Thanksgiving Dinner - Time and Serving Style

Jules

Jules

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What time do you have your Thanksgiving meal?

When I look at all the lovely table settings, I wonder how you serve it. Family style or on a buffet table. All the tv shows usually had the father at the head of the table cutting up the turkey.

Just to let you know that I’m salivating thinking about all the good food you’ll be having this week. Enjoy.
 

When I serve dinner we usually eat around 5:00. I have a big dining room and table so there is room to put out all the food. I still like to use my good china and serving bowls, many belonged to my mom and grandma.
I even try to put the same foods in them that they did.

My hubby carves the turkey in the kitchen and places it on a serving platter for the middle of the table.

I Don't know how many dinners we will have left with me being 76 and the hubby 83 so I enjoy setting a nice table.
This year we will go to my daughters since my foot is still healing from the fall I took.
It certainly is better but not to the point of making a big dinner.
Just goes to show how in an instant things can change.
 

It's just me and the pets now. We'll probably have dinner late around 3 pm or later. Haven't even decided what I'll have yet.

When my brother was still in the state we had dinner around 2 pm and that was a leftover from my family of origin's meal time. So, 2 pm was the time for a very long time. Now it's --whenever.
 
We always used to shoot for 2:00 pm in our family.

At one time we had three tables going, the main table, the kid's table in the kitchen, and the seniors at a table in the living room.

The table was always set nice, but the diners were a motley crew of Sunday best to deer hunting clothes and everything in between.

Now it's just me and my memories, dinner is only 6 minutes away. ;)

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We usually eat when I'm done cooking. 😇 Can't be too late or the hubs will get too hungry and grumpy. I don't prepare all that much because we won't eat it all. I do freeze leftover turkey to use for a turkey pot pie or even turkey salad.

It will be quite simple since it is just hubby and I. Another lonely Thanksgiving. My brother-in-law (back home) is still very paranoid about the pandemic and those who enter his home; so, we decided to stay home. He's become a hermit.

I'm finally wandering off to the stores and such. I wear my mask and keep sanitizing my hands every time I get in the car.

Stores don't have all that much Christmas decor and it is so disappointing. I like to add a Christmas tree to my collection. As in ceramic, wood, metal, etc. I found one but it looked damaged. TJMaxx and Marshall's are so scant.

Happy Thanksgiving to those who will be celebrating the holiday.
 
This year it will be me and my son celebrating Thanksgiving.

Breakfast will be pancakes, turkey sausages, blueberries, whip cream, yogurt, orange juice. For the pancakes, I add 1 part oatmeal to the pancake mix. Gives it a fluffier texture.

Start preparing the dinner around 2pm and we'll eat when it's ready - around 5-6 pm for dinner -
Roasted lamb with potatoes, vegetables, mushrooms, onions, garlic and herbs. Spanakopitas (frozen).
Sweet potato casserole. Cranberry sauce. Tomato and cucumber salad with sliced red onions and kalamata olives.

Dessert - Strawberry Boston Creme Pie
 
DSIL has to work until about 4 tomorrow and home about 4:30 so we'll have dinner at 5-ish. We serve ourselves from pots on the stove and casserole dishes on the counter, something I don't like at all. I'd rather have a set table with the food in serving dishes, but it's their house so it's done their way.

I roast the turkey breast over here in my own kitchen and slice before taking it to theirs because DSIL is hopeless when it comes to carving turkey. How hard can it be to slice a turkey breast? Really hard for him!
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
I'd rather have a set table with the food in serving dishes, but it's their house so it's done their way.
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Agree wholeheartedly re a special meal with lots of planning and work involved. I like to wear some nicer clothes even if no one else does.

The TV is definitely off. This may have cheesed off one of DH’s sons a few years ago. May be part of the reason, and the distance, why they don’t come here to celebrate.
 

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