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Next week signals my kids’ favorite meal of the entire year. We are heading to Grampa Lee and Gramma Marilyn’s house, one of our happy places. Gramma and I have been scheming about the meal. It turns out that their range needs a rebuilt electrical panel. It’s supposed to be operational by Thursday.
We have a back up plan if it’s not: outdoor grill, multiple crockpots, and a camp stove to reheat food that I am going to make-ahead and freeze this weekend. Wahoo! Nothing is going to get in our way of a fabulous meal.
The menu? Funny you should ask. Here it is:
Okay. I’m not making everything listed below. My kids will pick and choose and then I’ll make them help me.
Appetizers:
Turkey:
Gramma is going to handle the bird when we get there, but we both agreed that a turkey breast is the way to go. None of us are that crazy about dark meat anyway. A turkey breast will also cook easily if we need to use alternate heat sources.
Side Dishes:
- Herbed Stuffing
- Mashed Potatoes
- Mashed Sweet Potatoes with Olive Oil and Garlic
- Easy Green Bean Casserole (using Homemade Cream of Celery Soup)
- Pear and Blue Cheese Salad with Maple Spiced Toppings
Sauces, Gravy, and Salad Dressings:
Bread:
Dessert:
- Streusel Topped Pumpkin Pie
- Pumpkin Spice Cheesecake
- Pretzel Berry Dessert
- Homemade Chocolate Cream Pie
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I love love love Thanksgiving and am so glad we have continued the tradition over here in Australia with our family and friends. We have lived here for 21 years this coming January. Happy dances occurred when we finally sourced cherries and pumpkin for the ‘proper’ holiday pies! We used to have family send it over but about 6 years ago we found a store about 13 hours drive away that did mail order… So good to have ‘real pies’ again! Australian pumpkin and cherries just don’t make the real thing!
Our meal plan
Whole turkey
Celery onion stuffing
Cranberry sauce
Green bean casserole
Cheesy broccoli cauliflower
Corn on the cob
Mashed potatoes
Gravy
Sweet potato soufflé
Small dinner rolls
5 cup salad
Cherry pie
Apple pie
Pumpkin pie
We celebrate the weekend before or after thanksgiving as we don’t get the days off during the week. We are having our holiday this Sunday and are very excited to have our 4 month old baby here to celebrate with this year! Definitely a year to be thankful and celebrate our blessings.
Kudos to you on keeping the tradition alive. I have friends who live there and they’ve told us how expensive food is. Sounds like you have a huge spread going!
I forgot to add we had 16 people to help eat it all lol!
We had a 108 degree day, it was soo hot, thank goodness for the air conditioner