I think my mom made that Jell-o salad!

My gramma's signature dishes were the cranberry sauce and pea salad, a cold salad made with peas, diced onion, diced hard-boiled egg, and a mustard/mayo-based dressing. Not everyone liked the pea salad as much as I did, and I miss it since she passed.
I did learn from her how to make whole-fruit cranberry sauce (it's really dead easy!) at an early age, however, so I take care of that now.
Oh, and pumpkin pie is absolutely required! That was a Mom/Gramma combined effort. I only crave it around this time of year, so I learned how to make it by the time I went to college, and I now make basically my gramma's recipe, plus extra spices. :)
Oh, the other required food at every Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner are my aunt's recipe: butter horn rolls. I haven't quite mastered them like my mom has, but I'm still working on it. They're pretty time-consuming, though: you have to make the dough the night before and let it rise, then roll them out and let them rise again...but they're SO worth it, especially with some of my mom's homemade berry jam smeared on them while still hot. :)

Our Thanksgivings are like Wish's: My mom hosts, typically, two dozen people, few of whom we share DNA with, and everyone brings something. She does the turkey, the scalloped oysters (yuck), stuffing, and smashies. Everything else is potucked. This year I'm doing onions in cream sauce but I have done sweet potato and pecan pies, smashies, roasted pears, and green beans.

Since huzzleban came into our lives, we also have "the green stuff" mentioned above and banana pudding. He's also done "the pink stuff" but we've moved on from that, thank goodness (strawberry Jell-O powder + Cool Whip + slivered almonds).

In 1978 my mother prepared a ham and she STILL hasn't lived it down. Even our vegetarian immigrant friend still gives her a bad time about serving ham on Thanksgiving.