I've been helping plan our Thanksgiving menu for this year. We're having brisket, gravy, mashed potatoes, green beans with bacon, cranberry jello salad, and sourdough bread. Tomorrow I'll fry the bacon for the green beans, start the brisket, and bake the pies with my sisters. Currently planning to make eggnog pumpkin pie, butterscotch pecan pie, and probably a berry pie.  

I started making Christmas cookies to send to the grandparents. My sister made peppernuts and I made Danish butter cookies. I hadn't made Danish butter cookies before, so I wanted to try them. They were pretty good, but I think I prefer spritz cookies. Also I broke one of my last decorating bags attempting to pipe the cookies , so I think I'll go back to my recipes that use the cookie press. 

Your Thanksgiving spread sounds delicious, @SnowAngel! How did the pie baking go?
I know that my grandparents made spritz cookies at one point in time, but I don't think I've ever actually made them. We had a kit for it at one point - wonder if we still have it somewhere.  

My Thanksgiving cooking is looking a lot different this year, but I made some rolls today and am planning on making a potato dish tomorrow. I'll probably also make an apple pie, but am unsure if it'll happen tomorrow or Friday for a later celebration.

Wow, @SnowAngel, you've been cooking up a storm! That all sounds delicious! Especially the eggnog pumpkin pie - I've never heard of that but yum!!

@valiantarcher I could do with a roll myself about now... Those also sound delicious! ^^

My contribution to our smaller early Thanksgiving this year was my mom's long-time favorite "Thanksgiving Breakfast" which is a cross between bread pudding and French toast, with a nice thick brown sugar and cinnamon topping. It was a very nostalgic and easy dessert choice which will probably be repeated.

Posted by: @snowangel

green beans with bacon,

This sounds similar to a recipe I discovered last year, "Green Beans and Potatoes with Bacon":

1 pound green beans, trimmed and cut into bite-sized pieces

4 cups baby potatoes, diced

1 onion, diced; 2 cloves garlic, minced

1 tsp bagel seasoning mix or steak seasoning mix (I use the latter, usually)

1 cup chicken broth

1/2 tsp dried thyme; 1/2 tsp dried rosemary

Salt and pepper to taste (we are not big salt people, but always add a good dose of freshly ground pepper)

2 Tblsp olive oil

Sooooo tasty!

The Thanksgiving dishes sound scrumptious, Snow Angel, Valia, and Adeona.  

I hope you each are having a very special weekend. Our Canadian Thanksgiving seems ages ago now. (Second weekend of October.)

Our Thanksgiving food turned out great. I miss judged the cooking time on the green beans and had to move them from the crockpot to the stove top and then back again for serving. Other than that, it came together really well. I made two batches of mashed potatoes on Thanksgiving Day, so there would be plenty and there was. We enjoyed the generous amount of leftover mashed poatoes on shepherd's pie a couple days later.

The eggnog pumpkin pie was a hit, voted best baked pumpkin pie ever by everyone. I used this recipe from Taste of Home. Highly recommend, I made the eggnog using my great-grandma's recipe plus a little bit of cream.  

My sisters and I got a little carried away baking pies and made five, but we did plan to have four. Three pies were for Thanksgiving Day and one was for the night before. It turned out that we had enough crust for five pies and we have five glass pie dishes, so we used them all.   Our only problem was trying to time the pie crusts and fillings right for the oven, we made 1 pie that baked 375F, 2 pies at 400F, and 2 blind baked crusts at 450F plus the meringue on the butterscotch pecan baked at 350F. So, even with having a pie and half that evening and then extra company on Thanksgiving we still had leftover pie for Friday to go with decorating for Christmas.  

@valiantarcher, I love love love making spritz cookies, all that butter is good. I made a batch of vanilla and used the Christmas tree shape on the cookie press to make them festive to send to my grandparents in the Christmas box last week. One thing I've learned baking them over the years is they are usually better a bit overbaked than under baked, overly golden and crispy is better than soft with this recipe. I found a cream cheese spritz cookie recipe in a Christmas cookie cookbook over the weekend, so I think I might have to try it soon.  

@adeona, oh, that sounds delicious. I love French toast casserole unlike some of my poor siblings, I have a recipe that has a cream cheese/cream mixture in it and it's a great holiday breakfast.  

Oh, that sounds yummy, @jo, I'll have to put on my list of recipes to try.