Hey guys ... just wondering if you plan on cooking on Thanksgiving. If so any recipes you care to share?

For me this year I probably will go out to celebrate with just a few family members. Many of the high end steak houses have really nice Thanksgiving specials around these parts Though it cannot beat home cooking we have too much family stuff happening this year in too many states

I love cooking. When I was in NYC, I use to cook for all the boys that worked for me. But, since I have long gone from there, I have cooked very few meals. I use to spend the entire day cooking and my specialty was mashed potatoes. I did cook a turkey and the full "thanksgiving menu" but man, that was hard!

Used to but I'm past most cooking these days. Just do not have the legs for it.

I will be visiting my 90 year old father this year for Thanksgiving and I suspect that we will go to the house of one of his wife's children. But in general, I have only cooked on Thanksgiving once when I lived in Europe. I had all of my American friends over for Thanksgiving one year.

I did cook a turkey and the full "thanksgiving menu"

Don't you think the BF's would find having a few expats and their significant others over for a Farang Thanksgiving an exotic and entertaining experience?

What would they make of cornbread stuffing, mashed potatos with speckled butter beans and sweet potato pie? Not to mention the Pilgrim cutouts, paper turkeys and pumpkins & corn shocks.

Come on, Oz, they'll giggle over that one for weeks. Give them a good story to tell next time they visit their home villages.

I can relate to all of the above aside from actually cooking a full Thanksgiving dinner. Just reading MsGuys comments is making me hungry, not that it takes much to make me hungry

And EXPAT I think its great you can visit your elderly Father. Mine is a few years behind and I wish I could get out to SoCal to visit him this year but its not in the stars this time around

I've cooked a full Thanksgiving meal for me & a friend (former bf) for the past 20 years, I guess. I used to cook a turkey, dressing, a soup or salad, 2 side dishes (collards and sweet potatoes with apples), fresh cranberry sauce, and 2 kinds of pie (pecan and pumpkin). The first few years I tried a different dressing recipe, different veggies, and different cranberry sauces/relishes every year.

For the past 5-10 years, I've settled on a cornbread dressing with mushrooms & giblets and a cranberry sauce with fresh ginger. I've also dropped the soup, and will probably skip the salad this year.

This year, my father is living with me & my sister has moved to my town, so it will be a family dinner and my friend will probably not come.

NCBored sorry to read you will have to trade family for friend. I think its something most of us have done at one point or another. But it should not have to be that way. In any event I hope your holiday goes well.