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I'm making my first Thanksgiving meal this year! I'm making the usual stars of the show, and then I'm going to roast brussel sprouts, butternut squash and make mashed cauliflower instead of mashed potatoes.

Your cheddar biscuits sound tasty!

@tororojo: you're not lame at all. I actually prefer the canned cranberry

I'm making pumpkin spice cookies!

We're doing the whole shebang! We're hosting my parents, my grandmother, my uncle's family (him and his wife and his two teenage daughters), and of course our little family.

Just finished the shopping last night (phew) and we're sticking to the classics:
18 lb turkey
giblet gravy
sour cream and chive mashed potatoes
mashed sweet potatoes with marshmallows
creamed corn
sauteed green beans
stuffing
cornbread
cranberry sauce (from a can, one of me and WS's favorite foods)
apple pie
pumpkin paradise pie (layer of cheesecake on the bottom, pumpkin on top)

@sweetooth: I keep meaning to try mashed cauliflower. Let me know how yours turn out!

@MrsBrewer: oh ps. instead of getting the individual spices I just use pumpkin pie spice because it has all 3!

@mrs. wagon: Thank you!!! I just saved this in my recipe box :-)!! Maybe I will have to bring over 2 pies! an apple and this one!!

Or I can just make a test one for DH and I

@MrsBrewer: I think the recipe actually makes enough for 2 pies if you don't have a super deep pie pan (or use graham crusts like I'm going to do)!! so yeah, one test and one real

@anonysquire: aaaand I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

Green bean casserole (dairy, soy, & wheat free) and Sweet Potato pie... actually mini pies (vegan).

@regberadaisy: I've been making them for a while, over the past several months. They are actually pretty tasty! I do love mashed potatoes, but the healthy side of mashed cauliflower is winning these days. I use this recipe - and substitute cauliflower.

http://goddessofscrumptiousness.tumblr.com/post/13544053231/olive-oil-garlic-chives-and-romano-cheese-mashed

I made three cheese balls last night

That's it! We are bringing in pre-made to my house this year if we are still waiting on baby's arrival at that point. Depends on what happens in the next couple of days! Ack.

green bean casserole (first time making it, no one eats it but me and my dad, but that's okay), selection of olives for an olive plate, dates, and our Tofurkey (or Quorn roast, can't decide) with stuffing & vegetarian gravy.

@tororojo: You are NOT lame. We're doing the exact same thing! Cranberry sauce in cans and a dessert (cheesecake).

@tororojo: I like the jellied cranberry sauce (which many claim isn't even cranberry sauce), so I'm bringing that AND a can with actual cranberries in it, so I figure that's good enough.

Sweet potato biscuits
Cranberry orange jalapeño salsa
Cornbread apple sausage stuffing
Baked kale chips

Yum!!

@Smurfette: @tororojo: I think my dad is the only one that likes the real cranberry stuff too!! The rest of us like the canned jellied goodness.

I was at a Thanksgiving feast over the weekend and someone brought brandied cranberries! I was thinking those sounded pretty good, but was advised not to try them because of the brandy, haha.

@sweetooth: so you make it exactly like mashed potatoes but use cooked cauliflower? Do you cook till mushy?

@Adira: Brandied cranberries sound delicious! Which takes us back to boozy desserts and pregnancy...I guess that one is probably not okay. Maybe next year!

I'm making stuffing, cherry pie and apple pie.