This year’s Thanksgiving Day is coming soon, how much do you know about THANKSGIVING and relational interesting stories?
Thanksgiving Day is the most authentic and American-style national holidays in the United States and is most closely connected with the earliest history of the country. A family feast is an important custom during Thanksgiving. The whole family sits around the table and prays for the endless gifts granted by God, it is also a time for relatives and friends to come together and celebrate the big day in every year.
The Parades on Thanksgiving Day almost began with President Lincoln who declared this day as an official day. It is a way to display the country’s military strength and strict discipline by the grand parading. But what’s more, the Parades are mainly to lift the spirits of the compatriots and provide them with a healthy and active entertainment. Modern parades are joined with musical shows and lots of celebrities in entertainment take part in the shows.
It is also a popular tradition to watch American NFL football during Thanksgiving. The game between the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers still continues and one of the most memorable games has been played on each year’s Thanksgiving Day.
Traditional stuffed turkey garnishes every dinner table during the feast. Different pies such as pumpkin pie, blueberry pie, cranberry sauce, corns are the dishes cooked in each family to mark the day. Although is has no evidence to prove that turkey was eaten during the first Thanksgiving Day by historians, a Thanksgiving Day without turkey is incomplete and imperfect.
Talking about food, in earliest Thanksgiving dinner, both settlers and Native American would use various crops grown by themselves such as corn, pumpkin, potatoes, yams, even wheat to make bread and share with the whole families.
Today, there is a great variety of food to choose from Thanksgiving feast and any dish that you can imagine will be featured on the table. It’s for sure that the traditional turkey is still the meat of choice, but goose, duck, ham or even some of the sea food could be used to make a Thanksgiving feast. In addition to sweet potatoes, peas and greens and even exotic vegetables all open up a new tradition of food on Thanksgiving dinner.
The key choice of Thanksgiving dessert recipes lie in healthy and nutritious ingredients,, an expression to wish for a good year and a good luck with gratitude, and magnanimity to share with families and friends. Nowadays, the only limit to prepare a Thanksgiving dinner is the lack of imagination and creativity. Thus we provide you with such a variety of choice of dessert recipes for you to prepare with on the Thanksgiving Day, don’t be too much greedy to want all of them!!!
Thanksgiving dessert recipes:
5 YUMMY APPLE PIES FOR THANKSGIVING DAY
In America, apple stands for soundness and affluence, and apple pie means the flavor of home. Here I gathered 5 apple pies on your Thanksgiving table.
EGG-FREE & DAIRY-FREE HEALTHY PUMPKIN PIES FOR THANKSGIVING DAY
5 recipes for healthy egg-free and dairy-free pumpkin pies serving on your Thanksgiving table to celebrate the great day with your family memebers.
THANKSGIVING RECIPES: HEALTHY BLUEBERRY PIES
Here I “plagiarized” my Mom’s healthy recipes about blueberry pies that she used in past years on Thanksgiving Day. Enjoy yourself!
MUST-HAVE PEACH PIES ON THANKSGIVING DAY
Peach pie is popular on Thanksgiving Day in the United States and it becomes no common if it appears on the table of the first family of the United States.
HEALTHY THANKSGIVING SWEET POTATO PIES
What dishes do animal protectors and vegan people eat on their Thanksgiving Day? Maybe sweet potato pie is an option.
THANKSGIVING BANANA PIE RECIPES FOR FAMILY
Grateful to everything you met in your life and keep a thanksgiving heart whenever you feel you are blessed by God.
CHOCOLATE CREAM PIES – GIFTS FOR THE POOR ON THANKSGIVING
I suggest some chocolate cream pies will be suitable as the gifts for you to send to the poor families for charity.
CHOOSE PECAN PIES TO BEAT CALORIES ON THANKSGIVING TABLE
PECANS are just healthy enough for us to keep a good nutrition and let’s start to prepare HEATLHY pecan pies for Thanksgiving Day!
COCONUT CREAM PIE FOR THE COMING THANKSGIVING
Thanksgiving Day is soon to come, I’d like to introduce you with a last pie on your thanksgiving table, which is the healthy Coconut Cream Pie.