What is your favorite dish for Thanksgiving (or a feast)?

Yes, you are definitely right, the best part of the holiday feast is being able to spend time with your family. Thanksgiving is one of the few times throughout the year that we are able to see one of my husband's little brothers.

Sneaky, sneaky by sneaking in all of those favorites. I want the recipe for your mother's goody. That sounds absolutely delicious.

Sneaky can be fun lol.

I'm not sure in what quantities, but the relish consists of finely chopped raw cranberries, nuts, orange zest, a bit of orange juice, and sugar.

The filling for the celery (cut each rib into 2" pieces) is softened cream cheese, chopped English walnuts, and just enough milk beat into it to make it spreadable.

Fill the hollow of each 2" celery stick with the mixture. (Dry celery first) and refrigerate. A fork works best for filling the sticks.

This is a favorite of the whole family! To healthy it up, low-fat cream cheese works very well:) The "leftovers" are part of the fun, so she always makes a lottt!

Karen

I am writing this down, I'll try it before Thanksgiving and if we like it here, then I'll make more for Thanksgiving day and take them up with us to the celebration.

I think you'll like it:)) Let me know!

Karen

I've made myself hungry too with this discussion. There is nothing that I want more right now than a big feast with more food than we could bear to eat at one sitting.

I always did like pumpkin pie too. Especially when it is made from a fresh pumpkin and not the canned stuff that so many people buy in the store. And on top of my pumpkin pie I need to have some real whipped cream. Not cool whip.

Sound delicious. You've left off dessert here though. Is there a dessert that you are especially fond of too? Or are you just fond of all of the main meal dishes?

The biggest festivity that we celebrate with our family here is Christmas. For us it is a very busy time of the year. We spent one or two days traveling to see the parts of the family that we don't usually see throughout the year and we exchange gifts and get to eat food that we don't always eat.
As far as the payasam, I'm not at all familiar with it, but I've had some Indian food before and everything that I've tried was delicious, although spicy.

When I was a child it was always the stuffing that I looked forward to as well. Now, however, it isn't as much of a draw for me because we eat with my husband's family and his mother cooks hers out of a box.

OH OH OH! ripping on the mother in law...lol

ROFL. I've actually asked her about it before. She said she'd rather cook from scratch but that the boys won't eat it so she doesn't bother. I told her I'd make something and bring it up and she says there is no point.
Honestly, I love the woman to death, but she is set in her ways about some things.

That is a neat reason that it is your favorite food. I never thought of it that way, but now that you've mentioned it. This is both a delicious dish and a quite symbolic one as well.

You sound exactly like my husband. He too can go without the sweet potatoes and cranberries whereas those are the things that I enjoy the most. Probably because I don't get them at any other time during the year.

Let me see if I can get the recipe from my mother. I know I've got it in my recipe box, but that is still buried in a box somewhere. And I'll be happy to share it with you.