Happy Thanksgiving Week! Below you will find out plan for the whole week as well as our Thanksgiving menu. Please share your regular weekly dinner menu, your Thanksgiving menu or both in the comments!
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MONDAY:
– Safari Park
TUESDAY:
– Moroccan Chicken Skewers
WEDNESDAY:
– Leftovers
THURSDAY: Thanksgiving 2018!
- Turkey (for real this is the BEST technique for cooking turkey, be sure to click through and check it out!)
- Classic Mashed Potatoes
- Classic Stuffing
- Gravy
- Crescent Rolls
- Cranberry Slush (my great-grandmother’s recipe that we have EVERY YEAR NO MATTER WHAT)
- Cranberry Sauce (as per Jess’s request, there will also be canned jellied cranberry sauce)
- Sweet Potato Souffle
- Green Kale Salad with Dried Cranberries
- Green Bean Casserole
- Dessert: Pumpkin Pie, Crumble Apple Pie, Chocolate Mousse
FRIDAY:
– Leftovers
SATURDAY:
– Leftovers
SUNDAY:
– Turkey Soup with Rice
– Homemade Bread (my Grandma’s recipe that is not published anywhere…saving that for the book I may never write ;))
Can’t wait to see what you all have cooking this week! Thank you in advance for sharing, either weekly menus, Thanksgiving plans or both!
Hi! My name is Jane Maynard and you've landed yourself on my blog, This Week for Dinner™. Every Sunday I share a weekly menu...and count on you to share yours! You'll also find other deliciousness that I hope you'll enjoy!
Happy Thanksgiving! I’m hosting for the first time in a couple years. I was looking for a third dessert option, and I think a chocolate mousse might just do the trick!
Sunday: Orange Chicken, rice, and broccoli (Panda Express copycat)
Monday: Breakfast For Dinner (eggs, avocado, bacon, toast)
Tuesday: Pasta and meatballs
Wednesday: Leftovers
Thursday: Hosting Thanksgiving dinner!
Turkey
Gravy
Whole cranberry Sauce
Cornbread Stuffing (Bitten Word)
Mashed Potatoes (Ina Garten)
Sweet Potatoes
Green bean Gremolata (Ina Garten)
Green salad
Butterhorns (TWFD)
Dessert: Pumpkin pie, rhubarb crisp
Friday- Saturday: Up in the air
I always love having that mousse available! 🙂 good luck hosting!!
Sunday- Pasta dinner with salad
Monday – leftover pasta and salad
Tuesday – vegetable lasagna
Wednesday – Salmon, rice and veggie
Thursday- quiet thanksgiving dinner for two!
Friday – Turkey soup!
Saturday- Turkey leftovers
quiet sounds lovely!
Sun: Meatloaf, peas, coleslaw
Mon: Angel hair pasta with tomato basil sauce, salad
Tue: Sandwiches, chips, clementines
Wed: Leftovers
Thu: Happy Thanksgiving!
Cranberry slush (from TWFD)
Turkey
Gravy
Mashed potatoes
Stuffing
Sweet potato souffle (from TWFD)
Baked corn
Roasted carrots & Brussels sprouts with pecans, herbs, & cranberries
Creamed pearl onions (from TWFD)
Cranberry sauce
Hawaiian rolls (in the past 5 years or so my family has switched over to these rolls. Everyone loves them. All other food is made from scratch)
Pies: Pumpkin, Apple, and Pecan
Fri: Leftovers
Sat: Maybe skip because we have eaten way too much this week 🙂
yay for cranberry slush!
Monday: Skillet Pasta with Cauliflower and Chickpeas and Peas
Tuesday: Honey Mustard Salmon with Avocado Sauce and Roasted Asparagus
Wednesday: Pizza Pasta and Broccoli
Thursday: TWFD Roast Turkey, Mashed Potatoes, Gravy, Stuffing, Bacon Green Beans, Corn, Rolls, Cranberry Sauce, Apple Frangipane Pie, Chocolate Cream Pie, Pumpkin Praline Pie
Friday: Leftovers
Saturday: Turkey Burgers with Sweet Potato Fries
Sunday: Out to Eat for Birthday
yay for the roast turkey!! 🙂
Monday: Chipotle Chicken Pasta Salad, red grapes, dill pickle spears
Tuesday: Trio Hoagies, salad
Wednesday: Garden Minestrone, salad, breadsticks
Thanksgiving: Roast Turkey, Smoked Ham, Cornbread Dressing, Roasted Brussels Sprouts, Sweet Potato Casserole, Creamed Corn, Cranberry Salad, Yeast Rolls, Chocolate Icebox Pie, Pumpkin Pie, Pecan Pie
Friday: Leftovers
Saturday: Leftovers
Sunday: Thanksgiving Turkey Wraps, salad
turkey AND ham? you’re awesome!
Are you trying any gluten free recipes for Thanksgiving? Looking for dinner rolls or stuffing ones.
I am making my gravy roux using the Namaste 1-for-1 perfect flour blend. I am also making GF stuffing, but just using a GF bread that is good here locally. My friend did that last year for me and the stuffing was great! as for rolls…I’m just going to watch everyone else eat them and be a little sad bwahahahaha!
Mon – Spaghetti & Meat Sauce, Caesar Salad
Tues- Layered Doritos Casserole, Salad
Wed – Instant Pot BBQ Chicken, Cheesey Potatoes, Broccoli
Thursday – Thanksgiving
Friday – Sunday – Leftovers!
Ok I will bring for the Gf host Udi’s dinner rolls, and Van’s gluten free perfect 10 crackers and Blue Diamond Almond nut thins to accompany the cheeseball. All set! All from Target.
thank you for letting me know what you found!
Sun: Thanksgiving dinner at church
Mon: Italian pork pasta casserole from Mike Roy’s cookbook
Tues: grilled tuna and roasted cauliflower
Wed: eat out: Din Tai Fun (the girls are back from college!)
Thurs: Smoked Turkey brined in star anise, ginger, fennel and honey
Corn saute with bacon and tomatoes
French onion mac & cheese (from the Disney food festival cookbook)
Spinach salad with raspberry and walnuts
Candied yams
Cranberry and pear relish
Rosemary and olive loaf from Bread & Cie
Pumpkin pie (first time making a homemade crust for this)
Cranberry white chocolate cheesecake
Fri: leftovers
Sat: Chinese tamales (our annual djoong-making session)
I spatchcocked my turkey! It came out quite lovely! Nice crunchy skin! Perfectly moist breast meat! I cut the breast meat off and sliced it! Only took 1 and 3/4 hours for a 20 lb. bird!
YIPPEEEEE!!!!!
thank you all for sharing all these menus and thanksgiving plans! so much run reading them this week!