascarpone, both made by neighbors.

There are always plenty of leftovers, in case anyone is within less than 1000 KM of here. Please do not call earlier than 10:00 AM CET, so we can try to sleep off some of the cholesterol shock.

[Emile]

3. Leftover ham, turkey, Italian green beans,

mashed potatoes, noodles, deviled eggs with a sprinkle of paprika, pineapple, grapes, olives, etc. etc.

Deserts
Coconut cream pie, pecan pie, chocolate caramel turtle pie, pumpkin crunch pie, chocolate zucchini cake, and ice cream.

[Yonnie3]

4. Leftovers

Ham and cheese sandwich on pumpernickel with spicy brown mustard.
Turkey rice soup
Honey roast peanuts
Garlic bagel chips and hummus

I might warm up some leftover southwestern corn and some sweet potato if I feel hungry later, but first I should eat the leftover salad.

I'm just about to strain the ham stock I've been simmering all afternoon and I'm thinking of all the bean soups that will be made from it.

[NewHendoLib]

5. Grilled salmon, roasted delicata squash and potatoes, peas, rolls

Home made sausage stuffing, gravy....pecan pie and ice cream

[justaprogressive]

6. just a sandwich

The Prime Rib was glorious last night though!!

[La Coliniere]

7. Veggie Lasagna

Made a vegetable lasagna and a couple ice cream pies to take over to my niece’s family potluck Thanksgiving dinner. She made the turkey and stuffing and the 12 other guests made vegetable side dishes and fabulous desserts. It was an early dinner and we brought home the leftover lasagna . I feel like nuking another piece since I’m getting hungry again.
Was thankful I was surrounded by all progressives, but we hardly talked about politics at all, and I was fine with that.
Happy Thanksgiving fellow DUers!
Cheers!🥂

[mike_c]

8. I had two vac-packed duck breasts left from the weekend...

...so they're in the soux vide now. Dry -brined and herbed. I'll crisp 'em up later. Serving with roast butternut squash, and broccolini. Leftover cranberry sauce.

[chowmama]

9. Turkey,

dressing, biscuits, baked sweet potatoes (with butter, parmesan and black pepper), gravy, cranberry sauce (with orange zest), and Sicilian eggplant caponata relish. Chilled cava to drink. Pumpkin pie.

There'll be lots of leftovers, especially the caponata. DH won't even try it. I thought it was a bit harsh going into the canning jars, but months later, it's mellowed wonderfully. I'll eat every bit of every last jar...eventually. There's quite a bit.

The only glitch was when I set the neck, wing tips and giblets to simmer in broth and then went to watch the dog show. Afterwards, I scraped the ice off the walk. When I came in, it was to the distinct smell of scorching - the broth boiled away and the giblets burned. I just tossed it all and used another jar of broth to make the gravy. But I hate that I wasted stuff out of a simple lack of attention. Oh, well.

And the dog show is always great. I agreed with the winner, even though it wasn't one of my favorite breeds. God, what a beauty!

[Retrograde]

10. I'm also doing mine tomorrow

today was just me and spouse, our 55-ish anniversary. We had Crab Louie, with the first Dungeness crab of the season. Tomorrow will be turkey, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, etc.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

11. Adulting is hard

Son was up so late that he slept until 4, and I was wrapped up in a book until almost that late, still lazing in bed when he got up, so we didn’t even start cooking until after 8… Luckily, we only have to work around ourselves and managed to be on the same schedule today.

I’d already made my vegan turkey roast a couple days ago and just needed to heat it through. Added a mix of roasted tatties and carrots (both multi-colour, oddly enough—russet, red, and blue tatties and white, yellow, orange, and purple carrots—plus cornbread stuffing and gravy, then pecan pie for dessert.

Looking forward to turkey sandwiches tomorrow—whenever we manage to get up. At least we don’t have tryptophan to drag us down on top of the full bellies.