What is your favorite thing to eat at Thanksgiving dinner?

Hot homemade rolls with puddles of butter.

Oh, I could never narrow it down to one.

Sweet potato soufflé
Macaroni pie
Deep fried turkey
Deviled eggs
Potato salad
Cheesecake
Pecan pie

All homemade, preferably by my mother-in-law.

Dark meat, simple stuffing, yams with marshmallows on top, and pumpkin pie. That makes me really thankful.

@johnpowell nailed it. Rolls and butter.

I’m a breast girl, haha, and…my amazing 150 yr. old family recipe for cranberry apple relish. I am making a batch Weds. stuffing for sure and….Pecan Pie for me! Pumpkins okay but ya know I’m a nutty gal. lol

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A melange of turkey, gravy, peas, yams, cranberry, all in one bite.

The same thing I eat every day.

Venison and Lagavulin

I’m with @zenvelo, in that I prefer a mélange in one bite. Preferably turkey breast, plain ol’ bread stuffing (none of that sausage and apple crap!), mashed potatoes, and perhaps some cranberry sauce (homemade of course!) Oooh, and there must be some really awesome crusty rolls with an excellent butter on the side. Well, for heaven’s sake. Yum!!!

This year it will be prairie chickens.

STUFFING

I like all of it honestly. Love the turkey with gravy and cranberry sauce, love the stuffing and the vegetables and the green bean casserole…Can do without the heavenly salad. Not into sweet things, but I guess I’m thankful for that, too.

Left overs of course.

The Green Bean Casserole comes close, but the sage dressing with gravy makes me thankful all by itself.

Leftovers are, um, left over from the meal? Not part of it? @filmfann

Pumpkin pie!

Pumpkin and pecan pie.

Hot rolls with butter.

Sweet potatoes.

Brussels sprouts gratin

Mashed potatoes with mushroom gravy.

Cranberry sauce. I like both the fresh chunky kind and the canned kind.

@ibstubro :: At least the way my family does thanksgiving the leftovers are always about 90% as good after they came out of fridge if judged by taste. But also 50% + 90% better because you can eat on the couch and the family is gone.

But really. Fresh rolls will never be as good unless the heat from them baking in the oven melts the butter. My grandma can rant about Obama being a racist towards white people while I have a fresh roll oozing in butter and I don’t really care.

The bird.

I pick it out (fresh, free-range), clean it, prep it, and cook it myself. My wife makes all the sides and soup from scratch, and they’re wonderful — but I really look forward to my bird every year.

Today I was musing to myself looking at the turkeys. They all say ” young turkey” well wtf…nobody would buy an OLD Turkey. lol

” Fresh really old Turkey.” lol

My candied sweet potatoes and my husbands stuffing and cranberry sauce.

Stuffing
Cranberry sauce
Pumpkin pie

Leftover sandwiches.

Fresh bread with turkey, smashed potatoes and/or dressing (not oyster, I don’t keep shellfish leftovers), and cranberry sauce.

Om nom nom

Also, I make what is quite possibly the world’s best giblet gravy. I’m not a gravy person, or an organ meat person at all, but I would drink that stuff out of a mug if I didn’t know it would kill me.

Speaking of potatoes. OMG..the BEST thing in the world is a baked potatoe with ranch dressing and butter. Cardiac bliss! lol

Every year this week I look forward to turkey sandwiches with mayo, and for the past few years—sigh—none. Maybe this year…

@Pachyderm_In_The_Room Elephants are smart, cook a sandwich Turkey just for your tusks alone. :-)

Sorry, my favorite thing to eat is censored. The question would have to be NSFW.

On the actual day, my favorites are my husband’s homemade stuffing and my pecan pie (semi-homemade; Pillsbury gets credit for the crust). Really, though, my favorite is the dish we eat the next day: turkey pot pie made out of most of the leftovers. I would seriously rather have that than all the individual pieces.

Pumpkin Pie, Sweet potatoes, Chicken and Dumplings and Cranberry sauce.

@augustlan Your answer just reminded me that my Grandma used to make turkey enchiladas the day after Thanksgiving! Soooo good.

My great grandma’s “rhyme salad”. It’s a recipe from the 1930’s, I do believe. Sounds nasty, tastes good: pickles, peas, onions and cheese! (With some miracle whip, for glue as it were.)

Oh. And my dad’s turkey soup.

I’ve also been thinking… how amazing does this sound: Thanksgiving Calzone.

With seasoned crust so it tastes like stuffing, turkey, cranberries, maybe some almonds, a little gravy…. who knows what else you could throw in it but it makes my mouth water just thinking about it. gah!!

@Coloma, cooking a whole turkey for myself is just such a tuskle… plus it doesn’t exactly endear me to my poultry friends who live near me here at the zoo.

Btw, have you tried this turkey cooking game ?

My mom’s stuffing. Sadly, she has been gone for 19 years and I can’t seem to recreate it. Luckily my MIL makes great stuffing, even though it’s very different from my mom’s.

I love cold turkey sandwiches with mayo and cranberry sauce after the big feast:) The day of the celebration I generally od on all of it!

How could I forget the leftovers? The turkey sandwiches and the turkey soup are awesome.

Cranberry sauce that looks like the can. I don’t want any of that frou-frou whole-berry stuff. I like the kind from my childhood; it makes a wonderful “shlmph” noise when it slides out of the can, it wiggles on the plate, and it has rings and lines embedded in it. Yum!

@SadieMartinPaul You cannot be a member of the gourmet cranberry sauce club.
That canned stuff is like pairing a Big Mac with a fine wine. It just isn’t done! lol ;-)

^ It makes better leftover sammiches, though.

@Coloma You’re so very wrong, Laurie. Whole-berry sauce is a poseur. The real, genuine stuff is jellied and wobbles around.

Last year, I served both kinds; I made a whole-berry version, and I opened a can of Ocean Spray. The house-made sauce seemed “meh” to me, but the canned version was gourmet food. I pity you for being so sadly deprived. :-)

Hey, you’re talking to a girl who spent her childhood summers on Cape Cod. I know my cranberries!

^^^ LOL…well….I mkae my cranberry relish with apples, it is deeelicious, but…on rare occasion the jellied stuff is okay, like when you want cranberry sauce in June. haha

I like the canned, non-whole kind, too. :)

Juicy turkey breast, my homemade stuffing, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, all smothered with gravy. :)

@Coloma‘s recipe for cranberry relish sounds great. I used to love the canned jellied stuff and will eat a little if it’s the only kind served, but nowadays it’s just too sweet for me.

This article might interest you mashed potato mavens.

Loved the vid things!

Only one thing I will NOT eat at Thanksgiving or any other day of the year… cooked peas. Arrrrggghhhh,

My ex husband always said they looked like rabbit poop. He said that in front of the kids when they were little. Ergo, we don’t serve peas.

@Dutchess_III, rabbit poop—love that!

@Dutchess_III, a while back when I was visiting England I was served—not once but three times—something called mushy peas, Needless to say I didn’t partake.

With apologies to pea lovers and especially to British ones, I think mushy peas are the perfect example of “adding insult to injury.”

Canned peas taste and look like rabbit poo.

The cranberry (not whole) in a can is GREAT on buttered toast, ala jam.

Really good mashed potatos – made with whipping cream and cheese. Then the day after I make potato pancakes with them. Yum.

I’ve never made potato pancakes, @Gabby101, though it’s been my intention several times. Might be because I’ll eat nearly anything cold, including mashed potatoes and/or gravy.

Not rice. I don’t like it sweet, and it chokes me when it’s cold alone.

Cold regular pancakes with jam are great!

Crap. I’m going to go with the original question, and say…

STUFFING!

Corn pudding, and also candied yams with rum and marshmallows.