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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
What’s on your ideal Thanksgiving table?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
We have learned a few things about your Thanksgiving druthers. It’s Dressing, cooked outside the bird. And there’s a strong contingent clamoring for Sweet Potato Pie, followed by Pecan (pee-CAN!) rather than Pumpkin.
But Jeanne Besser’s pie debate provoked a few readers to offer their ideal menu for Thanksgiving Dinner. Take a look at these excerpts and then offer your own menu below.
And exactly how many of you serve Macaroni and Cheese on Thanksgiving? For me, speaking selfishly, the most important dishes after the turkey are the cranberries (i prefer the jelled kind, but my better half prefers whole cranberries) and bread-crumb dressing. But that’s just me. What dishes are must-haves on YOUR Thanksgiving plate?
Happy Thanksgiving!
By brittany: it’s just not a real thanksgiving with out a southern spread: collards, black eye peas, baked mac and cheese, yams(don’t ruin them w/marshmallows!)turkey, cranberry sauce,mashed potatos, corn bread, corn bread DRESSING. and SWEET POTATO PIE. Pumpkin is not terrible, but it’s not as homey and yummy :)
By Jeffrey of Nashville: So let’s not get this confused. On Thanksgiving Day the Southern table will look like this: Turkey, Dressing, Mac & Cheese, Turnip or Collard Greens, Yellow or White Squash,Green or Blackeye or Field Peas, Green Beans, Potato Salad, and Cranberry Sauce. All of this will be complimented by: Sweet Tea and a deep dish slice of SWEET POTATO PIE!
By Nicole: I lived in New Jersey till I was 10 Florida till I was 15, and Ga since. I am now 28. I lived more of my life in the south, and more of my life in Georgia at that. However, growing up with family from the north: Its stuffing all the way baby! which means…stove top, chicken flavored stove top to be exact, and nothing else will do. When it comes to pie…Pumpkin! Sweet potatos (potatoes?) anyway… are our side dish at Thanskgiving, smashed and mixed with brown sugar, butter, and cinnamon and nutmeg, then covered with mini marshmallows, baked till golden brown. But its pumpking pie on the table for dessert, along with Pecan, and a moist delicious chocolate swiss cake roll, that we apparently didn’t have enough of, because it was what everyone wanted..they totally skipped over the pumpking and pecan and went straight for the swiss roll, there were no left overs much to my regret..so next year, I think we will have two of those and one pumpkin pie. We don’t use cool whip..we use whipped cream.
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