Carla Hall Quotes

My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it's just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round.

You can't have a good Thanksgiving meal without a little bit of ketchup on the side.

If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.

I don't like turkey. I mean, I do. But I don't like it on Thanksgiving. I don't need it. There are about 20 other dishes that get put on a table or a counter or that stay warming on the stove that I'd rather eat than turkey.

I'm not a big turkey fan, but my husband loves it. Thanksgiving is his favorite meal.

I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.

Corned beef and cabbage - that's our favorite holiday meal when all the O' Haras gather around the table.

What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?

No more turkey, but I'd like some more of the bread it ate.

Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.

Homemade stuffing is my favorite thing about Thanksgiving. I wish people served it more than just once a year.

I'd love to give my girls a traditional Thanksgiving with turkey and all that jazz, but we've raised them to love Tuscan food so much that they don't care for it. My favorite is a nice polenta with beef stew and broccoli rabe on the side.

Turkeys are perfect for feeding larger gatherings.

We don't yet call it 'Thxgvng,' because any holiday whose centerpiece sits in an oven for four to six hours, after having sat out for as long to reach room temperature, must be spelled all the way out. Cook a turkey. You'll see. This is to say that you're not just roasting a turkey, obviously.

A week before Thanksgiving, my mother bought the turkey, frozen. Then she froze it some more. Then she let it thaw and cleaned it - and I mean really cleaned it, because nobody wanted a 'dirty bird.' She salt-and-peppered the turkey, buttered, paprika-ed, and nominally stuffed it.

I cannot stand when you go to a wedding and get fed tiny portions. I want everyone to have a good feed on my wedding day, so I plan on having several types of sausage, mash, and gravy up for grabs. Every guest will have a Yorkshire pudding, too!

Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.

There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.

Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey.

I'm from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I'm thankful for that.

The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.

I think Thanksgiving is the perfect occasion to break open a buttery, oaky Chardonnay from California.

I like day-after-Christmas omelets, day-after Christmas pizzas... Or you take croissant rolls, put gravy on top, turkey, mashed potatoes, cheese, more gravy. That sounds good!

My mother very rarely skipped a Thanksgiving turkey. And yet, none of them ever tasted quite the same, landing somewhere on a sliding scale of succulence. She'd try new methods.