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Our first time hosting thanksgiving... And we are hosting both sides of the family

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We never tried this before. We will host his side of the family on Thursday and my side on Saturday. 26-28 people total.

LOL we haven't told anybody we are ordering everything to be made for us. Let's see how long it will take for people to notice we didn't actually cook any of that food.

3 turkeys, 2 hams, sausages, mash taters, etc. Our philosophy is we would rather have too much food than not enough.

Anyone else here hosting this year?
 
Why not have them all together in one gathering if cooking isn't a problem ?
 
^ And have them sit on top of each other?
 
Hope you have a good Thanksgiving with each tribe.
 
I am not likely to host again unless I move. All my family is seven hours drive away. But, I hosted many times in past years.

I'm glad you are looking forward to it. Your other thread made me wonder at first.

Funny story. The woman I bought my home from in Arkansas was a very good cook. Her husband's family was prominent in the town, and had a former state governor among the relatives. One Thanksgiving, an elderly aunt who was single finally volunteered to host the large clan at her home. She had never been known to be the hostess before.

So, my friend and her sisters-in-law began calling each other and chatting. Each had been asked to bring a certain item for the menu and all were marvelling that the old woman was stepping up to host.

The day of the feast came, and everyone went and enjoyed the days. It was afterward when the younger women were again gossipping about it all that they figured out the old woman hadn't cooked a single dish! She had everyone else do all the cooking. That was a brilliant coup. I love the South for its crazy and endearing stories.
 
We have invited my elderly aunt who has no children and my cousin who has no other relatives in this state. My cousin would have no other place to go otherwise and my aunt is in an assisted living apartment and would have some of the other residents to eat with in their lunch room, but it would be depressing, partially because she eats there every other day and partially because half of the other residents go to relatives for the holidays and the crowd is thin on holidays. That is just two guests and that is enough.
 
Aristo, it occurred to me, do you KNOW how to cook the meal, either for the Southerners, or for your family, whatever each has traditionally eaten?

That's not an insult. I'm wondering if you wouldn't enjoy asking them next year to host at your home, but to prepare it there, so you could LEARN how to make the dishes. And, if you already know, that your partner and you could learn the other side of the family's recipes and methods.

It didn't occur to me before that you may not know how to make the big meal. I attended a dinner last night where the host had cooked a 3.5 pound pot roast for 10 guests, so it occurred to me that people half my age may be unaccustomed to hosting since people my age and older often orchestrate the big gatherings and attendant menus.
 
NotHardUp1 said:
Aristo, it occurred to me, do you KNOW how to cook the meal, either for the Southerners, or for your family, whatever each has traditionally eaten?

That's not an insult. I'm wondering if you wouldn't enjoy asking them next year to host at your home, but to prepare it there, so you could LEARN how to make the dishes. And, if you already know, that your partner and you could learn the other side of the family's recipes and methods.

It didn't occur to me before that you may not know how to make the big meal. I attended a dinner last night where the host had cooked a 3.5 pound pot roast for 10 guests, so it occurred to me that people half my age may be unaccustomed to hosting since people my age and older often orchestrate the big gatherings and attendant menus.
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Yes and no. We do know how to cook for events with lots of people. No we don't want to commit the time to doing it.

About your experience, I know what you mean. Some cases, they don't know how much it takes to cook for how many people. In some cases, they are just too cheap to cook the proper protion sizes.

My family has always operated under he assumption that there cannot be too much food. We always have at least 3 times more food than necessary. Then everyone gets a container of food to go home with.

We've been to gatherings where there were only enough food for half the people who showed up. It looked really bad when all the food were gone and we were only in the arrival phase and half the people hadn't come yet.

The next time those same people invited us to an event, we stopped by Jimmy Johns and got a party platter of sandwiches.
 
aristomaniac said:
Yes and no. We do know how to cook for events with lots of people. No we don't want to commit the time to doing it.

About your experience, I know what you mean. Some cases, they don't know how much it takes to cook for how many people. In some cases, they are just too cheap to cook the proper protion sizes.

My family has always operated under he assumption that there cannot be too much food. We always have at least 3 times more food than necessary. Then everyone gets a container of food to go home with.

We've been to gatherings where there were only enough food for half the people who showed up. It looked really bad when all the food were gone and we were only in the arrival phase and half the people hadn't come yet.

The next time those same people invited us to an event, we stopped by Jimmy Johns and got a party platter of sandwiches.
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Well, you are right. The commitment is staggering to host a big meal, even when a potluck. Of course, intergenerationally, sometimes the older ones think that this a "language of love," and may misinterpret the shortcut.

Each of our families are different though. I'm glad you two will be the hosts.
 
Thursday was the easy day. Only a few people showed up from his side of the family. Today will be the big one. 18 people from my side will come.
 
Preparing food for 20 people is hard work.

Here is a part of what we are doing.
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My brother's family of 4 originally said they couldn't come. But this morning they said they were coming. From another state. So we will have 4 more mouths than originally planned. Good thing we will have plenty of food.
 
That's fair. But you can give them some of the turkey. Maybe the neck and the giblets.

How on earth did they decide to come the day of?
 
NotHardUp1 said:
That's fair. But you can give them some of the turkey. Maybe the neck and the giblets.

How on earth did they decide to come the day of?
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Haha. His son, who was totally into wrestling, had a match scheduled for today. Last minute cancellation due to parental complaints.

I swear, some people have no common sense. Who the hell schedules sports events on a holiday weekend like this?

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Also, his wife had work. Last minute, she got permission from the manager to take the day off.
 
The high school athletic associations often do. The weekend of Thanksgiving was always the state football playoffs in Arkansas. It meant folks were off and could attend. For the longest time, people lived near their parents.
 
aristomaniac said:
We never tried this before. We will host his side of the family on Thursday and my side on Saturday. 26-28 people total.

LOL we haven't told anybody we are ordering everything to be made for us. Let's see how long it will take for people to notice we didn't actually cook any of that food.

3 turkeys, 2 hams, sausages, mash taters, etc. Our philosophy is we would rather have too much food than not enough.

Anyone else here hosting this year?
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Hope yours turned out well! My partner and I had two dinners to host and did the same thing! Thankfully, we had plenty of leftovers that the staff packed up and delivered the local homeless shelter... I feel so fulfilled. Cannot wait for Christmas!
 
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