Curious

[chrisyub]

I always wind up making the same things every year for Thanksgiving dinner...and Christmas dinner, for that matter.  I wonder, do you guys make different stuff every year or do you stick to the basics?  Our dinner always includes:

Roasted Turkey...rubbed with olive oil and salted and peppered.  The end.
Mashed Potatoes
Green Bean Casserole
Sweet

Comments

[crystal_tree]

Well, when I was young my family never ever deviated. It was always turkey, mashed potatoes, yams, corn, green bean casserole, stuffing, cranberries (both homemade and from the can), gravy, pumpkin pie.

Now, though, I branch out a little and limit some things since I do the holiday on my own and in my own way. This year, I'm making a chicken breast/stuffing thing in the crockpot for the main course. I'm having casserole potatoes (frozen hashbrowns, sour cream, cream of potato/celery soups baked in oven), and I'm making cranberry fluff (cherry jello, can of whole cranberries, sour cream) instead. I'm having Pumpkin Spice petit fours that I picked up Seventh Avenue, rather than making (and eating) a whole pie.

To me, the MUST HAVES are stuffing, green bean casserole, something cranberry-ish and pumpkin-ish. Other than that, I've become more flexible. I love the smell of roasting turkey, but I don't require it anymore. I guess I don't deviate much, but I make the same old things in some different ways.

[daily_rant]

I am sticking a few new things in this year, including a sweet potato casserole! Great minds think alike.

[reapmysoul]

Your menu sounds about the same as mine. I do inject my Turkey with different marinades.. This year I mixed up some Budweiser with different things and shoved some butter up his butt and he's in the oven as I type this. Instead of the regular fruit salad, I made Strawberry salad that has pineapple, banannas and of course Strawberries with a gelatin base.