2013 Thanksgiving Contest Pictures

Once again, we have been overwhelmed by how many of you shared your Thanksgivings with us, and all of them came with great stories. Thank you so much to everyone who let us into their homes and shared their family holiday with us, we love them all. Keep sending your entries. If you missed the details on our Thanksgiving Photo Contest, here they are again.  We’ll post more as we get em. The Deadline is extended to Monday night at midnight.  Here are the first group, we’ll be putting more up all night.

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Beautiful Thanksgiving Turkeys From All Over the World

Here’s Brian’s hickory smoked turkey– his first time– took three hours and will be a new family tradition, Coleman’s perfect bird, Danny Chang’s roast turkey, turkey two ways for Jared’s family, Roger’s turkey cooked by Lisa T Charles, and Mike M’s charcoal cooked turkey after 2 and a half hours on the grill, and Joe F moved to his first house in Tampa and smoked his first turkey.  Matt and Kellianne’s Turkeys round out row three.  Siplast Rotisserie cooked two turkeys, and RomV19 did some deep frying.

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 Beautiful Tables Set for Families of All Sizes

Anthony F’s family table, and Brandon’s tikibar buffet.

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Brian Stone’s table, Heather Height and family, Serotonin’s Gone’s Thanksgiving for two.

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Liam P’s thanksgiving feast, Lori’s Hannukah/Thanksgiving Table, and Phil’s family table.

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Rob Cramer’s holiday feast, and Steve R’s extended family banquet.

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Wade’s Table and Rob’s Piecaken, and kim chicken’s thanksgiving table photos

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Dominick’s Thanksgiving table.

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James M’s Table and Kids Table

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Mike’s family thanksgiving table.

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steveaturkeyappThis Year You All  Sent  Other Foods Shaped Like Turkeys

Andrew C’s turkey shaped platter, a turkey cake sent by Brian, a turkey fruit platter from Daniel’s Mom, Paul’s turkey veggie platter, and Steve’s artistic rendition of a turkey at sunrise.

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Thanksgiving Day Kids!

Marlene sent us her version of Thanksgiving football, Daniel’s triplets fight over the leg, and Danielle sent us this pretty shot of her kids in the kitchen. Jesus’s baby plays with a drumstick.

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Thanksgiving-o-ween!  Every Year, Someone Dresses Up!

Robin’s dogs re-eanact the first Thanksgiving, Prinna’s kids represent the pilgrims and Jason F had a really big turkey.  Casey had an even bigger turkey, and later he and his girlfriend also decided to play homage to their interracial relationship old school style. Kelliann’s family also dressed up.

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Three Thanksgivings With a Unique Twist

James Kim’s Korean-American Thanksgiving holiday, Matt’s Lebanese-American holiday, and Kai celebrates Turkey day with Paella.

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Coleman’s Thanksgiving Pictures

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AndyInCleveland’s Interrobang Thanksgiving Pie

From Andy:  “Please note that unlike some famous cooks (looking at you Martha!) I don’t open a can to get pumpkin.  Roasting pumpkin is what my oven is for.  The Results/After.  (From top left:  Homemade apple, Homemade brandied cranberry-apricot sauce, Homemade pumpkin pie (I’ve been making that since I was four, the crust got away on me a bit this year though), and finally down center, Andy’s Interrobang “Old Fashioned” Apple Pie.

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Glenn’s Thanksgiving

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HTG and Mike Caka’s Holiday

HTG makes blueberry muffins for the parade breakfast and Mike Caka spends Thanksgiving out in Chicago.

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Juan’s Thanksgiving

Juan wrote to us:  “Since my side of the family is Mexican, we also made Molé sauce and more turkey along with Mexican rice and slow cooked pinto beans.  Since everyone loves to drink.. We also had Jungle Juice and Moonshine  options besides the traditional pop, beer and  wine. Party started at noon and ended at 2am. Perfect day / night”

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Foggy Otis’ Thanksgiving

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Scott G and His Son’s Giving Thanks Thanksgiving

“This is our annual Thanksgiving Day visit to Miami Children’s Hospital. Our son had Open Heart Surgery when he was born. They saved his life. We where there with him on Thanksgiving and now we bring care bags to all the Heart Babies parents on Thanksgiving morning.”

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Pepper Hicks, Thanksgiving Before and After

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Fez and Shelby’s Thanksgiving ‘Date’

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Mike S’s Turkey and Table

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Celebrating Thanksgiving Hard Rock Johnnie Style

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It’s a Thanksgiving Montage!! (mon-taaage!)

Thanksgiving Montages from plumpynut, Jared and Friends, Dominick and Dave.

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Steven T’s Thanksgiving

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Trevor’s Thanksgiving Day

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Pete From Philly’s Farm to Table Holiday Dinner

Thanksgiving for “Pete in Philly” and his lovely lady Laura takes place in Conshohocken PA (Philly suburb) at the in-laws house.  The holiday started Tuesday with a trip to the food co-op to pick up this weeks vegetable allowance.  Everything is grown organically on the grounds of the “Highlands” a historic 18th century mansion.
Back to the house on Wednesday, to carve and stuff the pumpkin,make the pumpkin cheesecake, clean the potato’s and get the black bread & sausage stuffing muffins ready for the oven.  On Thursday the infrared cooker is the star of the show, 10 minutes per lbs.,  Drop the herb brine’d bird in and 180 minutes later, Perfection!
With the bird outside, the oven is clear for the scratch made bread, vegetable gratin, stuffing muffins and Mashed potatoes. Then its carve it, plate it and then eat it.

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David G’s Holiday Dinner

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Tony D’s Louisiana Irish-American Thanksgiving Feast

From Tony, “Being an Irish man living in Louisiana we like to mix the cultures up we usually means passing out in a pile of Crawfish after too much Jameson. This year we did it differently with some smoked sausage appetizers smoked sausage appetizers. Then we Injected the Turkey with Garlic and butter and lots of Cajun seasoning and then popped it in the Cajun microwave, then we finished it off in some rendered bacon fat in the fryer.  The finished product was delicious and rather eye catching.

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 Luke’s First Thanksgiving

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Ed’s Thanksgiving

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Nate’s Thanksgiving Photos

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The Un-Thanksgiving Thanksgivings

“Anonymous” was on the job this year for the NYC Thanksgiving parade, Our Good Friend Shrekkalove did a nice job on her Thanksgiving for one of pie and champagne, and Pat  had no problem downing a Hungryman this year, cause he’s on the road.

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Our resident smoker, Deathproof didn’t have time to cook this year but showed us the creepy inside of an empty mall, and his gourmet Hungryman Thanksgiving special, while Kevin showed off his moonshine with white cherries.

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Kim from Tampa tried to bring some pie to the nursing home for her grandmother but found out that pie doesn’t stay in place when you leave it on the roof of your car.  Gordon have a rough year and so did Jeff but still shared photos with us.

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Lady Trucker had a Dennys Thanksgiving, and GoPackJo was stuck in an airport in Istanbul on his way to Beirut.

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The Post Thanksgiving Thanksgiving

Jeff in Va: “We do traditional Thanksgiving on Wednesday with the in-laws, but then do a big dinner on Sunday to break out of the turkey monotony. Homemade Brasciole, meatballs and “red sauce”. Sausage and peppers, pasta, veggies, salad… The Works!”

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MORE PICTURES COMING! KEEP SENDING US YOUR PHOTOS!! WE LOVE THEM!