Thanksgiving Memories... What dish takes you down memory lane?

Banana pudding. Thanksgiving at my grandpa’s growing up. He always at dessert first. He said if you eat dessert first, you won’t have to worry about saving room for it later. Which is a very valid point.

Kelly Helms

Fried Chicken. My sweet Memaw always had the turkey and dressing but always made the best fried chicken for us kids!!

Shannon Collins

Something different - Thanksgiving Breakfast!!! My grandma made what she called a Butter Roll. Biscuit dough in a round casserole dish filled with butter and sugar, baked in the oven. It sat on the stove as we all gathered for lunch and everyone pinched bites off of it as they passed through the kitchen.

Kim Helton

Pilgrim pudding. Cornmeal, cinnamon, nutmeg, raisins, cooked down and oh-so-satisfying

Hannah Puckett

Nannan’s (Louise Tatum)Mac & cheese getting to put the slices of cheese in to help. She also had a white lace table cloth that only dressed the table at holidays. She always wanted to make all the dishes herself & everyone just be together. I now live in her house & host Thanksgiving annually, in hopes to keep the tradition alive and the memories close.

Megan Johnston Dugger

Everyone thinks” turkey” for Thanksgiving but my mom made a delicious ham and her dressing was out of this world!

I miss the days of all the brothers and sister and noisy chaos.

Cindi Choate Baxter

My mom’s ambrosia! I have never been able to match hers! Only got it at thanksgiving and Christmas!

Connie Adcox

My aunt’s famous cheese ball I remember eating it while we waited on the rest of the food I have the recipe and make it every year and my friends love it so much that when a special event is happening they ask me to make it for them it’s an honor to share it with so many who enjoy it just as I did as a kid growing up in California.

Lori Burlison

My Aunt Linda Devore’s Potato salad!! I have had a lot of good potato salad but none could compare to hers I can just think about it and it takes me back to those Big Curtis Christmas Dinners!! My Mamas and now Kassidi Hatton Dressing and My Aunt Janet Cotham s sweet potato casserole are staples if those 2 dishes aren’t there the dinner is ruined!!

Sherri Richter

My mom was a cook like no other! She worked all day at a factory and then made us a delicious meal every evening. But on Thanksgiving, the house was filled with delicious smells! My mom’s dressing was incredible. Also, the memory of mom grating coconut for fresh coconut cake and German chocolate cake. Makes me hungry just thinking about it. Thanks Mom!

Mary McDonald

I didn’t get to celebrate with my moms family because they lived in another state (family reunions with them were awesome) but when they had Thanksgiving and Christmas and the Runions grandparents house they all put on a shindig! The smells coming from grandma and grandpa’s house from multiple turkeys, multiple hams, dressing, beans, greens, potatoes, sweet potato casseroles, pies and cakes was so wonderful! My momma’s rolls was my favorite and I just can’t do them! I miss her so bad! Here is the Runions family, and these 12 children married and had 48 grandchildren so our childhood was great and holidays so memorable!!!Family is everything y’all don’t let it die with grandparents, keep the traditions alive and be thankful for what and who you have!!!! I hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving and wonderful Christmas with family and friends!

Monica Runions DuPont

Families getting together, and women cooking in the kitchen while men share tall tales of hunting, as their stomached rumble with the savory smells of dinner cooking

Alice Tubbs

Not a dish but bread and butter pickles. My grandma Sovereign always canned so many and had them at every holiday lunch. Hers were the only ones I’d eat.

Misty Hennessy

Pie. All kinds of pies. Mom would bake for days just for Thanksgiving. Chocolate, coconut, chess and then the cakes. Our house looked like a bakery.

Sue Turner Amacher

Sweet potato casserole with the little marshmallows.

Leticia McKnight

My grandmother’s Julia Baxter dressing. She is 92 this year and I cannot wait till turkey day to have it. She always makes me my own dish to take home.

Theresa Brasfield

My mom’s dressing. Everytime I smell sage brings memories from 50 years ago.

Randall Mitchell

My grandmothers chicken and dressing.

Zackery Boss Ward

Butternut cake, best cake I’ve ever put in my mouth! Mom makes and me and my brother have always fought over who gets to take the rest home!

Shelly Ray

My mom was a fantastic cook! She would make a date cake with caramel icing every Thanksgiving. It was a once a year thing so that made it even more delicious!!!

Joyce Page

Asparagus casserole. I know that’s strange lol, but my mom always made it on Thanksgiving. I loved it. Most others didn’t.

Terri Dugger Hinson

My Granny Ora Brewer always went all out for the holidays. She raised half of Hohenwald, so most people know what a fabulous cook she was. She always made everyone’s favorite dessert. Homemade coconut cake, Sock It To Me cake, homemade chocolate cake and all kinds of pies.

Lisa Henderson White

Pumpkin pie because my grandma would have to make several because my younger brother would sneak off with a whole pie and eat it all for himself before dinner when we were kids.

Missi Harris

My Aunt Jean Pace’s oyster dressing and her raisin gravy. Thanksgiving in our family was always spent at her house, and she was the only person to make these. It was the only time of the year we got to enjoy these incredible special dishes, so enjoying them meant I would get to spend the entire day with some of my most favorite people in the world. Now that she is gone, the younger generations of women have kept up the tradition in her absence, and those dishes mean even more now! A tie to the past, and these are the ties that bind.

Stef N Barry Burney

Mom always made a homemade pecan log. We lived for the day she made it. It was delicious but she would never give up the recipe.

Vanessa Dicus

My Mom always made the best chicken and dressing for all our family Thanksgiving & Christmas gatherings at home. I come from a family of 5 children, and with all our families together is wonderful! For dessert Mom always made several, but the best was my Great Grandmother’s recipe for Angel Food Cake. Mom won a lot of Blue Ribbons at the Fair for her entry, Hohenwald and Lawrenceburg. Mom passed away 5 years ago, she is missed very much. Good family holiday memories to keep.

Kathy Keeton

My grandmother’s Turkey Dressing,Potato salad, ham and baked beans. Everything was done a certain way I was by her side helping her she taught me how to cook.. she would complain that I peeled to much off of the potatoes I can’t help but think about her when I peel potatoes.

Angie Tinnon

Turkey stuffed with cornbread dressing always makes me think of “mom” which is what our family called my grandmother. I have not had dressing as good as hers since her passing. I can still picture the family around the table and even though she was up half the night cooking, she was still up and going, making sure everyone got plenty to eat.

Susan Overbey

My grandmother made her Carmel cake it was her special recipe never found another one like it it would make your mouth water.

Bluford Warren

My Grammy’s Copper Pennies. I was too young to remember her making them before she passed, but my aunt would make them every year. I can still see her standing over the stove, and passing the spoon to me to taste it.

After my aunt passed, I took on the tradition. Copper Pennies always bring us warm feelings of family and love.

Catherine Bell

My grandmother, Ruhama Sisco’s dressing!! I loved it…now my mom makes it just like she did!!

Derek Powers

My mama’s dressing there’s no one else who makes dressing like her. I can remember when I was younger her making the cornbread the night before and getting up super early the next morning to get it all put together. The smell of it baking would go through the whole house and still does! That is my one request every year is for her to make dressing for our dinners and I always take a big bowl home with me to eat on!!

Emily Warrington

My mom’s coconut pie...she would do coconut and pecan. The meringue was a mile high on the coconut. I loved both, but the coconut was to die for!

Rhonda Carroll Bass

My mama’s dressing. I still remember the first time I made Thanksgiving dinner at my house because I didn’t want for mama to stay in the kitchen all day . The smile on her face while we ate and she bragged on how good it was. Made myself proud that I was able to keep mama’s tradition going after she has left us to soon . I learnt a lot from mama and Mama Crowe.

Pam McCann

Sweet potato casserole because when we were kids everyone hated it and if you got in line to fix your plate then there was always someone dumping a huge spoonful on your plate.

Kristin King Holley

My Mama’s dressing. It was so delicious and I loved the smell of our kitchen on Thanksgiving Day. And always coconut pie with beautiful meringue.

Paula Spears

My Granny made pink strawberry salad and my cousin Kim and I would fight every year on who got the leftovers. I would give anything to have those days back. Great memories!

Lezlee Dabbs Gower

My mom would make the best pies, her egg whites fluff on top was one of our favorites, now that she has passed we all crave it…maybe I can learn how to make it as good as hers.

Gena Powers

My momma’s sweet potato pie. She put extra marshmallows on it for me. She was the best cook. Thanksgiving is not the same without her and her old-fashioned cooking.

Ginger Stephens Kilpatrick

My mommas pumpkin pie. Always my favorite. It made the house smell delicious.

Nancy Pipkins Mitchell

Deviled eggs! Me and my nana have a tradition of doing these together since I was a kid! So special and blessed to be able to continue this tradition with her.

MaKenzie Faith Sanders

My family does a smoked turkey! We have done it for so many years and will probably never do a fried turkey ever again because it is so good! Some of us would always argue about who would get the turkey legs. We may also have sampled some turkey before it was time to eat.

Molly Clayton

Turkey and Dressing was the best and the memories I have is being a young girl with 5 siblings ,old unpainted table 4 old straight back chairs and a bench,All gathered at the table together.Did not matter what or when my mom cooked it was always good. Wish I could eat her food again..Happy Thanksgiving to Everyone.

Pat Matthews

My Nannys dressing. The smell of her dressing cooking just made me feel at home and thankful for the life I was given to live! I cannot wait for next Thursday to smell it again. Thanksgiving isn’t complete without my precious Nanny cooking us the best food anyone could ever try!!

Haley Mitchell