Traditions: Blake Shelton’s Cheeto Turkey, Scotty McCreery’s Cajun Thanksgiving and More

by Cindy Watts

11/25/2021

Most of us have vacation traditions and celebrities aren’t any totally different. Right here’s what a few of nation music’s largest stars are wanting ahead to this Thanksgiving.

Blake Shelton makes inventive turkeys together with his stepsons.

“The final couple of Thanksgivings, me and the boys will resolve on a bizarre Turkey to make,” Shelton instructed Individuals. “The primary yr, we made a Flamin’ Sizzling Cheetos turkey. We crusted it within the Flamin’ Sizzling Cheetos.
“Then, simply enjoying off that, the following yr Apollo, or perhaps it was Zuma, I can’t bear in mind, we ended up doing a Funyuns turkey, which truly tasted quite a bit like a daily, conventional turkey. I assume no matter they put in Funyuns, it’s the identical stuff. This yr goes to be bacon-wrapped. One in every of them noticed an image of the bacon-wrapped – like the entire thing. And we’re doing it.”

Tracy Lawrence loves deep-fried turkey, dressing and soccer.

“I prepare dinner at the very least three turkeys on the home as a result of we might have as many as 20 or 30 folks on the home for Thanksgiving,” he stated. “We do a standard unfold. We’ll have a turkey. We’ll have a ham, home made cornbread dressing, mashed potatoes, all the edges, we’ve a large unfold, and we like our pies at Thanksgiving.

“We eat and watch soccer, and we play video games all day,” he stated. “It’s a lazy day with household interacting and youngsters enjoying, and people are some nice recollections. By the point we get to Thanksgiving, it’s been a protracted onerous yr. I’ve been gone quite a bit, and having everyone on the home and having the ability to decelerate could be very gratifying.”

Brett Younger REALLY hates canned cranberry sauce.

“My Grandma Bonnie, she’s not with us anymore; she would at all times spend a very long time massaging the can in order that the cranberry sauce got here out within the form of the can. I’ll always remember one Thanksgiving. I had simply met my spouse two days earlier than. Grandma Bonnie completely acquired it out on the plate. My dad was giving the blessing, and my dad’s brother began smushing it up. And my grandma interrupted the prayer as a result of he was ruining the proper canned-shaped cranberry.”

“Fruit on meat by no means works for me. I by no means contact the cranberry, but it surely’s been a practice in our household for so long as I bear in mind.”

Deana Carter loves her mama’s dressing – and canned cranberry sauce.

“My mother’s dressing is the proper consistency. She does the cornbread dressing. We had been by no means stuffing folks. I feel the inexperienced onions are key, and the quantity of sage. It needs to be fully buried in sage, and it’s so good.

The canned, jellied cranberries are a should. I don’t need Martha Stewart complete cranberries with shaved orange peels. No! I would like the can with the rings in it, and we slice it up with a bit butter knife, and it falls over within the dish.”

Scotty McCreery is having a Cajun Thanksgiving together with his spouse’s household.

“We went right down to Louisiana for Christmas just a few years in the past, and it was all the nice shrimp boils. It was a standard turkey and ham, however I feel there’ll be a variety of fish. They know find out how to eat, find out how to drink and find out how to have time. It’s by no means a uninteresting second down there for positive.

David Nail is beginning new traditions at his home together with his spouse and three kids.

“I grew up throughout the road from my grandparents, so for 40 years, I walked throughout the road at 10:30 a.m. and sat right down to eat turkey and dressing. Then after Thanksgiving lunch, it was, ’How lengthy is it going to take my dad to Houdini out of there and go watch soccer in his recliner. It truly is a factor.

We acquired a brand new home in Thompson Station, and we’re internet hosting. Catherine makes an insane turkey and dressing. She’s simply labored on it and labored on it. I by no means was a dressing individual, but it surely’s fairly particular. Then it’s pecan pie all day any day with additional pecans. I don’t like a brilliant quantity of goo. The goo to pecan ratio needs to be good.”