I know it sounds lame, but seriously, the turkey really is my favorite part of thanksgiving. Second to that is probably the baked acorn squash with brown sugar, salt and butter… and anything with pumpkin! ;o)

My favorite holiday food is pumpkin crisp.

My mom makes awesome butter cookies with apricot filling. They’re soft and sweet and delicious.

corn bake! or really, anything that my mom or grandma feeds me

stuffing . . . preferably cold, eaten from a casserole dish with my fingers while standing by the refrigerator at about 9 am the day after Thanksgiving . . .

Gravy. Yum. I never make gravy any other time of the year so it’s a delicious treat on mashed potatoes, turkey, stuffing, all of it! Mashed potatoes (with gravy) is a close second.

Glad you have it straightened out. And I still want to win the knife, and I love stuffing!

One word…fudge. I have an outrageous sweet tooth, and I equate the holidays with fudge…

Very Christmas my mother buys all the kids a bag of chocolate covered pretzels by a local PA candy place called Sarris Candies. Normally the nutritional information would keep me from eating more than one, but it’s a once a year treat and I end up plowing through the whole bag before the week is out. YUM. Now you have me counting the days until I get them again!

I would LOVE to win a new knife! I bought mine a million years ago and they have come out with some super cool ones…

Anyhow, I love these knives and I (still) love your site…

I love stuffing and gravy. I also love pumpkin cheesecake mousse…This year we are attempting the fried turkey. we’ll see what happens…

Stuffing at Thanksgiving!

Corn bread dressing with giblet gravy. Pearl onions in a cheese cream sauce is a close second.

Sorry about your website problems, but I’m glad your work wasn’t lost forever.

I’m not sure it’s my favorite thing to eat during the holidays, but the one dish that I love and never eat at any other time is cranberry relish. I don’t use it as a condiment–I can eat it by the bowlful. But for some reason I only make it for Thanksgiving.

Ooh, another knife!

Hmm… holiday food… I’ll say LECHON (Roast whole pig)! =)

anything sweet potato!!

So sorry you’ve had website issues… I loooooove stuffing. It very well might be our only Thanksgiving food this year!

Sucks about the whole website issue, but kudos on all the hard work of getting it back up!

I love turkey during the holidays!! I don’t really get to eat it for Thanksgiving at home since my family doesn’t really like turkey (we usually eat chicken instead), so when I do get to go to a church Thanksgiving gathering or something, I always love eating the turkey! And the stuffing. Yummy.

I’m back. And I still like mashed potatoes best….

I love, love, love anything with eggnog in it: eggnog milkshakes, plain eggnog, pumpkin pie made with eggnog, pancakes made with eggnog, etc.

My very favorite holiday treat is Norwegian lefsa. My mother use to make it on Christmas morning with butter and cinnamon and sugar.

Lefsa looks like a giant flower tortilla but it’s made from potatoes. You haven’t lived until you’ve had warm lefsa on Christmas morning.

My favorite Thanksgiving food is…homemade Chex Mix! We always knew it was close to Thanksgiving when we came in and there, on the table, were the trays of Chex Mix cooling. If you were good and sneaky, you could snag some of the fresh pieces with lots of butter/w-sauce on them…yum.

It’s a toss up between the cranberry sauces (I usually make two kinds) and my aunt’s green beans, but I think I’ll have to go with the beans. We love green beans in our house, and we have them often steamed and tossed with balsamic vinegar. On Thanksgiving and/or Christmas, however, my aunt makes green beans cooked Southern-style (within an inch of their lives along with a ham hock). Heaven! I wouldn’t eat them any other time of year, but they are a holiday must.

Yum! That knife did a great job on the herbs!

My favorite thing to eat over the holidays is peppermint bark. I don’t let myself have it for the rest of the year, so it’s fun to indulge over the holidays.

I always look forward to making (and EATING!) my grandmother’s sausage stuffing around Thanksgiving/Christmas. It’s nothing fancy but it’s definitely the one dish that reminds me of her. It just wouldn’t be the holidays without it.

I really look forward to eating spiced nuts which is crazy since I can make them any time of year! I also look forward to drinking lots of fancy old fashioned cocktails!

I hope it wasn’t too much of a pain to have to re-post everything….

That knife is oh-so-lovely….

and my favorite holiday dish is my mother’s hot crab dip…..I have the recipe, but I somehow can never allow myself to make it any other time then Christmas…..

i’ll cover all my bases and say christmas cookies!!!

I always looked forward to swedish meatballs during christmas (almost made up for the lutefisk). My mom used to make them, the smell of allspice filling the house. Then Ikea showed up, and my mom started buying them frozen. I managed to make them from scratch only a couple of times since then. Now that I have kids of my own I find myself sifting through traditions from both of my parents (filipino and minisota-swede), and swedish meatballs over christmas is definitly something I want them to experience and continue (unlike lutefisk).

I really like corn pudding — it’s pretty simple and easy to make, but for some reason we only make it at Thanksgiving, so it always seems special. Also, pecan pie is pretty darn good, too!

Well, of course I’ll enter again, because that knife is Teh Awesome. When I was young, my mom would make me a special birthday cake every year; it was orange flavored, with *very* lemony buttercream frosting, and she would put unsweetened apricot pie filling in between the two layers. I managed to persuade my husband to make me one of these this last birthday, and think I will have him do it this year, too.

My favorite holiday food is easily my great-grandmothers Butter Cookie recipe. Crisp, light, and rich, it is far too easy to eat a dozen of them. Cross my fingers for that beautiful knife, as well!

My favorite is the fruit salad my mother-in-law makes. It’s fresh fruit with real whipped cream and pomegranite seeds sprinkled through it.

I am looking forward to a Christmas Sausage, a Bavarian veal sausage with a special spice mix only sold around Christmas and only in the area I grew up. Goes with sauerkraut and mashed potatoes and has always been our Christmas eve dinner.

This was a wonderful adventure reading everyone’s favorites from the holidays. Mine is still plain cranberry sauce (boiled cranberries, sugar and water) served with turkey. However, I am now thinking a meal complete with all the favorites I just read about would leave me one happy person!

corn pudding

and

pumpkin roll

This year we are going to do a new style of Thanksgiving – German/Austrian style.
Kohlrabi soup, Wiener Schnitzel, Parsley Mashed Potatoes, Spinach Au Gratin. It’s going to be awesome!

My mom’s toffee. She only makes it at Christmas, and I always look forward to it.

Yep, still interested, and it’s still all about my dad’s latkes for me!

Hands down, my favorite is the from-the-cans green bean casserole. The only thing I do to fancy it up is adding bug chunks of sauteed mushrooms…mmmmm. I had my sister email me a list of what she’s planning on making (yay for siblings in culinary school, she might actually be more excited about Thanksgiving than I am), and I’ll be drooling in anticipation until next Thursday.

I love eating cornbread around the holidays. Sounds kinda mundane, but I dont think that i ever eat it unless it’s Thanksgiving or Christmas!

So sorry you had so much trouble and glad you could restore the
posts…what a pain…
But thank you, Nicole so very much for all your hard work.

Naturally I still would love to win this beautiful knife…

My fave is still my mother-in-laws rich to die for cauliflower soup with golden raisin Chutney…

Stuffing!

My Ma’s gravy on just about anything is my favorite. I’m going to try your recipe for extra creamy mashed potatoes this year to compliment said gravy. (My Ma always mixes her peas or corn in with her mashed potatoes, so your picture with peas on top of mashed potatoes and gravy seemed normal to me!) Nice work getting your site back up!

I’ve never been big on the traditional holiday feasts. Don’t get me wrong, I make a mean and to die for turkey and all the trimmings, and can deal with a large ham the old fashioned way studded with cloves and thick with maple glaze, but my favourite holiday meal is————LABOUR DAY! Here in my area Labour Day means Sockeye Salmon hours out of the river ( as long as there’s an opening on the Fraser River) barbequed in filet form with salt, pepper, lemon juice, a rub of garlic, and a sprinkle of dill. The accompanying cesar salad and cob of corn- Nothing to compare this to. I wish it was summer now!!!!

This is the only time of year I eat Pecan Pie and I love it!

Sorry to hear about the posts disappearing.

My favorite thing to eat during the holidays is turkey, dressing, and cranberry sauce all on the same bite. I eat them through out the year but the holidays are the only time they are all together.

Pecan Pie with Vanilla Ice Cream…mmmmmm…..

nice work. you have gotten a lot restored in a very short time. go you! =)

What a pain for you… Anyway, as before, my favourite holiday indulgence is a large sweet, smoky glazed ham1

mmmmm. I think I would have to pick Thanksgiving mashed potatoes. What makes them “Thanksgiving” you ask? Butter, cream and just a bit of freshly ground nutmeg.

twice baked yams with marshmallows

Well, here in France we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving as such. But my favorite dish, eaten at my grandparents house each year during the first meal everbyody could share was pot-au-feu. Warmth, reunion, love… that’s what this dish means for me!

First time poster long time watcher. When I was 14 I entered Cranberry Squares in the county fair and won best of so. Im not huge on sweets so I love the tartness and wonderfull flavor of cranberrys. The recipe as a small about of sugar and walnuts….I just love walnuts. I love your wonderful blog keep up the great work, and that knife looks amazing!

without a doubt my mother’s baked yams. They involve cranberries and pineapple and maple syrup, among other things.

Mom’s cornbread dressing.

Hey, sorry to hear about your blog troubles today Nicole!
We don’t have a Thanksgiving holiday here in NZ, however my favourite celebration food in cooler months would have to be creamy mashed potatoes/roast potatoes, (any roasted root veges actually!) stuffing and gravy with a roast lamb/chicken or pork… and apple pie with custard and vanilla ice cream! Simple basics…oooh but oh so good when done well! and yes I’m keen a that knife too!

We lookforward to this meal all year and christmas eve is normaly the only time we eat this dish. Pinnekjøtt (literally “stick meat”) is a traditional Christmas dish in the western parts of Norway. Pinnekjøtt is salted, dried and sometimes smoked lamb’s ribs which are rehydrated, usually 12-24 hours in pure water and then steamed, usually, but not necessarily, over birch branches, and served with potato and mashed rutabaga. Traditionally, beer and akevitt are served with pinnekjøtt.
It is unclear if the dish originally got its name “stick meat” from the birch sticks used in the steaming process, or because of the visual nature of the individual rib bones. However, it is common to call the individual ribs “pinner” (“sticks”), so that is perhaps the most obvious interpretation.

My favorite thing to eat during the holidays is sweet potatoes with brown sugar, butter, cream, bourbon, and pecans. Good thing Thanksgiving is right around the corner!

I look forward to the christmas holidays with the family and my favorite dish is the pork roast ‘latino’ style in addition to all the food everyone brings to the buffet!

Dressing and gravy! Thank you

just one thing? hmm. i’ll have to go with warm apple pie, but it’s really my favorite thing to eat year-round.

I’ve really been enjoying your recipes as a subscriber. Can’t wait to try the apple & bacon dressing as well as those buttermilk cranberry scones. For the holidays, I’ve always enjoy pumpkin pie. Though I cook with pumpkin throughout the year, for some unknown reason the pie is reserved for Thanksgiving. My sister has mastered (almost) my mom’s recipe – that’s a delight.

Thanks for sharing your culinary treasures with us & for enter me into your knife giveaway.

So, I was going to leave another comment anyway, because I made the tabbouleh last night for dinner! I went even further astray from bulgar wheat, using red quinoa, which was very pretty with the orange persimmon, and the texture was fantastic. However, I’m sorry to say I just couldn’t get into it, the sweet persimmon was too sweet for me with the parsley and other savories. Maybe my fruit were extra sweet? Anyway, thanks for inspiring me to use persimmon for the first time!

As for my favorite holiday treat: pumpkin pie!

There are a TON of those persimmons in my area, and I never knew what I could cook with them…until now. Thanks for the great persimmon ideas!

Hands down it’s pecan pie–this year, though, I’m going to try it with this beautiful (and local) deep, dark pine-flower honey instead of cornsyrup…

pumpkin crunch cake!

Well done! Site looks great again. Okay, I still love to celebrate Fourth of July with blueberry pie. For breakfast. Complete with vanilla ice cream. Berries picked by us at a farm down the road from my mother’s house… yum.

gotta be apple pie!

– A

I love mashed potatoes!

Wow, that looks wonderful. My favorite holiday food is my dad’s giblet stuffing. I’m not a big fan of organ meats, but pulverized and poured over croutons it just becomes wonderful. I’ve asked him for his recipe for at least the last eight years straight, hopefully this will be the year I write it down.

One of the best parts of the holidays for me is making my great-grandmother’s candy recipes, but just above that on the list is actually *eating* the results, especially the buckeyes. Yum.

Temales! I live in the soutwest, so there’s something special about when people start rolling them out.

Sweet potato casserole!

There is almost nothing better than a good knife!

My favorite food is my mother’s Thanksgiving stuffing! she even makes me my own amount…and saves it for me.

Don’t you like computer glitches? I am glad you got yours straightened out.

I look most forward to pumpkin pie each year.

That would have to be my daughters mac and cheese.

For anything in autumn, I love pumpkin cheesecake.

I always look forward to homemade stuffing!

Oh fudge and toffee are on my list! Homemade of course!

Deep fried turkey! Can’t live without it. Also any type of home-made pie.

Hi!

For me, it’s not so much the food I look forward to at holiday gatherings. It’s the company. I love being with my family!! But if I had to pick a food (or two) it would be leftover turkey sandwiches with stuffing and cran!!!!

Thanks for this opportunity to be drawn for the knife!

Melanie

I love it all! But the leftovers are the best!

My favorite thing to eat on the holidays is stuffing! But the real kicker for me is a left overs sandwich! mmm!

Thanksgiving is a real challenge here in France, because there are NO traditions. So, I try to make dishes that help my French family understand why Thanksgiving is so much fun.
My favorite, because it freaks the French out, is cranberry compote with turkey. You’d think they’d be used to fruit and meat together, but NO! It’s always a surprise for them.

By far, my favorite thing to eat all fall (with star-quality dishes at Thanksgiving and Christmas) is sweet potatoes. They’re so delicious, and I can’t walk by the display at the grocery store without buying them. Surprisingly, I’m not a fan of the super sugary sweet potato casserole with marshmallow topping – I prefer savory sweet potato preparations. Loved your sweet potato biscuits with bacon and thyme!

brussel sprouts. no one else in my family eats them. but mom makes them just for me.

My favorite fall/holiday season food is the sweet potatoes. It doesn’t matter how they’re prepared, they are good. A close second place is the cranberry dishes that are popular during the holiday season. I sure do like a good cranberry salad with turkey dinner.

One of my favorite dishes at Thanksgiving is my Great Grandmother’s Cornbread Dressing. It makes so much that we’ll eat it for a few days after the big meal. Of course, since my birthday is just before Thanksgiving (and we live away from family) we have birthday cake on Thanksgiving now and that’s another one of my favoirtes.

Cordial cherries from the drugstore. Queen Anne’s. I love that chemical cherry burn.

I’d have to say my mom’s brined turkey for Thanksgiving. We stuff ourselves with it on the big day, and then eat it on sandwiches until it’s gone. I’m looking forward to trying your ‘B.L.A.T.’ with it this year. BTW, the sourdough stuffing looks awesome.

I’ll have to try your knife grip. I have small hands so I often feel like the blade is heavy for me.

Thanks for the giveaway!

I LOVE Prime Rib for Christmas dinner. Great looking knife. Thanks for a chance to win a great prize.

I would have to say that my MILs sausage stuffing is the BEST! I love picking off the pieces of sausage that are on top and all brown and crispy….and that isn’t even on MY piece…I sneak into her kitchen and pick it off all over so everyone is ready to kill me, lol!

Leftover turkey sandwiches.

My great grandma’s sugar cookies!

I love your recipes. They are always creative and delicious. I’m glad your site back in operation – I would hate to miss out on anything new!

Pecan Pie!

I’m looking forward to the cornbread dressing with sage. Thanks for such great recipes (and the knife opportunity)!

It may seem like a cop-out, but I really enjoy the turkey. I brine it in a citrus brine and then roast it in my Big Green Egg BBQ/Smoker. This year, I’m thinking of trying a little alder wood.

I’m old fashioned. I can’t imagine Thanksgiving without Turkey and gravy. How wonderful would it be to use a brand new beautiful knife for the turkey this year??

French Canadian Tourtière. YUMMM

My favorite thing to eat is pie… it is a tradition that my mom bakes pies with the grand kids so that is very special to me.

Would love a new knife to help with Holiday Dinner prep.
My daughter makes the most wonderful sweet potato casserole.
We all love it and beg her to make it every time we get together.

Love your site
Be blessed
Gayle

I love chopping herbs, too. they’re usually cool from being rinsed, and they smell so good…lol.

My favorite holiday food is stuffing, definitely!

My favorite’s got to be my mom’s Crock Pot mashed potatoes, yum!

Definitely, cornbread dressing.

Oh good another knife compitition, I can’t belive I missed the last one!

At home stuffing is a major part of christmas dinner, we always have chestnut and pork stuffing, lemon and thyme and sage and onion with rasins in it… seriously I could eat that homemade stuffing and cranberry sauce all day with nothing else :0)

Glad you got the email thing figured out! My favorite holiday food was the Christmas bread my mom would make Christmas morning. It made the whole house smell delicious! Now that she is gone, I miss it more than ever!

I look forward to sweet potato casserole every Thanksgiving and Christmas. It’s sweet potato puree with a delicious brown sugar and pecan crispy topping-this beats old sweet potatoes and marshmallows any day! It usually doesn’t last for leftovers but if it does, I’ll eat it for breakfast, lunch, or dinner!

For me, the best part of the Thanksgiving meal is the leftover turkey sandwiches that follow the main event. The must have turkey, mayo, sliced pickles and a sprinkling of salt. Anything else is optional. I think I look forward to these more than the big meal with all the trimmings.

I love the homemade rolls, my dad makes the best potato rolls ever!! What a fun giveaway! THANK YOU!

My favorite part of Thanksgiving, more than any particular dish, is planning the meal. I get giddy looking through recipes and considering menu themes. I’m a food geek, but it’s what makes the holidays fun.

Yuck – sorry about the website problems. What a headache. I had commented earlier about a fennel gratin that I learned from a chef in Italy. I only make it once a year due to the amount of effort required for such a humble dish. Humble, but delicious. The knife looks amazing!

My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal has to be the stuffing/dressing and giblet gravy… The turkey is only necessary for the giblets . This is my first comment so I must thank you for the blog, I love the recipes. I have been following it for several months, since before your return to the states. Thanks!

These knives are gorgeous!! My favorites are stuffing and gravy made by my grandmother. No one can get it quite like hers!

I always look forward to Egg Nog during the winter and the fourth of July for a midwest barbecue. Glad you got your posts back up, there’s several I’m looking forward to trying and I may just have some new favorites!

Without a doubt…….. Mom’s Pumpkin Pie ! ! !

I LOVE green bean casserole topped with shoe string fried onions!

Wow…I would love a new knife!!! My favorite thing to eat during the holiday is undoubtedly pumpkin pie. Something you NEVER have at any other time of the year!!!

Deviled eggs, by far. They are just so easy to eat!

Sorry about your post deletion! My favorite holiday food is, hands down, pumpkin pie.

Homemade English toffee!

Mmmmmmmmm…Thanksgiving food..my favorite, but I don’t have one..it’s ALL of it. I love it the melding of flavors: turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes with gravy..mmmmmm…and the post Thanksgiving Day dishes..hot opened faced turkey sandwiches..made with white bread..*gasp*..I know..but it’s not the same otherwise!

Glad to see you were able to put the post back up! What a pain that must have been. Anyhow, my favorite holiday food is my mom’s handmade pastries, complete with a dollop of homemade jam and drizzle of frosting. Warm out the oven, they’re deadly delicious.

back again. My great-grandmother used to make something called “Cottage Cheese Bread”. Essentially a sweet bread with cottage cheese integrated on top. Even though she doesn’t make this anymore, she gave me the family recipe to continue on.

Spiced Pecans — out for noshing from Thanksgiving right through New Years…

Favorite holiday treat: cut-out sugar cookies with royal frosting and sprinkles. Come to think of it – even without the frosting and sprinkles!

One thing I look forward to all year is making a pie recipe: Maple walnut cranberry pie.

I make that instead of pecan – the tartness and maple flavor vs. plain old pecan pie…to die for!

My Christmas memories from childhood are all about homemade cookies, fruit cake and pfeffernuesse – but after living in Venezuela for 30 some years the turkey is always accompanied by hallacas, pan de jamón (ham bread) and ensalada de gallina (potato, chicken salad)

Pumpkin pancakes (and french toast!!) for Halloween!

Thanksgiving wouldn’t be the same without Sally’s homemade yeast rolls! And sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas, I have to make a big pot of homemade wassil. It takes fantastic and it makes the whole house smell wonderful!

Pumpkin pie for breakfast, lunch, or dinner!!

Cranberry sauce!

I look forward to sweet potatoes and stuffing.

My favorite is making Sand Tarts from a recipe handed down from my Great Grandmother! Buttery and paper thin, these are always a family favorite

My dad’s Willaimsburg tomato soup at christmas eve and anise flavored springerle cookies once they’ve had a little while to dry out and get crunchy if i can wait that long!

Has to be the herb butter turkey my husband makes every year! It is very moist and delicious!

I made a pumpkin pie cheesecake for a holiday party this year and it went over so well I am making another one for my family this thanksgiving. I think it will be my favorite for a long time.

Anything sweet potato but not with marshmallos

I look forward to my Mama’s cranberrry casserole. No one else makes it like Mama does!

mashed potatoes of any type…yummmmmmmm!

Green Bean Casserole is by far my favorite, followed in a close second by my grandmother’s chocolate pie.

I love anything pumpkin (i.e. whole wheat pumpkin muffins, whole wheat pumpkin pancakes, white chip pumpkin cake, pumpkin cookies). I also love southern hen and dressing with giblet gravy and cranberry sauce shaken out of the can (if I can get my mouth on some made by my sister). YUM!! I don’t know how to make it, and I don’t care to learn. It’s such a treat to have it every blue moon.

My wife and I have a roast duck on Christmas Eve every year. Definitely my favorite food item of the holidays.

pie!

My favorite holiday dish is stuffing! It’s so easy that I should/could make it more often, but it only seems appropriate to me around Thanksgiving. The more “things” I can throw into the mix, the better!

My favorite holiday dish is pumpkin pie with real whipped cream!

My favorite is my Italian grandmother’s recipe for coconut custard pie…so creamy and coconutty…yum! Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Vegetarian stuffing at thanksgiving is by far my favorite

My favorite holiday food is the Christmas Eve Tamales that we make, every year the three generations lead by my grandmother get together and make a couple hundred of these!

Stuffing with gravy…

Roasted chestnuts! I bought some recently to roast, but it hasn’t gotten quite cold enough for me to be in the mood.

I love it all but my Great-Grandmother’s Apple Salad is what pulls together all of the rest of the holidy meal. It wouldn’t be TG without it. I’ve never heard of anyone else having it so it is a family bond.

My fav is my mom’s sweet potato casserole with LOTS of marshmallows!

Yep, I still want the knife! Mashed taters!

Sage Cornbread dressing with giblet gravy tops my Thanksgiving favorite and it wouldn’t be complete without pecan pie. The knives are so gorgeous! Thank you for such a lovely contest.

hands down….mashed potatoes with gravy. I could eat it all year round, but during the holidays it taste extra special.

My favorite part is the turkey. Not on the actual day but on the days after because you have an oppurtunity to make delicious new recipies and awesomeness in general.

The sides are my favorite. I like the mashed potatoes with gravy and the stuffing.

If this knife cuts as good as it looks it has to be a great knife. I want one please!

Sorry for your technical difficulties… I’d like to enter the knife contest.

I found your blog a few weeks ago & LOVE it. Our favorite dishes are mushroom stuffing and lobster chowder. Keep up the great work! you have a gift!

Hands down, MASHED POTATOES!!!!!! I love, love, love them!

I don’t think I have a favourite… but maybe just whatever’s new, I’m not set in tradition, I like new things!
And I would love a new knife, it’s on my Christmas wish list.

The pictures on your recipes are amazing! I read your posts for those almost as much as for the recipes!
Anyway…
My favorite things to eat during the winter holidays is sweet stuff! Every year, my oldest niece and I bring out a small stack of new dessert recipes to try while we are visiting my folks. They are are such an appreciative audience to experiment with!
Also, since it’s a large gathering of family, I usually make my ‘famous’ seafood gumbo sometime during the week.

I love the warm curried fruit my sister and I make every year. Utterly great! I love the Chef 6 Fusion wood knife in Jessica color.

ginger-cranberry sauce. yum.

I’m a sucker for garlic red potato mashed potatoes. And cranberry sauce, too. Thanksgiving means having an abundance of both afterward, which is pretty much awesome. I think I want to try the sweet potato rolls this year, though!

I love yams smothered in marshmallow – keeping me warm all day while my bird roasts in the oven

I adore my mother’s pumpkin pie, which she makes 6-12 pies every Thanksgiving.

wild rice and sausage stuffing…so yum!

My grandparents make us fried oysters every Christmas. It’s always the highlight of the meal!

This looks amazingly good…I can’t wait to try it!!

I had so many answers. First being turkey, so this knife would be great to show off carving it!:)
But I’m reading all these comments and I’m really glad I’ve eaten lunch. Pumpkin pie? Pecan? Cold turkey sandwiches with too much mayo? Mashed potatoes?
Ugh! I’m dying over here! Yum.

My favorite thing to eat during the holidays? Christmas breakfast. When I was little, we used to go all out for Christmas breakfast. Bacon, ham, sausage, biscuts with regular gravy and tomato gravy(one of my most favorite things ever!), eggs cooked any and every way, jellies, jams, juices… The list goes on.

I love potato laktes with lots of sour cream and applesauce!

Turkey with gravy, stuffing, AND cranberries. Must have it all!

Chestnuts. Mmm…

pecan pie!

PPtPP – Please Pass the Pumpkin Pie!

Oh my goodness that knife is beautiful.

My favorite thing to eat? Hmmm… do I have to pick just one? Thanksgiving pie, Christmas ham, New Year’s sushi… not to mention all the sweets and goodies in between! I think if I had to pick an absolute favorite, it would be hot chocolate throughout the holiday season. I love the chill in the air, with a hot mug of hot chocolate in hand, especially when eaten with a freshly baked good. Yum!

Now if only this Southern California weather would cool down, so we could feel like it’s the holidays!

I’m so glad you’ve been able to re-create your posts, even if it took a bit of work to get the pictures in! I can’t imagine how stressful losing all of that would be!!
My favorite thing to eat: pumpkin pie. hands down. I love the stuff.

I totally don’t remember what holiday food I said I most looked forward to last time, so I’m going to say baked sweet potatoes with butter and brown sugar.

My fave is my Mom’s stuffing. It IS the holidays. She makes it from the ground up. The breadcrumbs, the giblets…. mmmmm.

I look forward to my mom’s stuffing. I try to write down the recipe every year but she just tastes and adds and I can never keep up with amounts. My mom always has to make 2 batches. One for Thanksgiving day and one for my brother and I to take home leftovers.

I’m so happy that your posts are back-up! My favorite holiday food is mashed potatoes…so much so, that if I was stuck on an island & could only have one thing, it would be mashed potatoes!

My mother-in-law makes the best cookies at Christmas. It’s so wonderful to arrive and see the tubs of cookies waiting for us on her kitchen counter.

Thanks for posting all these wonderful recipes and pictures!

sweet potato casserole with mini marshallows on top; green bean casserole; roasted butternut squash soup; pumpkin and pecan pie; cranberry sauce (even the canned variety); any kind of stuffing — and of course, the turkey (all of the traditional faves).

You can’t seriously want me to just pick one thing… there’s the stuffing recipe we made last year (http://www.recipezaar.com/The-Best-Turkey-Dressing-Stuffing-146134). But then there are all the cookies we make… Oh, now you’ve gone and gotten me all homesick.

Oh, so many favorite foods! Apple pie. My mom’s stuffing. Sweet potatoes (which strangely we only ever had for Thanksgiving). I guess mostly we ate traditional foods during the holidays, but they were very special to us because we never got them at any other time.

I’m sad I couldn’t post earlier. Now there are a million bajillion responses, and OH! how I want that knife! I’ve recently begun cooking dinner every! single! night! and a good knife would make me feel complete – and make my task so much more rewarding.

Christmas Cookies. The more intricate and sugary and glittery, the better.

My favorite thing to eat during the holidays is my grandmother’s Tortellini en Brodo. It is fabulous and the whole family come crawling back for more. She serves it with these yummy sausage and pepperoni rolls. Yum! I am hungry now!

chestnuts! I can never wait for them to cool and thus singe my fingers every time trying to liberate the sweet, earthy flesh from the crackly shell.

hello! I’m new to your website (~2 weeks) and I love it! Am I allowed to enter this contest from another country? My favourite holiday food is roasted yams with lotsa butter! I love it!

This is a fabulous recipe! What a great knife!

I have many favorite holiday foods! I love anything involving pumpkin, but my favorite is double layer pumpkin pie!

I love love love ……rich chocolate fudge, the hard kind, not the creamy!!!

roasted sweet potatoes with butter or sour cream… my family doesn’t care for them or pumpkin pie or mashed potatoes so thanksgiving has become adventure day, always something new except for the turkey and the gravy and the boxed stuffing, this year we’re having ‘forbidden rice with pecans and cherries’, curried sweet potato with spinach (for me and my friend) sherry cake, turnip puff, thanks to this website it’s delicious, and leeks with garbanzos and pancetta
christine

My absolute favorite dish on Thanksgiving has been mashed sweet potatoes.. I tried these about 4 years ago and I haven’t converted the whole family to them yet so I still make the old fashioned mashers also. But mashed sweet potatoes are delish.

I’d love to prepare my next Tabbouleh with this fine knife! Thank you for this great foodblog!

homemade eggnog with a little extra……

pies! pumpkin and pecan and apple and four berry and and and!

My mom makes these amazing traditional english pop-overs that are mmm so good! =)

Entering again after your disaster…I love a good knife…
Favorite food…4th of July Watermelon. Something about it is so crisp and clean. Yum!

mashed potatoes mixed with cranberry sauce. yum!

I am still saying Pecan Pie, although I also love all the Cranberry dishes – fresh homemade Cranberry Sauce, Cranberry Apple Pie or Cranberry Jello Salad. I am crazy for Cranberries,

I really need a new knife too…….

It’s always been cornbread dressing and homemade cranberry sauce for me. Thanks for hosting these give-aways!!

My aunt made this special kind of squash pie – I say squash because she didn’t like using plain pumpking, she would mix the puree with acorn, butternut, whatever was on hand. It was a delicious and appeared without fail during the holidays.

So I’m saying Squash – Pumpkin Pie. Crossing my fingers

This may sound strange, but trust me… I love lebanon bologna spread with cream cheese, rolled up and cut into little appetizers. Delish.

The dates stuffed with peanut butter, topped with a walnut half, rolled in sugar that my aunt used to make years ago.

I love stuffing made with far too much butter to be healthy

Gravy! Only made by my mom or myself, as the other side of the family makes bland gravy. Not. Good.

And don’t ask me why we don’t have gravy at any other time of the year. I have no answer.

I love almost any and all side dishes when it comes to the holidays. I would skip the turkey if it were up to me. My mom always makes an incredible mushroom casserole during the holidays. Boy – this knife would come in handy to cut the ‘shrooms.

stuffing, stuffing and more stuffing. screw the turkey. i. need. stuffing.

totally bummer about the server, but at least your up now! my favorite holiday food is fruit cake… cuz it’s fruity like me.

Hmmmmm……my favorite thing to eat during the holidays is whatever I make for dessert. Sometimes a Torte en Croute, sometimes a rich slab of Chocolate Pate, or a perfectly buttery pear tart. Sugar is the way to my happy holiday plate!

I’m sure that I wrote brilliantly before :} but that knife would look so pretty in my kitchen on the dark granite tiles!!! I love my mom’s stuffing (none of that fancy stuff!) but this year my dh’s aunt is bringing hers… so I might have to make a little dish for leftovers on the weekend! sorry about your blog snafu.

I look forward to egg nog every year! Right after Halloween, you see it on the shelves of every store in preparation for the winter holidays.

I love my aunt’s Strawberry Jello Pretzel Salad mmmm.

Every year i wait until independences day in Mexico, around this time there is “Chiles en Nogada” time. They are Jalapenos stuffed with ground meet and membrillo(not exactly sure how to translate this) with a with sauce that include a type of nut call nogada and then pomegranate on top. It a great dish to eat, usually sold quite expensive on restaurants, but not that complicated to do, also has all the Mexican colors.

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For an appetizer, I enjoy veggie pate, made from mushrooms and whatever vegetables are on hand.

I love all kinds of stuffing a dressing! Not something I really eat other than the holidays. Oh, and eggnog1

Sweet potato casserole every time!

Nothing, and I mean nothing, is better than some holiday mac-n-cheese.

that knife looks super nice

i like eating just about everything, but i’m looking forward to leftovers. i know that sounds weird, but i usually do thanksgiving and the next day is always the best- i wake up early and do all of the dishes before my husband wakes up and then for breakfast i make a turkey and stuffing sandwich and then maybe have a slice of apple pie – everything tastes so much better the next day, and its almost like i’m eating it for the first time since usually i’m so busy with cooking and serving on thanksgiving!

My holiday favorite is something of a family thing… We do a borscht, but it’s not the typical beet-based soup. Ours is a dairy-based soup, which I’ve heard called “white borscht”. Chop up Polska kielbasa and hard-boiled egg into a bowl, and ladle over a hot soup made with butter, sour cream, white pepper, and horseradish. It’s rich and warm, for those cold winter days.

I love Stuffing!!!!!!!

my favorite is mashed potatoes… mmm, and wild rice!

I love stuffing with extra celery and hot dinner rolls!

My favorite holiday foods are cookies. I bake over 150 dozen during the holidays and give them away. Always trying new recipes and still keeping the favorites. Also, love anything with cranberries.

Mashed potatoes with fried onions and a hot dinner roll with butter. But I would not turn down any carbohydrate.

Mock meatloaf and mushroom gravy. Sooo good! I also love that people are always considerate and make some veggie stuffing for me.

Stuffing. It’s the only time of the year that I make it because hubby doesn’t like it. When he used to travel more I would eat a box of Stove Top for dinner…cause I’m so health conscious and all.

Fresh cracked Dungeons Crab. My other favorite: Bagna Cauda – a hot anchovy, garlic and butter sauce used for dipping raw veggies. May sound crazy to some but I can’t get enough of it!

Cranberry jelly. My mom makes it from scratch twice a year – Thanksgiving and Christmas. It’s delicioius on your plate on the day, and even better the next day on a sandwich!

I don’t have one particular iteam that I love…. it’s the whole Thanksgiving meal!!!! I look forward to it every year!!!!

I just love your food blog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Turkey. It’s the only time of year I get it.

Stuffing with giblet gravy!!!!

greek stuffing with pine nuts, chestnuts and rice.

I am glad you managed to restore your recipes! I love your blog a lot!

Two days ago I tried your apple gallete (which turned out fantastic and it was soo easy!) and the pizzas! I really enjoy your explanations and pictures! I would love to be able to picture my food in such a nice way!!

Have a good day!

I try to ring the changes a bit during the holiday season and not stick to the old traditional dishes. My new favourite holiday dish is a lighter alternative to the British Christmas pudding: individual mini ginger puddings with a yummy caramel and ginger sauce poured over them.

HOLY CANOLI!!! I do need to get of of the archives!! Tabbouleh looks fantastic too

I love stuffing with graving. I was always look forward to all the fixings.

MASHED POTATOES! AKA my preferred method of gravy delivery.

I never would have thought to add persimmon to tabouleh but it sounds delicious. Very creative, my friend. Plus, good knifesmanship! Maybe because it’s such a cool knife???

Plum cake gets me into the holiday mood. I’ve seen this pretty knife before. It looks so classy!

Sweet potato crunch casserole and trying a new cornbread dressing with cranberries, dried apple and pecans. I may have one really good knife. Would love to have more.

What a beautiful knife! Your blog is great, I am following you on twitter. My favorite holiday food I look forward to eating is my mother’s stuffing this Thanksgiving! I am sooooo looking forward to that day.

so I think of things like foie gras and truffles and the stuff that I’d never really have during the year because it’s so decadent…
actually, I think of these things a lot
as in too much

It’s a toss up for me between sweet potato casserole (walnuts and marshmallow style) and stuffing. I would love to see something incorporate the two, since I will usually just mix the two anyway…

Along with the requisite favorite holiday food which is the Cranberry Upside
Down Cake. Also have to mention another favorite…steamed, cubed rutabaga
with butter, salt and pepper.

Hi, I’m originally from Austria and like to eat Vanilla Crescents at Christmas. They are my and my family’s favourite Christmas biscuits.

I look forward to eating tea time tassies which are little pastry cups of a walnut and brown sugar filling that we only make at Christmas.

My fave thing for T-giving is my sister’s homemade cornbread dressing, made with homemade cornbread and chicken stock, and her giblet gravy. To die for!

Hello! Gosh, last time I was number 5 or 6, guess I didn’t come back fast enough

My favorite holiday meal: Dungeness crab with squeezed lemon, super high quality sourdough bread buttered and then toasted, Marcella Hazen’s pasta with smothered onion sauce, bottle of bubbly. A perfect Christmas or New Year’s dinner.

Sounds like a great recipe and I could use a great knife. All of mine are from the combo packs at the stores. My Favorite holiday food is my Mom’s stuffing, which is actually more a dressing I guess. A 9×13 pan of that cooking is the BEST, especially as cold left overs.

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