Which Way Did Your State Go?

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My Italian in-laws have penne pasta with red sauce as a side dish
 
Well that’s because they know the real way to eat for Thanksgiving!
 
Years ago, we would have a pasta dish too. Maybe we stopped doing that by the time I was 7 or 8.

My in-laws used to start off with lasagna.

I appreciate a good lasagna, but that’s a meal all by itself, adding it to a turkey dinner is just too much.
 
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My sister used to do that too, my BIL was from Italy. Same for Easter. Lasagna before leg of lamb!
 
Stuffed artichokes to go along with any of those meals? My grandmother would have a tray of artichokes, I believe for Easter.

I like artichokes, but they’re so expensive.
 
Yeah. It is.

We used to host thanksgiving when I was small. The lasagna/ pasta then changed to tortellini in chicken broth. Then I think we dropped the pasta course all together.

The next day was left over day where we’d have turkey sandwiches etc.

My mom would also make escarole. Which I love. Escarole, a little garlic and olive oil. That was to help digest all the heavy foods.
 
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We might be related.
WAY back in the day (we’re talking 1970s here) my aunt would, for Thanksgiving, serve lasagna (including hand rolled noodles), a 20 odd pound turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce (jellied and whole berry), green bean casserole, peas and pearl onions, copper penny carrots, piles of stuffing/dressing, one with oysters and one with nuts, salad at the end of the meal, wine and cheese and crackers and fruit before and after along with piles of Melty mints and Jordan almonds for the kids, running martinis, and then around the time of ‘the ball game’ out would come the pies. . .pumpkin, apple, and mincemeat, along with assorted puddings, Neapolitan ice cream, and ‘sundae toppings’.
 
I love stuffing/dressing, especially when other people make it. It’s not just to avoid the labor; I love the variations. I remember a fantastic chestnut stuffing, another with apples and raisins, another with spicy Italian sausage.

This Thanksgiving, we’re going to stay home, so I think we’ll make the dressing according to my mom’s recipe. Way back when we were teens and young adults, we would all pitch in because it was so much work! I wonder if I can get my kids to help me this time around.
 
Wow! That’s a feast.

No martinis for us. No jordan almonds either.

Maybe cannoli.

Oh and also alternate meat like roast beef for those who didn’t like Turkey.

And antipasto. Was that on your menu?
 
Antipasto first, yes! You came over earlier just to have that! 😂

And oh my gosh yes, always something for those that don’t like what the main course was! Everyone liked turkey, but at Easter, when there was lamb, there was also a roast chicken!

My sister cut back on that but it was a big deal years ago.

You never want to run out of food or not have something people will eat! 😉
 
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Absolutely antipasto! You know, of course, that along with the regular meat lasagna she baked a vegetarian one, and the turkey. Everybody had something he or she liked!
 
My birth state and the state I grew up in say stuffing and where I now live it’s dressing, so I couldn’t agree more with @Irishmom2 that you can never have enough! When I prepared the Thanksgiving table I’d stuff a large 20 pounds plus turkey with cubed bread/crumbs, celery, onions and herbs. Then separate pans of assorted bread dressing like giblets, oyster, chestnut, or sausage would also be made. Being a military family often meant including others to share in our Thanksgiving feast. This year my sister and I have decided to share Thanksgiving together alone. She lives in another state and even though very close to her daughter doesn’t feel comfortable going there this year. Normally I would be heading out to one of my children’s home. COVID precautions has changed that for me. So on Thanksgiving my sister and I will be socially distanced dining in our respective homes while having our phones on speaker to share each others company. Our regular phone conversations often last an hour or more so this won’t be that much different. We just might have to take turns eating and talking! Alas I will only be having one kind of dressing.
 
Loved the article but likewise never enjoyed green bean casserole or made it myself. I will eat it if it is on the table as it always is a part of my son in law’s family Thanksgiving meal. I plan to share this Smithsonian archival recipe info with my daughter who can bring it up around the dinner table this Thanksgiving. Her Southern in laws may be dismayed to learn that it was a Yankee gal who created it.
 
@RN69, The Pioneer Woman, Rhee Drummond has a version of Green Bean Casserole that has made me announce I will never make the other kind ever again. Bacon, garlic, cheese, red peppers…I add some onions and mushrooms. Delicious. Look it up. 🙂
 
Hmm, mac and cheese. 🤔

I’ve never included mac and cheese as part of a Thanksgiving spread. If I were to do so now, very little else would get eaten. Such is The Husband’s borderline-disturbing love for mac and cheese. 😊
 
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southern favorite
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black community
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That’s because they’re largely the same thing. People tend to forget just how many black people live in the south. There’s a reason that African American Vernacular English sounds southern, BECAUSE IT IS.
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southern black recipes and I never knew there were so many ways to make Mac and cheese!
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Baked is the best
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Who has mashed potatoes without some kind of gravy?
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Me, because gravy is made from meat, and I am a vegetarian. Garlic, however, goes on EVERYTHING.
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Gee, no state picked cranberry sauce!
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I don’t mind cranberries, (Zombie, zombie,-e-e-e, I really hope folks get the reference), but cranberry sauce, I’ll pass.
 
Great, now that songs stuck in my head…

My wife makes home made cranberry sauce. Which means I have to make a special trip to the store to buy the canned stuff. Some people have a tradition of breaking a wishbone on Thanksgiving, mine is trying to get the cranberry sauce to slurp out of the can in one plop. I love the sauce with the canned ridges 🤤
 
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