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I want to cook for my family this year
What does your family eat for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner? I want to cook for my family this year and we have never celebrated either of those holidays before.
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Turkey is the traditional Thanksgiving dish. It's usually roasted, though there are those who smoke the beast or deep-fry it. (Deep-fried turkey is really good, but it can be dangerous.) For the truly insane and intrepid, there is the turducken (a boned chicken, stuffed inside a boned duck, stuffed inside a boned turkey, with different stuffings in between each bird). Green bean casserole, various bread-based stuffings, some sort of green salad, rolls, scalloped potatoes, cranberry relish, and more pie than any person should have to look at.
Christmas varies a lot: ham is a big deal, as is English roast beef with Yorkshire pudding and horseradish sauce. One year I made a duck, boned and stuffed with a mixture of chopped apples, ground turkey, herbs and a little gin.My mother insists on Alsatian sauerkraut (bacon, carrots, gin, white wine and stock, all cooked very slowly for several hours). I like potatoes mashed with celery root and squash tossed with garlic, olive oil and rosemary, then roasted. But that's just me.
Hope that helps.
(Dang, I'm hungry now.)
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Thanksgiving-
Turkey with gravy
Mashed potatoes
Sausage stuffing
Pillsbury Crescent rolls
Green beans
Cranberry sauce (we get the orange kind from Trader Joe's)
For dessert, pumpkin pie cake. Yes that sounds weird but it's the best thing ever.
Let me know if you need any recipes because my mom seriously makes the best thanksgiving dinner ever. Especially the pumpkin pie cake...
I usually am across the country at my aunt's for Christmas. On Christmas eve, we do the traditional italian dinner of 7 fish (although we just do 7 different kinds of seafood). We also have a tradition of having homemade lasagna (everything from the noodles to the sauce is homemade) on New Year's Day.
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thanksgiving is usually turkey, mashed potatos, stuffing, rolls, cranberry sauce, corn, and pumpkin pie for dessert!
Christmas my family usually makes a ham. then whatever they feel like with it. Usually stuff like potatos, some kind of pasta, whatever you wanna make.
but if you and yourfamily aregoingto celebrate these holidays...you dont have to follow any one else's traditions. Start your own! find a dish that really only gets made once a year in your family and make that your familys tradition. Heck make a lasagna and that be tradition. these holidays aremore about beingwith your family than eating certain foods. or at least that is how i see it
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Thanksgiving:
Turkey, stuffed with stuffing and small whole apples
Stuffed eggs with crab
Marshmellow covered baked, spiced yams
Stewed cabbage
Cranberry sauce
Mashed potatoes with gravy
Corn on the cob
Pumpkin Pie
Christmas:
Goose, stuffed with small whole apples
Assorted salads
Cake
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For both, my family makes Turkey with stuffing (I dont know what it's made out of, considering I dont eat stuffing]. So there's cut turkey pieces on one plate and optional stuffing on another. There's also a small salad dish, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans/peas/corn, biscuits, yams and some dessert dish like pumpkin pie.
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I think that's more important since turkey seems to be the main meal.
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For both we have a turkey, which takes a few hours to prepare (you may want to google thanksgiving turkey) for both Chrustmas and Thanksgiving. We also have rolls (warm and buttered) as well as a fruit dish, like cranberries. My grandma sometimes makes turkey stuffing (once again, google). Sometimes a salad is nice too
As an appetizer, we normally have an assortment for the family. Cheeses, pepperoni, and salami to put on crackers. We also make chili cheese dip (made by mixing chili and cheese) or salsa with tortilla chips.
For Christmas my family always makes cookies as well, it's quite a tradition. But if you don't want to make them, you can buy some as well.
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