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I hosted Thanksgiving at mt apartment one year when I was in college. The oven clearly wasn't calibrated correctly and the turkey was cooked in only 2 hours! It was pretty dry, but there was plenty of gravy to help it out.

When I was young and hosted my first Thanksgiving, I inadvertently roasted the turkey upside down, which some amusement for the guests.

Oh boy! Well, my favorite food related thanksgiving story seems funny now but was quite interesting while it was happening.

It was the second year I was invited to my fiancee's(now husband) family's thanksgiving celebration. He had just moved to states to be with me and we were going back to his home state for a grand meal. Little did we know, his aunt had decided to take a trip to New York for the holiday and leave us all in the lurch. She's the main cook and without her, there wouldn't be any thanksgiving.

We scrambled to find a buffet that would do thanksgiving food, and his family thought it was horrible in comparison. I, on the other hand, gobbled down that dry turkey and canned cranberry like nobody's business.

The reason I thought it was the best meal on earth, we found out a few weeks later, is because I was pregnant. Now when I think back on that disgusting food, I laugh at how fickle a pregnant palate can be.

Oyster stuffing, ham, turkey, green bean casserole, corn pudding, sweet potato pie and all the relatives crowded around the table

My grandmother's stuffing is a highlight of Thanksgiving. I make it now, but I remember as a kid, at her house, she's have a small casserole dish of it on the stove and she'd pick at it all throughout the meal preparation. It was her little treat!

Thanksgiving day, 1965. That morning, a neighbor had brought my dead kitty to us in a cardboard box on a little red wagon. I was devastated. That afternoon, the parents of the guy my older sister was going with (and would later marry) took our family out to T-day dinner. My future brother in law's father sat next to me, and poured me a glass of red wine to have with dinner. I finished it, and said I liked it. "That's burgundy!" He said. I still like it.

We got a frozen 18 lb turkey for free one year... but didn't anticipate how long it would take to thaw! We ended up having to wait for our thanksgiving dinner for an extra day so it would get up to temperature. When we asked other people what they did, they decided to stick their turkey in the shower!!

My very first brined turkey has to be my favorite food memory for thanksgiving.

I think my family was a bit non-traditional in a lot of ways and frequently this was shown by what was on the table for the "major" holidays. (My family arguably celebrated EVERY holiday whatever the denomination) One Thanksgiving my mom decided she didn't want to go through the trouble of preparing a turkey...so instead she spent the day making stuffed clams, crab legs and sushi. How is that easier?!?! It was an awesome dinner nonetheless!

Converting my then-fiance's parents to brussel sprouts. I make an awesome hash that the midwestern meat-and-potatoes crowd liked. Muahaha!

Oh, just dump all the ingredients into my back-tilted open mouth. That'll do fine.

My 1st Thanksgiving dinner w. my husband. We moved 2200 miles from home, so it was just the 2 of us. But we love to cook, so we made a full dinner: a huge turkey, whole pie, giant bowl of mashed potatoes, gravy, yeast rolls, green beans, asparagus, plus a full tray of veggies and dip. The amount of leftovers prompted us to invite all my coworkers over the following year- a tradition we've carried the last 2 years.

Discovering the wonderful Lingonberry, after returning from a foreign college exchange program in Sweden, 1981.
Far superior to the cranberry, in my opinion, but a very close relative.
The Lingonberry has been a regular guest on my Thanksgiving table now since.
Favorite Alton Brown "Good Eats" moment, was when Alton dressed up like Fried Chicken Pioneer Colonel Sanders and showed you how to make a classic "Mint Julip".
Absolutley hysterical, I could watch it over and over again and laugh every time just as hard.