Thanksgiving is next week and usually about a week and a half leading up to it, Yangkyu and I swap recipes, new and old, to make - everything from the turkey, side dishes, drinks, rolls and pies. But this year we decided to spend a low key Thanksgiving. We have a Dogvacay guest staying with us and going through the large amounts of leftovers between the two of us gets pretty tiring usually at the second and third day after. So this year we decided to cook only one of our favorite side dishes each and pick up the rest, portioned out for two people, at the grocery store.
For me, I can't do without creamy fluffy chives and garlic mashed potatoes and gravy. For Yangkyu {while he loves mashed potatoes, too} it's the stuffing with sausages apples. As for pies, I think we'll pick up a slice each of pumpkin pie and coconut pie and also cheesecake too just for heck of it.
What is the one dish you can't do without on Thanksgiving?
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PPS -- These hamsters are having the most adorable sit down feast.
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Rolls, I really can't do without bread bread and more bread. I've found two pretty perfect roll recipes that are probably the only recipes I've bothered to learn and perfect (probably because I don't mind practicing and eating the results)
ReplyDeleteWe don't share your the thanks giving holiday with you guys and even then it's a feat like that. I must admit I'd love to get my eat on like you guys do one day. Admittedly, Christmas day is when we tend to eat like that here :)
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving to you and yours! :)
Thanksgiving isn't a holiday in the UK, but since I'm American, we always have a small thing at our home. There must always, ALWAYS be some stuffing there, haha! I've loved stuffing since a child, I would dream of it before the day came, also a pumpkin pie or sweet potato pie with whipped cream, those are all I need on this day, haha :)) I hope it's a wonderful time for you :) xx
ReplyDeletestuffing for sure! I'm down with trying a new stuffing recipe every year though, don't (currently) have a particular one that I swear by.
ReplyDeleteBesides turkey... I need for there to be some sort of potato.. and pie. Definitely pie. My husband will want stuffing. Mmm yum!
ReplyDeletexo, Yi-chia
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Oh my gosh, those hamsters!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite menu item for Thanksgiving is actually honey baked ham (sorry, turkey!).
ReplyDeleteMacaroni & cheese is always a must at my house, but I absolutely cannot have a Thanksgiving dinner without 4 obligatory slices of my Grandma's sweet potato pie lol
ReplyDeleteYou guys have picked my 2 favorite sides - mashed potatoes and sausage stuffing! If I had to add another one, it would be buttermilk biscuits. Yum!
ReplyDeleteBeing Chinese, we don't really follow Thanksgiving traditions but my grandfather usually makes a really incredible soy sauce chicken for our family dinners on that day.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you have a wonderful feast ahead of you
ReplyDeleteWe don't do traditional Thanksgiving dinners, instead we do what we call a hot pot. You put a simmering pot of stock at the center of the table and cook raw ingredients as you eat. Having hot pot dinners scream holidays for me.
ReplyDeleteTurkey, stuffing and sweet potato pie! LOL I couldn't limit it to one. I love mashed potatoes and gravy.
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oh the mash sounds great! I'm jealous of you thanksgivers and the feasting - how adorbs is the hamster meal!
ReplyDeleteI don't know much about Thanksgiving but Hiro and I share your sentiments with food. We try to only buy what we need because wasting food makes us feel so bad. So at christmas time we try to buy just enough for us sometimes it's heard because food companies cater more for families and larger gatherings.
ReplyDeleteThat mash you like sure sounds delicious!
I'm not into Thanksgiving food or leftovers but this year, my son really liked the sweet potato casserole I made, so I think I'll have to do that every year. Until he gets sick of it, of course ;).
ReplyDeleteI can't do Thanksgiving without my mom's cranberry sauce. It's the absolute best thing on the whole planet hehe.
ReplyDeleteWe don't do Thanksgiving in my country but that's a nice
ReplyDeleteplanner and organizer! The Tiny Hamster video is just
toooo adorable! Xx