Help with Thanksgiving dinner
 

What is on a traditional Canadian Thanksgiving dinner? Or if there isn't a traditional dinner menu what does everyone cook themselves?

We are heading out to Canada permanently on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving and I thought it would be fun to have a Thanksgiving dinner with my family before we go. I'm thinking of a Canadian themed leaving dinner. Any suggestions?

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I didn't see anything about Thanksgiving "Black Tea" on that site !:p:p

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Last year we had friends over and i made Roast Turkey and stuffing. Being English we had roast potatoes with it but i did make mashed sweet potatoes also, i think we had peas & carrots. Cranberry sauce is traditional but we're not lovers of it.

Apple pie, Pumpkin pie and whipped cream for desert.

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Thanks. I'm v happy as I found a link from the website to a recipe for cranberry margaritas :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:.

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Black tea NO sugar. :sneaky:

That would fall under the personal choice aspect. :p:D

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Just whip the barbie out.....:rofl:

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Apart from turkey, out west folks usually have baked ham (stud with cloves, bake in beer and molasses with dry mustard stirred in), baked potatoes served with sour cream, crispy bacon bits, and diced green onions), glazed carrots (glaze with ginger and brown sugar), loads of salads with locally grown vegetables esp. tomatoes, mashed sweet potatoes. Dessert traditionally pumpkin pie with whipped cream but apple pie with vanilla ice cream also OK. Try local farmers markets for good stuff- this is the best time of the year for produce, jams relishes, home baking etc.
P.S. Hams usually have far too much salt in them. To get rid of it, poke holes all over the ham with a skewer (or even a knitting needle) and soak it for several hours in Seven-Up (a kind of soft drink you can get in any grocery). Pour off the liquid before you add the molasses etc.
Bon appetit from Beaumont, Alberta.

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Interesting I've lived in Alberta for 45 years I've never heard of baked potatoes with all the trimmings served with Thanksgiving dinner.:huh:

The rest yes but not that.:)

Live and learn. ;)

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When serving a ham, many people here will include scalloped potatoes on the "menu". Always been a fave of mine. :) As Canadians, for the most part, traditionally look at Thanksgiving as a time to celebrate the harvest... I'm just glad to gather family & friends to enjoy the feast. :thumbsup:


Oggy

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I forgot you dont even like it sweet :eek: Would you except the "MILK" of human kindness with your Tea ? :p

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A nice pumpkin pie for dessert. We used to get canned pumpkin from Waitrose. Yum yum. :)

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No milk not even that. :p

I have a black heart through and through. :lol:

I used to say I don't have a heart it's just a swinging brick, but it's been proved otherwise in the last twelve years. :p:blink:

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The traditional North American Thanksgiving dinner will always have pumpkin pie. However the key ingredient, pumpkin in a tin, is nearly impossible to find in the UK. Believe me I have tried! Also if you are moving out west you might want to make cabbage rolls. Even people with no ukrainian or polish ancestry have cabbage rolls with everything out here.

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We do? :blink: Although cabbage rolls are very tasty! :D


Oggy

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As I said before you can get it at Waitrose, (or at least the Waitrose in Chandlers Ford, Hampshire has it) especially if there is an IBM office around the corner, lots of Americans then in the area. I also got my daughter root beer in Waitrose, but it was Australian alas!

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:confused::confused:in a tin? Surely the whole point of pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving is that you can make it with fresh pumpkin. Tinned pumpkin is for making pie at other times of the year when fresh isn't available.

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An authentic North American thanksgiving dinner the pumpkin will be in a tin. However it is very difficult to carve a face with.

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And this is something that got served up to me once......

Lime jelly laced with....... Pineapple and marshmallows, and this was plopped on my plate next to the Turkey. I nearly vommmmmmmmed:eek::ohmy:

Subsequent years I have declined all invites for Thanks giving dinners. I did however invite them and served them a full English Roast Dinner and they loved it, I think they are coming again this year as they love the way I do roast potatoes and roast Parsnips. :thumbsup:

Have a look on www.Kraftcanada.com there are some great recipes on there, my OH got a subscription for their magazine and it has pulled us out of the sh%* a few times.......Happy Trails:shades_smile:

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We have just been invited to Thanksgiving dinner and I have volunteered to make the Pumpkin Pie. I never even tried the stuff, now I have to make one:eek: