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Thanksgiving Dinner/Day

katg1006

katg1006

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Hi Ladies!!!!!!!!!!!

I am always so curious....what do you all have with your Thanksgiving Dinner? Is there something that was a tradition in your family that you have kept up?

What is your favorite part of the day?

I always associate the sound of a football game with Thanksgiving :) Every year we would gather at my Aunts and the boys would be in livingroom watching football while we were in the kitchen cooking or tasting the food ;)
 
Oh Kat!!! This is a fantastic thread...I love this question!!

For the past few years, I have taken over Thanksgiving dinner...I cook almost everything here at my house....and the way things go here now, I wake up to an empty, quiet house (DH goes hunting)....I usually turn on some music and cook all day...happily....and do a lot of tasting and testing along the way...hehehehehe....We always eat at 4....so around 3 they start trickling in....it starts getting very noisy...kids running everywhere and by 4 the whole gang is here the football is on...and I am hollaring for everyone to come to the table....and it's a large one (I put three table together)....after dinner...we stretch out all over the place and there is so much chatter and talking...sometimes I back up and just listen...it sounds wonderful....eventually I get up to clean up and the girls come and help...by the time we finish...everyone wants dessert....we all sit and talk for a while longer...by this time...DH has made his way to the playroom with the kids....and after a while they start leaving a little at a time until it is very quiet again. Really the whole day is just a tradition around here!!

As for the menu.....TURKEY and HAM, MASHED POTATOES, GRAVY, STUFFING, CHOCOLATE DELIGHT (these are ALWAYS on the menu) the rest tends to change from year to year!
 
Wade Family Trivia and Dimes.

Our family is huge. There are seven in my dad's family. Then the fifteen of us grandkids, and the seventeen? eighteen? great-grandkids. Plus some miscellaneous family members. So there are well over 40 people at Thanksgiving at my aunt and uncle's house. About two hours after dinner, we start Wade Family Trivia. Where questions are asked about family and our family history. Who got kicked out of the K-State vs. NE game? Where did Eleanor and Howard live in 1979? How many brothers did Howard have and name them. And the infamous....Name the grandchildren in order oldest to youngest. I've even made a layout about it: https://ozone.oscraps.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=63987&cat=500&ppuser=12473
We play for lottery scratch tickets and it's a lot of fun.

Later on, we all play Dimes. Everyone who wants to play sits in a circle around the table and has three dimes to start with. Everyone gets dealt one card. You look at your card and decide if you want to switch with your neighbor. Bad cards end up getting passed around the table like a hot potato. Kings are high and stop the low cards from being passed to you. Typically demonstrated by sticking the King to your forehead while the person next to you slumps in defeat when they get stuck with a bad card. Dealer is the last and can draw a card if they don't like the one they have. Everyone flips over and lowest card throws in a dime. When you are down to "one thin dime" you are in trouble. And when you are out of dimes, you get serenaded. "Na na na na, na na na na, hey, Sara, goodbye." Winner takes the pot and everyone knows not to sit next to Fran. =)

I love my family!!

When we have Thanksgiving at Matt's family, we always break out games like Apples to Apples and Tribond. I'm a game-aholic, so I'm in heaven with it.
 
My family isn't huge...I mean it is but we don't hang out with the huge part since it is spread out all over the country. It used to be a group of us that revolved around my great-grandparents but after they died we started something new after a few years of floundering. So the new tradition has been started over the past 5ish years. It is at my house now. None of us love turkey so instead of spending the money on a giant turkey and having to figure out what to do with all the leftovers when none of us loved the thing to begin with we go with prime rib. That is my mom's thing. So she makes that and yorkshire pudding. If you don't know what that is, it isn't pudding, but a broth covered bread type of thing. It is soooooo good. Then my sister and I battle everything else out of what we are going to make. My mom usually cooks the roast on the grill but made on off hand comment to my sis that she didn't really want to this year so we came up with a plan to cook potatoes in a crock pot this year. It will be covered with cheese, butter and milk, so no matter how it actually comes out, you can't go wrong with that combo.

Besides that we just hang out and eat and talk and sometimes play a game or two. I don't like pumpkin pie so i always try and come up with a different pumkinish dessert instead. Last year I made pumkin cake ice cream rolls and they were a big hit so I am going to try that again. But this year I am going to try it without my mama's help. We'll see how that works out. Wish me luck.
 
Aww Clara. It's so fun to start new traditions. And Linda...yummmm. And I love cooking to music. And Kat...the football is a must. Although I don't pay as much attention to it as our team always plays the day after. =)
 
Great thread Kat! When I was a girl, we went to my aunt's house for Thanksgiving. Her aunts started the tradition with her. I remember when they got a color TV...I was about 11...and so we'd watch the Thanksgiving parades on color TV. (Yes, I am really old.) My grandparents, my uncle and aunt and cousin, and my parents and my brother and I.

I took it over when my aunt got too old. Now, I have my parents, my brother's family (including my niece's boyfriend) and our family...and an occasional friend. Usually between 13-15 people.

The menu doesn't change much. Turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn pudding, strawberry jello salad (from my aunt's Thanksgiving menu for years), apple sausage stuffing, cranberry relish, rolls, homemade strawberry butter, green beans, praline sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie, chocolate pecan pie. I love to cook and this gives me a great excuse!
 
Oh Sara...it's pretty easy. I use whipping cream to actually churn the butter in my bread maker (it has a butter churn setting). Then when it's churned, I add strawberry jam and mix it all together. It's pretty easy and so good on hot rolls right out of the oven!
 
YUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

This thread is making me very glad Thanksgiving is tomorrow!!!

LindaS...Chocolate Delight is a desert that was started in DH's family before my time....His brother's wife (who passed away about a year before I came into the family) started this tradition....

You make your crust from scratch with flour butter and pecans...then it has a cream cheese and cool whip mixture with conf sugar and then you mix vanilla and chocolate pudding and milk for the next layer and then another layer of cool whip...and garnish the top with cherry, or something pretty....IT IS REALLY YUMMY and has always been a big hit within our family...simply because no one in our family, except for my MOM are pumpkin pie eaters...
 
Just jumping in here to say Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends who celebrate this today. I hope you all have a fabulous day surrounded by love & laughter, food & drink and best of all, friends & family!!!
 
Oh and I want to know where the words Black Friday come from. I know there are sales everywhere, but why black?
 
Madi said:
Oh and I want to know where the words Black Friday come from. I know there are sales everywhere, but why black?
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Diane....I am not sure WHO exactly came up with this TITLE...but it was someone who WORKS in retail sales...no doubt... But the reason it's called BLACK FRIDAY is because if you work in retail sales, it can be the worst most frazzling day of the year (the best $$$ wise).....In the states it is THE BIGGEST SHOPPING DAY OF THE YEAR....and the stores put out these CRAZY deals to entice the customers to come shop.. ex. TV's that would normally sell for $700 on sale for $250. And it's Every type of store does this too...People go camp on the door steps all night long to wait in line to get in the stores to be able to get one of these deals....and because of all this madness (this is where the BLACK comes in) Lots of people have been HURT over the years from mobbing. The doors to a store will open and people start beating, fighting, and acting like they are rushing to a spaceship that only holds a few, and the world is getting ready to explode!!! IT's NUTS!!!! I personally do not go shopping on this day...IT IS NOT WORTH THE DEALS TO ME!!!! There is not one thing that I NEED that badly.

I hope this explains it for you!!

Again...just taking a beautiful holiday and commercializing it!! I can not tell you how many people think of Thanksgiving and to them it means "BIG SALES" the day after!! :(
 
Actually, it's a business term. When you are in the black you are making money. When you are in the red, you are losing money. Since many retailers bank on the huge sales from the Christmas season to put them in the black, the kick off day became known as Black Friday.
 
petey111 said:
Actually, it's a business term. When you are in the black you are making money. When you are in the red, you are losing money. Since many retailers bank on the huge sales from the Christmas season to put them in the black, the kick off day became known as Black Friday.
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So it could have easily been red friday!
 
hondachicc said:
Diane....I am not sure WHO exactly came up with this TITLE...but it was someone who WORKS in retail sales...no doubt... But the reason it's called BLACK FRIDAY is because if you work in retail sales, it can be the worst most frazzling day of the year (the best $$$ wise).....In the states it is THE BIGGEST SHOPPING DAY OF THE YEAR....and the stores put out these CRAZY deals to entice the customers to come shop.. ex. TV's that would normally sell for $700 on sale for $250. And it's Every type of store does this too...People go camp on the door steps all night long to wait in line to get in the stores to be able to get one of these deals....and because of all this madness (this is where the BLACK comes in) Lots of people have been HURT over the years from mobbing. The doors to a store will open and people start beating, fighting, and acting like they are rushing to a spaceship that only holds a few, and the world is getting ready to explode!!! IT's NUTS!!!! I personally do not go shopping on this day...IT IS NOT WORTH THE DEALS TO ME!!!! There is not one thing that I NEED that badly.

I hope this explains it for you!!

Again...just taking a beautiful holiday and commercializing it!! I can not tell you how many people think of Thanksgiving and to them it means "BIG SALES" the day after!! :(
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wow, sounds scary! you have got to take a risk for a great deal!
 
petey111 said:
Wade Family Trivia and Dimes.

Our family is huge. There are seven in my dad's family. Then the fifteen of us grandkids, and the seventeen? eighteen? great-grandkids. Plus some miscellaneous family members. So there are well over 40 people at Thanksgiving at my aunt and uncle's house. About two hours after dinner, we start Wade Family Trivia. Where questions are asked about family and our family history. Who got kicked out of the K-State vs. NE game? Where did Eleanor and Howard live in 1979? How many brothers did Howard have and name them. And the infamous....Name the grandchildren in order oldest to youngest. I've even made a layout about it: https://ozone.oscraps.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=63987&cat=500&ppuser=12473
We play for lottery scratch tickets and it's a lot of fun.

Later on, we all play Dimes. Everyone who wants to play sits in a circle around the table and has three dimes to start with. Everyone gets dealt one card. You look at your card and decide if you want to switch with your neighbor. Bad cards end up getting passed around the table like a hot potato. Kings are high and stop the low cards from being passed to you. Typically demonstrated by sticking the King to your forehead while the person next to you slumps in defeat when they get stuck with a bad card. Dealer is the last and can draw a card if they don't like the one they have. Everyone flips over and lowest card throws in a dime. When you are down to "one thin dime" you are in trouble. And when you are out of dimes, you get serenaded. "Na na na na, na na na na, hey, Sara, goodbye." Winner takes the pot and everyone knows not to sit next to Fran. =)

I love my family!!

When we have Thanksgiving at Matt's family, we always break out games like Apples to Apples and Tribond. I'm a game-aholic, so I'm in heaven with it.
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Sara- what a great tradition!!!!
 
Clara- the pumpkin desserts sound delish!! I do like pumpkin pie, but I also like trying new pumpkin flavored things. The potatoes sound so good too!
 
Chocolate Delight and Choc pecan pie- I am coming to your houses!!!!! Who needs Turkey when you have chocolate!
 
My holiday tradition-

When I was a kid, we would all go to my grandma's house. We loved going there- she was so much fun and I had cousins that were all close in age. I never liked turkey so it was nice that my g-ma would make ravioli too. We would acine bebe soup, ravioli and then turkey and the regular sides. Then the kids would play, the men would watch football. After dessert we would have to go to my dad's parents house. I never liked that. Not only was it boring, this was the g-ma that didn't like me much. My brother was first born and a grandson so there wasn't much use for me in a traditional Italian family.

If I had thanksgiving, everyone would be eating stuffing and potatoes- no turkey. Maybe some pasta like my g-ma.

We kind of rotate around families. My Il's are coming to my parents today. Sometimes they go to Gary's brother's family. Chuck and Kathy are at her family's this year- we saw them last year. It used to be were we had to keep track of how many times we saw each family and when. But now it is more like making sure no one is left alone.

My mom is making acine bebe soup for me though. Yum! Caitlyn and I have a deal where we both have to eat one bite of turkey then no one can bug us about it. She'll load her plate w/ baked sweet potatoes and I do stuffing and mashed/sweet potatoes. See? Who needs turkey?
 
Diane, last year a worker died in a stampede. So sad.:(
I have never been a fan of the Black Friday insanity. Over the years it has gotten more and more hyped and earlier and earlier start times.
One store advertised opening at 4 am tomorrow. That is just nuts.
I have no interest in any crazy crowds just to save a few $$.

Now- Cyber Monday-- that is a sale I can get into LOL
 
faerywings said:
Diane, last year a worker died in a stampede. So sad.:(
I have never been a fan of the Black Friday insanity. Over the years it has gotten more and more hyped and earlier and earlier start times.
One store advertised opening at 4 am tomorrow. That is just nuts.
I have no interest in any crazy crowds just to save a few $$.

Now- Cyber Monday-- that is a sale I can get into LOL
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No doubt the best way is to just shop online!!!! woooohooo, I think there will a LOT of goodies out there on sale!! :) and at least you won't get trampled!! sad about that worker!! how terrible!!

Downunder our main sale days after just after Christimas, on Boxing Day some people head off to all the sales but I'm like.......I have shopping frantically 3 days before Christmas WHY would I want to head back into it for goodness sakes!!! :confused:
 
Oh Ona...we have crazy Boxing Day sales too. (Though we don't call it Boxing Day.) People go nuts then too.

You guys should ask Tessie what all she did. She went out at midnight to Toys R Us. Then hit stores starting at 3 a.m. She thinks it's a lot of fun. I would not enjoy it I know...so I don't go. I did consider going out at midnight to Toys R Us, but I had already taken my sleeping medicine when I realized they were opening at midnight. But, I wasn't going to go anywhere else unless they had the camera I wanted on sale for hundreds of dollars. =)
 
Chris....I am with you CYBER MONDAY!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE IT!!!


But I have to tell you....I found out last night that there is one thing that will get me to go out to these mad sales....THE LOVE FOR MY CHILDREN!!!! Although, ONLY ONCE....Both girls wanted to go to the midnight sale at Toys R Us.....they begged me to go with them....so I reluctantly said yes!! Now I love my girls very very much....but I really don't think, after last night's experience, that I love them enough to do it again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

UUUUUGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! It was horrible...and this is exactly why I do not do it!!!!!!!!!!!!! But................good news...my girls figured that out last night, so I don't think they will be doing it again either!!! :p

With all that said....I came out of there with $68 worth of merchandise, and I got A LOT of stuff!! A LOT!!!! still not worth that hassle though ~~sigh~~
 
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