Share Your Favorite Thanksgiving Recipes

Every family has a special Thanksgiving recipe – the one everybody looks forward to on the best eating holiday of the year.

In my family, it's a pumpkin pie recipe that, according to legend, has been handed down through the generations from Robert E. Lee's household. Who knows if that's true – it involves a lot of lemon, which I doubt was readily available in mid-19th century Virginia, so I'm tempted to think it's been tweaked.

But we wouldn't dare let a Thanksgiving go by without dragging out that stained recipe card and baking a few pies.

Take a minute today to share the details on your own favorite dish with Patch!  Whether it's your own take on cranberry sauce or the best stuffing around, or even tricks to making the best turkey, we want to hear it.

Just add your recipe below in the comments section. And if you have a photo of your food, upload it here by clicking on the "Submit Your Photo and Video" button below.

Let us know what recipes you're thankful for! And give our historical holiday pie recipe a try – but if my grandmother asks, you didn't get it from me.

Lee family pumpkin pie recipe (alleged)

• 15 oz. (one can) pumpkin
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 3/4 stick butter
• 3/4 teaspoon nutmeg
• 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon allspice
• 2 lemons, zested
• 2 eggs
• 3 tablespoons sherry or bourbon

1. Combine sugar, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and butter in a saucepan on low heat and mix as butter melts.

2. Add the pumpkin, lemon rind and the juice of one lemon, followed by the two eggs, slightly beaten. Stir and slowly raise the heat, taking care not to overheat and cook the egg before it's fully combined with the pumpkin.

3. Cook on medium heat until the mixture starts to thicken and "bloop." Add the sherry or bourbon and pour into pie shells.

4. Bake about 25 minutes at 350º.