Now that it is officially fall have you been fantasizing about all of the delicious food that you are going to eat? Do you want to know what the best Thanksgiving foods are? Do you want to know how to make them? Keep reading to find out!
Breakfast
Pumpkin Bread
Picture it; it’s the Morning of Thanksgiving, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is on, and all you can smell is the warm, doughy, delicious breakfast cooking in the kitchen. What you’re smelling is Pumpkin Bread! Pumpkin Bread is a quick bread, which means it is leavened with a chemical leaving agent rather than a biological one like yeast or a sourdough starter. This delicious dish is usually made with pumpkin puree and cooked in a bread loaf pan. To make this fall treat in cupcake form, it can also be put in a cupcake tray. Usually, many people add raisins or nuts into their pumpkin bread for extra flavor and smear cream cheese frosting on top. This can be made very easily by putting cream cheese and sugar into a food processor.
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Small Dishes
Green Beans
Green beans are a very common Thanksgiving Day dish. They are also known as snap peas or string beans. You can eat these raw, steamed, boiled, baked, or stir-fried; the possibilities are endless! Other ingredients used to make these green delicacies are salt, pepper, butter, olive oil, sauteed minced garlic, and pine nuts!
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Cranberry Sauce
Cranberry sauce is typically served out of a can, and it usually is uncondensed and loose or condensed or jellied and sweetened with various ingredients. It usually comes in a circular rectangular shape and can be sliced into pieces or served whole. If you are fancy and want to make a healthier version at home, you can buy cranberries and boil them in sugar water until they pop. Other usually added ingredients if you choose to make it from home are orange zest, orange juice, ginger, ginger ale/”Canada Dry”, maple syrup, port wine, slivered almonds, or cinnamon.
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Stuffing
Stuffing is usually what is stuffed inside your Christmas Duck or Thanksgiving Turkey, but it can also be served just by itself. Stuffing usually consists of breadcrumbs, onions, spices, celery, and herbs such as sage. And if you want a quick and easy option, premade stuffing is also sold at most grocery stores.
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Biscuits
Most little kids’ favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal: the biscuits! Biscuits are usually baked pieces of moist, buttery bread paired with butter, jam, or gravy.You also don’t have to bake biscuits; many people choose to serve Hawaiian rolls instead of baked bread. Some even go the extra mile and bake them from scratch. Biscuits originated from Hardtack, which is a dense cracker so, what you would use to make Hardtack would be similar to what you use to bake biscuits, which is Baking powder ( this is because Biscuits are a quick bread; a bread that doesn’t use yeast as a leavening agent), lard, water, and flour.
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The Main Meal
Ham/Turkey
These two meats have fought to be the animal that the American people eat every Thanksgiving. So which one is better? Ham is meat cut from the leg of a pig, and it is usually preserved by wet or dry curing. And some people choose to smoke or not smoke their ham. Processed ham on the other hand, includes whole cuts of meat and some mechanically formed. Now time for Turkey. Turkey is usually sold whole or sliced and ground. Turkeys are most of the time baked or roasted in an oven for several hours, and can be stuffed with poultry stuffing. Which one do you think is better, Turkey or Ham? Comment Below!
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Mashed Potatoes
Mashed potatoes are usually smashed, boiled, or steamed potatoes. Many people add milk, butter, salt, and pepper into their potatoes to enhance the delicious flavor. Some even dip their mashed potatoes into Mustard or Barbecue Sauce. This is what you would do if you decided to make mashed potatoes from home, but most grocery stores also offer dehydrated instant mashed potatoes or frozen mashed potatoes.
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Mac and Cheese
Macaroni and Cheese is a pasta noodle covered in cheddar cheese sauce. Some people choose to buy it from the store, add butter, and cook it on top of their stove, or buy frozen mac and cheese and bake it. But during Thanksgiving time, many people make it at home. If you choose this path, many people choose to use multiple cheeses, flour, spices such as ground cajun seasoning or ground nutmeg, herbs, pepper, salt, butter, and diced green onions.
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Dessert
Pies
Many people, for their Thanksgiving, chose to make and have a pie. Some of these pies include sweet potato, pecan, apple, or pumpkin. You can buy these from most grocery stores, but if you were to make them from home, this is how you would do it. To make sweet potato pie, many would put a filling into a pie crust that consists of mashed sweet potatoes, evaporated milk, sugar, and spices such as cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg. To make apple pie, you would put a filling into a pie crust that consists of dried fresh or canned apples, butter, sugar, a thickener such as cornstarch, an acidic ingredient such as lemon juice to prevent the oxidation of the apples when you macerate the filling, and spices such as cinnamon and nutmeg. Then, to make the filling for pumpkin pie, you would use pureed pumpkin, eggs, evaporated milk, and spices such as cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves or allspice. For the filling of pecan pie you would use pecans, sugar, eggs, and butter. For many of these pies, many pair them with marshmallows, ice cream, and whipped cream.
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Drinks
Pumpkin Spice Latte
Finally, you need a fall drink to pair with all of this delicious food. A pumpkin spice latte is the perfect option. A pumpkin spice latte is a regular coffee mixed with fall flavors such as nutmeg, cinnamon, pumpkin and clove, steamed milk, whipped cream, and sugar.
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Apple Cider
Apple cider is an apple flavored, non-alcoholic, fall favorite drink all around the world. This is due to its cozy aroma, acidic taste, and a reminder that the holidays are upon us!
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Now that you know all of the most delicious foods to eat this Thanksgiving, are you going to eat any of these foods? Are you excited for Thanksgiving? What are you eating for Thanksgiving? Comment Below!
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