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

DrVenture
edited November 25 in Off-Topic
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?

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  • MarkMark
    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
    edited November 25
    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.

  • MarkMark
    @Mona - what time should I be there? Do you want wine with that?
  • Mona
    @Mark 5:30.

    Funny you ask about the wine. A glass is included, but I’ll pass. I enjoy the taste of wine, but as I’ve gotten older, alcohol no longer agrees with me. It makes me wake up multiple times during the night. You can have mine!

  • Derf
    I never complained if ham was the main dish at Thanksgiving & the left overs made into ham & bean soup.
  • hank
    ”alcohol no longer agrees with me.”

    Ouch! But at 80, 1 drink feels as good as 5 used to.
  • DrVenture
    @derf I love ham & bean soup.
    @mona That sounds delicious. Many items I would enjoy.
    @Mark @Hank I usually make a prime rib roast on Christmas Eve. That kapusta sounds good. I am adding that to my "recipes" folder.
  • CrashCrash
    Mona said:

    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.

    Yummy!
    We'll be guests this year with friends and their family. They're offering turkey. I hope there will be spuds. We are bringing gravy. There will be lumpia surely, and probably six other Filipino dishes. Looking forward.
  • howaya
    My nephew and his wife have invited me over. Her family is originally from Cyprus but she was raised in the UK. Chances are good lamb and British roasted potatoes will be served, along with several other Mediterranean sides. Claiming it applicable, they have requested I bring a version of tapenade I make - for which I replace the anchovies with an ample amount of sun-dried tomatoes.
  • DrVenture
    @howaya @Crash

    Sounds so good!

    Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.
  • Sven
    We are traveling. So it presents many opportunity to explore other cuisines. Tonight our family will have Thai cuisine to celebrate Thanksgiving. Always enjoy savvy and spicy dishes. Last year, we had Indian cuisine and it was delicious.
  • WABACWABAC
    I marinate the turkey in yogurt for 24 hours. Makes all the difference in the world.

    Our local Mexican market sells turkey necks so I can make lots of savory stock for gravy, stuffing, and hash on Friday. My son makes a mashed potato recipe from Joel Robuchon that's out of this world.

    Hmm. I don't know if I want to make a turkey sandwich right now. Maybe some stuffing and mashed potatoes with gravy will do.
  • DrVenture
    Interesting! Never would have thought of yogurt for that.
  • DrVenture
    Sven said:

    We are traveling. So it presents many opportunity to explore other cuisines. Tonight our family will have Thai cuisine to celebrate Thanksgiving. Always enjoy savvy and spicy dishes. Last year, we had Indian cuisine and it was delicious.

    Neat!

  • Mona
    Sven said:

    We are traveling. So it presents many opportunity to explore other cuisines. Tonight our family will have Thai cuisine to celebrate Thanksgiving. Always enjoy savvy and spicy dishes. Last year, we had Indian cuisine and it was delicious.

    Two of my favorites!
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