Thanksgiving dinner has a lot of good for you stuff in it.
 

Since our guests are coming tomorrow, I have assembled all of the ingredients for the feast on Thursday and I have ready to use;


Celery
Onion
Garlic
Broccoli
Green Beans
Mushrooms
Corn
Butternut squash
Spinach
Lettuce
Tomatoes
Cucumbers
Carrots
Radishes
Cranberries
Oranges
Potatoes
Pecans
Pumpkin
Cherries
Apples
Eggs
Yeast
Flour
Turkey
Butter
Sugar
Salt and pepper and other spices.


I love to cook this meal.

Gracie, your meal sounds absolutely healthful and delicious, lucky family! I hope you have a wonderful day with them in The Villages. :wave:

Thank God, finally, an inspiring list of the beautiful and tasty Thanksgiving ingredients that will make us feel good and contribute to our health and well-being! Sooooo tired of the warnings of potential gastronomic dangers. Kudos Gracie, and best holiday wishes to all!

Yes, it was always my favorite meal to prepare for guests because I didn't have to plan t he menu, and knew how to make all the favorite dishes. Variations were not appreciated by my family. One year I added a little rutabaga to the mashed potatoes, to give it a pretty color. They wouldn't eat it. Another time I forgot the creamed onions and my husband was bitterly disappointed (I think he was the only one who ate them). Always had to have two kinds of cranberry sauce. And always, by the time we ate, I couldn't taste anything.

Gracie

You forgot the giblets for the dressing.

VG

I would have to learn push-aways, from the dinner table. :jester:

They are up the turkey's rear VG! If frozen, GG may not have found them yet!

We cook the giblets for the kitties and use chicken thighs to flavor the dressing.

Mom always purchased extra and sautéed them in a lot of butter with the celery, small onion, mushrooms and a few other things that went into the stuffing. I could never eat liver or the giblets alone or cooked but was run out of the kitchen thousands of times for sampling. It must have been the butter.

The sauté was then added to the bread along with other seasonings and then raw eggs were use to bind things together. No chicken stock used here. Man I would eat that stuff uncooked warm or cold.

Mom would make the stuffing the night before and I was into it as soon as she was finished. My niece makes a close second but has cut a lot of corners and does not use the giblets or eggs.

VG