This or That: Thanksgiving Edition

 I'm getting pretty excited for Thanksgiving tomorrow!  I have all the food prepped and ready to go.  I was going to share my Thanksgiving favorites but really that's mostly just our menu sine I cook and mainly just cook my favorites.  We keep it real simple in our family and don't have the dozens or so dishes that everyone else seems to prepare. 

I saw this cute little This or That Thanksgiving Edition and thought it would make a perfect blog post for today. 

As always I started with the original... 

And here's one with my answers. 

I honestly don't know anyone that makes ham for Thanksgiving... ham tends to be either a Christmas or an Easter thing up here (though I do see ham in the stores so I know people must have them).  We have always made a turkey in our family and just a turkey with lots of side dishes (that may or may not change through the years). 

We really eat around 2 so between lunch and dinner but we treat it as a late lunch. We tend to eat a later breakfast as well so it works for us; plus that way I don't have to get up at the crack of dawn and immediately start cooking.  We then eat our desserts around 5 or 6 and treat that like dinner. Plus if anyone is hungry they can pick at the leftovers.

Though we call it stuffing (as you can see in My Favorite Stuffing Recipe post) ; we don't actually stuff the birds so I guess technically it's dressing. 

I picked dress up... but it's more like we're dressed up for our family. We typically wear jeans or nice pants and sweaters.  Nothing super fancy but no one has stains or holes or is wearing pj's... which seems like it's saying a lot for us. 

This is the outfit I plan on wearing this year.

No one (but me!) eats sweet potatoes in this house so we always make mashed potatoes.  I follow this same recipe each year and it's based off the one my mom made for holidays growing up.  My husband used to request her potatoes so I knew I had to learn to make them myself.  I'm happy to report he loves them and my mom gets a break from peeling potatoes now.

We don't typically have our TV on at all during the day but after we're done eating and while we're waiting for snack we start our Christmas season off by watching Elf and snuggling up in front of the fire so I picked movies. 

I have never shopped black Friday sales and don't ever plan on it either; I avoid crowds and do the bulk of my shopping on-line.  Even though I usually have the bulk of my shopping done by Cyber Monday I do tend to scroll through and check out the deals.

Pecan pie all the way! My recipe for Chocolate Chip Pean pie is my favorite.  In fact, this year we're not even going to have a pumpkin pie or any sort of pumpkin anything for dessert.  

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