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Cooking & Baking

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Phentex

(16,676 posts)
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 12:53 PM Sunday

Some people hate cooking for Thanksgiving [View all]

I feel like we've done it so much, it's down to an art. I prep a day ahead, spouse handles the bird, make rolls and potatoes day of, heat everything, set the table and eat!

Close friend despises cooking but her family wants to have Thanksgiving dinner. She looks for a place to eat out. They want to eat at home. So she ordered everything and picked it up last year. Now she said she hates having to heat things up. Looking for a buffet to eat out instead. But her adult kids want to cook and said they would. LET THEM, I said. But she feels like she'll end up having to help. It's one day. I can't offer her any further advice.

I can't wait to eat turkey for a week!

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When I was growing up, my father had a little photo studio in Dover Walleye Sunday #1
as far as I can tell Phentex Sunday #7
OMG!!! I. LOOOOOOOVE fried oysters. Trueblue Texan 9 hrs ago #29
Yes, you got that right, the small ones are much better and fry up a lot better. My mom was from the Eastern shore, Walleye 5 hrs ago #30
I love doing it, but I always feel like I've run a marathon when it's done. Scrivener7 Sunday #2
Friday is a holy day Phentex Sunday #8
Absolutely, let the next generation cook, and then to come to enough Sunday #3
I think they are looking for tradition Phentex Sunday #9
I usually order bamagal62 Sunday #4
It's one of two days I wish I had two ovens Phentex Sunday #10
I used to have a warming drawer! bamagal62 Sunday #15
My strategy: no_hypocrisy Sunday #5
That's a plan! Phentex Sunday #11
Pretty much my plan spinbaby Yesterday #21
My stepdaughter has taken over most of our holidays now, mwmisses4289 Sunday #6
I'd love it Phentex Sunday #12
This place has a catered dinner Warpy Sunday #13
I used to love cooking Thanksgiving dinner... slightlv Sunday #14
Sweet sweet memories! Phentex Monday #17
Our family traditions have me cooking for the full week before Thanksgiving... Trueblue Texan Sunday #16
I'll take the bubbly but I want turkey for days! Phentex Monday #18
leftovers and my picky need to have MY pumpkin pie Kali Monday #19
Well, and even though we're not having turkey... Trueblue Texan Monday #20
Taking it to your grave? Phentex Yesterday #23
Our Family's Cornbread Dressing Trueblue Texan Yesterday #24
I looked up sausage-chestnut stuffing, which I would make along with Mom. usonian 19 hrs ago #28
That's fair! Phentex Yesterday #22
and speaking of leftovers... Kali 21 hrs ago #25
We love it Cirsium 21 hrs ago #26
I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner for most of my 60 years of marriage. And im sick of it. Srkdqltr 20 hrs ago #27
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