[Brad]

Originally Posted by peterska2

OK, I know it's not till Thursday 24th but I've got a couple of questions that I hope someone can help me out with.

Basically, my folks are planning on having a Thanksgiving dinner this year as such a lot has happened this year that we have a lot to be thankful for. Mum suggested it to me the other day and so I said that we might as well do it on Thanksgiving as it's coming up.

So here's my questions.

1. Apart from Turkey, what else goes into a Thanksgiving meal?
2. Is there anything that I should know about it?
3. Any reccommendations to make it really special?

It sounds a bit silly, but being in the UK, we have absolutely zilch experience in this and we want to do it right if we are doing it.

So all you Americans out there, I'm counting on you.

The most important thing is the Turkey, if done correctly you are going to spend the whole night before prepariing that.

As for the fixin's, most of the time we have the following:

Mashed potatoes
Gravy
Corn (I like creamy, most of the time we do both the non-on the cob kinds)
Green Beans
Yams
Stuffing
sweet potatos
Baked apples
cranberry sauce
Black eyed peas
CornBread
biscuits (< a southern past time for every meal )

Now, you also have to have something to eat after the main meal. Most of the time any type of cake or pie is fine. We always make pumpkin pie and pecan pie.

Also my step dad cooks up some deer meat most of the time, although not many people eat it (my mom's side is picky about food..).

Lots of cooking, but worth it!