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Originally Posted by *Anya*

Planning my contributions to Thanksgiving at my youngest daughter's house. She is having 10 for dinner. Her boyfriend, his ex-wife, their 17-year-old lesbian daughter and her girl-friend and other friends.

This year, we will have turkey with all the trimmings. Last year, in Georgia, at my oldest daughter's house, we had ham. None of her kids or husband like turkey. It felt more like Easter than Thanksgiving for me,

I will bring fresh yams with a brown sugar and OJ glaze and topped with marshmellos. "Mom, pleaase bring your yams".

So, I always do.

I am also going to make a pumpkin pie with no crust and two parts of egg white to one part of egg yolk.

It is basically a pumpkin custard that tastes like pie without all the fat and calories.

Any other specialties that everyone always makes for Thanksgiving?

Hi Anya and welcome to the delicious thread!

Wow yams and pumpkin, two of my year round favorites. I love your pumpkin pie/custard idea. That would be right up my alley. I might have to sugar coat the top and torch it if I made that, just for fun, and I like any excuse to break out the blow torch.

Specialties for Thanksgiving, for me are usually sauce oriented. I like to make a gravy, but my favorite is a very simple fresh cranberry orange sauce. Everyone in my family seems to prefer the canned cranberry sauce so not sure what that says about my sauce lol.

I also like to make a Port Wine Cranberry sauce.

But really my favorite part of the holiday is having what other people consider their specialties. It is nice if I have a break from cooking and I love sampling the creative dishes of others.