Friday Fun…Your Favorite Must-Have Dish

We have been invited to a nieces house for the day there will be about 30 

when asked what to bring my wife was asked to please bring the turkey carved

Hello Kathy - as I was reading your post today, my mind started wandering.  One of those first stops was cranberry sauce.  And then the first comment I read is from Lawrence "Larry" & Sheila Agranoff. Cell: 631-805-4400 who like anything but that.  Thanksgiving is about more than food, isn't it?  🦃🍽🦃

Good morning Kathy. Our group will be small. My son and his family and his motther-in-law. My son does not eat turkey and will grill himself a filet. Otherwise the normal turkey and trimmings meal. My must haves are cranberry sauce and stuffing. The rest fills out the plate. Enjoy your festivities. 

The dish that is a must have is probably scalloped potatoes that I make or my son makes.  My daughter is going to her in-laws and she will make scalloped potatoes there for them.  This year we are going to San Francisco with my son and his boys to see my husband's sister and brother who are out there with their families.  My sister-in-law's husband is having surgery so he probably can't do stairs, they are remodeling their house so they can't host Thanksgiving Dinner.  My huband's brother just lost his wife of 70 years and his house is filled with art (and stairs) so we can't go there for Thanksgiving dinner (even with me cooking most of it) so I think we are going to go out for dinner.  I hate the idea of Thanksgiving in a restaurant - not the experience I want for my grandsons - but I remind myself that Thanksgiving is not just about the meal (even though those holiday meals are really important to me>) - and putting a smile on my face is my gift to my husband. 

From the photos you have shared in the past, I can tell that Thanksgiving at the Streib household is a lot of fun!

Good morning, Kathy... what to have or not have at my Thanksgiving Day table is something I've given no thought to in years. Chris and I go to the Ballantyne Hotel on Thanksgiving for their Thanksgiving Day Buffet and I get to pick and choose from all sorts of options and desserts. But I will say, I could care less about stuffing... I didn't like stuffing as a kid and don't like it today as an adult. Of course, eliminating stuffing would make lots of people unhappy. I could also live without mashed potatoes... I like food I can chew. When I did cook Thanksgiving dinner (very rarely) I would roast potatoes. And when I tell you that I've never had a pumpkin pie at any of my Thanksgiving dinners, you'll definitely know I'm weird@! :)

Kathy Streib Sweet potato cassarole with marshmallows - with a twist. Out here, we've started using Ube potatoes. Those are food for a king.

I do not have any must have dishes but I always enjoy turkey, dressing and cranberry sauce as well as creative vegetable dishes. And, I would be pleased with a slice of pie for dessert.

Hey Kathy, a must for me is Pennsylvania Dutch Potatoes filling, or Oyster filling.  I am just not a cranberry fan.

The not to see dish is easy jello salad. A dish I must have, well my Mom had the best sausage meat stuffing, I could eat that all on its own, cooked inside the turkey it was just delicious. Darn now my mouth is watering.

Well I always do the main meat and cheese noodles since I host.  I guess I could do without cranberry sauce and I have to have gravy for my turkey and mashed potatoes or I can't eat them.  

for me it's corn.  Tammy's family never had corn before me, but now we do.  I could do without anything cranberry, but the rest of them eat it.

Since I do not eat Turkey, the stuffing without sausage is the best thing ever.

Kathy my wife's stuffing is a MUST, and I would not be upset if there was no pumpkin pie.

Hi Kathy:

Still working on some plans but expect both daughters and their families. A number of people are vegetarian so there will be plenty of mashed potatoes, green beans and other vegetables. Homemade cranberry sauce is also on the request list. I can't imagine having bananas or pineapple at Thanksgiving but they are on my do not eat list.

Enjoy your weekend!

Jeff

I have a grandson who loves Ambrosia.  So, it's gonna be on the table.  He's coming home from Michigan.

CONGRATULATIONS Kathy, on having this blog FEATURED in the Old Farts Clubgroup!  

OMG 33+ people, I can hardly fathom it, brings back memories of going to Diane's Parents house for Thanksgiving..... most I have ever had were about 6-8 people, our gatherings are more intimate:)Endre

I used to say the obvious, Turkey. However, I seem to have gotten tired of dry and luke warm turkey over the years. It is a chore for the preparer for a large family, to cook it right without overcooking and making it dry. People do not show up on time and one has to carve the turkey (time consuming) and warm things up so it all takes time. I like the mashed potatoes, gravy adnstuffing and hot! Everything tends to sit around so it is delivered luke warm. For me, a standing rib roast, hot hot hot! Jeff

It is pretty much the same here every year since I can remember...

turkey, stuffing (recipe originally from Rick's mom), gravy, whipped potatoes, butternut squash, corn, cranberry sauce (both whole and jellied). Sometimes there is a green veggie. Apple pie, pumpkin pie and one or two different desserts.

We only host every other year. On the off years it is just the two of us and the menu just not change.