Turkey breast (maybe the swarma recipe chef John posted last week - still trying to decide on the recipe), mashed potatoes, green beans, cranberry sauce, cornbread…
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I’m cooking/providing:
Turkey
Mac-n-cheese (using my “spite” recipe)
Green beans (NOT green bean casserole)
Mandarin orange jello “salad” (Kiddo’s responsibility)
Rolls (saving the homemade ones for the leftovers lol)
Cranberry sauce (homemade, not open for discussion)
Apple pie
Beverages
MIL bringing:
Whipped/mashed potatoes
Make ahead gravy
Deviled eggs
Dressing (from her “spite” recipe)
Sweet tea
Pecan pie
Extra cousin-in-law:
Charcuterie board, assuming he remembers to come
Neighbor who fosters kittens:
Beverages
Extra ice
Use of his garage fridge for turkey thawing and brining and general food overflow
ETA cranberry sauce
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I am intrigued by the spite recipes for Mac-n-cheese and Dressing. Is the spite directed at the dish itself, or something else?
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Thanksgiving will be kind of a wash for me and my partner. We wanted to spend time with our families but her work is requiring her to show up on Friday so we’ve decided to stay home and then travel to Houston on Saturday until Monday. We might end up ordering takeout.
No idea what the food plan will be at my parents, maybe leftovers for us. I don’t know. My mom does want help making hallacas and Venezuelan eggnog since it’s time consuming so i know we’ll be doing that.
Reminds me that i might need to grab the eggnog recipe from the old site and post it in the food/drink thread. Just in case.
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Roast turkey breast
Homemade cranberry sauce w/juice from orange*
Stuffing, with homemade bread cubettes (is that what they’re called?)
Homemade pumpkin pie (incl. homemade pie crust w/whole wheat flour)
Cauliflower, broccoli, and carrots (orange & purple), all from the farmers’ market
My contribution is the turkey breast. Wife doing the rest (well she loves cooking). Of course, this is dependent on her NOT catching my cold.
It will be just us; all our relatives are out of state. Friends have their own plans. Oh well.
*A friend once brought cranberry chutney to a Thanksgiving dinner. It was . . . different.
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At least it wasn’t Mama Stamberg’s cranberry relish… hey there is even a chutney version in this article:
Here is another cranberry chutney recipe:
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It’s just the two of us, and we are not traditional in any way. So, I’m making a vegetable lasagna from scratch (including the pasta). It should be enough food for the whole long weekend, when I will be as lazy as possible.
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Oh, gee. Thanks a pile.
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Followed up by calling my mom and seems like i’ve convinced her to move thanksgiving to Saturday. So i will do my best to help her cook/prep, i will do a salad at the very least but i might be inclined to offer something else as well. Slightly bummed about not doing a proper thanksgiving on Thursday but knowing we’ll do something Saturday is still great 
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Also the British YT channel Jolly did an American (US) Thanksgiving video, and i really want to know how to make this recipe. Its a cranberry, brandy, pearl onion “sauce” or whatever it is, it looks good and i kinda want to try it
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Onions??
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I’m intrigued 
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I’m deboning a turkey again this year, I’m coating it inside and out with bacon butter and then wrapping it in bacon.
We bought a fancy new roaster just for this bird.
Unfortunately, our daughter and her husband were both just diagnosed with pneumonia so it’s just me and my wife.
We’re taking them dinner but just leaving it outside their door.
But first me and my wife are going to the Detroit parade.
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Ok, so I live in Alabama, and a certain type of Southern woman has a peculiar competitiveness with other women, especially when it comes to men. My mother-in-law is one of those women. She takes her role as hypercompetent wife/mother/tastemaker/homemaker very seriously, and she had a hard time when I turned out to also be competent in the kitchen, and—gasp—some dishes I made were better than hers. The mac-n-cheese, so beloved here for Thanksgiving, is one of those dishes.
She had been snippy about a few things that her son/my then-boyfriend liked better the way I cooked them, and the year she finally allowed me to bring the mac-n-cheese to Thanksgiving had been rough between us. After the meal she asked for the recipe, specifically which cheeses I used, and I refused because I was fed up and feeling extra petty about it. It was a real bone of contention for the next few years, but the hostility about it gradually became a joke, admittedly at her expense, and part of holiday tradition. She attempted to retaliate by refusing to share her recipe for pan dressing, but that’s ok because I don’t especially care for it. So that’s how those two recipes became the “spite” recipes.
Also, our relationship is good now, has been for years, but I’m still not telling her.
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Obligs after the 5:00 mark:
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No plans for Thanksgiving dinner, but this week the menu for the hot bar at my co-op is a Holiday Menu of turkey and traditional sides, for the whole week. I’ll probably get something from there tomorrow or Wed for lunch.
I had no idea it was a traditional Thanksgiving dish. It’s listed on the co-op’s menu for this week. Usually they have mac-and-cheese on the menu for “Americana” day (normally, Mon=Indian, Tues=tacos, Wed=Asian, Thurs=Americana, Fri=Ethiopian), plus it often shows up unannounced on other days as a seemingly fill-in dish. It’s good, and I assume it’s popular since they put it out fairly often. I wouldn’t have been surprised to find some there this week, but I was surprised to see it actually listed on the holiday menu. But now, having read your comment, I’m newly aware that it’s traditional for the holiday, at least in some places. Cool!
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I like the cut of your jib! I was thinking about doing a scratch lasagna, including the sauce (we canned a lot this year) for x-mas dinner.
Just me and Jr. Kidd this year. I’m making fettuccine alfredo (all from scratch) with a side of broccoli and he’s making a tiny ham for himself and ???, he hasn’t decided yet. 
I may end up making green bean hot dish, deluxe version, for Friday. (The add-ins are pasta, carrots, broccoli and one can of the soup will be roasted garlic.)
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I am intrigued
There is this cranberry and jalapeno chutney. Delicious over cream cheese with crackers.
I wanted traditional this year. It’s only us 3.
Turkey thighs and one leg
Cranberry sauce (made already and frozen)
Ham for the kid. She won’t eat turkey 
Yukon gold mashed taters
Some whipped sweet potatoes (purchased)
Small purchased bit of jalapeno pecan stuffing (only my spouse will eat it)
Roasted delicata squash
Either rolls or challah bread.
Pumpkin cream cheese pie (purchased)(kids fav. Ate a half a pie over 4 days last year)
Pecan pie (also purchased)
All the bought food is from the premium fancy pants grocery. Their pies in particular are delicious
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