Thanksgiving 🦃. So what’s all for dinner ? And easy pre-cooked Cajun Turkey dinners and more ready for pick up.

[Shades-of-Oregon]

KFC's Thanksgiving offerings include a deep fried Turkey that can be pre-ordered and picked up at participating stores on Thanksgiving morning. The turkey is available in a few options see details on line.


Popeyes’ Cajun-Style Turkey is hand-rubbed & infused with our signature blend of Louisiana seasonings.
The Cajun-Style Turkey is delivered to your door pre-cooked so all you have to do is thaw, heat, serve & enjoy.

Grocery and big box store taking orders.

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Many other options for Non-Traditional meals.

I’m serving Rib Roast instead of Turkey - with all the traditional TG sides and dessert cheese cake .

What are you all serving for TG ? Share your TG meal ideas

 

[Finnie]

I haven’t given it any thought yet, but our youngest son will be coming home, so it will be worth making something.

I just saw a Popeye’s ad about their Cajun rubbed turkey. Interesting.

 

[Dahlia]

We roast 3 chickens outside on a spit all afternoon and then cook the following dishes in Dutch ovens in the coals: mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing, rolls, yam bake, green bean supreme casserole, and pumpkin pie. We also have homemade cranberry sauce, homemade cheese balls with crackers, homemade blackberry mead and champagne.

 

[SPedigrees]

I always make a traditional Thanksgiving feast, these years with just chicken and turkey parts (pasture-raised from Northstar Bison) rather than a whole turkey that we used to get. Still with the side dishes, I make enough to eat for the week of Thanksgiving, and to freeze some for the week of Christmas until New Years. I make bread stuffing with cut-up giblets, onions, garlic, and celery baked in a separate pan with juice from the bird parts, winter squash, mashed potatoes, green peas, and cranberry sauce.

This year my nephew and his new wife may be visiting, so I might cook extra, and probably make a pie of some kind.

A year ago on some forum, completely unrelated to cooking (perhaps technology or politics) someone asked the off-topic question of what everyone planned to eat at Thanksgiving. Most replies were the usual fare, but one guy said his mother always made a tourtiere (French Canadian meat pie) and he posted her recipe. It sounded intriguing so I followed the recipe, not for Thanksgiving but some weeks later, and it was beyond delicious! Definitely that is a dish I will be making again even if not on "turkey day."

The ingredients are:

1 lb Ground Pork and 1 lb Ground Beef (I used Ground Bison)
Salt 1 teaspoon
Pepper, 1/2 teaspoon
Thyme, 1/2 teaspoon
Sage, 1/4 teaspoon
Nutmeg, 3/4 teaspoon
Ground Cloves, 3/4 teaspoon
Cinnamon, 3/4 teaspoon
Water, 3/4 cup
Crust (I make a butter, flour, and salt crust)

 

[baymule]

We roast 3 chickens outside on a spit all afternoon and then cook the following dishes in Dutch ovens in the coals: mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing, rolls, yam bake, green bean supreme casserole, and pumpkin pie. We also have homemade cranberry sauce, homemade cheese balls with crackers, homemade blackberry mead and champagne.

I’m coming to your house!!

 

[baymule]

Dunno what’s for Thanksgiving. It’s at my sister’s house, DD and family and my son will be there. Sister and my daughter have a tendency to do unconventional Thanksgiving and Christmas meals. They tell me to just show up.

 

[Dahlia]

I’m coming to your house!!

We actually don't do it at our house. We cook this on a mostly deserted beach that you can only get to by boat! It's so much fun!

 

[Pulsegleaner]

Thanksgiving is covered by one of our cousins, so the menu will be up to him. He tends to go for a large heritage breed turkey, and most of the traditional side (though, being of Scandinavian descent, we get lingonberry sauce instead of cranberry, which is fine with me.)


Generally, my only contribution is some mead for after dinner, and I'm not doing that this year (don't really have anything left*, since, with my dad reclaiming the back bedroom, we still haven't figured out a place for me to set up the fermenters again**.) So instead, I'll take the opportunity to relieve myself of some of the craft beers I bought thinking they'd be good for fish batter that turned out not to be.

* I have maybe six bottles left, but those are all "failures" of less than ideal flavor I was saving as gifts for the neighbors (who don't know better) My cousin KNOWS what is good and what is not.

** The playroom in the basement has been suggested, but, besides not being that clean, it's currently filled with stuff we couldn't fit in the attic. making it useable would take clearing that out, and neither mom nor dad has the energy to do that (I can't since I can't tell what is okay to throw out and what is not.)