I have a lot to be thankful for, as we all do. And to show my thanks for your kind words and comments, how about a giveaway? This time, I'm offering up a one-year subscription (10 issues) to my favorite magazine EVER; one that offers up endless dinner inspiration and probably the most frequently cited source of recipes on this here blog.
It's Everyday Food Magazine!
Seriously, I love this magazine. It's jam-packed each month with delicious ideas for getting dinner on the table day in and day out (hence the name).
To enter the giveaway, leave a comment on this post answering the following question:
What's your favorite Thanksgiving dish?
(For me, it's hard to choose between my Grannie's dressing and gravy and my mom's broccoli-rice casserole.)
You have until Friday, November 26th at 10 pm to enter the giveaway.
Happy Thanksgiving!
My favorite Thanksgiving dish is...surprise...all of them! I love it when there are so few leftovers in the fridge that tupperware dishes have to be combined. The sweet potatoes slide into the turkey, and the gravy comfortably sprawls over into the chewy, savory stuffing. As for the turkey? It rests buried by a tart ribbon of chilled cranberry sauce. The combination of these flavors defines the holiday for me. Some people might like their Thanksgiving plates compartmentalized, but I love mine in one big, happy mess of holiday food.
ReplyDeleteArgh, you used your psychic powers and stole my giveaway idea for next week!! ;) I'll just do a different mag. One can't have too many magazines each month. ;)
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Thanksgiving fare would probably have to be mashed potatoes MIXED with corn. Sounds gross, but YUM. ;)
OK, I am SO excited about this. My favorite Thanksgiving meal is the one thing that for years I avoided: Grammie's "stuffing." How did I not realize its greatness? I was a picky eater - ha! There is no recipe for the dish. Grammie once tried to write it down for me. You should see the notes - hilarious! She makes her own cornbread from scratch and adds a LOT of sage. The dish is crispy AND soggy if that's possible, and I have at least three helpings of it every year. Mmm... (Her mashed potatoes come in a CLOSE second. I think they include both a block of cream cheese and tub of sour cream, white and black pepper, butter and paprika. The family can never get enough of those either.)
ReplyDeletemy granny's cranberry sauce and dressing. and about 10 other things.
ReplyDeleteMy family and extended family are famous for our non-traditional Thanksgiving dinners. We have had tacos, bbq, roast............rarely turkey and the fixings. But, if I have to choose a favorite traditional dish I would choose dressing and gravy.
ReplyDeleteI love Thanksgiving. If I had to choose it would be cornbread dressing. Yum.
ReplyDeleteI love green bean casserole and sweet potato casserole... especially the sweet marshmellow topping!!
ReplyDeleteI was wrong! It's nutmeg that she puts in the mashed potatoes, not paprika.
ReplyDeleteI like a certain bite. On a fork, turkey, mashed potatoes and cranberry relish.
ReplyDeleteAnd then I also like leftover cranberry relish milkshakes.
Cranberry relish milkshakes?? Pretty sure I need that recipe!
ReplyDeleteThe best part of the meal is the cranberry relish, I think. The recipe I use calls for cooking down whole cranberries with maple syrup, an apple, an orange, and orange zest. It is tart and sweet and delicious. I eat it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner until it's all gone. YUM.
pie! All the rest is just appetizers.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite dish is my mother-in-law's dressing. She makes homemade cornbread, white sandwich bread, poultry seasoning, sage, broth from the turkey, and some other ingredients. It's delicious. Melissa d from ky
ReplyDeleteConventionality aside, my favorite thanksgiving dish is my mom's spaghetti and meatballs. My family, just a tad on the strange side, has a particular disdain for turkey. TI feign normality, my mom would replace turkey the whole bird with ground turkey meatballs. While the dish itself is magnificent relying on garlic and basil for the majority of its kick, the real reason it is my favorite dish lies in its preparation: to mix the bread crumbs and eggs and herbs into the meat, one would use your hands. Now, I don't know if you have ever mixed semi-frozen ground turkey with your hands, but if you have, you would never forget it. There was always something blissfully cathartic about the near-frosbite that made me so thankful for heating and family and food. This was my job for so long that I could probably mix and roll out meatballs in my sleep. Ah, the victorious, redemptive consummation of the food justifying the agonizing hand-numbness! Now, eating a regular ol' turkey for Thanksgiving seems, well, pathetic.
ReplyDelete*third line "TI feign normality" should be "To feign normality." Sorry
ReplyDeletepick me! pick me! i love stuffing- or "dressing", as it is called when i am with russ' family.
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