<p>I, too, make corn pudding and this is the recipe I use. We love it.</p>
<p>1 can creamed corn- approx 1 lb.
1 can of whole kernel corn- approx 1 lb.-drained
1 cup of sour cream
1 stick butter- melted
1 box of jiffy corn muffin mix
2 eggs</p>
<p>Combine all ingredients, reserving a little butter. Pour into baking dish, original recipes calls for 9 x 13 but I use a smaller size and cook it longer. Drizzle reserve butter on top. 350 for about 50 minutes. Test with dull knife for doneness.</p>
<p>We have the same issue. 8 person table, and numbers have climbed to 12. Mom is bringing a card table, and we know from last year when this happened that there will be a dropoff between the two tables. We’ll put some agile folks there who’ll make sure no gravy bowls get placed on the dip!</p>
<p>dmd–I’m trying to picture 12 of my family around an 8 person table, and…no.:)</p>
<p>My feet already hurt.
First big mistake of the morning. Decided to make the apple pie this morning. My eyesight isn’t what it used to be. Misread the spice label. Added a ton of nutmeg instead of cinnamon. I had already crumb topped the pie. The 2nd pie I had not topped yet so was able to put a ton of cinnamon in to hopefully balance out the nutmeg. The first pie I tried to brush off the crumb top and poured the apples back into the bowl and added cinnamon. Hopefully they won’t be awful. Especially as I am the one who complained about the Costco caramel apple pie. (Which my 15 yr told me this morning she loves)
Hope everyone’s morning is going smooth
Happy Thanksgiving</p>
<p>My feet and my back - my back is really bugging me today.</p>
<p>made the cranberry bars from a few pages back. They are yummy. There are a lot of them. My husband waited till I was making cranberry sauce and cranberry bars to tell me he had just found out he is not supposed to eat cranberries with one of his many meds. Son doesn’t like cranberries, don’t *think * daughter does. Hoping maybe her boyfriend does and he can take some home. Otherwise do you think they will freeze? </p>
<p>Went ahead and bough an electric roaster as suggested in earlier pages. Also have done a cornbread dressing in a crockpot. It is great having the oven freed up for the sweet potatoes, roasted asparagus, roasted cauliflower, corn pudding and the twice baked potatoes my daughter and her boyfriend are bringing. Was planning to also try a roasted chestnut and dried cranberry dressing but could not find roasted chestnuts. A very helpful produce guy in out grocery store went round half the store with looking for them (while singing chestnuts roasting on an open fire) before finally finding out that they get them at christmas. Going to try it with water chestnuts for crunch and pecans for flavor. </p>
<p>It is smelling yummy. Hopefully the smell will wake up my son who worked until 4 am. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.</p>
<p>mom60, I had to laugh because we probably have very similar eyesight. I now need to have the $1 reading glasses and a magnifying glass on my desk and in my pocketbook. Yup, a real old lady look. My DH asks why I don’t get proper eyeglasses. I have had 2 pairs. Since I never used to wear glasses, I have trouble wearing eyeglasses long term (get headaches and dizzy and after an hour I feel better taking them off). I can no longer read Rx bottles, and some young employee at AT&T asked for a code on my phone yesterday. Well, the 9 or 10 digit number was so microscopic. I was so proud of my ability to read it off WITH the aid of handy dandy magnifying glass that has an LED light attached to it.</p>
<p>All of my food is done, other than the 2nd turkey breast that I will put on my grill in an hour. </p>
<p>Feet hurt. Back hurts. Turkey is overbrowning…put some foil on it. Everything is done but the quick appetizers. Skipped the corn pudding and made corn muffins…not enough oven room. But I’m SOOOO glad I’m almost done cooking!
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
BTW, I used the advance gravy recipe posted here and it came out great!</p>
<p>We are watching the parade on TV! In about an hour, I will start cooking. We will have our dinner at 6. I will make turkey, gravy, stuffing, roasted roots, green beans in reduced balsamic vinegar, sweet potato something (balls or regular - I’ll let DD decide), mixed greens salad, mashed potatoes, and a wild strawberry pie. Now, where is that vodka crust recipe that brought me to CC this morning?..</p>
<p>Homemade rolls - disappointing. Too many things in the oven, timing was bad (they rose a lot faster than I thought) so I had to put them in earlier than I wanted. They were a little over risen, fell a little, and didn’t brown nicely. Oh well. Verdict out on stuffing - LOTS of flavorful ingredients, but no salt… Baking it in the bird (I know, but I promise I’ll take its temperature).</p>
<p>Sweet potatoes seem destined for success. Potatoes on for mashed potatoes. Back and feet ok for now.</p>
<p>Turkey about 10 degrees from done, and then in go the sweet potatoes, and then I’ve got to make the gravy, etc.</p>
<p>This is the first Thanksgiving dinner at our home in 24 years of marriage, but wanted MY kids home, and they wanted the long weekend together. Family (2 hours away) understands.</p>
<p>Pies were done last night. Ready to go there.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone… and I already have what I’m thankful for - my wonderful family all home together.</p>
<p>I had the ham done and cooking the turkey. My sister called and said she is bring 2 more Marie Calendar Pies( I already bought 2) and there are only 5 people. Is that mean we get to eat almost one pie per person? not LOL!</p>
<p>Well, everyone thank you for all your recipes and suggestions. I did end up making ALOT of the dinner early and everything was great. Had time with my son before he went out to a friends on thanksgiving night. The only thing mishap of the night was when my son left to go to his friends (at 11:00 pm - a bunch of guys having a sleepover) - he got a flat on the way. My husband was sleeping because he is in retail and had to be up by 2:00 am anyway so I had to run out and help him with that. By then, every muscle was hurting. Hey this is life - LOL!! I ended up relaxing yesterday (Friday) and did not go out to shop. Did some online shopping. I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and continues for the rest of the weekend. Enjoy the moments with your loved ones.</p>
<p>I follow the Garland method up to step 3. My 85 year old MIL makes the pies.
Instead of shopping, we went to see a movie. It was Red Cliff by John Woo, based on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I had my eyes covered for half the movie. Too many battle scenes. I should have stayed home.
When I got home, I looked up the Romance of the Three Kingdoms on wikipedia and found out that one of the sources quoted was by Karl Eikenberry, currently the US ambassador to Afghanistan. I knew he had an M.A degree from Harvard in East Asian Studies (he was already in the military when the enrolled), but did not know he had published an article on the military strategy of the chief villain, Cao Cao, of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms which is based on the real history of China. The Battle of Red Cliff takes place in 208.
An interesting background for a current ambassador to one of the world’s hottest spot!</p>
<p>After feeding 19 for Thanksgiving dinner and another 3 joined us for dessert, I saw “The Fabulous Mr. Fox” with DH and older s last night. I had a nice nap during several scenes…</p>
<p>Reporting in - TJ’s brined turkey was a hit. I did it in an electric roasting pan and it looked kind of pasty at the end but my husband carved it in the kitchen and it was moist and delicious. I had another one that was baked in the oven and it looked beautiful, but was a little dry. SIL was a huge help in the kitchen and she talked me into doing a “no-fail two hour turkey” [Safeway</a> 2 Hour Turkey Recipe - Food Reference Recipes](<a href=“http://www.foodreference.com/html/a-2-hour-turkey.html]Safeway”>Safeway 2 Hour Turkey Recipe - Food Reference Recipes) and we did that with both turkeys, slightly modified for the roaster. Did not stuff the turkeys and that was so much easier.</p>
<p>Also made the cranberry salad from early in this thread, that was great. I decided to try a corn pudding recipe too as a nod to my husbands Pennsylvania dutch heritage. That was quite tasty and I’ll make that again. So glad large group cooking is done for this holiday!</p>
<p>Kathie our TJ’s was a hit with everyone except that my poor DH had a problem getting it out of the oven! It was so large because I bought a 20lb.+ bird. Yep, we like the leftovers. I would get a smaller bird next time and have a little less turkey left over (I usually get an 18 pounder though). As my DH pulled the bird out of the oven, some of juices overflowed! This created big mess in our oven, but nothing that a self-cleaning cycle wouldn’t fix. Still, after that, he asked me not to buy another brined turkey again!</p>
<p>As for our Thanksgiving. We had it with our neighbors. I thought it would be less work, but in the end, I cooked just about everything I would have anyway except a green vegetable! Did pecan and apple pies, and Mama Stamberg’s cranberry relish the day before, everything else the day of. (Turkey, stuffing (in the bird with leftovers out of the bird), mashed reg and sweet potatoes, and regular cranberry sauce. Started about 9:30 and served the meal at 2:30. The turkey was brined by neighbor, cooked by me. I used Cooks Illustrated recipe, except it wasn’t up to temp nearly as soon as they said it would be. (Which didn’t surprise me since every other cookbook I looked at with similar oven settings and procedure said it would be another hour, and it was. Turkey was lovely and moist.</p>