What are your musts for Thanksgiving?

Pumpkin pie, apple pie, stuffing, mashed tatoes, green beans,huge turkey (leftovers for days:) homemade rolls and cranberries.
We are simple like that!!!

Turkey or turkey breast
Mashed potatoes
Dressing 😊
Green bean casserole 😊
Cranberry something
Pumpkin Pie

Those are musts. If I have the time or energy ~ sweet potato casserole. Pink or green stuff. Deviled eggs.

Pie, Turkey, pie, green bean casserole, pie, dressing, pie, rutabagas, and for dessert pie.

my homemade cranberry sauce.
my pumpkin pie --I start by cooking pumpkins
homemade stuffing--joy of cooking cookbook

Wonder bread for turkey sandwiches. And ruffles and French oinion dip.

The actual dinner foods I am pretty much indifferent about.

All there needs to be is:

Stuffing
Mashed potatoes
Corn
Rolls

All the carbs!

And cranberry relish would be a bonus.

In addition to the turkey, dressing, stuffing (yes we do both), mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, pickle tray, and pumpkin pie...must have roasted cauliflower (with everything but the bagel seasoning) and pickled eggs.

The roasted cauliflower is a new addition after I served it last year. My MIL has requested it for every holiday meal since last Thanksgiving.

For me...Turkey, mashed potatoes, green beans and green salad.

For the family I add in cranberry relish, gravy, butternut squash and stuffing...but I don’t eat any of that stuff.

Dh makes a pumpkin pie and I make chocolate pecan. Both with lots of homemade whipped cream.

Turkey
Stuffing
Mashed potatoes
Green bean casserole
Butternut squash
Cranberry sauce
Rolls
Rutabaga/carrot mashed together
Pumpkin Pie

We do Thanksgiving at my husband's cousin's house. His wife is a wonderful hostess and she goes to town for everyone. Plus all of he other cousins bring their specialty dishes. She hosts the out-of-town cousins for an entire week and each night is a feast of something w/Thanksgiving being the big to-do. The night before Thanksgiving we normally attend and that's either bbque or Mexican night. On Thanksgiving there is a plethora of food. Appetizers are a meal w/in themselves. There's lumpia, inari sushi, veggies, etc.  The entrees and sides include turkey, ham, steamed rice, mashed potatoes, the best macaroni salad ever, Chinese chicken salad, green beans, dinner rolls, cranberry sauce and that's just some of it. Dessert is better than great. Pies, cookies of all sorts, cakes, more cookies, pecan tassies, more pie and a margarita cake.  

Then we play a game and it's time for 2nds.

There is 3 of us.

I am all for deli turkey , mashed potato, gravy. This year.

I get sad because growing up there would be over 30 people and every dish you could imagine.

Now we are down to 3 people, 3 dishes.

For me - turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, dressing and whatever kind of corn someone makes. For dessert - pie.

I hate green bean casserole, although someone usually brings it., and others love it.

I love sweet potatoes in any form so if someone brings those, it's a bonus.

I loved the jellied cranberry sauce my grandmother made. I'm not so crazy about the cranberry relish sauce that we seem to have now. It's just not the same (and neither is the canned stuff).

Sweet Potato Casserole