Thanksgiving preppers!

[VolNExile]

Ok, it’s Monday! Who’s eating what, and where is everyone on the getting-ready list?

AVL daughter and I are dividing duties. Hubs and I have the meat, the dressing, and a desert.

Hubs is roasting a turkey, tying the entire kitchen up Thursday morning, so I have to get going early. Today I found a cooked Smithfield spiral-cut ham! It comes with a glaze pack, but I have a recipe for copy-cat Honey Baked. 30 bucks for 5 pounds beats the HB price, plus no waiting in line. I’ll do that Wednesday, maybe tomorrow.

6 quarts of turkey stock using necks and wings plus 4 onions, 4 carrots, 4 celery stalks, and herbs are underway, for the dressing, basting, and soup. Two skillets of cornbread going in tonight, one for Old School cornbread dressing and the other for cornbread-sausage-pecan dressing. I’ll make the dressing Wednesday evening (currently no room in fridge.)

I found a recipe for vegan apple snickerdoodles (grandson is massively allergic to dairy and eggs, although happily eats meat), so I am trying out vegan butter and *drumroll* canned garbanzo bean juice as a binder replacement for eggs. I think I’ll make the recipe tomorrow, cook a few as a test-drive, and save the rest to go into the oven while we eat Thanksgiving dinner on the covered deck, wrapped in blankets and huddled around the fire table.

So fellow Zoners, whatcha cooking’?

 

[McDad]

We're smoking turkey breasts. 2 tonight for McRib's team at work. Well smoke 1 for Thanksgiving and get 2 more (one to smoke and one to fry) for Saturday. Smoker is ready. Bought 2 more gallons of peanut oil just to be safe.
We are having 2 thanksgivings and we are doing Deviled eggs, crawfish cornbread dressing, sweet potato casserole, broccoli & cauliflower with cheese sauce, and yeast rolls for both. Friends and family are bringing drinks, desserts and a couple other sides. Daughter is doing a cheesecake.

YUM!!!!!

 

[joevol33]

We're quarantined. Some friends are bringing us dinner though.

 

[Souce]

I'm ready!! We're having ham, broccoli casserole, mac n cheeze, mashed taters, dressing, green beanz, deviled eggs, cranberry sawse, sausage ballz, & rolls. Also, carrot cake & pumpkin pie fer dessert along with some fresh brewed tea and coffee to drank. BÒÓN NOOGAS!!! HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

 

[VolNExile]

We're quarantined. Some friends are bringing us dinner though.

Can’t you cook though? Have your friends bring ingredients?

But God bless friends who show up in the tough times!

 

[joevol33]

Can’t you cook though? Have your friends bring ingredients?

But God bless friends who show up in the tough times!

I could, but we were going there with them since going to Ky plans got cancelled. They said they'd bring us food by so we wouldn't have to worry about it.

 

[volfanbill]

Notice Souce said what they’re having... he’s making the wifey do all the work I bet

 

[VolNExile]

We're smoking turkey breasts. 2 tonight for McRib's team at work. Well smoke 1 for Thanksgiving and get 2 more (one to smoke and one to fry) for Saturday. Smoker is ready. Bought 2 more gallons of peanut oil just to be safe.
We are having 2 thanksgivings and we are doing Deviled eggs, crawfish cornbread dressing, sweet potato casserole, broccoli & cauliflower with cheese sauce, and yeast rolls for both. Friends and family are bringing drinks, desserts and a couple other sides. Daughter is doing a cheesecake.

YUM!!!!!

+ @Souce



I am sensing a deviled eggs theme here! Is this now a Thanksgiving thang? The whole family loves them, so no concerns about getting stuck with leftovers.

 

[GordonC]

This reminds me of what we did Saturday before the game, but I was too aggravated to post it after. I took pics but will attach from my phone after I type this.

So Friday was our anniversary, and I took the day off to get some steaks and the stuff for Thanksgiving. I was hoping my wife would feel like steaks Friday evening, but she didn't.

So Saturday morning, she was feeling better and said hey let's get an early start on Thanksgiving and what about if we go ahead and cook that spiral ham and if I made a big tub of tater salad for the ballgame. I said absolutely because I was hungry and had already picked up a couple of loaves of rye. So we (counting kids and grandkids) have been eating that the past couple of days, and the potato salad is about gone. I hope to finish up whatever's left very shortly.

For Thanksgiving, we're going to do traditional: turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, green beans, mac and cheese, deviled eggs, brown sugar glazed carrots, and yeast rolls. We are hoping the weather is nice enough for my parents to come over. My wife really isn't able to go over there, and I don't want the grandkids to take any sickness in on them right now. My parents can't do the steps here at the house, so we want to do Thanksgiving dinner on the screened porch in the back, where they can just park and walk under the carport (what we did for Christmas Day last year, including opening presents, was wonderful). Fingers and toes crossed! For Christmas, we will do steak and baked potatoes, hopefully.

Here are the pics from Saturday. It was so good I was just sure the cosmos would align for a win. HAHA

 

[Souce]

Notice Souce said what they’re having... he’s making the wifey do all the work I bet

 

[Souce]

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I am sensing a deviled eggs theme here! Is this now a Thanksgiving thang? The whole family loves them, so no concerns about getting stuck with leftovers.

I could eat a dozen deviled eggs by myself!!

 

[508mikey]

I'm ready!! We're having ham, broccoli casserole, mac n cheeze, mashed taters, dressing, green beanz, deviled eggs, cranberry sawse, sausage ballz, & rolls. Also, carrot cake & pumpkin pie fer dessert along with some fresh brewed tea and coffee to drank. BÒÓN NOOGAS!!! HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

what about the 25 dollar bottle of turkey seasoning ?

 

[GordonC]

I could eat a dozen deviled eggs by myself!!

Same here!

 

[508mikey]

Ill just get KFC

 

[joevol33]

Ill just get KFC

No restaurants offering a thanksgiving meal? We have a couple here that are doing that.

 

[Souce]

No restaurants offering a thanksgiving meal? We have a couple here that are doing that.

Cracker Barrel usually does...not sure about this year tho

 

[Souce]

https://www.crackerbarrel.com/Explore/Thanksgiving

 

[VolNExile]

This reminds me of what we did Saturday before the game, but I was too aggravated to post it after. I took pics but will attach from my phone after I type this.

So Friday was our anniversary, and I took the day off to get some steaks and the stuff for Thanksgiving. I was hoping my wife would feel like steaks Friday evening, but she didn't.

So Saturday morning, she was feeling better and said hey let's get an early start on Thanksgiving and what about if we go ahead and cook that spiral ham and if I made a big tub of tater salad for the ballgame. I said absolutely because I was hungry and had already picked up a couple of loaves of rye. So we (counting kids and grandkids) have been eating that the past couple of days, and the potato salad is about gone. I hope to finish up whatever's left very shortly.

For Thanksgiving, we're going to do traditional: turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, green beans, mac and cheese, deviled eggs, brown sugar glazed carrots, and yeast rolls. We are hoping the weather is nice enough for my parents to come over. My wife really isn't able to go over there, and I don't want the grandkids to take any sickness in on them right now. My parents can't do the steps here at the house, so we want to do Thanksgiving dinner on the screened porch in the back, where they can just park and walk under the carport (what we did for Christmas Day last year, including opening presents, was wonderful). Fingers and toes crossed! For Christmas, we will do steak and baked potatoes, hopefully.

Here are the pics from Saturday. It was so good I was just sure the cosmos would align for a win. HAHA

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That looks fantastic!

I hope your wife is having a good day for your Thanksgiving!

 

[VolunteerHillbilly]

I'm gonna call the cops on my neighbors when their kids show up with the grandkids and violate the 8-person gathering limit for Davidson County. Then I'll go eat their food before they can make bail.

 

[hmanvolfan]

Got a little recipe for these as an appetizer....

 

[508mikey]

Cracker Barrel usually does...not sure about this year tho

Yeah dont know since the clown governor shut down restaurants -- my daughter called there last week and they said no dine in -- most others have been defying the order, the my county and the one over, but not sure what will be open yet

 

[hmanvolfan]

Yeah dont know since the clown governor shut down restaurants -- my daughter called there last week and they said no dine in -- most others have been defying the order, the my county and the one over, but not sure what will be open yet

Do you have Piccadilly up there? They’re always open on Thanksgiving here.

 

[508mikey]

Do you have Piccadilly up there? They’re always open on Thanksgiving here.

no - I had to look that up when you mentioned they had better chicken than Gus

 

[Souce]

I'm gonna call the cops on my neighbors when their kids show up with the grandkids and violate the 8-person gathering limit for Davidson County. Then I'll go eat their food before they can make bail.

Solid plan!!

 

[McDad]

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I am sensing a deviled eggs theme here! Is this now a Thanksgiving thang? The whole family loves them, so no concerns about getting stuck with leftovers.

McRib tries to put one thing on the menu that is everyone's favorite. Mine is sweet tater casserole. Daughter is fried turkey, Son1 is crawfish dressing, and Son2 is deviled eggs.

With any leftover yeast rolls, I will leave them out until next morning. Cut a hole and pull a little bread out, stuff em with cheesy eggs.