My family usually has some sort of yams or sweet potatoes prepared in addition to the rest of the fare.

Sigmagrrl, please educate me about this yams with marshmellow dish...I have never heard of it and I am curious! :)

http://www.geocities.com/ouravonlea/...nksgiving.html

Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving Day on the second Monday of October and Americans set aside the
fourth Thursday of November. The only reason for this is because of the seasonal differences between
the two countries. The harvest in Canada happens earlier in the year.

That is not the only difference between the two celebrations...

http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/cpsc-ccsp...a/action_e.cfm
Read this...apparently Canadians *DID* celebrate Thanksgiving in November for a while.... hmmmm, interesting!

Yams/Sweet potatoes with marshmellows must be an American tradition because I have never met a Canadian who eats that.

I think I'll pass.

Yams are fine on their own.

Happy Thanksgiving to our neighbors of the North!

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HAPPY THANKGIVING EVERYONE!

My family had pretty typical fare... well... for being half italian. Dinner was usually at Grandmas and consisted of the following:

First course (skipped when Grandma didn't feel like it):
Antipasto (umm... bread sticks, cheese, olives, proshuto (sp?)... etc)

Second course:
Lasanga or Gnocchi or some other pasta or fish soup (mmmmmm.... fish soup!)
Meatballs, or beef cooked in tomato sauce
Bread

Third course:
POTATOES: (baked, mashed or both)
VEGGIES: (varies - pick about 4 of the following corn, brusselspouts, turnip, carrots, beans, bell peppers, mushrooms, peas, articoke (though that was rare), cold veggies)
TURKEY (with stuffing and gravy)
MEAT (because Turkey wasn't enough!): Pick at least TWO of the following - steak, roast beef, chicken, cornish hen, ham (ham was very common), veal, pork, rabbit, duck

Fourth course:
SALAD! - greens, oil, vinger, and salt. It's good when Grandma doesn't over do it with the salt...
Also making appearence certain years: Cheese, Fruit, Veggie Platters

Fifth course: DESSERT!!!
CHEESE CAKE - not like the ones you buy. Very fluffy! Served with canned cherries on top.
Also making appearances certain years (most of in addition to the cheesecake, though sometimes instead of)
CHOCOLATE!
NUGET! (sp?)
PIE
CAKE (other cake)
ICE CREAM

Afterwards: Coffee... and dishes... lots of dishes...


Aww ... man... I'm so depressed right now, because I'm not at my Grandma's for this Thanksgiving... i'm at my boyfriends parents house. Writing all this out is making me hungry!

Y'all can revoke my Soul Card/Black Card/Southern Card:
I do NOT do yams with marshmallows (I hate yams!) and I do NOT do sweet potatoes in any way, shape or form! :eek: Yuk! Ewwwwww!

My grandmother actually asked me: "are you sure you are Black?" (Uhhh yeah last time I checked). And then "are you SURE you are related to us?" (I do resemble her!)


Sigh...here is my card! :D

Sigmagrrl, my husband (white and VERY Canadian) knew what a hamhock was...now my mother in law was a different story. Now my husband makes better collard greens than I do!

OK, small cooking lesson:

Get some cans of yams with pineapple juice at the grocery store. The best brand is Bruce's Candied Yams. Warm them in a pot. Then transfer them to a deep baking dish. Combine it with a small amt of butter, some maple syrup, some brown sugar, pineapple chunks, and some of the leftover juice from the can. Mash, but still leave it a little chunky (think mashed potatoes, smooth, but not). Cover entire top of yams with mini marshmallows and bake until the marshmallows on top are brown and melty (sort of like a 'smore)...Serve hot! YUMMY!

yumm...all this yam talk is making me hungry.
also consider apple pie, pecan pie for desert and zuchini with green chile as one of the vegetables. my mom makes a mean casserole.

MMMM this thread is making me sooooo hungry as well. Happy Thanksgiving Canadians!!!!

Now I'm hungry! :(

:: jumps in car, drives north ::

Happy Thanksgiving to all you Canadian folks! :)

omg kappaloo how do you eat all of that!! i would explode - but it sounds delicious :)

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!

The only way I know how.... VERY SMALL PORTIONS.

oh, and the fifth course is usually an hour after the fourth, so we have time to "make some room"

(umm... though, I tend to eat all of the pasta portion, and then go really small on the rest)

Today is actually Thanksgiving, but I had my dinner yesterday.


I was so stuffed! I'm still feeling stuffed. But it was excellent.
I hope everyone enjoyed their dinners or will be enjoying them today.

I think most people tend to eat on the Sunday. I think it's nice because then we have Monday for relaxation. :)

Dinner and my boyfriend's parents was good. I had butternut squash (?? Or what ever that type of squash is) soup! It was sooo tasty!

I hope you have an excellent day Lady Pi Phi! (and everyone else too!)