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maybeamommy
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Need some Thanksgiving ideas!
So this year, my mom, brother, and brother's GF are coming out to use for what we call "fakesgiving" (aka the weekend before Thanksgiving).
We're pretending it's really Thanksgiving since I can't fly this year for Thanksgiving OR Christmas... and the weekend before is much cheaper for them to fly! 
So it will just be 5 of us.
I need some ideas for appetizers and desserts.
For dinner, we're having turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, baked macaroni & cheese, sweet potatoes with marshmallow, green bean casserole.
We don't want to go too heavy on apps!
For dessert - please NO pumpkin suggestions! I'd ideally like to do 1 chocolatey thing and 1 fruity thing.
TIA! 
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Posted 11/9/09 1:23 PM  |
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k-diggity
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Re: Need some Thanksgiving ideas!
how about some shrimp with cocktail sauce app
clam dip with crackers
antipasta
chocolate pudding trifle for dessert (just had this at someone's house it was delicious)
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| Posted 11/9/09 1:46 PM |
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kahlua716
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Keri
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Re: Need some Thanksgiving ideas!
Apps:
-Cheese and crackers
-olive tray
-pastry wrapped brie w/ raspberry
-Hot Artichoke Dip
Dessert:
-Berries with fresh whipped cream
-Apple cobbler
-Chocolate cream pie
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| Posted 11/9/09 3:47 PM |
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maybeamommy
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Re: Need some Thanksgiving ideas!
thanks for the ideas girls!
anymore ideas for me?
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| Posted 11/11/09 5:12 PM |
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TheWhiteRabbit
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Re: Need some Thanksgiving ideas!
I just posted this on the 'xmas eve & xmas' menu post:
Apps:
Crab Stuffed Mushrooms
Crab Cakes
Coconut Fried Shrimp
Then there’s this warm crab salad over toast points I make
Spinach & cheese in puff pastry pinwheels
Bacon wrapped spicy shrimp
Pigs in a blanket
Homemade veggie pizza with pesto & fresh mozzarella
Cheese/cracker/fruit plate
Baked Brie with cranberries
Desserts:
Chocolate custard cream pie in a graham cracker crust
Coconut custard cream pie in a brown sugar oatmeal crust
Tollhouse chocolate chip cookie pie in a chocolate cookie crust
Apple pie
Caramel Ice Cream pie in a brownie crust
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| Posted 11/11/09 5:30 PM |
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jerseychick
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Re: Need some Thanksgiving ideas!
They aren't chocolately or fruity, but I am making these for my family's Fakesgiving this weekend
Brown Sugar Pecan Cupcakes with Caramel Frosting
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| Posted 11/11/09 7:33 PM |
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pickles16
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Jen
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Re: Need some Thanksgiving ideas!
desssert I make this amazing bread pudding and put a tiny bit of dark chocolate in it to make it that much more gooey and yummy....
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| Posted 11/12/09 7:51 AM |
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rojerono
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Re: Need some Thanksgiving ideas!
For apps I would do Roasted Shrimp Cocktail. Ina Garten's recipe. The sauce is really good. If you don't want to do the cocktail .. you can do some seared Sea Scallops and plate them on a pool of parsley pesto. Yum.
You could also have some crudite with artichoke dip (or any dip) for a starter.
Desserts.. I'd say go for Ghiradelli double chocolate brownie cookies. They are insane. And they disappear.. even when people say they are stuffed. I would also do persimmon cookies.. because persimmon IS the holiday fruit and because persimmon cookies are awesome and a little different AND because visually it would look pretty to have the dark cookies nested next to the lighter cookies. For a citrusy and refreshing bite, I'd have some lemon bars or a lemon tart to round out the dessert table.
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| Posted 11/12/09 9:00 AM |
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maybeamommy
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Re: Need some Thanksgiving ideas!
bumping for more ideas because this preggo is hard to please!
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| Posted 11/17/09 12:26 PM |
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SnickNNick
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Re: Need some Thanksgiving ideas!
Just recently tried a Hot Corn Dip very similar to this one: Hot corn dip and it was SO GOOD. People loved it!
We do the baked brie too, but not in pastry and with a combo of pecans, brown sugar and whiskey on top...SO delicious. Also works if you cut it in little cubes and do it in the pre-made phyllo cups. yum!
As for desserts, there are SO MANY fun things around now! I love pumpkin but I know you said no pumpkin....I would definitely do something apple as the fruit, either a pie or a crisp, b/c my family would rebel without it. As for chocolate, those brownie cookes are awesome, or chocolate cookies with white chips and pecans (can you tell I like pecans!), or something else simple like that. I always like to have something pie-like and something cookie/brownie like.
OR a cheesecake that's fancy, DH made a chocolate stout one that was really good, and also made a vanilla almond one that was awesome....so many options!
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| Posted 11/17/09 12:42 PM |
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My4GirlsMyLife
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Re: Need some Thanksgiving ideas!
Maybe make Turkey cupcakes? My MIL made these last yr Image Attachment(s):
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| Posted 11/17/09 1:23 PM |
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