Brown butter ice cream is just the best recipe on here. I have made it many times and recommended it to many friends. The rest of the menu looks fabulous as well.

I really really want to make the cranberry curd bars, but might not have time tomorrow - dinner is at 2. I was assigned to bring a salad, and am thinking spinach or kale with roasted pecans, goat cheese, and cranberries with a cranberry or similar vinaigrette is the plan!

Other people are doing all the heavy lifting, so I'm going to prepare a lovely cranberry-orange filling for those turkey-shaped pie-crust pastries y'all featured a couple days ago, dust 'em with cinnamon sugar, and call it cute.

Mmmm, my fellow grad students and I are throwing a potluck, and together my boyfriend and I are bringing:
- the turkey (Pioneer Woman's brine, Alton Brown's cooking technique, with stuffing that is not homemade, sadly, and homemade gravy)
- homemade challah
- a spin on a Gujarati green beans with mustard seeds that is affectionately known in my family as beans and bugs
- cranberry pecan orange relish
- Pioneer Woman's maple cranberry sauce made with orange juice
- chocolate bourbon pecan pie

I'm very excited, especially as I just learned someone is making beer mac and cheese.

My parents and siblings are coming over and bringing all of the main stuff for lunch Thanksgiving.. We are responsible for mashed potatoes and green beans ( a delicious recipe with sour cream and parmesan cheese). Then we are off to a friend's for dinner Thanksgiving and we are bringing a carmelized onion and gruyere tart.

I'm responsible for dessert so I am doing the Chez Panisse gingersnaps I saw on here for coffee time after dinner. I am also making my sweet potato pie made with cream cheese, a pecan crust, and sweetened with apples. :)

I can't wait till next year because I'm getting married and all of the relatives will be coming to me!! ^_^

First Course:
-Balthazar's Mushroom Soup with Gruyere and Sage Croutons

Main Course:
-Roasted Brined Turkey from a local farm with Giblet Gravy
-Mascarpone Mashed Potatoes
-Artichoke and Parmesan Stuffing with Chanterelles
-Roasted Brussels Sprouts and Green Beans with Parmesan and Balsamic Glaze
-Creamed Pearl Onions (a must for my father)
-Chunky Apple Sauce
-Cranberry Sauce
-Cracked Pepper and Thyme Biscuits

Dessert:
-Pumpkin Pie
-Jewish Apple Cake
-Homemade Vanilla Bean Custard Ice Cream

I'm in charge of an appetizer and table centerpieces (we have a group of 42 this year). I'm making Smitten Kitchen's sun-dried tomato stuffed mushrooms and I think I'll give her parmesan cream crackers a try too. Today I sliced and dried citrus fruit to adorn candles for the centerpieces, and bought a variety of shelled nuts to look festive and be enjoyed later. Happy Thanksgiving!

Appetizers:
Herbed nuts
Sweet potato fries
Mystery appetizer from M-I-L

Dinner:
Turkey and gravy
2 kinds of stuffing
Scallion mashed potatoes
Brussels sprouts with cashews in a raspberry vinaigrette sauce
Mom's asparagus (yes, out of season, but just once a year)
M-I-L's salad
Parker house rolls

Dessert:
2 pies from great-grandmother-in-law
Chocolate brownie cupcakes with salted peanut caramel sauce

My husband and I have traditionally gone all out for Thanksgiving - one of our very first "dates" was spent cooking a Thanksgiving meal for all of our college friends. However, this year we have something new to be thankful for: our 3-month old baby girl. The only thing we had to make was reservations at a lovely restaurant!

I'm making cornbread dressing, cranberry sauce, pumpkin cheesecake with browned butter, walnut, brown sugar graham crust. Oh, and maple shortbread to decorate the cheesecake and for the kids to eat. My guy is making the rest.

I'm in charge of dessert. I'm making Momofuku Milk Bar's Crack Pies for the first time. Also, Pumpkin Pie, Martha's Molasses Spice Cookies and the fabulous NY Times Chocolate Chip Cookies. I've never used so much butter and brown sugar in one day... ever!

My partner is a social worker for a transgender drop-in center, and we're making Thanksgiving dinner for them (about 35).

I have three spatchcocked turkeys resting in my fridge (one is getting cooked tonight, two tomorrow), and they're going over a bed of carrots, potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions and a couple of apples.

We're also doing the soup - butternut squash (curried, with coconut milk so it's creamy but still vegan/allergen free), and black bean-pumpkin.

Rolls are rising, cranberry sauce is done. Two apple pies are in the oven right now, and as soon as I pick up another bag of sugar, applesauce cake is going in the oven.

Green bean casserole is going to come together tomorrow.

Other people are bringing mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, stuffing, pumpkin pie, and ham.

Maybe we'll grab a last-minute green salad, too.

Then I'm going to sleep all day Friday!

Apps:

Humbolt Fog Cheese, Camembert and Blueberry Vanilla Goat Cheese with fresh fruit.

Smoked Oysters, Smoked Trout, Herring with Lemon.

Smoked Salmon with creme fraiche and dill.

Main Course:

2 10 pound turkeys- spatchcocked.

Sides:

Roasted root vegetables with fresh nutmeg

Buttermilk mashed potatoes with chives and lumps!

Stuffing- Gluten Free (for the celiacs in the family) and regular.

Green beans with bacon and bacon vinaigrette.

Waldorf Salad

Rolls

Accompaniments:

Bacon and brown sugar compound butter

Lemon, garlic and black pepper compound butter.

White Wine Gravy

Pomegranate- Cranberry Relish

Dessert:

Pumpkin Pie

Mexican Flourless Chocolate Cake with cinnamon whipped cream.

Starter- salmon tartare And 3 kinds of Oysters ---fresh shucked
Salad- spinach salad with pomegrate and ahi
Soup- seafood soup in cataplana
Main- dungeness crab ravioli
Dessert- olive oil cake,hazelnut gelato espresso poured over

It's my husband and I's first Thanksgiving since we got married, and it's just the two of us this year, but we still wanted to do something special.

For breakfast, we're having bacon, egg, and cheese bagels. A good way to start a yummy of cooking!

For Thanksgiving dinner:

10 lb turkey
mushroom stuffing
green bean casserole
cranberry sauce
mashed potatoes
sweet potato casserole
pumpkin pie

I'm excited!

This year will be different from any other Thanksgiving with my family. We usually have dinner at my parents' and enjoy my mom's turkey with veggies stuffing (we do veggies stuffing, not a bread based stuffing, so it's very juicy and flavorful) or every once in a while at my aunt's, who does the turkey the same way my mom does. But this year, my husband's stepsister invited everyone over for TDay lunch, so my parents used that as an excuse not to have TDay dinner at their place. I have no idea what we'll have . . . then for dinner, we're hosting our first dinner because we didn't want his mom (divorced parents) to spend TDay alone.

With all that said, I am in charge of most things, and my motherinlaw of a couple of things.

I am making:

Kale salad with cranberries and candied pecans, homemade dijon vinaigrette

Roasted yellow and green squash with a ricotta lemon cheese spread

Cilantro infused white rice

Pumpkin bread pudding using walnut raisin ciabatta bread

Am providing wine and sparkling water

Motherinlaw:

Eggplant dip (very similar to babaganoush, but MUCH better)

And the bird, but in a very untraditional way (not American), and probably not turkey, but chicken breast.

(I am hoping stepsisterinlaw will have turkey at her house!)

And a friend has given us pumpkin spice and classic brigadeiros as well

The plan is to serve buffet style since our table is kinda small.

Everyone else's dinner sounds delish. Happy Thanksgiving to all!

made mini caramel pecan pie tarts with my daughter today. We are packing them in the cooler for our trip to Knott's Berry Farm. Will be a carefree, fun-filled day spent riding rollercoasters with friends and family.

I'm bringing steamed carrots with a butter/brown sugar/honey glaze!

I'm just spending Thanksgiving with my parents. :) I'm bringing an apple-bourbon pie, cardamom/star anise/lime/cinnamon/clove cranberry sauce, and some very buttery dinner rolls.

Braised home-made seitan with 50 cloves of garlic and wild mushrooms, brussels sprouts gratin, Dandies topped sweet potatoes, and sooo much more! Yummm

We'll be having a cosy feast for 14 in our living room. Who needs elbow room?

Rocky mountain sunrise (cherry champagne cocktail)
Goat cheese palmiers
Fried herbed almonds
Romaine and endive with caesar dressing

Butternut squash, apple and sage soup shooters

Pancetta and sage turkey

Brown sugar spiced red cabbage
Green beans with lemon and pine nuts
Gougeres
Dauphinoise potatoes
Chestnut stuffing

Friends are bringing:
Nut roast
Apple flan
Rocky road
Cherry pie
Mystery 2nd chocolate dessert

:D:D:D

We're hosting several T'giving "orphans", they being very far from their overseas homes, as are we. We're sticking to a somewhat traditional American menu.
Nibbles: cut-up apples, celery and sugar snaps
(no soup...saving room for the main course!)
Chipotle-maple turkey breast, herbed turkey breasts, apple-raisin stuffing with bay, jalapeno & sichuan pepper cornbread, collards, German red cabbage salad, mashed potatoes, a sweet potato casserole, asparagus salad, various styles of cranberry sauces, pan gravy, eggnog ice cream and a maple-pumpkin creme brulee (which I still need to make!). We'll have pumpkin spice cocktails to start, wine with dinner and spiked coffee/hot chocolate to collapse in front of a movie with. Happy Thanksgiving!

holy wow. i would be overjoyed to have even a bite of any one of your thanksgiving feasts!

We're going out for Thanksgiving. But I've been using all these posts to help prepare my Christmas menu:

Nibbles:
Nuts in the shell, olives, prosciutto, little toasts, two creamy cheeses (feta will be one of them)
Main:
Maple/Soy brined turkey
Cornbread and smoked ham dressing
Brussels Sprouts with shallot and bacon
Green beans sauteed with garlic and lemon
Mashed potatoes and giblet gravy
Sweet potato rolls
Dessert:
Chewy molasses spice cookies
Mystery dessert brought by our guests

It's going to be a great meal!

I'm in charge of appetizers.....wild mushroom crostini, dates stuffed with goat cheese and wrapped with prosciutto, morbier and brie.

A smallish Thanksgiving for us this year (6 or 7, vs. the usual 13-16), but as a result we don't have anyone bringing anything except wine.

To start:
Scarlet carrot soup (carrot soup with three beets in, gorgeous!)
Arugula salad with grated apple

Then:
Roasted chicken (spatchcocked, w/ maple-soy glaze)
Roasted salmon (w/ maple-soy glaze)
Garlic mashed potatoes
Mashed potatoes w/out garlic (someone's allergic)
Roasted spiced cauliflower
"Sweet-and-sour" acorn squash, à la Madhur Jaffrey on NYTimes
Cranberry sauce

To finish:
Sweet potato pie à la The Minimalist
Pumpkin pie (w/ same graham cracker crust)
Upside-down chocolate pear cake

Coffee, tea, port?

We expect quite a few additional guests to drop by for dessert, so I'm hoping we have enough. The cake is a bundt, so doubled from the original recipe.

I'd better get cracking on the rest!

We go to family where we always have a traditional turkey dinner--no appetizers or alcohol.

I made a 3X batch of overnight refrigerator roll dough from an old Betty Crocker cookbook. At our house it's the one "It wouldn't be a holiday without ___' food. I also brought hot spiced fruit.

My husband smoked a turkey while a friend and I made the sides in the kitchen:

Pioneer Woman's Creamy Mashed Potatoes
My mom's cornbread dressing
Gravy
Pioneer Woman's Greenbean Casserole
Homemade Rolls
Canned cranberry sauce

While we cooked we snacked on a family Cheese Ball recipe and Ina Garten's Roasted Rosemary Cashews!

Our appetizers were spanikopita and bisteya triangles from Rose Levy Beranbaum's Pie and Pastry Bible.

Dinner:
Turkey pot pie including herb-braised turkey breast, carrots, mushrooms, leeks and celery, bechamel, and cheddar biscuit topping
Sweet potatoes with pecan brown sugar topping
Gratin dauphinois
Green beans with hazelnuts
Salad with spring greens and pomegranate seeds

Desserts:
Pumpkin custard
Apple pie
Key lime pie
Cranberry sorbet (homemade)
Cinnamon ice cream (homemade)

It was deeeelicious!!! And the best part was no one missed having a whole roasted bird! The pot pie was a huge hit. Really fun to change things up a bit this year.