Another big Turkey Day is here. Millions of families across the country are cooking food. Some will eat family style at a table. Others will lineup a buffets. Everyone will be dreaming of making up their best plate. For many that will include heaping piles of all sorts of delicious goodness. For my kids it will be Hawaiian dinner rolls and sliced apple. We asked for your favorite Thanksgiving Day plates. Here’s what you shared.
Pineapple cranberry sauce
Like Zack I’m a fan of stuffing that hasn’t been cooked in the turkey. I make my stuffing from scratch, baking a loaf of bread specifically for it the day before and I also like putting some Italian sausage in it.
Also usually when I cook Thanksgiving dinner I don’t have a lot of people over, so I’ll roast a duck or pork tenderloins instead.
Can’t forget cranberry sauce: I add a pineapple to mine, plus a good amount of cardamom. Gives it a very fresh taste. – Chemical
The classics
Little bit of turkey, mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce, and as much stuffing as I can fit on my plate. – Will
Minimal veg
I don’t like a lot of the veggies that people prepare. Turkey, canned cranberry sauce (sorry), stuffing, some sort of potatoes (not sweet). If Thanksgiving were a salad holiday, I’d eat that. I love turkey. I could eat it forever. And I will fistfight someone for the drumsticks. – Faux Bravo
Judgement
As an outside to the US I’ve always found it odd that they have a holiday for being thankful yet seem to be so incredibly ungrateful and resentful. I’ve noticed a lot of this messaging of “cursing” the fact that you have to spend time with family members over the years and it’s just a shame that people are incentivised to cut their own family off for the sake of governmental power who can totally be trusted to redistribute wealthy equally and for the sake of rampant consumerism where people fill the void in their hearts with materialism. – Frish
Ecommerce
I like the Thanksgiving where I sit around shilling Amazon products to everyone – Ryan Wright
Chocolate eclair
my thanksgivings have been so sporadic and inconsistent that i’m not sure i have an answer for this beyond the chocolate eclair that has since become a christmas tradition since i don’t go home for thanksgiving anymore. tonight i’m doing friendsgiving and ordering pizza. just put food on the plate. – Ken
One that’s round
I usually go for one that’s round. Preferably one big enough to hold my food. That’s my perfect Thanksgiving plate. – misternyx
Pasta
i don’t put weird shit on my plate i’m normal, tho Italians often do pasta on thanksgiving, so prob that lmfao. Usually lasagna or like manicotti – Alyssa
impossible because I eat Thanksgiving in tiers…plate 1 is turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing, cornbread/rolls with a bowl of salad – Josh
Japanese sweet potato yams
For us it’s been the traditional yams recipe but we make it with Japanese sweet potatoes and it’s really good, I recommend trying it. – Bradley Collier
Cole slaw-dressed turkey
Turkey, stuffing, mash, broccoli casserole, candied yams, green beans, cranberry sauce, coleslaw.
I’m open to biscuits to soak up the extra gravy but feels like a waste of a starch. Same with corn bread. Absolutely no pasta and especially nothing with tomato.
The confluences of the sauces is what’s most important to me. gravy in one corner, yam syrup in the other, tart cranberry in the third quadrant, and the tangy mayo in the last.
Only one slice of white meat. Rest is dark.
The second plate will be a facsimile of the first but only half the portions.
Then mini-slices of three different pies with vanilla ice cream instead of whip cream and a piping hot cup of black coffee. – Me
