Happy Thanksgiving and a $100 Vons/Safeway giveaway!
Tis’ the season…for eating! I love Thanksgiving – turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, pie – I want it all.
I love Vons (aka Safeway in Hawaii!) and Vons.com has a lot of great Thanksgiving recipes and ideas to make your meals easier, tasty and fun to prepare. There are even some alternatives to turkey in case someone in your family has an aversion to poultry. *ahem*
Sure Vons has some great holiday ideas but of course the one that caught my eye was a dessert, Pumpkin Ice Cream Sundaes with homemade brittle. Yikes. I’d eat that year ’round.
Putting on a several course meal can be stressful and pricey. Lucky for you Vons has offered to help out this holiday season with a free $100 gift card for a lucky reader! Who couldn’t use a little extra help planning and buying groceries for holidays?
To enter just leave a comment on this post telling me your favorite dish to make/eat during the holidays. You have until Black Friday, November the 25, 2011 – the biggest shopping day of the year. If you win, you’ll already be ahead! Happy Thanksgiving and thanks for reading!
*full disclosure: Vons provided me with the gift card. The opinions of this blog post are my own. Giveaway ends at 11:59 p.m. PST on November 25, 2011. A winners will be selected at random, the prize allocation will also be random. The winner will be contacted by email. Please note this giveaway is only open to residents of the U.S.
my favorite dish is breaded/fried flounder, with peppers sauteed in butter and lemon juice.
The thanksgiving meal is my favorite holiday event – it has all the promise and excitement of the wonderful holiday season ahead; and my favorite dish of Thanksgiving is stuffing. It goes so well with each main & side dish – I can’t get enough of it!
I’m not a great cook, but I am a fantastic eater! lol! My favorite dish to eat at Thanksgiving is loaded mashed potatoes! Super ono <3
Hands down, buttermilk mashed potatoes. It’s the epitome of comfort food. 🙂
I love pumpkin crunch bars, butter mochi, and anything with cranberry sauce. Yum yum 🙂
it is so hard to pick one as I love thanksgiving (what is better than eating with friends and family?). If I had to pick one it would be prime rib 🙂
I am embarrassed to say that green bean dish with the crunchy onions on top. By the way I read in Hungry Monkey that Safeway’s dumplings are better that Ling Lings. Has anyone tried them?
Anything with pumpkin! Pumpkin pie, pumpkin rolls, pumpkin cheesecake, and pumpkin bread! 🙂
Creamed Spinach. We use to like the creamed spinach from Boston Market but being Asian I can’t take the cheese in it. The recipe I have uses whipping cream. YUM!
The stuffing in the turkey and all the side dishes… Green beans, potatoes, jello, and
Cranberry sauce. 🙂
I love making jalapeno cornbread dressing – it really offsets the balance between mashed potatoes and turkey!!!
I love baking so every year I will try something different. Done pumpkin pie, pumpkin cookies, cake pops and such. This year I’m making mashed potatoes and the green been casserole – should be interesting.
I LOVE Thanksgiving food!!! My hubby makes this delicious flank steak with watercress~. Droooool~~~. He also makes these delicious chimaki wraps. Yum! And I don’t eat turkey the rest of the year, but he makes turkey so moist that I actually eat the white meat. I <3 my hubby. 🙂 I must say, though, my pumpkin pies are the best. 😀
It’s a toss up between mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie. I love them both! Thanks for a great giveaway.
I love thanksgiving food, and choosing a favorite is definitely a challenge! But one dish that I could not go without is my mom’s green bean casserole!
Green bean cassorole!
My favorite Thanksgiving dish to eat is my grandma’s persimmon pie — just like apple pie, but with persimmons fresh off the tree in her yard. Yum!
Man, my favorite food to make might just be pie, most are so easy to prepare but the outcome is so delicious, and people think you slaved for hours! However, my favorite food to eat would be dressing, its carb city happiness 🙂
Hands down it’s got to be my garlic, celery root mashed potatoes. It’s decadent and yet falsely healthy. lol.
My favorite food for the holidays is Mince pies and sausage rolls. Every year my mother makes them for Christmas and they are the absolute best! One always knows its the holidays when the house fills with the smell!
I love sweet potato casseroles with the marshmallows on top, could eat that all day long. I also LOVE the pie selections. :3
Is 22.5 pounds of turkey leftovers a little much? We’re feasting with family, but I detest returning home from celebrations without leftovers to show for! So I’m roasting a turkey so that we have turkey to look forward to over the holiday weekend.
Thanksgiving is always held at our home and we always have the traditional items, but we also have ‘island touches’ since I grew up in Hawaii. Butter Mochi, kalua pig and macaroni salad is a big deal in our household. I also do many desserts from scratch-apple pie, apple spice cake, pumpkin cheesecake, chocolate bundt cake.
My family always makes “Monkey Bread” on holiday mornings … the pull apart cinnamon goodness screams special day to me. My husband is vegetarian, so we always bring a nice hearty veggie lasagna to Thanksgiving (not your normal Thanksgiving dish, but it’s what he likes to eat for the big holiday). I’m a sucker for mashed potatoes, and I only really eat them at the holiday … mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie are my favorite things about Thanksgiving!
My husband makes an awesome Upside Down Apple Pie !
Happy Turkey Day everyone!!
I love mixing stuffing with mashed potatoes and gravy! This year, we are going to try and make sausage stuffing, so that hopefully will turn out delicious and rich! 🙂
Favorite Thanksgiving dish, hands down, is stuffing! You really can not go wrong with stuffing! Whether it’s store bought or homemade, it is bomb!! 🙂
I am so pedestrian, I loooooove stufing with chicken sausage.
Pumpkin Pecan pie! It’s not overly sweet as pecan pie and not too creamy as pumpkin pie.
My favorite is the whole Thanksgiving dinner – turkey, with mashed potatoes and stuffing with gravy all over three! I only eat this on Thanksgiving and Christmas day.
Hard to decide, so I’ll just say DESSERT. They should rename the Holiday Season
My favorite dish to eat is my mom’s homemade sausage stuffing. The best stuff on earth.
I love making pumpkin pie. It is so easy, and it’s always a hit wherever you go! Thanks for hosting this giveaway!
We make mashed carrots in my family–steamed carrots mashed up with cream, salt, and brown sugar. They’re delicious. 🙂
Hello! Happy T-day!
My #1 dish for thanksgiving is cornbread dressing. It is my absolute fave. But no Celery! eww.
I love it the day of, the day after and in sandwiches. OMG. Smothered in Turkey gravy… ….. ……. yum.
Okay, now I really can’t wait for T-day, IT’S SO CLOSE!
I love to make the desserts, this year it’s eggnog pumpkin pie. Yum!!
What an awesome giveaway! I really enjoy reading your blog everyday! My favorite Thanksgiving dish is oddly enough, cranberry sauce. Especially when it is homemade. I love it on everything! I spread it on the turkey, stuffing, potatoes, rolls, etc. Yummy!
Well, MY favorite would be the stuffing. We make it from scratch, not a box. However, everyone else’s favorite that I make is the sweet potato casserole (which is really yams) but tastes like French Vanilla ice cream with brown sugar crumble on top.
I love to make and eat the whole darn thing!
I love the dessert part of thanksgiving! Pecan Pie, Pumpkin Pie and Apple pie as well. But I do love eating collards with my turkey as well!
Most definitely my favorite is pumpkin crunch! Topped with whipped cream instead of the cream cheese frosting. A close second would be brussel sprouts with bacon!
It’s so hard to choose one dish, but I love maple roasted sweet potatoes.
Pumpkin pie is the best thing about the holiday season. I love baking!
hands down my favorite is pumpkin pie. I already started eating it yesterday!
hard to say, usually the sides and dessert but not the actual turkey. i’d have to go with my cousin’s awesome spring rolls or your pumpkin mochi cake! my sister insisted that i make that this year. 😉
Roasted sweet potatoes. Sweet, savory and comforting. Yum.
It’s definitely the mashed potatoes. i load those babies up with cream and butter and they’re so good because i never make them that fatty the rest of the year. Plus they get topped with real turkey gravy which i guess i make about once a year too. YUMMY
Sushi! Seems like every holiday here in Hawaii, someone has sushi! I like the variety/different flavors of making it!
My favorite dish is the stuffing. It’s Italian sausage with granny smith apples, cubed bread and a sprinkle of dried cranberries. Yum!
honey glazed ham!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stuffing! I like it basic with no dried fruit, sausage, or anything else fancy.
There’s nothing like a traditional pumpkin pie during the thanksgiving season…doesn’t taste the same any other time of the year!
Gravey! All over everything. Especially rice!
I love making everything pumpkin! Pumkin Pie, Pumpkin Cheesecake and Pumpkin cookies!
gingerbread! ive always had a thing for it even though i dont actually celebrate christmas!
It’s a toss up but I’d have to say STUFFING! My sister makes a great sourdough stuffing 🙂
Love making cookies during Thanksgiving, the soft sugar cookies mmmmm
My favorite food is actually my family’s traditional Black Friday dinner…when I was a kid, my mom would take all of the leftover turkey and make Turkey a la King (leftover turkey with cream of mushroom soup, peas, and pimentos served over rice). Even as an adult, it’s just not the start of the Christmas season without it! Once in college, I mixed it up with Turducken a la King the day after Thanksgiving, and that was great, too!
Sweet potato casserole! It’s more dessert than side… Brown sugar, coconut and pecans!
My Mom’s awesome stuffing.
Not gonna lie … Stove Top stuffing. i have no shame!
i’m a traditionalist. i love making pumpkin pie!
I just learned how to make pumpkin chiffon pie from my friends mom and it’s definitely on the menu for Thanksgiving!
I love all that there is about a great Thanksgiving meal. My favorite dish has to be just the basic turkey and gravy. All the other side dishes goes with it so perfectly. Can’t wait to get my grub on!
I make a great sweet potato casserole, I go overboard with the marshmallows, and a few minutes before dinner is ready, I turn the broiler on and watch the marshmallows get nice and toasty.
This year I have three different thanksgivings to go to. I’m bring a sweet potato casserole, cinnamon roll cookies and your pumpkin chocolate chip muffins.
Have a great thanksgiving!
My favorite dish to make is pumpkin crunch cake. It’s so simple to make and tastes a lot better than pumpkin pie!
I love my sweet potato pie. Why am I the only person I know who makes it? It’s so underrated in this world.
We don’t have Vonn’s so my entry won’t count, but I wanted to say a) my favorite thing to make is now PIE and b) HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
Our family favorite is oxtail soup! Oh yeah, and we put a turkey out too.
I like cranberry sauce. I make it with whole cranberries, orange juice and sugar, and naturally, Thanksgiving is the only time I make and eat it.
The thing I look most forward to is the simplest appetizer: a block of cream cheese covered in Pickapeppa sauce–commence scooping this concoction onto whatever crackers you have on hand. Mmm mmm mmm.
I’m making “Grandma Joyce’s pink stuff” it’s a layered jello dish with sour cream between two layers of jello with fruit in it
Mandarin orange Jell-O with a marshmallow/pineapple topping. Jell-O has been mixed with Mandarin orange sherbert and Mandarin orange slices; topping is just marshmallows, sour cream, and pineapples. I can’t remember a Thanksgiving dinner without it (or at least some form of Jell-O).
I love to eat mashed potatoes! The next thing I like is pumpkin pie. It’s my favorite pie.
I love making… and eating… Pecan Pie!
i lOVEE green bean casserole!
I love it all–except the peas! Ick! Ick!Ick! I make a pumpkin cake, caramel brownies, and deviled eggs every year to take. Though I actually hate making the eggs, but if I don’t make them, everyone is disappointed.
I love Claim Jumper’s Dutch Apple Pie!
Honeybaked ham on pan de sal (Filipino dinner rolls) So simple but so dang good.
gotta have honey baked ham! but also like making sweet potatoes with candied pecans on top. and for dessert layered jello!
Pumpkin anything!!!!!!
Stuffing. Every year, my dad jokes that he’d like to change up the stuffing recipe, just this once.
Every year, I don’t laugh. Stuffing is Serious Business.
Dressed up mashed potatoes 🙂
A cranberry nut relish – except for the time it exploded in the oven
I love making cranberry apple pie! Yum…
My favorite dish to make & eat is pumpkin pie! 🙂
My favorite thing to eat on Thanksgiving is my mom’s gravy. So hearty and delicious, it is poured over almost everything on my plate!
My favorite thing to make is an apple cake during the holidays. It’s simple and easy to bake, and tastes oh-so-good. 🙂
Cranberry sauce to eat, and everything pumpkin to make! For Thanksgiving, I am making a pumpkin chocolate chip bundt and pumpkin molasses crinkles as well as having pumpkin pies from Trader Joe’s!
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Favorite Dish to make: Cranberry sauce. Love the poppin’ berries, the color, and of course the taste! So ono!
Candied yams with extra brown sugar, coconut & nuts. YUM!
My favorite dish to make is deviled eggs! Yum! I’ve been making them for years now so they are a piece of cake.
Pumpkin pie… 🙂 Or pumpkin flavored anything for that matter… 🙂
My favorite dish to make is the turkey with stuffing…..I look forward those pan drippings every year!
(Almost) anything pumpkin is my favorite this time of year, but especially pumpkin pie! My favorite, favorite, favorite! I’ve even dared to attempt making one a few times with varying results. This year, I bought one…at…Vons!
I love pumpkin pie! This year I ate a whole pie by myself lol. pretty horrible if you think about it but soo worth it!
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My favorite food around the holidays is the sausage stuffing that my dad makes for Thanksgiving and Christmas. It is the BEST. Pork sausage, spices and mashed potatoes mixed in to create a tasty and delicious side dish.
I love to make pecan pie 🙂
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Brined and BBQ’d turkey! It’s the best!!!
I made a pumpkin crunch cake that was SUPER EASY and quite tasty! Might have to become a tradition!
Pumpkin pie! And mashed potatoes with gravy.
I always make cranberry sauce from scratch. I’ve varied it from year to year, but this year’s was orange, cinnamon and ginger. It’s always a big hit.
I love broccoli cheese casserole and sweet potato cheesecake 🙂
My favorite dish to make for the holiday is Stuffing. I love making it from scratch and using cornbread. But my favorite part is adding bacon, sausage, and smoked meat such as ham or even turkey into it. I love finding new ways to make it even better every year while not straying from what my family expects to have. I am happy to have been successful so far and hope to keep it up for years to come.
Cranberry sauce is my fave to make- easy and love the berries popping,
Favorite thing to eat for Thanksgiving is hands-down, pumpkin pie! I definitely have a sweet tooth 🙂
I enjoy making pumpkin bread and cream corn.
Pumpkin bread with homegrown pumpkin puree!! 🙂
Pumpkin pie and mashed potatoes !
Love stuffing! And pumpkin pie!
I must say is the Green Bean Casserole!
I think making the dressing. I also like collard greens. Maybe the mac n cheese. I like fresh pumpkin pies too. Oh the sweet potatoes are yummy. The turkey is delicious too. Gravy, no it’s the gravy for sure. I think I just love Thanksgiving with family and friends enjoying a meal together. Those rolls are good too.