Alternate menu on "Turkey Day"

[Kierae]

Since our household is a blended household and everyone is usually traveling to some other family member's house for a "traditional" thanksgiving and/or Christmas dinner, we have come up with our own way of celebrating the holidays. Everyone picks one favorite food item for thanksgiving - for my daughter it's all about deviled eggs, for my son it's stuffing and gravy. One year we had a tofurkey (the vegetarian had to try it once - it was fairly cardboardish), artichokes, squash soup, stuffing, deviled eggs, and stuffed mushrooms. For Christmas we usually pick a weekend night and our alternative family (ie close friends and anyone who gets dragged along) come over for dinner - they usually decide the "ethnicity" of the meal about 2 weeks prior and I cook. I adore to cook for people and so far have done mexican, thai, hawaiin, italian, irish....not sure what this years will be yet.

Bottom line its all about the company and we always enjoy the time together no matter what we are eating (although the Denny's turkey dinners the one year when the power went out for 12 hours wasn't so great but the s'mores from the fireplace rocked!).

 

[Eilan]

And after several recent extended family related suck holidays, we're staying home and it will be just my wife, me and the kids.

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BTW, we always eat chinese food on Christmas day. My wife and I started doing this before we had kids. We traveled to all the relatives, then would get home Christmas night, order chinese food and open our gifts to each other.

Now THIS is a holiday tradition I could live with!

 

[bobsgirl]

Trust me, you haven't met him yet....but you will.

Are you trying to scare the poor girl, Yank?

 

[KarenDee]

Are you trying to scare the poor girl, Yank?

LOL...he's doing a good job of it!

 

[bobsgirl]

This year my husband and two children will be in Mexico for Thanksgiving (long story), so my mom and I will be having dinner out. No wrassling with a turkey's nether regions this year!

 

[midwestyankee]

Are you trying to scare the poor girl, Yank?

Who? Me?

 

[naxalite0906]

Hmmm... many many choices.. no thanksgiving here, but very similar meal at christmas..
I always have something different as Im a vegetarian which obviously counts out turkey etc... I've had everything from souffle to pizza on xmas day.. always nice too.. I'm not sure if the same thing each year would bore me..

 

[mistymoon]

something completely different...we're making sushi. My Lover and I have really had some fun with making sushi lately and getting better about the "presentation". Since the both of us don't have our respective kids. It will be nice just to have some much needed rest and relaxation...

 

[M's girl]

something completely different...we're making sushi. My Lover and I have really had some fun with making sushi lately and getting better about the "presentation". Since the both of us don't have our respective kids. It will be nice just to have some much needed rest and relaxation...

Oh yum! Sushi! One of my favorites and M and I make our own Sushi frequently. We don't celebrate Thanksgiving here, but Christmas is coming up too. For ages I have been thinking about making turkey the US traditional way... still contemplating that. But whatever it will be: it will be something with meat and all the traditional stuff around it. I'll save the Sushi for New Year's eve or so. If I end up not doing the turkey I might go for Cocq au vin with a potatogratin and things like that. Easy to prepare in advance so I can be with my guests instead of standing in the kitchen all night

 

[CorsetLvr]

I'm smoking a pork loin as we speak. I'll throw some corn on the cob, still in the husks, on with it later.

 

[M's girl]

I'm smoking a pork loin as we speak. I'll throw some corn on the cob, still in the husks, on with it later.

Sounds good too! Say, is there a special "Thanksgiving Day Drink"? Like eggnogg (which I don't particularly like) at Christmas? I'm hoping for some nice and quiet weather at Christmas so we can have warm drinks in front of the outside fireplace in our garden before we start dinner (inside ). I'm thinking "Gluhwein" but another nice warm drink with some alcohol in it could be nice too and I'm 'in' for something new....

 

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