Oh! The crackers! It's interesting to see them on Thanksgiving, but my family does actually celebrate Boxing Day. That's because my mother is from Barbados, a former British colony. So we would always have crackers at the Christmas Eve gathering of the family. Super fun, goes boom and you get a little toy and with the brand she buys a paper crown.
I don't know how to post photos here, but we started out with a charcuterie board while the turkey finished cooking, family arrived with their dishes, and my son in law returned from the emergency care hospital after cutting his finger while I was teaching him how to make stuffing. 😂 Duck pate, cream cheese with Cranberry, manchego cheese, marcona almonds, rosemary crackers, cheddar star crackers, cured dried meat assortment, smoked brie, honey mustard pretzel twists, rondele herbed cheese, gouda, aged guyere, crackers with cracked pepper, sea salt waffle chips, Asian sesame peanut marinated cucumbers, castelvetrano olives celery stick hearts and baby carrots, along with a flight of four Vegan cheeses. An assortment of wines.
Lewis, that's NOT Take Out food. You can buy large disposable aluminum pans and covers at any supermarket or dollar store. They make clean up much easier.
@@AdamNisbett maybe that one your talking about is take out, the first comment was spot on we buy those aluminum pans for very cheap. It makes clean up easy and we use a disposable heating element to keep the food warm while waiting to be served or even to go back for seconds and the food is still warm. Most people don't have enough pans to hold all the different dishes they cook for the holidays or parties so we have to buy disposable ones plus where we gonna store all these pans throughout the year when we don't use them.
Alot of Families I know and mine when I was w younger man the Adults sat around the table wit the food on it a large table yes and the younger children sat at THE KIDS TABLE the point in life when you move to the ADULT TABLE is a big moment
😆😂🤣 My family does this too. Only difference is…… My grandma is a SUPER CLEAN FREAK! So the adults eat inside at the table and the kids eat in the backyard. So if there is a mess it’s outside.
Lewis, it's not unusual to mix cultures with the traditional Thanksgiving meals. For example, many African American families not only have the turkey but we also chittertlings or seafood. We have collard greens, turnip greens, cabbage, or string beans with white potatos. Some families will have black eyed peas. It just all depends. Some of my Hispanics friends have their empanadas, tamales, mole, and my Italian friends will have spaghetti or lasgna with their turkey. I have some friends who don't have turkey at all. Some do pot roasts and some do ham. It just depends on the family. It's not unusual to see Christmas trees up while we have our Thankagiving dinner. After dinner some families will watch the football games or start decorating for Christmas. Some people will go to the movies or have go to another house for another meal. We set the table buffet style and then go to makeshift tables to eat. Thanksgiving and Christmas was the only time that all the kids could eat in the living room. That's either pumpkin or sweet potato pie. The veggies you saw in the pot was probably the brine for the turkey. So those veggies were the right size.
Thanksgiving Day parades traditionally end with the arrival of Santa, so we consider Thanksgiving to be the start of the Christmas holiday season. The day after Thanksgiving, the autumn decorations are taken down and put away and all of the Christmas decorations come out! It's NOT typical to have a Christmas tree up and decorated ON Thanksgiving, but hey, we're American so we tend to do what we damn well please.
We saw a lot of fully decorated houses on the way home from Thanksgiving completely lit up. I wish we'd have at least put the lights outside up because it's super cold right now in Wisconsin.
That's my tree up in the beginning of the video. I did them both for my dad, he has dementia and wanted the trees up, so as a dutiful daughter up they went.
@@laurar7013 My wife and I had a similar experience caring for her mother who was suffering from vascular dementia. Whatever brought Mary JOY is exactly what we did ... even if that meant leaving up our tree year round!! We knew we'd never regret doing something anywhere as much as we would regret NOT doing something to put a smile on her face! Blessings to you and your family for the love you share!!!
I have an offer for you. Next Thanksgiving, you have an open invitation to join my family (and friends) for a traditional homemade, home-cooked, Thanksgiving feast, in Houston, TX. You (and a plus 1) can stay with us the entire week or for as long as you can stay. I recommend being here at least the Wednesday before and the Friday after at a minimum. We'll try and show you some of the sights nearby. We live very close to NASA, and Galveston Island.
One of the thanksgiving traditions is the Macy’s thanksgiving day parade. At the end of the parade, Santa Claus always finishes tho parade. When Santa ends the parade, the Christmas season officially begins. Thanksgiving is kind of the first day of the Christmas season officially begins
Lewis, it may come as a shock to a Brit, but there are types of gravy other than beef. We use TURKEY Gravy at Thanksgiving, We also have Chicken Gravy, and several other types.
What Brits call gravy is "au jus" for Americans. When I visited, I taught the Brit family I knew to make three types of American gravy. That went very well. They said, "Oh, now I get it". They just didn't know that there was a difference. Aluminum/alumEEnum. 😃
The brown stuff that is unrecognizable is Stuffing that is either put inside the Turkey to cook or Cooked on its own. Stuffing is Spiced dried Bread and the best. S staple for Thanksgiving Dinner.
Many extended families are simply too big for the table and opt for buffet style. The "take away" look is due to a Pot Luck element, many people bring a side dish. And in modern times many have discovered housing large serving dishes that you only use a few times a year is pointless. So we, especially if we are doing a buffet go to our local restaurant supply store, or dollar store and pick up a supply of takeaway containers, and disposable aluminum pans. You will see us using the same gear for tailgating, church dinners, really any big event.
A lot of the items you didn't know what it was, was stuffing. Generally next to or in place of mashed potatoes. The basic typical dinner will consist of turkey, mash potatoes, stuffing, corn, green bean casserole, cranberry sauce, sweet potato w/ marshmallows, and a dinner roll. Dessert was pumpkin pie, but most people now offer a variety of pies to go with the meal.
I Wish I'd have remembered to take a picture of our spread before we started eating it. I have a very large family and Thanksgiving takes days of work to prepare. This year we had four 12lb turkeys and a ham, 6 pies, 3 cheesecakes, bread pudding, and an entire long table full of sides.
Turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, fresh (not canned) cranberry sauce, green bean casserole, cornbread dressing, green chile corn casserole, ambrosia salad, deviled eggs, rolls, pumpkin pie, pecan pie. I made all of this by myself this year. I'm tired!
That platter is called a “charcuterie .” The casserole covered with gravy is “stuffing,” also called “dressing” or “filling.” It is perhaps the most loved Thanksgiving side dish. Down South, the main ingredient in dressing is cornbread, elsewhere it’s seasoned bread cubes. I’m a Yankee. Though I very much like cornbread stuffing, I’m partial to bread stuffing. Bread stuffing…onions and celery sautéed in butter, bread cubes, chicken stock, parsley, sage, poultry seasoning and herbs and spices of choice.
Like I said before, ya gotta come to the US around Thanksgiving. Stay for ~2 weeks, have some Thanksgiving dinner with a family who goes all-out. You'll have turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes (possibly with the marshmallows), gravy (turkey gravy almost certainly, beef only if they made a beef dish otherwise beef bouillon, ham gravy, or country gravy), green bean casserole (good stuff and simple to make; just green beans, some canned cream of mushroom soup, and dried onions as a topper, served hot), bread rolls or loaves of bread (often fresh), and enough pies, cakes, and sweets to give your relatives diabetes by proxy. Also depending on whose hosting, alcohol like wine.
No, it wasn't jelly. But don't you recognize canned jellied Cranberry sauce? It comes 2 ways. Jellied or whole berry. I didn't do the canned this year. I made fresh with dried cherries. It was pretty good.
A lot of people will bring their food in takeaway dishes so they can leave them for people who want to take leftovers home. Also, keep in mind that many people will have like 10 or more people over for these big meals.
@JIMBEARRI So true, most American homes have a "breakfast nook" in the kitchen area for day to day family meals. Then there is a dining room for more formal meals and to host bigger gatherings.
Cranberry sauce - you either love it or hate it! We're pretty much split half & and half, so it's usually served for the guests who do like it. I personally don't like it, but will serve it for others.
Growing up my Italian neighborhood first food served at any holiday was pasta with gravy (red sauce with meat in it) then on to the turkey, at least 6 sides and 5 desserts.
You can have white or brown gravy on mashed potatos.White Gravy is used for Biscuits and Gravy,Chicken-Fried Steak, Brown gravy Roast Beef,Turkey Dinner and Meatloaf.
My Pop always woke up early to make his sage dressing and stuff the turkey. My Mom had 6 pies made, 3 loaves of banana nut and date nut bread the night before. In the morning, she would get up and cook everything. We 3 girls were tasked with peeling so many potatoes your head would spin, vegetables, and table prep and clean up, big bro helped too. Menu: Turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, salad, green bean casserole, cranberries x2 jellied and fresh, rolls, cherry cheese cake, 2 apple pies, 2 pumpkin pies, 1 mincemeat pie for Pop and a special sour cream Raisins pie for herself. Oh and a charcuterie ready for the day as the smells would drive us insane. Every year, every Thanksgiving, every Christmas. For decades. I miss her every day, most specifically the holidays. She was a damn fine cook. 😊 I made a lasagna, pretty tasty too. I don't eat turkey, why they had ham every year, yes I am spoiled. 😁
We have ham and turkey for Thanksgiving. Only have Ham for Christmas and Easter with all the vegetables, breads and deserts we have on Thanksgiving. Of course we always have deviled eggs.
Whether it is a sit down meal or a buffet usually depends on how many people are attending. If everyone fits at the table (unusual), food will be on the table. If not, the food gets put on a buffet and everyone fills their plate and sits wherever they want. I am 66 and never recall running out of food on Thanksgiving, although some dishes go fast.
I wish I could have sent a picture or video of my Dad and I's Thanksgiving dinner experience. We went to a local restaurant that had a Thanksgiving buffet this year. You had to reserve a table, and they sat you at your table when you arrived. They take your drink orders. Then you're allowed to get up and grab a plate to serve yourself at the buffet. For appitizers, there were little party meat balls, wong tongs with cabbage and carrots in it, and a salad with walnuts, feta, and dried cranberries. Main course: red skinned mashed potatoes, green beans with sliced almonds, sausage and bread stuffing, sweet potato casserole, cranberry sauce, cheesy broccoli, sour krout (which is a Maryland tradition on Thanksgiving), and of course roast turkey and ham. Dessert: sliced pumpkin pie and an assortment of mini desserts. I got a mini pecan bar and a mini cherry cheesecake. My Dad got a slice of the pumpkin pie and two other mini cake like desserts (I can't remember exactly), plus a mini chocolate muss and banana pudding.
One Thanksgiving my siblings and I decided to have a “Who makes the best Deviled Eggs” contest. A scouting party was sent out to the local 7-11s to buy up 5 dozen eggs. Fortunately, there were over 40 people there for Thanksgiving dinner so we had plenty of judges. Not a single egg was left over. Who won the contest? No one of course. 🐯
And now that we've cleaned up from the Thanksgiving meal, there will be a MASSIVE baking frenzy that could span 20 or more days....hundreds of types of cookies and candies are made and traded amongst neighbors, family, friends & coworkers,(there are even "cookie exchange" parties!) not to mention cakes and pies for the actual Christmas Eve and Christmas meals!
My SO's late sister used to make loads of different candies, cookies, and various sweets for Christmas. She'd start around the first week of December to get it all done by Christmas day. Unfortunately, she passed ten years ago. This year, for the family get-together on Christmas eve, I'm making her famous bon-bons. Will need to start sometime this coming week to make enough for everyone, probably over a hundred little balls of sweetness (crushed pecans, powdered sugar, sweetened condensed milk, shredded coconut, butter, and regular and white chocolate to dip them). Lots of work but worth it! ❤
The food in the Aluminum Pans is usually done when it's a 'Pot Luck' gathering, meaning others bring items to add to the meals from their own homes that they have Made. It make cooking and clean up easier, since you don't have to worry about who brought what Cookware.
My side of the family sits at the table and passes the food around while we dish up. My husband’s side does buffet style where the food is laid out, you walk around the island dishing up your plate then sit at the table.
Lewis. A bit of knowledge for you. STUFFING is bread that's been cooked inside the turkey. DRESSING, is bread that is cooked outside the turkey in a casserole form.
🤣”WHAT THE HELL IS TAM-MEL-AY-AHS” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Boy, I am dead🤣🤣🤣 That’s tamales, they’re Mexican, they’re delicious - it’s corn masa filled with meat👍👍 “Fried mars bars” I’m officially dead LMFAO🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
We had our family Thanksgiving yesterday since my brother spent Thursday at the in-laws. We had turkey, two kinds of stuffing (gluten free for my mom), ciabatta bread, mashed potatoes, cranberry gelatin (canned), green bean casserole, sweet potatoes casserole, corn, pickles, white wine, lemonade, and for dessert pumpkin pie or apple crisp with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream. Served for 6 adults and 3 kids. Lots of leftovers.
From Wikipedia, The term devilled eggs is British first appearing in print in 1786. In the UK, the dish is popular at buffets. The eggs are made with a mixture or mayonnaise, English mustard, paprika and chives. Cayenne pepper or Tabasco sauce is often added to the mixture.
My father would put up our Christmas tree for his grandchildren to see on Thanksgiving. They loved it. When the grandsons came home from Service for the holiday he even did it then. The next day he mailed out his Christmas Cards. (Like Clockwork)
Thanksgiving Day or weekend is often a time when many people decorate and prepare for Christmas. It is often said and was studied that the earlier you decorate for Christmas, the brighter your spirit is throughout the holiday season. You have to come to Wisconsin because there are cranberries everywhere. We have lots of cranberry bogs. You can get them dried like raisins, in sauces and jellies, and in drinks. The marshmallow melted top is a sweet potato casserole dessert.
My family on Mother's is everything European. They do Turkey, stuffing, gravy, baked corn (aka corn pudding), yams, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, and dinner rolls. My father's side is Native American, Mexican, and Italian. They have Lasagna, Tamales (said like Tuh-mall-leez) and other meats my family hunted. I have 8 aunts and uncles and they have 2 to 5 kids each. Plus I am the second of 7. It's an enormous event on that side. Since they live 3000 miles away I hope to make it out there again for Thanksgiving. (PA to CA) I know that T-day is considered a North American holiday but I sincerely wish that the world would catch on to a day of family, love, and gratitude. ❤ no matter what is on the menu! P.s. we just got our tree today! Start decorating it tomorrow!
You brought tears to my eyes when you said the word tamales, because when I was introduced to Spanish foods, I read the names as English and not Spanish which totally pronounced differently. Thank you
"I just learned about deviled eggs!" My friend, America is so obsessed with deviled eggs that we can buy specialized to-go containers (think Tupperware) that will carry your deviled eggs in individual little semi-ovals so that your filling doesn't get ruined.
@lynnw7155 I am one of those people who can't really stand the texture of egg yolks, so I am the only one in the family who doesn't eat deviled eggs. My fiancé will happily eat "my share" of them, though!
I wish a thanks giving dinner premade take away like that was more avaible at a grocery store. Might be available in some places in the 🇺🇸. Not much premade ready to go where i live. Lewis--Make a video of you making eggs. Deviled eggs are a a delicacy.
We have a couple of local Mom & Pop restaurants that will do made to order Thanksgiving meals for pickup on Wednesday before Thanksgiving. We used one of the restaurants the year our Mom was recovering from surgery
@ceelavee I missed your question on stream. Blood sausage is disgustingly exactly as described. They congeal blood into intestine skin to make sausage. My ex-in-laws from Spain used to eat it ALL of the time, before almost every dinner, it’s a staple over there. The smell alone would make me lose my appetite. 🤢
Mine was the one that had the brussel sprouts 😅 but the bowl of yum you said looked good was the candied yams. Candied yams are fried yams in butter with brown sugar and cinnamon. Its so good. If you want the recipe, ill let my mom know 😁
I don't put my tree up until after Thanksgiving. I'm old school. Deviled eggs are very popular. That photo of chicken & dumplings looked good to me. I NEVER put marshmallows on my sweet potato casserole. I put pecan crumble on it & mine is infamous at the company I retired from
@@baileysgrammy Sounds so good, I think you meant famous. Infamous means notorious or ill repute. Your recipe is well thought of and if I knew you, I’d also be bugging you for your recipe. I don’t care much for marshmallow except when they’re melting in a cup of hot chocolate (cocoa).
The thing you’re tripping over in the turkey is a disposable, pop-up thermometer that was put in the turkey at the processing plant, it lets you know that the turkey is done. Sweet potato and pumpkin pie can look identical. People either like jellied cranberry sauce or they hate it, I ❤ it.
Grew up in Georgia and Missouri, with a Mom from Texas. Therefore: Thanksgiving dinner should be all home cooked! Turkey, stuffed with a bread dressing. Slices of both white and dark meat on the plate.. Sweet potatoes mashed in a casserole dish with a little marshmallow melted on the top. Green bean casserole. Peas. No salad of any kind. Cut corn. Cranberry sauce (a little sweet) is a necessity. White dinner rolls, not biscuits or other breads. More than one type of pie, one of which HAS to be a pecan pie. Apple is second best.
Mexican families will often have traditional Mexican food as their big meal instead of turkey,etc and many Italian families will have or add in a lot of traditional Italian dishes, etc. Families adjust their Thanksgiving meals for them and their traditions.
3:15 My family makes multiple different meat options. For EVERY HOLIDAY we have turkey, ham, chicken AND beef. My whole family celebrates together. Like grandparents, aunt, uncles, grandkids, great grandkids and soon great great grandkids! It’s like a family reunion every holiday. God I love my family! 🥹
Our Thanksgiving meal includes roasted turkey, a big one so we have plenty left overs for sandwiches and pot pie. Mashed potaties, baked corn (casserole type), candied sweet potatoes. Gravy, green beans, cranberry salad, home made yeast rolls. Desserts are all home made butterscotch meringue pie, coconut meringue pie, pumpkin pie, Dream Whip pumpkin pie ... at least 2mof each.
Really cool to see the things that were standard and things that differed. I def cover my potatoes and turkey in homemade gravy from the turkey drippings. Mmmm
Stuffing is a very important part of the meal and is served with the Turkey. It consists of bread crumbs, special seasonings, and juice from the turkey, baked into a loaf.
It takes about 1-2 weeks to deal with the leftovers. Stuffing, turkey, mashers, and green bean salad in a tortilla as a wrap is awesome. Throw in some crannies for a little sweetness. I used to do a huge turkey stew with the leftover carcass, but I’m so turkeyed out by this point that I went for turkey chili this year. And you can freeze it. And the turkey kind of disappears into it. When you’re burned out on turkey, this is the solution.
And the huge portions are for the family. I smoked a turkey, my daddy smoked one too, I made collard greens, and my mom FINALLY gave me her sweet potato pie recipe. She did hers with a cheesecake filling. I made mine the regular way.
I'd love to see Lewis at one of our Thanksgiving dinners. He'd be astonished at the amount of food ! We eat around 2pm and again at 6. You can see where most of those plates were LOADED 😊
Traditionally Thanksgiving Dinner would include Roasted whole Turkey, bread stuffing, mashed potatoes, Turkey gravy, green bean casserole, and pumpkin pie, or pea can pie. Optionally baked ham might be served. But families who have become weary of being served the same Thanksgiving meal may serve others foods so anything else might be served. Just as long as you have a full satisfying meal in which you are thankful for all that you have received.
A lot of the plates with the mashed potatoes is “stuffing.” Stuffing is usually paired with the mashed potatoes and Turkey. That’s what that is. It’s stuffing. Christmas and Thanksgiving kinda became one big holiday. Everyone wants to get their decorations up early.
Usually OUR family waits until after Thanksgiving to put up X-mas stuff. But yes, some folks do it early. It's pronounced Tuh- Mall-a's it's a Mexican holiday (special occasion) dish. They are pretty awesome. We do white giblet gravy for Thanksgiving - but we went toa friend's this year and they had 'tan' colored gravy.
Lewis you are toooooo funny! I like your stare into the camera to express your question mark. I imagine crickets playing during the pause. You have me laughing out loud!!!
That brown dish with marsh mellows is whipped sweet yams, (sweet potato), usually with added pumpkin spice, brown sugar, butter , and sometimes chopped walnuts. A lot of houses where people gather have both a Kitchen (or Breakfast ) Table, and a larger Dining Table. Again, the American version of Deviled Eggs IS FROM ENGLAND !!!!
Lewis, you really need to watch the Hallmark movie, "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" with Henry Winkler to get a visual idea of chaos in prepping Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. Your mum would love it, too.
3:56 was my plate. The stuff in the middle is green bean casserole which is just green beans, cream of mushroom soup, and french-fried onions to go on top. My mom adds black beans in it and it works. Yes Lewis, gravy can go on the turkey.
This is the kind of wholesome we're all reaction from real people to real people stuff that I always look for in videos where non-Americans learn about American things.
A lot of people have two tables like one in the kitchen and one main dining table. Deviled eggs are common as an appetizer for most holidays. I was sick so I didn't get any Thanksgiving cuz I didn't want to go make anyone else catch it. Then nobody even made me a plate. Now I'm craving turkey,and pumpkin 🥧🦃
Our Thanksgiving menu was: Italian wedding soup, Turkey (22 lbs), Stuffing (stuffing is cooked in the bird, Dressing is not), Gravy, Twice Baked potatoes, Green bean casserole, Corn bread casserole, mushroom casserole, Sweet Potatoe casserole, Cranberry sauce, Rolls. Dessert: Apple Pie, Pumpkin Pie, and rum cake. We went light this year..... Planning bigger feast for Christmas.
Took my mother to Atlantic City, NJ for Thanksgiving. Our dinner was a reservation at the Sugar Factory. Rainbow sliders and other appetizers followed by an evil triple cookies and cream ice cream dessert with soft warm chocolate chip cookies, whipped cream chocolate and caramel sauce.
Christmas Tree, . . . It depends on the family. Many families celebrate Christmas with their EXTENDED family at Thanksgiving. Especially in the Northern States where travel becomes increasingly problematic as we get into Winter. So, while most homes don't have their Christmas decorations up on Thanksgiving, no one is particularly surprised if they are up.
We serve deviled eggs at any feast. Especially Easter. The bowl of small squares looks like dumplings. I tried some at Cracker Barrel in square shapes. It was really good. I make my different. Cranberry is usually served with turkey. Herbs give turkey such a wonderful flavor, and it tenderizes at the same time.
15 cousins, 3 generations, for Thanksgiving. Turkey, ham, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, biscuits, green bean casserole, asparagus with hollandaise sauce, stuffed mushrooms and cranberry sauce. Dessert was pumpkin pie and 2 kinds of cheesecake.
Lewis a lot of those pictures were store bought dishes and pies. Also i've never had Thanksgiving served on a paper plate. Thanksgiving is {or should be} homemade dishes. When members of your family come for dinner they will usually all make something and bring it. The second dinner you looked at when you said they looked like a healthy family is what a Thanksgiving meal should be. The plate you looked at when you were talking about the deviled eggs looked just like the plate I sat down to. That was not scalloped potato's you were looking it, that was turkey in gravy. Then it was sweet potato's with marshmallows on top. It looks terrible but is good. There are always a couple football games on, so everyone sit's wherever they like and watch them or talk to the family. A good Pecan or Pumpkin pie are fantastic at any time of the year. I wish your Mother, girlfriend and yourself could have come for dinner!
Some places have Thanksgiving take away, but honestly it's pretty cheap to just buy some aluminium disposable pans to cook stuff in and toss them after rather than wash a bunch of dishes. You've seen how many different side dishes we have. I live in Plymouth, Mass (where the 1st thanksgiving was held) but I also like seeing all the different options people have from different parts of the country. As for the Christmas tree, everyone is different. I know some families that decorate the tree as part of their Thanksgiving. My family has 8 birthdays in December so we have one big party at my Grandparents house and decorate the tree about 2 weeks before, and we all go over there for Christmas morning because we all live close by each other.
Hope you all had an amazing thanksgiving!!!!
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Oh! The crackers! It's interesting to see them on Thanksgiving, but my family does actually celebrate Boxing Day. That's because my mother is from Barbados, a former British colony. So we would always have crackers at the Christmas Eve gathering of the family. Super fun, goes boom and you get a little toy and with the brand she buys a paper crown.
This is all traditional when it comes to a Thanksgiving dinner. 🍽
We normally tend to overeat during the winter holidays. 😅❤
I don't know how to post photos here, but we started out with a charcuterie board while the turkey finished cooking, family arrived with their dishes, and my son in law returned from the emergency care hospital after cutting his finger while I was teaching him how to make stuffing. 😂
Duck pate, cream cheese with Cranberry, manchego cheese, marcona almonds, rosemary crackers, cheddar star crackers, cured dried meat assortment, smoked brie, honey mustard pretzel twists, rondele herbed cheese, gouda, aged guyere, crackers with cracked pepper, sea salt waffle chips, Asian sesame peanut marinated cucumbers, castelvetrano olives celery stick hearts and baby carrots, along with a flight of four Vegan cheeses. An assortment of wines.
Lewis, that's NOT Take Out food. You can buy large disposable aluminum pans and covers at any supermarket or dollar store. They make clean up much easier.
Throw in a couple Sternos and you can absolutely do Thanksgiving as a proper catering. Everything kept at proper heat.
The bags are labeled City Barbeque though, which is a BBQ catering chain. 100% take out.
@@AdamNisbett maybe that one your talking about is take out, the first comment was spot on we buy those aluminum pans for very cheap. It makes clean up easy and we use a disposable heating element to keep the food warm while waiting to be served or even to go back for seconds and the food is still warm. Most people don't have enough pans to hold all the different dishes they cook for the holidays or parties so we have to buy disposable ones plus where we gonna store all these pans throughout the year when we don't use them.
Yes, that's what I was coming to say lol. You Can Buy Those 😂😂
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Alot of Families I know and mine when I was w younger man the Adults sat around the table wit the food on it a large table yes and the younger children sat at THE KIDS TABLE the point in life when you move to the ADULT TABLE is a big moment
Yes, it's a proud day!
Some people like oysters. I am not one of those people lol
Some people like oysters. I am not one of those people lol
Sometimes we had to wait for someone to die to make room! 😂😉😄
😆😂🤣 My family does this too. Only difference is…… My grandma is a SUPER CLEAN FREAK! So the adults eat inside at the table and the kids eat in the backyard. So if there is a mess it’s outside.
The best part about Thanksgiving dinners are the LEFTOVERS!!
Turkey sandwiches with a slice of dressing and some cranberry sauce. Yum!!
That "cheese & crackers" was a meat & cheese charcuterie board. That's just the beginning bro 🤤
Lewis, it's not unusual to mix cultures with the traditional Thanksgiving meals. For example, many African American families not only have the turkey but we also chittertlings or seafood. We have collard greens, turnip greens, cabbage, or string beans with white potatos. Some families will have black eyed peas. It just all depends. Some of my Hispanics friends have their empanadas, tamales, mole, and my Italian friends will have spaghetti or lasgna with their turkey. I have some friends who don't have turkey at all. Some do pot roasts and some do ham. It just depends on the family.
It's not unusual to see Christmas trees up while we have our Thankagiving dinner. After dinner some families will watch the football games or start decorating for Christmas. Some people will go to the movies or have go to another house for another meal. We set the table buffet style and then go to makeshift tables to eat. Thanksgiving and Christmas was the only time that all the kids could eat in the living room.
That's either pumpkin or sweet potato pie.
The veggies you saw in the pot was probably the brine for the turkey. So those veggies were the right size.
Thank you for breaking it down by culture, which needed to be explained. It was appropriately described. Thank you.👍
Thanksgiving Day parades traditionally end with the arrival of Santa, so we consider Thanksgiving to be the start of the Christmas holiday season. The day after Thanksgiving, the autumn decorations are taken down and put away and all of the Christmas decorations come out! It's NOT typical to have a Christmas tree up and decorated ON Thanksgiving, but hey, we're American so we tend to do what we damn well please.
A ton of people decorate before Thanksgiving. I even see Christmas lights up before Thanksgiving.
We saw a lot of fully decorated houses on the way home from Thanksgiving completely lit up. I wish we'd have at least put the lights outside up because it's super cold right now in Wisconsin.
That's my tree up in the beginning of the video. I did them both for my dad, he has dementia and wanted the trees up, so as a dutiful daughter up they went.
@@laurar7013 My wife and I had a similar experience caring for her mother who was suffering from vascular dementia. Whatever brought Mary JOY is exactly what we did ... even if that meant leaving up our tree year round!! We knew we'd never regret doing something anywhere as much as we would regret NOT doing something to put a smile on her face! Blessings to you and your family for the love you share!!!
@@kathybouziane5269 Our neighborhood also decorates for the big reveal Thanksgiving evening. It really announces that Christmas is here.
I have an offer for you. Next Thanksgiving, you have an open invitation to join my family (and friends) for a traditional homemade, home-cooked, Thanksgiving feast, in Houston, TX. You (and a plus 1) can stay with us the entire week or for as long as you can stay. I recommend being here at least the Wednesday before and the Friday after at a minimum. We'll try and show you some of the sights nearby. We live very close to NASA, and Galveston Island.
Lew should really take you up on that. That's a generous offer, and sounds fun.
@@amberhall9937 if he won't take it I will lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The red ball is a cherry on top of pineapple. Ham is tradirionally eaten at Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Lew it lew it!
Set up agofundme Lew! :)
One of the thanksgiving traditions is the Macy’s thanksgiving day parade. At the end of the parade, Santa Claus always finishes tho parade. When Santa ends the parade, the Christmas season officially begins. Thanksgiving is kind of the first day of the Christmas season officially begins
Lewis, it may come as a shock to a Brit, but there are types of gravy other than beef. We use TURKEY Gravy at Thanksgiving, We also have Chicken Gravy, and several other types.
We sure do turkey, chicken, beef, red-eye, sausage gravy are the ones we use they most.
Yup and country white gravy with or without sausage
I love onion mushroom gravy
What Brits call gravy is "au jus" for Americans. When I visited, I taught the Brit family I knew to make three types of American gravy.
That went very well. They said, "Oh, now I get it".
They just didn't know that there was a difference. Aluminum/alumEEnum. 😃
The brown stuff that is unrecognizable is Stuffing that is either put inside the Turkey to cook or Cooked on its own. Stuffing is Spiced dried Bread and the best. S staple for Thanksgiving Dinner.
We got snowed in this Thanksgiving. Luckily my parents and in-laws all live on my property so we were able to dig out and have a smaller Thanksgiving.
Many extended families are simply too big for the table and opt for buffet style.
The "take away" look is due to a Pot Luck element, many people bring a side dish.
And in modern times many have discovered housing large serving dishes that you only use a few times a year is pointless. So we, especially if we are doing a buffet go to our local restaurant supply store, or dollar store and pick up a supply of takeaway containers, and disposable aluminum pans.
You will see us using the same gear for tailgating, church dinners, really any big event.
A lot of the items you didn't know what it was, was stuffing. Generally next to or in place of mashed potatoes.
The basic typical dinner will consist of turkey, mash potatoes, stuffing, corn, green bean casserole, cranberry sauce, sweet potato w/ marshmallows, and a dinner roll. Dessert was pumpkin pie, but most people now offer a variety of pies to go with the meal.
I Wish I'd have remembered to take a picture of our spread before we started eating it. I have a very large family and Thanksgiving takes days of work to prepare.
This year we had four 12lb turkeys and a ham, 6 pies, 3 cheesecakes, bread pudding, and an entire long table full of sides.
Turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, fresh (not canned) cranberry sauce, green bean casserole, cornbread dressing, green chile corn casserole, ambrosia salad, deviled eggs, rolls, pumpkin pie, pecan pie.
I made all of this by myself this year.
I'm tired!
That platter is called a “charcuterie .” The casserole covered with gravy is “stuffing,” also called “dressing” or “filling.” It is perhaps the most loved Thanksgiving side dish. Down South, the main ingredient in dressing is cornbread, elsewhere it’s seasoned bread cubes. I’m a Yankee. Though I very much like cornbread stuffing, I’m partial to bread stuffing. Bread stuffing…onions and celery sautéed in butter, bread cubes, chicken stock, parsley, sage, poultry seasoning and herbs and spices of choice.
That doesn't look like scalloped potatoes, it looks like chicken and dumplings. 👍🏻👴
I thought tofu for the vegans. lol
Definitely chicken and dumplings 😊
Deviled eggs are popular at every outdoor event and most indoor events where any finger food is served.
Like I said before, ya gotta come to the US around Thanksgiving. Stay for ~2 weeks, have some Thanksgiving dinner with a family who goes all-out. You'll have turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes (possibly with the marshmallows), gravy (turkey gravy almost certainly, beef only if they made a beef dish otherwise beef bouillon, ham gravy, or country gravy), green bean casserole (good stuff and simple to make; just green beans, some canned cream of mushroom soup, and dried onions as a topper, served hot), bread rolls or loaves of bread (often fresh), and enough pies, cakes, and sweets to give your relatives diabetes by proxy. Also depending on whose hosting, alcohol like wine.
It's not jelly, it's Cranberry Sauce from a can lol. We do turkey gravy.
I'm from New England. Cranberry sauce from a can is a FELONY.
No, it wasn't jelly. But don't you recognize canned jellied Cranberry sauce? It comes 2 ways. Jellied or whole berry. I didn't do the canned this year. I made fresh with dried cherries. It was pretty good.
A lot of people will bring their food in takeaway dishes so they can leave them for people who want to take leftovers home. Also, keep in mind that many people will have like 10 or more people over for these big meals.
Lewis, a large home in the US will have a small table in the kitchen, but the big table will be in the Dining Room.
@JIMBEARRI So true, most American homes have a "breakfast nook" in the kitchen area for day to day family meals. Then there is a dining room for more formal meals and to host bigger gatherings.
Exactly. some people put the food on the kitchen table buffet style, and then the family and guests take their plates into the dining room to eat.
That's what my family does also.
Cranberry sauce - you either love it or hate it! We're pretty much split half & and half, so it's usually served for the guests who do like it. I personally don't like it, but will serve it for others.
I love it
I don't put my tree up until 2 weeks before Christmas, we usually get a live tree.
Growing up my Italian neighborhood first food served at any holiday was pasta with gravy (red sauce with meat in it) then on to the turkey, at least 6 sides and 5 desserts.
Absolutely, grew up in an Italian family and started off with lasagna, then turkey with all the sides.
@@booklover942 My grandma stuffed the turkey with Italian sausage !
DEVILED EGGS ROCK.
You can have white or brown gravy on mashed potatos.White Gravy is used for Biscuits and Gravy,Chicken-Fried Steak, Brown gravy Roast Beef,Turkey Dinner and Meatloaf.
Im surprised by all of the paper plates!! I didn't realize so many used them!!
My sister has beautiful china, but she never uses, doesn't want to do dishes for 12 or more
Right? I’ve never had Thanksgiving dinner on a paper plate. We also tend to dress up not down on Thanksgiving Day. Keeps you from eating too much.😉
We have always used paper plates.
Chinet plates with the dividers are great for big crowds. Hold up under loads of food !
we’ve always used paper plates. my aunts would even have takeaway containers for folks to take home leftovers! 😅
My Pop always woke up early to make his sage dressing and stuff the turkey.
My Mom had 6 pies made, 3 loaves of banana nut and date nut bread the night before. In the morning, she would get up and cook everything.
We 3 girls were tasked with peeling so many potatoes your head would spin, vegetables, and table prep and clean up, big bro helped too.
Menu: Turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, salad, green bean casserole, cranberries x2 jellied and fresh, rolls, cherry cheese cake, 2 apple pies, 2 pumpkin pies, 1 mincemeat pie for Pop and a special sour cream Raisins pie for herself. Oh and a charcuterie ready for the day as the smells would drive us insane.
Every year, every Thanksgiving, every Christmas. For decades.
I miss her every day, most specifically the holidays.
She was a damn fine cook. 😊
I made a lasagna, pretty tasty too. I don't eat turkey, why they had ham every year, yes I am spoiled. 😁
We have ham and turkey for Thanksgiving. Only have Ham for Christmas and Easter with all the vegetables, breads and deserts we have on Thanksgiving. Of course we always have deviled eggs.
Whether it is a sit down meal or a buffet usually depends on how many people are attending. If everyone fits at the table (unusual), food will be on the table. If not, the food gets put on a buffet and everyone fills their plate and sits wherever they want. I am 66 and never recall running out of food on Thanksgiving, although some dishes go fast.
I had to work early Friday and Saturday and missed Thanksgiving this year
these pictures are killing me.😂😂😂
Some families put the tree up around Thanksgiving. I love doing it since you don't have to worry about taking it down until around Boxing Day.
I wish I could have sent a picture or video of my Dad and I's Thanksgiving dinner experience. We went to a local restaurant that had a Thanksgiving buffet this year. You had to reserve a table, and they sat you at your table when you arrived. They take your drink orders. Then you're allowed to get up and grab a plate to serve yourself at the buffet.
For appitizers, there were little party meat balls, wong tongs with cabbage and carrots in it, and a salad with walnuts, feta, and dried cranberries.
Main course: red skinned mashed potatoes, green beans with sliced almonds, sausage and bread stuffing, sweet potato casserole, cranberry sauce, cheesy broccoli, sour krout (which is a Maryland tradition on Thanksgiving), and of course roast turkey and ham.
Dessert: sliced pumpkin pie and an assortment of mini desserts. I got a mini pecan bar and a mini cherry cheesecake. My Dad got a slice of the pumpkin pie and two other mini cake like desserts (I can't remember exactly), plus a mini chocolate muss and banana pudding.
The plate of Deviled Eggs, . . .
I know you don't care for egg whites. You would still eat the entire plate of them. They are that addictive.
One Thanksgiving my siblings and I decided to have a “Who makes the best Deviled Eggs” contest. A scouting party was sent out to the local 7-11s to buy up 5 dozen eggs.
Fortunately, there were over 40 people there for Thanksgiving dinner so we had plenty of judges. Not a single egg was left over.
Who won the contest? No one of course. 🐯
And now that we've cleaned up from the Thanksgiving meal, there will be a MASSIVE baking frenzy that could span 20 or more days....hundreds of types of cookies and candies are made and traded amongst neighbors, family, friends & coworkers,(there are even "cookie exchange" parties!) not to mention cakes and pies for the actual Christmas Eve and Christmas meals!
My SO's late sister used to make loads of different candies, cookies, and various sweets for Christmas. She'd start around the first week of December to get it all done by Christmas day. Unfortunately, she passed ten years ago. This year, for the family get-together on Christmas eve, I'm making her famous bon-bons. Will need to start sometime this coming week to make enough for everyone, probably over a hundred little balls of sweetness (crushed pecans, powdered sugar, sweetened condensed milk, shredded coconut, butter, and regular and white chocolate to dip them). Lots of work but worth it! ❤
The food in the Aluminum Pans is usually done when it's a 'Pot Luck' gathering, meaning others bring items to add to the meals from their own homes that they have Made. It make cooking and clean up easier, since you don't have to worry about who brought what Cookware.
Great collection of Thanksgiving Dinners, L3wg Family you did tremendously well your pictures
My side of the family sits at the table and passes the food around while we dish up. My husband’s side does buffet style where the food is laid out, you walk around the island dishing up your plate then sit at the table.
Lewis. A bit of knowledge for you.
STUFFING is bread that's been cooked inside the turkey.
DRESSING, is bread that is cooked outside the turkey in a casserole form.
no
Thanksgiving is considered the 1st day of the Xmas season and the deco lites all go on that nite.
🤣”WHAT THE HELL IS TAM-MEL-AY-AHS” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Boy, I am dead🤣🤣🤣 That’s tamales, they’re Mexican, they’re delicious - it’s corn masa filled with meat👍👍 “Fried mars bars” I’m officially dead LMFAO🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
We had our family Thanksgiving yesterday since my brother spent Thursday at the in-laws.
We had turkey, two kinds of stuffing (gluten free for my mom), ciabatta bread, mashed potatoes, cranberry gelatin (canned), green bean casserole, sweet potatoes casserole, corn, pickles, white wine, lemonade, and for dessert pumpkin pie or apple crisp with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.
Served for 6 adults and 3 kids. Lots of leftovers.
From Wikipedia, The term devilled eggs is British first appearing in print in 1786. In the UK, the dish is popular at buffets. The eggs are made with a mixture or mayonnaise, English mustard, paprika and chives. Cayenne pepper or Tabasco sauce is often added to the mixture.
My father would put up our Christmas tree for his grandchildren to see on Thanksgiving. They loved it. When the grandsons came home from Service for the holiday he even did it then. The next day he mailed out his Christmas Cards. (Like Clockwork)
Thanksgiving Day or weekend is often a time when many people decorate and prepare for Christmas. It is often said and was studied that the earlier you decorate for Christmas, the brighter your spirit is throughout the holiday season.
You have to come to Wisconsin because there are cranberries everywhere. We have lots of cranberry bogs. You can get them dried like raisins, in sauces and jellies, and in drinks.
The marshmallow melted top is a sweet potato casserole dessert.
We put cranberries and ]honey roasted pecans on top of the marshmallow topping on the sweet potato casserole this year. A winner for sure !
Thanksgiving is THE most wonderful day of the year.
That and Halloween, kids are happy, and I am not broke. Christmas is another story.
Anyone else love when Lewis looks at the screen with that certain LOOK like "WTF?!?" 🤣🤣🤣
How you say "PECAN" very much depends on what part of the US you come from.
Tamales..Mexican food...SSOOO GOOD
his pronunciation had me dying lol
My family on Mother's is everything European. They do Turkey, stuffing, gravy, baked corn (aka corn pudding), yams, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, and dinner rolls.
My father's side is Native American, Mexican, and Italian. They have Lasagna, Tamales (said like Tuh-mall-leez) and other meats my family hunted. I have 8 aunts and uncles and they have 2 to 5 kids each. Plus I am the second of 7. It's an enormous event on that side. Since they live 3000 miles away I hope to make it out there again for Thanksgiving. (PA to CA)
I know that T-day is considered a North American holiday but I sincerely wish that the world would catch on to a day of family, love, and gratitude. ❤ no matter what is on the menu! P.s. we just got our tree today! Start decorating it tomorrow!
@easybreezy4559 lol yes but cute
You brought tears to my eyes when you said the word tamales, because when I was introduced to Spanish foods, I read the names as English and not Spanish which totally pronounced differently. Thank you
We actually tend to have some food with our gravy😅
"I just learned about deviled eggs!"
My friend, America is so obsessed with deviled eggs that we can buy specialized to-go containers (think Tupperware) that will carry your deviled eggs in individual little semi-ovals so that your filling doesn't get ruined.
Yup; they are a great snack to take to a party/gathering. Everyone loves Deviled Eggs.
@lynnw7155 I am one of those people who can't really stand the texture of egg yolks, so I am the only one in the family who doesn't eat deviled eggs. My fiancé will happily eat "my share" of them, though!
I wish a thanks giving dinner premade take away like that was more avaible at a grocery store. Might be available in some places in the 🇺🇸. Not much premade ready to go where i live. Lewis--Make a video of you making eggs. Deviled eggs are a a delicacy.
They’re so easy too. Enough that even cooking challenged @L3WG should be able to make them! 😂
We have a couple of local Mom & Pop restaurants that will do made to order Thanksgiving meals for pickup on Wednesday before Thanksgiving. We used one of the restaurants the year our Mom was recovering from surgery
@ceelavee I missed your question on stream. Blood sausage is disgustingly exactly as described. They congeal blood into intestine skin to make sausage. My ex-in-laws from Spain used to eat it ALL of the time, before almost every dinner, it’s a staple over there. The smell alone would make me lose my appetite. 🤢
Mine was the one that had the brussel sprouts 😅 but the bowl of yum you said looked good was the candied yams. Candied yams are fried yams in butter with brown sugar and cinnamon. Its so good. If you want the recipe, ill let my mom know 😁
In Australia, they knew that Thanksgiving was Turkey Day, so they took me out for Turkish food.
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Very popular. For any meal. Bbq, picnic, any meal
M'lady and I always get our Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving.
The deviled egg platter is more what I'm used to seeing.
At 7:53 sweet potatoes with marshmallow baked on top. I never put marshmallows in mine. Its too much for me. But a lot of families make it this way.
I don't put my tree up until after Thanksgiving. I'm old school. Deviled eggs are very popular. That photo of chicken & dumplings looked good to me. I NEVER put marshmallows on my sweet potato casserole. I put pecan crumble on it & mine is infamous at the company I retired from
@@baileysgrammy Sounds so good, I think you meant famous. Infamous means notorious or ill repute. Your recipe is well thought of and if I knew you, I’d also be bugging you for your recipe. I don’t care much for marshmallow except when they’re melting in a cup of hot chocolate (cocoa).
@mariandenk1210 Thank you for the correction
The thing you’re tripping over in the turkey is a disposable, pop-up thermometer that was put in the turkey at the processing plant, it lets you know that the turkey is done. Sweet potato and pumpkin pie can look identical. People either like jellied cranberry sauce or they hate it, I ❤ it.
Grew up in Georgia and Missouri, with a Mom from Texas. Therefore: Thanksgiving dinner should be all home cooked! Turkey, stuffed with a bread dressing. Slices of both white and dark meat on the plate.. Sweet potatoes mashed in a casserole dish with a little marshmallow melted on the top. Green bean casserole. Peas. No salad of any kind. Cut corn. Cranberry sauce (a little sweet) is a necessity. White dinner rolls, not biscuits or other breads. More than one type of pie, one of which HAS to be a pecan pie. Apple is second best.
I grew up in the Carolinas, so you’re talking a proper Thanksgiving dinner for me.
Gotta have pumpkin pie with topping
Mexican families will often have traditional Mexican food as their big meal instead of turkey,etc and many Italian families will have or add in a lot of traditional Italian dishes, etc. Families adjust their Thanksgiving meals for them and their traditions.
Hey Lew! It’s Brian! Aka Zane. I’m glad you loved my giant snack board I made!
It looked very nice! I bet your family and friends loved it. I think Lewis is overwhelmed!
That was the pinnacle of snack boards! Absolutely fantastic.
Charcuterie board here in the pretentious north east. Still tastes good. Great job!
@SuperDrLisa I live in the Northeast. My mind immediately thought 'charcuterie board'. 😅😅😅
@SuperDrLisa
Same on the West Coast.
3:15 My family makes multiple different meat options. For EVERY HOLIDAY we have turkey, ham, chicken AND beef. My whole family celebrates together. Like grandparents, aunt, uncles, grandkids, great grandkids and soon great great grandkids! It’s like a family reunion every holiday. God I love my family! 🥹
Our Thanksgiving meal includes roasted turkey, a big one so we have plenty left overs for sandwiches and pot pie. Mashed potaties, baked corn (casserole type), candied sweet potatoes. Gravy, green beans, cranberry salad, home made yeast rolls. Desserts are all home made butterscotch meringue pie, coconut meringue pie, pumpkin pie, Dream Whip pumpkin pie ... at least 2mof each.
Really cool to see the things that were standard and things that differed. I def cover my potatoes and turkey in homemade gravy from the turkey drippings. Mmmm
Stuffing is a very important part of the meal and is served with the Turkey. It consists of bread crumbs, special seasonings, and juice from the turkey, baked into a loaf.
It takes about 1-2 weeks to deal with the leftovers. Stuffing, turkey, mashers, and green bean salad in a tortilla as a wrap is awesome. Throw in some crannies for a little sweetness. I used to do a huge turkey stew with the leftover carcass, but I’m so turkeyed out by this point that I went for turkey chili this year. And you can freeze it. And the turkey kind of disappears into it. When you’re burned out on turkey, this is the solution.
And the huge portions are for the family. I smoked a turkey, my daddy smoked one too, I made collard greens, and my mom FINALLY gave me her sweet potato pie recipe. She did hers with a cheesecake filling. I made mine the regular way.
Only in the UK can that be considered a healthy meal.
White gravy is not part of Thanksgiving, it is for biscuits or chicken fried steak
You can buy disposable pans w covers for easier clean up from any grocery store.
I'd love to see Lewis at one of our Thanksgiving dinners. He'd be astonished at the amount of food ! We eat around 2pm and again at 6. You can see where most of those plates were LOADED 😊
Traditionally Thanksgiving Dinner would include Roasted whole Turkey, bread stuffing, mashed potatoes, Turkey gravy, green bean casserole, and pumpkin pie, or pea can pie. Optionally baked ham might be served. But families who have become weary of being served the same Thanksgiving meal may serve others foods so anything else might be served. Just as long as you have a full satisfying meal in which you are thankful for all that you have received.
A lot of the plates with the mashed potatoes is “stuffing.” Stuffing is usually paired with the mashed potatoes and Turkey. That’s what that is. It’s stuffing.
Christmas and Thanksgiving kinda became one big holiday. Everyone wants to get their decorations up early.
I cooked my turkey in a smoker also. "Smoked not burnt" says it all, but sooo delicious
Usually OUR family waits until after Thanksgiving to put up X-mas stuff. But yes, some folks do it early.
It's pronounced Tuh- Mall-a's it's a Mexican holiday (special occasion) dish. They are pretty awesome.
We do white giblet gravy for Thanksgiving - but we went toa friend's this year and they had 'tan' colored gravy.
Smoked turkey is AMAZING! Its up there with bbq. It tasts more like ham then turkey.
tow-mollies. Tamales. Mexican food. Like a corn flour tortilla wrapped around spicy pork or beef. Good stuff.
Lewis you are toooooo funny! I like your stare into the camera to express your question mark. I imagine crickets playing during the pause. You have me laughing out loud!!!
The chill vibe just hanging out and looking at food pictures fit thanksgiving
That brown dish with marsh mellows is whipped sweet yams, (sweet potato), usually with added pumpkin spice, brown sugar, butter , and sometimes chopped walnuts.
A lot of houses where people gather have both a Kitchen (or Breakfast ) Table, and a larger Dining Table.
Again, the American version of Deviled Eggs IS FROM ENGLAND !!!!
Lewis, you really need to watch the Hallmark movie, "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" with Henry Winkler to get a visual idea of chaos in prepping Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. Your mum would love it, too.
3:56 was my plate. The stuff in the middle is green bean casserole which is just green beans, cream of mushroom soup, and french-fried onions to go on top. My mom adds black beans in it and it works. Yes Lewis, gravy can go on the turkey.
This is the kind of wholesome we're all reaction from real people to real people stuff that I always look for in videos where non-Americans learn about American things.
A lot of people have two tables like one in the kitchen and one main dining table. Deviled eggs are common as an appetizer for most holidays. I was sick so I didn't get any Thanksgiving cuz I didn't want to go make anyone else catch it. Then nobody even made me a plate. Now I'm craving turkey,and pumpkin 🥧🦃
No plate 😢. I fell on the way into my sister's got a black eye, the cauliflower met its end in the front yard and no one made up a bag of leftovers😢
@@SuperDrLisa That's so rude.🙁 If I had known, I would have sent you a plate. Everybody took some leftovers home from my house.🦃🥧
Our Thanksgiving menu was: Italian wedding soup, Turkey (22 lbs), Stuffing (stuffing is cooked in the bird, Dressing is not), Gravy, Twice Baked potatoes, Green bean casserole, Corn bread casserole, mushroom casserole, Sweet Potatoe casserole, Cranberry sauce, Rolls. Dessert: Apple Pie, Pumpkin Pie, and rum cake. We went light this year..... Planning bigger feast for Christmas.
Took my mother to Atlantic City, NJ for Thanksgiving. Our dinner was a reservation at the Sugar Factory. Rainbow sliders and other appetizers followed by an evil triple cookies and cream ice cream dessert with soft warm chocolate chip cookies, whipped cream chocolate and caramel sauce.
Christmas Tree, . . .
It depends on the family. Many families celebrate Christmas with their EXTENDED family at Thanksgiving. Especially in the Northern States where travel becomes increasingly problematic as we get into Winter.
So, while most homes don't have their Christmas decorations up on Thanksgiving, no one is particularly surprised if they are up.
British Christmas crackers are not just used at Christmas in the US, they are also used at Thanksgiving, Easter, birthdays, and other occasions.
We serve deviled eggs at any feast. Especially Easter. The bowl of small squares looks like dumplings. I tried some at Cracker Barrel in square shapes. It was really good. I make my different. Cranberry is usually served with turkey. Herbs give turkey such a wonderful flavor, and it tenderizes at the same time.
15 cousins, 3 generations, for Thanksgiving. Turkey, ham, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, biscuits, green bean casserole, asparagus with hollandaise sauce, stuffed mushrooms and cranberry sauce. Dessert was pumpkin pie and 2 kinds of cheesecake.
Lewis a lot of those pictures were store bought dishes and pies. Also i've never had Thanksgiving served on a paper plate. Thanksgiving is {or should be} homemade dishes. When members of your family come for dinner they will usually all make something and bring it. The second dinner you looked at when you said they looked like a healthy family is what a Thanksgiving meal should be. The plate you looked at when you were talking about the deviled eggs looked just like the plate I sat down to. That was not scalloped potato's you were looking it, that was turkey in gravy. Then it was sweet potato's with marshmallows on top. It looks terrible but is good. There are always a couple football games on, so everyone sit's wherever they like and watch them or talk to the family. A good Pecan or Pumpkin pie are fantastic at any time of the year. I wish your Mother, girlfriend and yourself could have come for dinner!
I'm passing along your comment to the chef from the healthy family ;) it was a friends'giving party but Lew missed the caption. cheers!
Some places have Thanksgiving take away, but honestly it's pretty cheap to just buy some aluminium disposable pans to cook stuff in and toss them after rather than wash a bunch of dishes. You've seen how many different side dishes we have. I live in Plymouth, Mass (where the 1st thanksgiving was held) but I also like seeing all the different options people have from different parts of the country. As for the Christmas tree, everyone is different. I know some families that decorate the tree as part of their Thanksgiving. My family has 8 birthdays in December so we have one big party at my Grandparents house and decorate the tree about 2 weeks before, and we all go over there for Christmas morning because we all live close by each other.
Deviled eggs yummmm food of the gods
Pah-CAHN. Like pumpkin pie, it is essentially a whipped cream delivery system.
3:08- That is a Charcuterie Board.