What "non-traditional" Thanksgiving meals does your family enjoy?

DrVenture

Meaning anything not roasted turkey dinner.

I like a good roasted turkey dinner, but do not care if that is what we have on Thanksgiving or not.

This year, like the last 5 or so, we will be dining with good friends in our hometown, a 30-minute drive away. The husband loves to prepare meals. He is making beef Wellington. We will be having stuffing/gravy and I am not certain what else.

We will bring a charcuterie board with fresh items, like smoked salmon, cheeses, etc. And my wife makes the stuffing from my Grandmother's recipe. My Grandmother was a trained chef.

What special or unusual items do you all enjoy? Or do you go traditional?

Mark

Prime rib roast rules at our dinner. Family and friends are asked to fill in around the edges with ethnic sides widely encouraged. To that end I make a traditional Polish dish Kapusta using my grandmothers recipe, and a cranberry bread recipe from a SF Chronicle recipe I plucked while living there. The bread is actually prepared like a cake but nobody cares. It always disappears.

hank

Honestly, I can’t remember. Devoted relatives always put on a feast. Prime rib (cooked rare) is tops in their home also. But can’t remember if it’s ever replaced turkey on Thanksgiving day. Actually, there’s often more than 1 main course at the feast.

Mona

This year we are going out for a four course prix fixe menu. For starters, your choice of pumpkin bisque, cajun shrimp, bacon and cauliflower corn chowder, or a mesclun greens salad. Then moving on to turkey, short ribs, pork loin, lamb leg, Chilean sea bass, or squash gnocchi, with sides. Ending with dessert including brown butter hazelnut cake with spiced poached pears and vanilla bean ice cream, citrus caramel, citrus crisp, with citrus ice cream, or a flourless chocolate torte, mallow fluff, with chocolate ice cream.