Thanksgiving gluttony-- confess yours here.

Substitute stuffing for pie:)

I may have eaten cold stuffing for breakfast the next day upon occasion...

For you stuffing addicts, stay far far away from Whole Foods biscuit stuffing. Really.

My mom's gravy and crisp turkey skin.

Sauerkraut with kielbasa and the turkey skin.  I can make a meal with just those two.  Stuffing is a close second.

This is me.  I am too lazy to make homemade mashed potatoes at any other time of the year, so I really chow down on the potatoes and gravy at Thanksgiving.

  But I don't share...

I make what my mom called "heavenly hash" for Thanksgiving, only. I make an extra large amount and leave a bowl of it at home for me! I eat it until it's gone!

Ooh, I can't wait!

What's macaroni and cheese salad? I've never heard of it. 

I taught my kids to be waiting for the turkey skin when I pull the bird out of the oven. It was always just the 4 of us, so who cared if we ate the crispy, succulent, seasoned skin while it was still sizzling. Then Mom and Granny started joining us, and I taught my Granny to eat turkey skin. LOL. For the past few years, she has been waiting in the kitchen with DD when I pulled the bird from the oven. This year, I'm sure DD will carry the best pieces to Granny, since I doubt she'll be up to standing in the kitchen.

My favorite food is the dressing. I make the components - the cornbread with onions, celery, and sage cooked in it, extra sautéed onions and celery, turkey stock and drippings - but my mom puts it together. I could eat my weight in it. It's the only time that I ever prefer a savory over a sweet.

What my family really, really likes is the post Tday gumbo. They don't eat turkey sandwiches, they don't eat turkey tetrazzini; they eat gumbo. And they expect it by lunch on Black Friday. LOL. I've learned to have everything, including the roux, cooked and ready to go so all I have to do is strip the carcass and make stock. The last time I cooked at Granny's my brother assumed that, as usual, he was going to get to take the uneaten turkey home with him. My family was ready to throw Down! They had been willing to travel 200 plus miles and do Tday at someone else's home because we had just lost Poppy, but they were NOT giving up their tradition of gumbo. My brother backed down but he still went home with plenty of dressing and as much cut turkey as I could sneak on the platter without my guys noticing.

This year, I bought extra turkeys, so they can have plenty of skin and gumbo, but it's not the same as Tday skin and gumbo. LOL

Marcy

I was cured of Thanksgiving gluttony when I was about 7 or so. My mom was an amazing cook, and holidays were The. BEST! A couple of my unmarried aunts and an uncle would always come for every holiday. That year my uncle brought something called Sen Sen Mints which aren't really mints at all, they are tiny, very strong black licorice bits. I completely ODed on them along with all other types of Thanksgiving feast goodness. Needless to say, I got violently ill later that night (probably due to all of that black licorice) and have never, ever overdone it on any holiday since!

That said, I have never met a homemade dinner roll or loaf of homemade bread that does not call out my name seductively every time I walk past the kitchen... Mmmm, bread!

I don't know if it's exactly gluttony, but after I've eaten a "normal" Thanksgiving meal, I really couldn't be bothered with turkey and vegetables. I just want dressing, homemade rolls, canned jellied cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes and dessert. Starchy carbs and sugar, all the way!

Am I the only one who drinks the real whipping cream when they are all waiting for the pie and I'm getting out the mixer? I think I poured some into a glass once, too...Yikes!

We have filet mignon on Thanksgiving due to DS's turkey allergy. If there is any left, I sneak to the fridge and eat it standing in the kitchen illuminated by the light of the refrigerator. Rip, snarl, gnaw.