The idea is basically to eat turkey for a week. First at the Thanksgiving meal itself, hot out of the over or off the grill. (Or out of the fryer in John H's case). Then leftovers for the next several days, and finally turkey soup for everything down to the wishbone that has been passed over 5 times. No wonder we only cook it once a year.

My oddest Thanksgiving meal ever was chop suey in the Sainsbury's head office cafeteria. For some reason they weren't observing the holiday.


>For roast meals like this, with chicken or turkey - the trad. "Sunday dinner" we have roasties. Withg all the other veg's ther's no room for no room for mash too :-)
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>BTW the US families on your bases over here have to have larger ovens than are trad. in UK (c 60 cm wide) cos your turkeys won't fit in ours. Now just how much turkey does a family need! ?
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>>I love roasted potatoes with rosemary. I love fried potatoes the way the German's fix them (my absolute favorite) in lots of butter with onions. I grew up on those. Thanksgiving has always been mashed potatoes and gravy though. A tradition :o)
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>>>>Start cooking! :o) Turkey, ham baked in brown sugar and butter or syrup, stuffing, candied sweet potatoes, cranberries, home baked rolls and bisquits, mashed potatoes and gravy, every vegetable dish you can imagine, cold salads, pickle trays, raw vegetable trays with dips, sweet potato pie, pumpkin pie, apple pie,et al. It's no wonder more people gain weight during this time of year than at any other time!
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>>>And you've STILL not cottoned on to roast potatoes (esp. done in fennel seeds)
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>>>>>>Celebrated in the United States (otherwise known as “the colonies”). Do not eat too much and enjoy the day with your family and friends.
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>>>>>Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours Tom and to all the other UT members who celebrate it. Wish I was in the US to experience it.