Tell me your favorite...Poll

Orchid2011

Thansgiving recipe/meal or desert?Talking about fall got me thinking about Thanksgiving. Lets see the variety of foods that we come up with. Maybe I'll try something different this year!

sarlah

Oh my gosh! I can not pick just one of anything! Thanksgiving is my absolute favorite holiday / food weekend of the year. One thing that always makes it "special" is my moms candied yams. I'm sure many of you are making "Gross!" faces, but I grew up on them and L-O-V-E them. They aren't the kind with marshmallows. She uses yams, butter, and brown sugar. She cooks them for like 12 hours on low heat and is continually basting them... they taste like candy!Our friends, who we usually spend the holidays with, make "wet style" stuffing (technically dressing since she doesn't stuff the bird). I always had the dry style growing up, but I love hers now! It's so tasty and delicious. I love the crispy bits!Day after turkey sandwiches!! White bread, mayo, pinch of salt, turkey, DONE. I can eat those for a week straight and not get sick of it. FI family turned me on to the hot, open-face turkey sandwich with dressing on it. I love that now too. Mashed potatoes?! How can you go wrong? Hahaha... seriously, I love everything about Thanksgiving. The family, the food, laughing around the table, smells.... there isn't one thing on the table I won't put on my plate and love. I feel so lucky because FI family does Thanksgiving BIG and a little different from how I was/am used to it, so I get like two awesome Thanksgivings in one :)Since we will be in our new home, and our first home together, this Thanksgiving I am planning on doing something at home for just the two of us I think. Something small and special, and then next year (hopefully) hosting the whole shebang! Can you tell I LOVE Thanksgiving? Haha. Sorry for the long reply!

JSBB2010

I so love my grandma's sweet potato pie. Ummmm...good.

Kahtie41

OMG, pumpkin pie!  I could eat it all year 'round, but it really only tastes good in the fall/winter. One of my favorite things to bake are mini pumpkin pies, and they are super easy.  I prepare the pumpkin pie filling and pre-bake it in a separate dish - no crust - until it is set (I think this takes about a 1/2 hour or so) and while that is baking I line an ungreased muffin tin with sugar cookie dough.  When the pie filling is set but not all the way cooked through, I scoop that into the muffin tin and bake until the sugar cookie crust is golden.  I let them cool in the muffin tin for a while, and then the hardest part is taking them out to cool the rest of the way.  I usually transfer them upside down to a large cookie sheet, then rightside up onto another cookie sheet.  Sounds complicated, but it's worth it for them to not fall apart.  Dust with powdered sugar or throw on a dallop of whipped cream and they're ready to eat!

captainleela

YUM! Katie those mini pumpkin pies sound soooooo tasty. FI is a fiend for pumpkin pie (we already bought our first one of the season last week) so I might have to try those! My favorite is my mom's stuffing. I also love scalloped potatoes. Last year I made home-made cranberry sauce with orange zest, sugar and Grand Marnier and OMG it was so good!! Definitely gonna make that again. And my absolute, all time, hands down favorite thing about the holidays.....Martinelli's apple cider. Oh how I love thee. I can drink three bottles by myself in one night. But I try not to. YUM! Now I want dinner

Future.Mrs.H.

As far as the traditional menu. I love cranberry sauce and I make a mean apple pie...yum! And if we go the non traditional route my mom makes Quail stuffed with Ripe Plantains (amarillos/maduros) Mofongo. Or my housemate's turkey with a Yuca Mofongo Stuffing.I'm thinking since your family is from the DR, you could make a twist of Turkey filled with Mangu...yum!...and then plase invite me to dinner...hehehehehe

oohlypinon

My fave side dish is Greenbean Cass.  I take the recipe off the back of the soup can or the Frenches onion cans.As for desert I like to make tiger butter (white choc, dark choc, and peanut butter) so yummy. 

Orchid2011

OMG ladies good stuff going on here! I have to say I love love love love FMIL's pumpkin roll. So good ummmhhh. The year that I was preggo I had her make me one just for me but because of the sugar in it I couldn't eat it all so I divided it into pieces to last a week LOL. But this year I want to bring in something good to the table and different so Normailed I might take your idea. I'll send you some thru FedEx LOL!Yuca mofongo UMMMM YUMMY!

slevesquemut

This could get long. My dad's atomic cajun french bread stuffing, green bean casserole, turkey, mashed potatoes, homemade cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, Who am I kidding, I love everything on the table for Thanksgiving.  Now I'm hungry.

brian&shelli

My favorite thing to make AND eat during the Thanksgiving / Christmas season is my Pumpkin Roll!! It is sooooo yummy! I even googled a picture of it for you guys! [img]http://tinyurl.com/pumpkinroll[/img] Can I just tell you guys how yummy this is!! Cream Cheese filling rolled up in a pumpkin roll!!! I kid you not, but I take about 5 or 6 of these rolls a week to Target!! Not to mention it is a MUST for some of my family members at their Holiday Dinners!! They usually start "calling in their orders" to me right around Halloween so they can be first in line! Ha Ha!!!

Soon2bMrsNaylor

Shellit~ that pic is making me drool! I love everything about thanksgiving, my fav (this is totally random) is the stuffed celery my grandma makes and deviled eggs, oh and rolls....hahaha like I could choose just one thing!

brian&shelli

Mmmmm Deviled Eggs... I forgot about that one Natalie! Good looking out!

eminindy

Shelli - I demand that recipe!! haha, no seriously if you have the time to send me it, that would be awseom! you can facebook me it if you like. I love sweet potatoes and sage and onion stuffing!

smilz4milz

I like the wine...I'm not allowed to bring it anymore though...a few years ago I showed up with 1 bottle & it was open...I originally had 4 bottles...I don't know what happened to them though

Orchid2011

Shelli you should of done that, Now I want it... LOL I forgot to mention Pateles de hoja (spanish girls) Ummmmmm now those are good! What do you think?Do anyone know what this is/ or has try this?

Orchid2011

*I meant pateles en hoja

SteffyC

Yummmm, ladies this is going to be big trouble   My favorite is day after sandwiches!!  I toast a piece of bread, cover it in mashed potatoes, turkey, stuffing and smothered in gravy...with a slice of pumpkin pie on the side!I love the idea of the mini pies, I may have to make them soon just to test

Bigwuhead

I LOVE homemade cranberry.  I also make an awesome cranberry relish that I got from Ina (yeah, Ya know... the Barefoot contessa) it's awesome.Oh and Pumkin Pie..i'm the ONLY one in my entire family that likes it!  Which means more for me...LOL.

MsSunshine

I always look forward to my MIL's delicious Pernil. She also makes arroz con gandules and pasteles. Oh how can I forget the coquito...that's delicious!!

Orchid2011

Ohhh yes Coquito Ummmm. Ok I think I'm going to celebrate Thansgiving this weekend now! LOL

Future.Mrs.H.

We usually make the Pernil, pasteles arroz con gandules and coquito for the Cristmas dinner. But I can eat any of those items all year round...I'm droolong all over the keyboard. I love the pasteles and the only reason I don't make them myself is because they are super hard to make not to mention time consuming. When we are in PR we GTG with my aunts and spend a whole weekend making a "pastelada", we usually make over 100 of them to freeze and to last for the entire Christmas Season...mmmmmmm

Future.Mrs.H.

Here is my Coquito Recipe in case you want to try it. 1 can (15 oz) of Cream of Coconut2 cans of Evaporated Milk 3 cans of sweetened condensed Milk1/2 bottle of Rum...please use Don Q if you can find it =)Cinamon (depending on how much you like it...I usually add a lot)And my "secret" ingredient:Ice Cream! it gives it the thick consistency without having to use eggs. I use 1/2 of one of those boxes of vanilla ice cream.Bottle it and keep it in the fridge and I usually wait a day before I serve it.

Orchid2011

Thanks for the recipes ladies!

MsSunshine

Oh Normailed! I gotta try your coquito recipe