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Ok, what's everyone making today? Besides Turkey, I'm making: Spiral Cut Smoked Ham Sweet Potato Casserole Real Mashed Potato's Meat Stuffing in the Turkey Apple Pie (baked yesterday) Pumpkin Pie (baked yesterday) Green Beans Almondine Crescent Rolls Salad Cranberry Sauce

AUBURN, Alabama — Thanksgiving is a time where friends and family gather together to give thanks, enjoy one another’s company and share a good meal. It takes a village to bring these great holiday meals together, and the thought of overwhelming amounts of leftovers keeps everyone motivated to prepare. Two main dishes found at most Thanksgiving meals are stuffing or dressing. Here is the inside scoop on what defines these two dishes. Difference between the two “The major difference between the two dishes is that stuffing is popular in the north and dressing is popular in the south,” said Darlene...

Here's the Mar-a-Lago menu the family will be dining from: Appetizers include a seafood display with large crabs, oysters on the half shell, jumbo shrimp and middle neck clams. There will also be "Mr. Trump's Wedge Salad," deviled eggs, roasted vegetable cous cous salad and ahi tuna martinis. There are also two soup selections, the lobster bisque and vegetable minestrone soup. Continued at link.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Barack Obama and his family are spending Thanksgiving with friends, family, turkey and touchdowns, as he puts it, and reflecting "on what truly binds us as Americans." He says the country has just emerged from "a noisy, passionate and sometimes divisive campaign season." But he says in his weekly radio address that the holiday "reminds us that no matter our differences, we are still one people, part of something bigger than ourselves." The White House says Obama made nine telephone calls to service members who are on deployment. The Obamas' menu begins with a large list...

Today's Ted Cruz news: Ted Cruz acknowledged in an early GOP debate that he might not be the candidate you want to have a beer with. "But if you want someone to drive you home," he said, "I will get the job done and I will get you home."But beer-buddy populism is old school. New question: Would you want him at your table for Thanksgiving dinner?CBS News and YouGov posed the question -- about Cruz and other leading presidential candidates -- to primary voters in New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina.From the Dallas Morning News: "South Carolinians were most receptive...

Grace before meals will bring families together this holiday season Kevin Fobbs Every holiday season families confront the age old problem: How do we restore our old traditions to the dinner table especially when it seems, more and more, that dysfunction rears its formidable head instead. Families will see Uncle Peter or Aunt Rita or even cousin Mike just forego the polite pleasantries and just dig right into the turkey, dressing, or candied yams, without even a blink of moral guilt. Well this scene is probably all too familiar and it is why Hollywood in the Heartland Report with Cheryl...