As I've mentioned many times, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, and I am greatly looking forward to it this year! It looks like a majority of my family members will make it to our Thanksgiving gathering this year, which hasn't been the case for a couple of years now. I still have a lot to do before then, though!

Some things I'm grateful for this year:

• A house in working order. I'm even getting better about keeping it (mostly) clean!
• My family, and that they live close by
• I've had a lot of opportunities this year to improve things. Mostly small opportunities (things like more free time, unexpected motivation, etc.), nothing huge, but I feel like I've grown a lot just in this past year, and I'm grateful.
• Technology that allows me to keep up with my friends from around the world. I feel like I say this every year, but it just stays true!

Now that Thanksgiving is upon us real soon, we might as well talk about our favorite Thanksgiving dish. I know we would typically say turkey or ham or mashed potatoes or stuffing or green beans.

I also like pumpkin pie or pumpkin cake roll and pecan pie. I also like gingerbread during the holiday season.

What is your favorite Thanksgiving dish?

My family's tradition is having brisket, potatoes (mashed or scalloped), gravy, fruit jello, and a green veggie. Dessert is always pie, but the fillings vary.

Saturday I cooked the brisket, it's now back in the freezer until Wednesday. This way we don't have to deal with the extra broth or fat on Thanksgiving Day. Next up, toasting some oat flour to make a graham cracker crust for a no bake pumpkin pie.

SnowAngel

Is it cheating to say that my favorite Thanksgiving dish is the pie? It really is what I look forward to the most (food-wise). Specifically, I love triple berry pie the most, though I'll take a good lemon meringue pie too.  

Ignoring dessert... honestly, I'm not sure what my favorite dish is. Thanksgiving Dinner is kind of greater than the sum of its parts in my mind. I suppose I'll say the turkey, mashed potatoes, and gravy. In my mind, everything else at the Thanksgiving table can be swapped out except for those.

Before the 2020's, I'd started a "Friendsgiving" tradition with some good friends - mostly as an excuse to have Thanksgiving twice. 😉 We've had a few "theme" years. For example, one year we all brought something that had to do with our heritage. This year, we kind of did a mash up of traditional Thanksgiving foods, and an Autumn Feast a la the gentle giants of Harfang. Naturally, though, there was no talking deer, and the "man-pies" were made of fruit. 😉

@rya, your "Friendsgiving" sounds like a lot of fun, love the themes.  

I hope all had a great Thanksgiving Day. It was a fun busy day with family here, lots of food and games. We had a Sequence tournament which ended in a tie, pretty sure my team would have won if the other team would have played one more game.  

Our meal was brisket, cheesy potatoes, gravy, green beans, fresh bread, and fruit jello. So good. My brothers and I have been perfecting our cheesy potato recipe, and it's just about perfect now....and this time I wrote down what we did so other family members can make it too.  

We had sour cream raisin pie and no-bake butternut pie, not our usual flavors, but both were delicious. However I think we still need to make a berry pie and a chocolate pie. So we might have some more pie in the near future.  

SnowAngel

Sounds like a fun day! 🙂 If only they'd played one more round.... 😉 

We had a pretty traditional Thanksgiving spread this year, and I feel like I was really restrained. I only went back for seconds, instead of thirds! 😉 I also got to see some of our extended family that I only really see once every three years, and it was really nice to reconnect with them. They're really into board games, as is my brother (and me to a lesser extent), so we spent plenty of time playing.

Another Thanksgiving tradition in our family for the last decade or so is Telephone Pictionary. Basically, everyone has a stack of paper - one piece for each player - and you write a prompt on the first page. You then pass the whole stack to the next person, who reads your prompt, puts your paper at the back, and tries to draw your prompt. Then the next person sees the picture (without the prompt) and has to guess what the picture is. So on it goes until it makes it back to the first player.

It's a lot of fun, and you can end up with some hilarious results! We had two rounds this year - one for the kids (ranging from about 4 to 11), then another one for the adults. I started with "The devil's walking-stick" (that's the name of a plant but I wanted to see the results 😉 ), and ended up with a dragon with an exploding trident.