Pea Tradition: Thanksgiving Menu

Oh how fun! I love seeing different regional traditions.

It's just our family of 5 this year, we will be doing all the cooking. (And by we I mean ME. Family will pitch in but it's mostly on me).

Turkey (since it's just 5 of us I may only do a breast and a couple legs. Otherwise I brine using PW recipe)
Gravy (from scratch, never a jar)
Mashed Potatoes (also a PW recipe)
Cranberry Sauce (from fresh)
Green Bean Casserole (DD makes this, I think it's gross)
Sweet Potatoes (very small serving, DH is the only one who enjoys)
Stuffing (finally found a recipe we all enjoy)
Rolls (probably frozen kind that thaw overnight)

Pies are TBD. I don't care for baking.

My family is not adventurous so ours is very basic

Turkey
Gravy
Stuffing and Dressing
Mashed Potatoes
Green Bean Casserole
Roasted (or sometimes roasted and mashed) butternut squash
Dinner Rolls
Cranberry Sauce 
Pumpkin Pie
Apple Pie

We usually have mac and cheese too but my sister recently moved out of state and won't be able to make it home for Thanksgiving this year.  Without her, we won't have it. It's the dish she brings.

I might make broccoli rice and cheese casserole. I did a couple years ago and it was a hit, but we'll see how much time I have.

This year it's just me, dh, dd, and maybe my sister. None of us likes turkey so this year I bought some Cornish game hens at Costco...a 6-pack of them, frozen. My dad used to make these after my sister and I left home. I'll make stuffing (Stove Top because that's what everyone likes), mashed potatoes, peas or green beans, gravy, pumpkin pie for dessert. Done. I feel like it's a silly holiday for those of us who don't have family who we haven't seen in awhile.  

We are only having 7-8 people with 2 being young kids and we are heading out of town the next day for the weekend. I am scaling back the amount of food I'm making given the circumstances, but still making the family favorites. So far I have the following....

Turkey
Ham
Mashed potatoes and gravy
Stuffing
Cheesy corn
Green bean casserole
Apple pie
Pumpkin pie

Better Homes & Gardens Easy Minestrone
Turkey Breast (oven bag)
Mashed Potatoes and Gravy
Trader Joe's Cranberry Orange Relish
TJoe's Green Bean Casserole Bites(new this yr to us)
RoastedZucchini,Eggplant,Celery,Peppers
Sweet Potatoes
Pepperidge Farm Dressing
Pillsbury Grands Biscuits
Apple Pie

I love reading Thanksgiving menus because I love Thanksgiving dinner. After hosting or helping to host Thanksgiving for more than 35 years, we are going out to dinner at a local restaurant. My kitchen is being demolished next Monday. Hopefully it will be brand new in time for Christmas.

Homemade pizza with sausage, peppers, onions.
Pumpkin pie for Dh.

I hate the traditional Thanksgiving foods and refuse to make them for 2 people. Actually I've made an alternate though fancier meal for several years now. Last year it was just 2 of us and I made pizza. I'm making it the new tradition.

Small group this year, only 5 plus delivering 2 meals, so this is way to much food

Whole small Turkey
Ham
Mashed Potatoes
Fresh Green Beans
Sweet Potatoes
Yeast Rolls
Mac N Cheese
Dressing

Pumpkin Pie
Pineapple Upside Down Cake

I'm personally only doing the turkey, green beans & rolls so it will be low stress

I don't have it all finalized yet. I did buy my turkey Sunday, so that's the important part. It'll be 5-6 of us at our house, I'll cook it all.

Turkey & ham (DD doesn't like turkey, so just a small amount)
Mashed potatoes & gravy
corn
green bean casserole
2 kinds of stuffing
rolls

maybe:
cranberry sauce
3rd stuffing

also: various snacks:
nuts
crackers
cheeses
onion roll ups (like pickles, but scallions instead)

dessert:
cheesecake
pecan pie (just bought from a fundraiser)
apple pie (just bought from a fundraiser)
something cake/brownie/bar like

Now, off to read all your menus!

turkey (19lbs)
turkey gravy
roast potatoes
stuffing (Stove top)
cream onions
cranberry salad
cranberry (tinned)
mashed turnip
roasted brussel sprouts & butternut squash with cranberries and pecans
corn (plain for DD15)
rolls

Chocolate chess pie
Nantucket cranberry tart
pumpkin pie

Last year I did 2 complete thanksgiving meals on 2 different days so we could have everything we wanted. This year I don't feel like i need everything, so the menu is scaled back. It's just me and DH, so I try to avoid a lot of leftovers too.
We are having turkey burgers, no buns. I wanted a way to make a small portion of turkey since I don't like it leftover, so the burgers will be the meat on the plate. With them we will have mashed potatoes, stuffing (doctored box mix) and lots of gravy. Maybe green bean casserole. Cranberry sauce, I bought a jar at Trader Joe's I am excited to try. I'll have to ask DH if he would like rolls, i might do some of the frozen dough ones. And then a frozen pie later. I have been stressed out and run down for a couple months now, so I'm keeping it simple and easy.
Normally I would need sweet potatoes for thanksgiving but a couple weeks ago I made several sweet potato recipes and got sweet potato overload, so I won't miss them. And I really prefer ham over turkey, so definitely have to do a nice ham dinner soon.

There will only be four of us for Thanksgiving, DS is staying at school since he has to work over the weekend.

We are having:
Turkey
Ham (mostly for sandwiches later)
Yankee dressing (as DH calls it)
Cornbread dressing
Sweet potatoes
Mashed Irish potatoes (?)
Vegetable of some type, and maybe a corn casserole because there isn't enough carbs already
Homemade yeast rolls
7-Up salad
Some other type of dessert and DD also wants to make a coconut cake from scratch

My favorite thing about Thanksgiving is turkey sandwichs later with wavy chips and French onion dip.