Tell us your Family Thanksgiving Traditions

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Wow, Buff Hooligans, that sounds yummy and fun!

We used to do the traditional turkey thing, but when we lost our Mom and Dad six months apart in 2003, my sister and I decided we needed to go untraditional. Thanksgiving has always been a big deal in our home, especially since she and I share our birthday (nine years apart!) and, no matter where we were, the family has always got together for a special celebration for almost thirty years.
We all went to Disney World in 2003, and ate lobster dinner in an epcot restaurant with aquariums all around.
In 2004 and since we've continued to get together and make as unusual a dinner as we can think of, anything but the traditional turkey and fixings. Milanesas (an Argentine favorite of our family), prime rib, crab legs, and this year possibly grilled Salmon...we're still working out the menu.

Bottom line, just as most folks, we are glad to get together and privately count our blessings, and be grateful we still have each other.
 
when I was a kid, growing up in SE WVA , grandpap made sure several jugs of drinking corn were filled and that the cider barrels were siphoned off. The hard cider doesn't freeze in the middle of the barrel. We usually have whatever meat that was hunted that week, turkey deer bear pheasant or whatever the game commissioner don't fine you for(invite them over for a munch and a pull?) All the adults( from age 14 and up,) start drinking the day before after the chores get done. Thanksgiving day, once everyone wakes up sometime late morning, the ladies congregate in the kitchen and start drinking and the men congregate to the outside fire to roast chestnuts, although us kids never saw them roasting anything but their privates; they begin drinking. The kids get beaten and we had our chores to do, of course. Well, around supper time, all the food is burned, all the adults are drunk and or passed out or hugging and kissing and fooling around... us kids are in the pantry eating peanut butter and preserve sandwiches from bread we got from the neighbors.

As an adult, I haven't consumed alcohol since I was 14...I have four of my lifelong friends(two being combat vets the other two their spouses.) We cook a basic deep south Gulf Coast "redneck riviera" supper . Pork cracklins, day-old spicy cornbread dressing made with buttermilk and no sugar, shrimps with remoulade sauce, woodsland flyer(turkey,)jellied muscadines, crab au gratin, crab creole, shrimp and oyster gumbo, roast duck with lemon (I have Meyer lemon grove,) and for dessert something chocolate, sweet potato pie, some more something chocolate, Italian 5 cheese cheesecake, some Belgian Callebaut chocolate served with fresh ground coffee. Stick a fork in me...I'm done!!!
 
Sorry, I wish I had some Currier & Ives picture to paint for you all but come Thanksgiving my husband and I run as far away as we can...seems Dysfunction rears its ugly head everytime in both our families during the holiday season.

Loved reading the other comments tho', sounds so nice, and yummy too!

Blessings...
TJ
 
On Thanksgiving, one of my Aunts ( Mom's sister) and my cousin are coming over to my family's house, along with my older brother who no longer lives with us. We're having turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, homemade dressing, cranberry salad, and pumpkin pie.
The Saturday after Thanksgiving, we're gathering with Dad's family ( cousins and at least one sibling) at a cousin's house in Ohio. We've never celebrated Thanksgiving with Dad's family before, but I'm really looking forward to it. As for the menu...all I know is that the host is providing turkey and everyone else is providing the rest. I'm making and bringing cranberry salad-I LOVE the stuff! There are alot of good cooks in Dad's family, so I know I'll come away from that gathering stuffed to the gills!
 
This thanksgiving we are going to my daughters house. It will be special in many ways but the most special is the fact that we are going to eat various things we have produced. We are going to have raspberry, blueberry, and pecan pies using the raspberries, blueberries and pecans from our little farm. We are also going to have deviled eggs from our very own chickens. Can't beat that!

Oh, and hopefully have some little chicks chirping as well!
 
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I hear you. That is why I usually work on Thanksgiving and Christmas Days. The money is good and more importantly, the stress level is very low. Every year I say I will cook dinner and have everyone over, but the pre holiday harrassment and guilt inductions just turn me off.
 
We are going to begin a tradition this year in our new home in the country. We have raised a Tom turkey from a chick purchased in the spring. We treated him like a pet until he began attacking everyone and anything he veiws as a threat. (Everyone and everything.)

We are going to cook him up for the Holidays after photographing him in all his glory. We will then hang the photo on the wall with the subtitle "Tom 2007". Next year we will raise another turkey and his photo will be subtitled "Tom 2008"... ect.

I just processed Tom 2007 and he dressed out at 45.8 lbs! We took him to a meat packer to have him smoked whole.
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Oh, and hopefully have some little chicks chirping as well!

AAAHHH!!! California or hand roll? Or do you prefer sashimi over sushi? There's nothing like chirping chicks(yakimi tatami) as a different dish for Thanksgiving supper!!!​
 

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