What do you eat for thanksgiving?

On the eve before i stuff my face, what kind of food do you guys eat besides turkey and the traditional stuff.

My family normally has A LOT of seafood for thanksgiving like salmon, crab, and lobster. Prettymuch everything else has a chinese spin to it. Our stuffing for the turkey is a chinese sticky rice with chinese sausage, mushrooms, and other good stuff. And believe it or not, there is sometimes chicken feet. yumm

So whats normally on your table for thanksgiving?

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wow that makes my thanksgiving look bland! Can I come to yours?

We just have the norm...turkey, stuffing (normal bread stuffing), mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, some onion white mushy stuff that look like eyes floating in white mucus (yes its gross but my grandma loves it), and apple and pumpkin pie!

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It may not meant to be eaten with chop sticks but after eating turkey for both thanksgiving and christmas for 25 years it gets repetitive. And it's so much more fun to eat food with chop sticks!! :-P

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haha Total opposite here, umgeo. After being stuck eating Chinese food for every special occasion, there's nothing I would revel in more than eating turkey, mashed, and stuffing on Xmas and Thanksgiving! (Well, we get turkey on Xmas, just because we go to a more Westernized Chinese house for dinner.)

You know it's sad when having pizza or steak for dinner is considered a "lucky day". It's a novelty here.

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Growing up, my friends thought I was f***ed in the head when I would invite myself over for dinner when the parents made meatloaf.

Although I would say that Chinese food has more variety than Western good (not incl. European food like pasta - I mean burgers and fries, etc.) but the West trumps Asians for dessert by far.

Edit : What's GOOSE like??

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Updated On: 11/24/04 at 06:10 PM

Don't worry about the ignorance. I dont' think Chinese desserts are very popular so they're not as well known. We've got pastries and cakes and we also have desserts in a soup base, usually sweet with beans or something. And the Japanese have more variety for desserts (like cheesecake, etc). Thing I don't like about Chinese cakes are they're very light with whipcream and fruit but that's pretty much it. It's not rich or sweet enough for me.



But enough of this threadjack! How's Thankgiving going for you? Do Americans really have big day-after-TG sales? Because I might drive down to WAshington thsi weekend if the price is right!

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Yeah. I work at Chick-Fil-A (A fast food restaraunt)and we are located right infront of a mall, AND I have to work on Friday. God, it is going to be HELL!!!!

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I eat A LOT!!!!!!!!! Many of the traditional T-Day -- but I have a recipie that in the past 12 years has become a tradition in my home and many others...my sister calls it "Sweet Potatoe Shi*t" (don't stop reading)

2 lbs sweet potatoes (bake in skin at 350 until soft -- aprox 1hour)

1 lb baby carrots (in sautee pan cover with chicken stock and half stcik of butter and two tablespoons of sugar -- bring to boil until butter sizzles -- if carrots not soft, add more stock until more sizzle and fork/knife goes through carrot)

Transfer both cooked sweet potatoes (no skins of course) and carrots (with butter remnants) into food processor with a full stick of butter and half cup of creme fresche -- puree until all is smooth -- salt and pepper to taste

This is like eating CANDY -- yes it is rich and decadent, but it's the holidays....

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Updated On: 11/24/04 at 09:00 PM

aww Yenta, come over to my thanksgiving dinner . No one should be alone on holidays.

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Yenta
that reminds me of a great barley side dish -- simple...cook one cup of barley in stock

sautee an onion in olive oil with clove of garlic until trnslucent
Add cooked barley
Add 1 TBS fres rosemary (copped) (or any other savory herb)
add zest of one lemon
add juice of the zested lemon
salt pepper to taste

Serve and enjoy

Goes great with poultry and just about any meat

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Tofurkey!

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Yenta, you can come to my house for Thanksgiving.

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Fly back to Washington, DC. LOL