Every year I go with my wife and her family to the American Club here in Singapore for the mammoth Thanksgiving buffet. We eat lots of turkey, ham, stuffing, mash, five different types of pie (yes, pie!) — all the good stuff.
This year I’m on a work-related scuba diving trip at a resort in Indonesia. Last night (it’s Friday morning now) I ate shrimp cocktail, sickeningly sweet “summer” pasta, and two plates of churros. It wasn’t Thanksgiving; it was sad.

Pretty standard turkey, potatoes, etc.

I am making bread pudding with a brandy sauce, though.

-Turkey
-Honey Baked Ham
-Candied Yams
-Mashed Potatoes
-Corn Bread
-Cranberry Sauce
-Pumpkin Pie
-Pecan Pie
-Blueberry and Sour Cream Pie
-Stuffing

We went out for dinner. I’m slammed with schoolwork for the next few weeks and I didn’t have time to cook a big meal.

There was a place nearby that did the whole dinner for $15, salad/soup, bread, the full dinner, and dessert. Pretty awesome. Although my chocolate mousse is so crappy compared to my grandmother’s bread pudding.

Every year for Thanksgiving, everyone from my dad’s side of the family goes to my uncle’s house in Daly City, bringing a dish with them. My mom usually makes the turkey. We have the usual Thanksgiving items (ham, mashed potatoes, etc.), but we also have chow mein, broccoli beef, lumpia, my grandma’s glutinous rice, plus plenty of dessert. Good thing I like to eat.

I’m 23 and live by myself so Thanksgiving is always a lonely day =(

For Christmas I go to my parent’s place but they’re always out of town for T-Day. I’m establishing a tradition of drinking a 12 pack and watching football. And eating pizza. There is worse loneliness.

But one of my co-workers brought in some extra food they had and so we had “thanksgiving dinner” while we were working. They basically placed an order at a local supermarket and they do all the baking and cooking and then you just have to pick it up. There was..

-sort of dry turkey
-very good ham
-good mashed potatoes (with good seasonings, don’t know what it was though)
-stuffing (oniony)

And that’s all I’ve gotten to so far. There is pie, but it’s in the fridge now for a bit later.

Mom insists on doing all the holiday cooking, partly due to her dietary restrictions [she’s over 70] but mostly due to her being stubborn. This year she wanted to do something different so we had lasagna, garlic bread, a green salad, and chocolate cake.

Stuck in Eugene because of band stuff, so I decided to try the whole cooking thing. Used the Chez Panisse brine recipe and man is it amazing. Also had potatoes, stuffing etc… but goal 1 was to make a good turkey and i succeeded.

I’m at Grandma’s house and we had Turkey, Sausage Stuffing, Brussels Sprouts, Candied Sweet Potatoes, Creamed Onions, Creamed Cauliflower, Biscuits, Cranberry Sauce, Sauteed Mushrooms, Pumpkin and Apple Pie

It was very good. Way too much food for just four people though (my grandparents, my great-uncle and I), so it looks like I’ll be bringing some back to Boston with me on the Amtrak!

Spent the day cooking. Herb rubbed and roasted turkey, mushroom and artichoke heart stuffing, simmered lemon cranberry sauce, broccoli casserole, cornbread, garlic mashed potatoes and pumpkin and apple pie.

Baked 5 of those apple pies for neighbors and the girlfriend. my hands hurt.

I love pretty much all traditional Thanksgiving food, but I just wanted to put in a plug for pumpkin pie. Seriously, I have to say, it’s got to be the best kind of pie. I think part of it is every year you kind of forget about it, and then around halloween, suddenly (gasp!) it’s pumpkin pie time again, and there is much rejoicing. And then, right about the time you might start getting sick of it, it goes away at New Years. It’s a desert that never wears out it’s welcome and so stays delicious year after year.

Sausage and Chicken Gumbo
Turkey
Smoked Ham
Mashed Potatoes
Green Bean Casserole
2 kinds of stuffing (1 with chicken livers for those who like that sort of thing)
Yams
Salad (but who eats that on Thanksgiving?)
Scalloped potatoes
Peas
+appetizers and desserts

not to mention the copious amounts of beer and wine that is consumed

Being an Italian family, we don’t do the turkey thing. Each year we do pretty much the same thing:

Lasagna
Shrimp Salad (greatest thing ever, it’s tiny shrimp with cut up avocado in a sauce made of vodka, mayo, dash of tabasco, and some other stuff that I don’t know)
Prosciutto
Smoked Salmon
Bresaola
Schiacciata
Pumpkin Cheesecake

My dad and sister do the cooking and I am not allowed near the kitchen as I’m pretty dangerous in that regard. Although, I am in charge of drinking as much beer as possible and watching football, so I have my tasks.

Midnight run from Sacramento to my house on a full stomach wasnt fun

I had a sandwich.

/doesn’t live in america

Did anyone weigh themselves before and after Thanksgiving? I gained 5lbs!

I had to work so my wife had to cook Turkey for the first time. She turns out to be much better than me at it.

Turkey with a sherry/butter/sage baste
Cornbread stuffing with sausage
Cranberry Cherry Port sauce
Sage and Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Bourbon Apple pie
Irish Cream Pumpkin pie
Pear-Cranberry tarts

Pumpkin Pie

I had turkey deep fry duty out in the garage. Holy schnikies, that peanut oil is like napalm.

I made some cornish hens for the non-turkey lovers, butterflied and grilled on a panini press.

Broiled sea bass that marinated in oolong tea, garlic mashed taters, and chopped up enough tomatoes for salsa to fill up a gallon jug.

+ PIE, PIE and more 3.14159265…!

we had thanksgiving 2.0 with my aunt. She brined the heck out of the turkey and I have to say it’s the best i’ve ever had. It was all sorts of delicious. If you have the pan and the fridge space, do it.

cousins brought a real nice jello salad with pineapple and banana. As I hang around midwesterners more, I have gotten to like jello salad at holiday meals. Our California born kids chuckle at it.
Had walnuts, raisins, apple, celery in the stuffing. I mash the potatos (yukon gold) by hand first, then with blender and very little milk.
I used to make a stir fry to balance things, but now I wait ’til Friday and people appreciate it then. Big soup tonight based on the turkey carcass.

Enough said

I stopped eating most meats several years ago, but indulge in fish or seafood, maybe once a month. this month it was thanksgiving.

pumpkin pie from a pumpkin, not a can. it actually turned out pretty nice, not chunky or stringy.
brussel sprouts with apples. recipe from “on-demand NY1”. pretty meh.
mashed potatoes and mashed sweet potatoes. yum.
salmon with pesto mayo. better than i thought it would be.

and oh yes, tin of organic cranberry jelly – in shape of tin. divine.

My dad, JD and I went to the Broker in Denver because I didn’t want to bust out cooking after the year I’ve had. So I got trout, JD got filet mignon and my dad got the “traditional turkey dinner” prix fixe thinger. None of it was anything special and my trout was actually not too good at all. Everything came with some stringy-ass green beans which is pretty much the only veggie I don’t eat. Dessert and wine were good — pumpkin pie and raspberry cheesecake, and a pinot noir from Oregon. Next year I cook … I do it better than this place, which used to be the swankiest restaurant in town.