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I also love Thanksgiving - it's my favorite holiday, hands down. My favorite food is Mama's dressing. She bakes cornbread separately, sautes onion and celery, breaks up the cornbread and adds the vegetables, chicken broth, and some of the drippings from the turkey pan and then bakes the mixture. Since it never goes inside the turkey, it's not stuffing, but dressing, and it is yummy!
I love how everybody talks about how cozy Thanksgiving is. I absolutely agree and I love the day after, too. Turkey sandwiches on sourdough bread - yum!

i love everything about Thanksgiving... maybe because I was born on a Thanksgiving day a few years ago ;) and it marks the start of Xmas season... it's sucha happy time for me, always.

I used to love the whole menu combination. And would most look forward eating the same menu a few times via the leftovers. and even now that I am vegetarian, I think my favorite part are the sweet potatoes/yams... my mom used to make them with marshmallows on top. YUMMM.

CUMIN... after 3 weeks in India a few years ago, i developed an aversion to cumin after a whole week straight of eating food seasoned with cumin. Everything tasted the same.

Now, I can't even smell it at the supermarket.

My favorite part of Thanksgiving is actually the day after. It's incredible how many cool recipes there are for leftovers.

So I spend Thanksgiving morning cooking - in the afternoon it's family time with a mid afternoon dinner.

Then on Friday it's a whole new ballgame with everything from Turkey enchiladas, soup and chili's to Turkey nachos, turkey stuffed peppers, turkey omelets etc. etc....we feast all weekend!

Then try to loose some weight so we can do it again over Xmas.

Love the holiday season!

family. For food it's the stuffing, with gravy and whole cranberry sauce.

I'm sure I'll take flack for this ... but everything but the turkey. A forkful of mashed potatoes, corn, stuffing, and cranberry sauce all topped off with turkey graving. Heaven.

homemade butter rolls and pumpkin spice cake.

nachos. with the gooey cheese and jalapenos.
I could go for some right now- must be lunch time soon!

When in a strange gas station, I look for a chocolate pudding pie. They're like a Hostess fruit pie but they have chocolate pudding in middle. I never see them anymore but I loved them in high school and look for them now when I'm in strange gas stations because I know the ones I use don't carry them.

Otherwise, I would go for beef jerky, potato chips and Coke. And if the carrot and celery sticks in the cooler look decent, I balance my salt-fest with those. Another old favorite is the frozen chicken patty sandwich microwaved in the store with ketchup and mayo. When I worked in a gas station, I ate that for dinner often with a bottle of really really cold V8.

Corn Nuts...can never get enough of them on the road!

Do I break the rules if I mention a restaurant meal? Last night was Korean BBQ at Honey Pig (Gooldaegee), in Annandale, VA. Absolutely delicious and totally satisfying!

Did Famous Dave's, our favorite rib joint -- great smoked/barbecue food for an amazing price. When we walked in, we forgot it was $1 pint night, so it was fairly busy. My iced tea was more expensive than the pint of Great Lakes Brewery Christmas Ale that my husband had.

For $23, we had a large smoked salmon with grilled flatbread appetizer, 1/2 roasted chicken, St. Louis ribs, beef brisket(the.absolute.best), corn muffins, jalapeno mac n cheese, and potato wedges. For dessert, we had 2 mini-orders of bread pudding with pralines and vanilla ice cream.

We boxed up half of the meal. My husband will probably nibble on it all day today.