Thanksgiving is a time of traditions, and we’re revisiting a few seasonal favorites from Tyler Farr and Trisha Yearwood. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)
Tyler Farr talks about his favorite Thanksgiving side dish. (:18)
“My grandma, my mom and aunt and them — they always make chicken and dumplin’s, with the gravy on the mashed potatoes, all out. You know, that’s, hands down, my favorite side, the potatoes and the gravy. Add some weight onto my back thighs, so it looks like somebody hit me in the back of the legs with a bag of nickels, after I leave, so that’s my one thing.”
Tyler Farr says that he’s been known to bypass the store and bring home his own turkey. (:22)
“I don’t do turkeys the same…you don’t do turkeys, or I don’t, the same way you do like a actual turkey you go buy at the store. It’s not the big, whole turkey, you know, the turkeys you, you know, harvest in the wild and stuff. Now, what I do, you’d breast ’em out and stuff — you don’t do the whole thing, which I think actually tastes better. But yeah, I’ve had some and cut it up, and I’m a dark meat guy, not a white meat guy.”
Tyler Farr says he’s usually tapped to play one of a few different roles when it comes to holiday backyard family football. (:23)
“I get thrown around ’cause I was…not a lot of people in my family played football. Now, a lot of ’em are athletic and stuff, but I’ll usually be the quarterback or the wide receiver. I’m the fast one, so I…I don’t know about these days, if I’m the fast one still. All those nightclubs and those tour dates may have slowed me down a little bit, but it’s always fun. I usually get winded after about two plays, but I’m a huge football fan, huge SEC fan.”
Trisha Yearwood shares her traditional Thanksgiving Day. (:35)
“I grew up where we always had a big Thanksgiving kind of late lunch and then tried to stay awake to watch the football games, you know? (laughs) So, I kind of keep that tradition alive. I get up in the morning, and usually I put the turkey in the night before, and I love to watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. That’s a tradition that I did since I was a kid — and usually everybody else is still asleep. And then we have…and it just depends: living in Oklahoma, my family is in Georgia, so Thanksgiving is either, it could be just us as a family, sometimes it’s a bigger crowd. But it always involves food and my grandma’s cornbread dressing, which is my favorite, and football.”
Trisha Yearwood talks turkey about her grandma’s dressing. (:31)
“I’d mentioned my grandma’s cornbread dressing – everybody’s dressing is very particular to their family, and mine doesn’t have sage in it; it doesn’t have that flavor. I’m not a big sage fan. So it’s like, just a basic, and it has a lot of bread in it. It has cornbread and bread crumbs and saltine crackers, and then you use the stock from the turkey, so it’s just…it’s my favorite thing. And because it’s really a traditional Thanksgiving dish, you don’t have it all the time. And so I really do miss that, and I’ve been known to make her dressing in the summer, just ’cause I’m like, ‘I need some dressing; I can’t wait ‘til November.’”