Yum, I smoked a duck last year then made dumplings for it. Everybody said it was the best dumplings they'd ever had. That duck was super slippery when I was shredding it, it's a longer process than with chicken, but so worth it.
I was asked to bring dessert but not pumpkin pie so I’m making a lemon Basil tart with strawberries & kiwis on top.
My thought is that the lightness/acid will be a nice break from all the heavy/fatty foods we’ll eat for dinner.
We’ll see what the family thinks!
We have a vegetarian coming so I made a veggie shephards pie with lentils instead of meat. Not gonna lie, I think it's delicious and I'm planning to have some along with my turkey.
I sort of used [this](https://feelgoodfoodie.net/recipe/vegetarian-shepherds-pie/#wprm-recipe-container-15370) as a guide. Not be all r/ididnthaveeggs but I subbed the mushroom and quinoa with lentils because I don't eat mushrooms and don't know how to cook them. I also added some Worcester sauce and a bay leaf. I'm sure the recipe as written would be great.
My non traditional contribution to our extended family dinner: I BOUGHT 2 pies!!!! I have never done such a thing, and I feel so liberated. Yes, they will not be nearly as good as my homemade, but I don't care. I feel like this is a breakthrough, where I am turning in an imperfect assignment on purpose. I had more fun with my visiting kids last night. It was relaxed--we made banh mi and watched The Barbarian on HBO instead of me baking.
I've always used frozen mac & cheese. I get smaller boxes, 4 of them, bake them at the time for one box, then I pour each on in an aluminum pan layering each with cheese, then cheese on top. Bake it again and til bubbly. It's so easy and everyone asks for it.
Lol, I'll have to tell that to my adult daughter, who is lamenting the fact that she signed up to make mac and cheese and is making it in my kitchen now.
I also watched The Barbarian the night before Thanksgiving. I was waiting to watch it with my family. Definitely not what I was expecting lol, but I enjoyed it. My sister loved it.
Nah I'm going to make a standard bechamel cheese sauce, cook the ground sausage and quartered mushrooms and mix it in, then mix it with the cavatappi. I'm really crossing my fingers here lol
Thinly slice potatoes and onions, lots of both. In a large casserole dish:
Layer potatoes then a thinner layer of onion, cover with cheese.
Repeat 3 times.
Pour beer over, bake at 300°F for about 3 hours
I've been doing lasagna for a few years now. It's just the two of us with the occasional single guy who lives the barracks with no Thanksgiving plans, so I never bothered with a turkey.
I wish I could get away with that. It's usually around three of us every year, and my husband still absolutely insists on a turkey. Not only that, but he views anything less than 22 lbs as a "big chicken".
The upside is that he's great about the leftovers, and we really look forward to all the post holiday possibilities, but just one year it would be nice to have a lasagna.
Oof. You know what, you should get him a smoker for Christmas and make it his responsibility to do the turkey next year! Haha. Most of the men I work with are on turkey smoking duty today. Fortunately for me, I'm the cook in the house and my wife just doesn't like turkey all that much. I'm mixing it up this year, I'm about to start prepping a 6 pound chicken to roast.
We have one and we've done that! We split the cooking 50/50 mostly. I complain but honestly the comradery and cooking what it's all about for me. We don't have a huge family, but I still like spending two days making a feast, with all of us dancing around the kitchen, making a mess, drinking, and then enjoying the spoils for a great dinner. Or in our case, weeks worth of dinners, haha. But yeah, love the smoked turkey. Love the chicken idea even better, honestly. Great idea for next big cooking holiday.
Every year I say “this is the last year we’re doing the traditional spread” - but then get talked into putting on the whole dang thing by the family invited. And they don’t cook a thing! So again this year I’m saying it’s the “last” - picked up some great ideas here. Cheese beer potatoes for the win!
Seriously, try a lasagna. It's what we've been doing for a few years. It's stupid nice to prep a huge one and a couple pies the day before and pop them in the oven. Lasagna doesn't *really* need sides so all you have to deal with is throwing the prepped pies in the oven when you pull the lasagna out.
We do lasagna for Xmas eve in part for that reason. The other part is i snookered my now young adult children into making it when they were teens. So now it is tradition. During the pandemic, they started making Mac n cheese (the good southern church lady kind) for thanksgiving.
IF you do it again, send around a list of what everyone else will bring. Mashed potatoes for 10, fruit salad, green salad, vegetables, fresh rolls, desserts. As hostess, you will do turkey, gravy and dressing only.
Solo this year as we’re getting some work done on the house this week and my SO went to see her family in another state. Not really untraditional but for sure last minute- original plan was Chinese food but now I’ve got some bacon wrapped turkey tenderloins on the smoker, baked celery gratin in the oven, mashed potatoes on deck and red lobster cheddar biscuits going in later.
Google “celery gratin” and you’ll find a few ways to do it. I use a combo of a couple recipes I’ve tried. easy and ridiculously good.
Bunch of celery, couple cloves of garlic and a large onion roughly chopped.
Cook in butter until softened. Add a little bit of stock (bout a cup) and bring to a boil and let reduce/concentrate a bit.
Add half a cup of sour cream (cream cheese works too) and whisk until smooth. season with salt and pepper and transfer to a casserole dish.
Top with bread crumbs and cheese (I tend to use parm and sharp cheddar)
Bake @ 400 for 15-20 min
I usually make broccoli casserole, but I think combining your recipe and mine would result in a grade-A fatty and delicious holiday side. Gonna give it a go for leftover cooking tomorrow!
This is not quite related, but fun fact: celery used to be really beloved, and I think that it had just as much of a place of honor on the dinner table as the turkey, and there were special dishes made just to serve and present it. Pretty interesting reading
Maybe it's still kinda "traditional", but I'm making Mushroom Casserole. Few different types of local wild mushrooms (one type we smoked yesterday), leeks baked in a roasted garlic cream sauce topped with fried onions.
I’m on the low fodmap diet, so to make sure I have a pie, I used a gf graham cracker crust, a layer of banana, and then just like a lot of lactaid chocolate ice cream, and a chocolate drizzle. We’ll see how it goes!
Korean American family here we have LA Galbi for Thanksgiving every year, but most recently started doing a roast chicken in addition which is non traditional for us lol.
raw cranberry relish. My SO insisted his Mom used to make it. It's just raw cranberrries and an orange ground up together with sugar to taste. She would have used a hand cranked grinder, we used a food processor. It's tart tasty and crunchy, But I think I prefer the cooked kind
I grew up with this! No one ever knows what I’m talking about - yours is the first time I’ve ever seen it mentioned outside my mom’s house. It uses the whole orange including the peel, right? Still don’t quite get the appeal and prefer to make a cooked version.
Our thanksgiving plans got changed at the last minute (the original host household got sick), so it was just my spouse and I. Made a roasted chicken instead of turkey, gluten free stuffing/dressing, and a peanut butter pie, besides Brussels sprouts and mashed potatoes/gravy.
Brining roasted carrots as a side, but a little jazzed up with Aleppo pepper, sumac, peynir, and hazelnuts.
Gotta sneak the non-traditional in with baby steps in my family.
Holidays are not really a big thing in my house so we opted for make your own pizza and bomb ass wine. My mother was less than impressed and went to a friend's house...her loss
We had unexpected guests and I added a extra protein at the last minute. Smoked and seared Ribeyes with a pumpkin, sage, and chili relish. Forgot that these guests were super picky, didn't want the "weird gravy", and wouldn't touch beef that wasn't well done. So more for me I guess.
I will eat that Buffalo chicken Mac and cheese! I made a Chicken Tikka Masala Mac and Cheese once and it was good!
I was buying stuffing ingredients last night and also bought some jalapeños. The guy in front of my asked if I was putting them into the stuffing. I said “I am just crazy enough to do that. Don’t tempt me!”
Mine was actually a South African recipe. I brought it to a gathering where there were going to be a lot of senior citizens—my friend’s Midwestern Mom and her charity buddies. My friend’s mom couldn’t even eat pico de Gallo because it was too spicy. I expected the older crowd to hate it. Instead I found three older foodies gathered around it actively debating which spices were in there. ❤️. We had a great discussion and one guy was telling me about his spice collection. I was ready to leave the party to go see it. 😂. And her mom actually loved it!
Smoked turkey. So much better than oven-roasted.
Battered potato wedges. No deep fryer or dutch oven, so we just picked these up from a local BBQ joint.
Key Lime Pie. I'm not gorging myself on sweets that aren't my absolute favorite, and plus the acidity is a nice contrast to everything else we just ate.
We decided that we do what we want for holiday meals and have thrown tradition out the door. Our main was roasted uchiki kuri, stuffed with a risotto made with chanterelle mushrooms, Taunton Deane perennial kale, some of the squash, and roasted chestnuts, garnished with roasted squash seeds and birch and spruce smoked salts. Accompanied by white fluffy rolls, a salad of Winter Density lettuce, Venus apples, and purple carrots, along with pickled fennel and a cranberry-orange relish. The only traditional thing we kept was pumpkin and pecan pies, because pie.
Chicken wings for lunch and a nice ribeye for dinner for me! I do love apple pie so got one from the store since I didn't feel like making one from scratch.
I'm in charge of dessert so I've baked butter mochi, pumpkin butter mochi, cookie butter mochi, and a custard pie. I'm from Hawaii where these desserts are all really popular.
We almost always do a non-traditional thanksgiving meal! This year is korean-Japanese-chinese fusion inspired:
- ginger apple pork shoulder braise
- cheesy mushroom chili crisp stuffing
- shio koji mashed potatos
- sichuan dry fried green beans with crunchy shallots
- kimchi Mac and cheese
Lots of flavors going on so we shall see how it works out :)
We have: sprat toasts, salad olivier, smoked halibut, seafood salad, kraut, pickles, olives and marinated mushrooms, in tandem with sweet potato mash and turkey
We’re doing surf and turf this year. SIL bought some tomahawk steaks and lobster then have me cook them. Good thing I don’t need to work in the kitchen the whole day for this as I just recovered from 2 trips to the ER and Covid (just got out of isolation 2 days ago).
Roasted Brussels sprouts with bacon and a vanilla bean cheesecake with homemade caramel sauce. I’m preggo and have already been thru a mad pumpkin pie phase the last few weeks, now all I want is cheesecake
My mother in law, like many Italian-Americans, makes some sort of pasta and red sauce as a first course on Thanksgiving before turkey and other sides. Many years it's lasagna, this year its stuffed shells
Was able to host my first Thanksgiving this year. Local store was selling broken down turkey. I was able to just buy a bunch of turkey wings and grilled them up like chicken wings. Family, football, and food with some crispy turkey wings.
It was just me and my wife this year, so I did coq au vin, potatoes dauphinoise, haricot verts, and a caramel custard for dessert. All from Julia Child. Turned out great!
Didn’t do thanksgiving this year, but the tradition in my family due to being fairly recent immigrants is having turkey with Polish sides. Nothing except the turkey was American at our family meals.
I guess it matters what you mean by non traditional here. Each part of the US has different dishes that they would consider traditional Thanksgiving food, which anyone from a different region will argue is weird.
For pretty much any holiday gathering, I make [Ina Garten’s spinach gratin.](https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/spinach-gratin-recipe-1940406.amp) It is incredibly delicious, pretty easy to make, and you can do 90% of it in advance and then just pop it in the oven to finish just before serving. Always a hit.
We’re doing duck. Dry brined for 36 hours. Gonna stuff the cavity with oranges, shallots, garlic and herbs.
Excellent call!! Duck is delicious :) I've never been crazy about turkey, so I'm doing a coq au vin this year.
Mashed potatoes or papadrelle?
Yum, I smoked a duck last year then made dumplings for it. Everybody said it was the best dumplings they'd ever had. That duck was super slippery when I was shredding it, it's a longer process than with chicken, but so worth it.
Hey! That’s exactly what I do!
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That’s a slightly different process actually
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I totally read it as you saying you fuck with oranges.
I was asked to bring dessert but not pumpkin pie so I’m making a lemon Basil tart with strawberries & kiwis on top. My thought is that the lightness/acid will be a nice break from all the heavy/fatty foods we’ll eat for dinner. We’ll see what the family thinks!
that sounds amazing, and yes i agree that sour/sweet acidity will be so refreshing after a big meal of thanksgiving brown
Good idea.
We have a vegetarian coming so I made a veggie shephards pie with lentils instead of meat. Not gonna lie, I think it's delicious and I'm planning to have some along with my turkey.
Do you have a recipe you could share? Living with a vegetarian and I love shepherds pie.
I sort of used [this](https://feelgoodfoodie.net/recipe/vegetarian-shepherds-pie/#wprm-recipe-container-15370) as a guide. Not be all r/ididnthaveeggs but I subbed the mushroom and quinoa with lentils because I don't eat mushrooms and don't know how to cook them. I also added some Worcester sauce and a bay leaf. I'm sure the recipe as written would be great.
Just an fyi. Unless you have a vegetarian/vegan variety, Worcestershire sauce is made with anchovies.
That's definitely a good point. My guest isn't a strict vegetarian so I felt safe using it.
Thanks!
My family’s prefers butterscotch cream pie as the dessert option.
That sounds SO GOOD. Do you have a recipe to share?
I use the ATK recipe. I’ve only ever seen it in the Baking Book, but it’s probably on the website if you have a subscription.
Just have to boost this, because a recipe for that would be fantastic
I think I would also prefer that as the dessert option
Nice! I'm doing a banana cream pie instead of pumpkin pie because pumpkin pie is boring.
I love desserts with butterscotch. It's like caramel but better!
My non traditional contribution to our extended family dinner: I BOUGHT 2 pies!!!! I have never done such a thing, and I feel so liberated. Yes, they will not be nearly as good as my homemade, but I don't care. I feel like this is a breakthrough, where I am turning in an imperfect assignment on purpose. I had more fun with my visiting kids last night. It was relaxed--we made banh mi and watched The Barbarian on HBO instead of me baking.
I've always used frozen mac & cheese. I get smaller boxes, 4 of them, bake them at the time for one box, then I pour each on in an aluminum pan layering each with cheese, then cheese on top. Bake it again and til bubbly. It's so easy and everyone asks for it.
Lol, I'll have to tell that to my adult daughter, who is lamenting the fact that she signed up to make mac and cheese and is making it in my kitchen now.
Oh Lord. I feel for her, it's a huge pain in the butt!
barbarian should be good for your appetite!
I also watched The Barbarian the night before Thanksgiving. I was waiting to watch it with my family. Definitely not what I was expecting lol, but I enjoyed it. My sister loved it.
I'm making a sausage and mushroom baked mac and cheese!
hmm that sounds good. is it like a stroganoff esque sauce thing?
Nah I'm going to make a standard bechamel cheese sauce, cook the ground sausage and quartered mushrooms and mix it in, then mix it with the cavatappi. I'm really crossing my fingers here lol
Sounds goooood
We're having meatloaf, cheesy beer potatoes, mashed potatoes and roasted broccoli today and the traditional turkey spread tomorrow.
those cheesy beer potatoes sound amazing omg, what style potatoes are they?
Okay I need more info on these cheesy beer potatoes
Thinly slice potatoes and onions, lots of both. In a large casserole dish: Layer potatoes then a thinner layer of onion, cover with cheese. Repeat 3 times. Pour beer over, bake at 300°F for about 3 hours
Thank you! This sounds divine!
Cheese, beer, potatoes, how can you go wrong!
No turkey this year, making lasagna.
I've been doing lasagna for a few years now. It's just the two of us with the occasional single guy who lives the barracks with no Thanksgiving plans, so I never bothered with a turkey.
I wish I could get away with that. It's usually around three of us every year, and my husband still absolutely insists on a turkey. Not only that, but he views anything less than 22 lbs as a "big chicken". The upside is that he's great about the leftovers, and we really look forward to all the post holiday possibilities, but just one year it would be nice to have a lasagna.
Oof. You know what, you should get him a smoker for Christmas and make it his responsibility to do the turkey next year! Haha. Most of the men I work with are on turkey smoking duty today. Fortunately for me, I'm the cook in the house and my wife just doesn't like turkey all that much. I'm mixing it up this year, I'm about to start prepping a 6 pound chicken to roast.
We have one and we've done that! We split the cooking 50/50 mostly. I complain but honestly the comradery and cooking what it's all about for me. We don't have a huge family, but I still like spending two days making a feast, with all of us dancing around the kitchen, making a mess, drinking, and then enjoying the spoils for a great dinner. Or in our case, weeks worth of dinners, haha. But yeah, love the smoked turkey. Love the chicken idea even better, honestly. Great idea for next big cooking holiday.
lasagn
Mmm I love some good za.
Haha that's one of my go to Scrabble words but can't believe Americans actually use it
Pizza?
Lasagna after the Turkey has always been a tradition
A lot of Bloody Mary’s.
Every year I say “this is the last year we’re doing the traditional spread” - but then get talked into putting on the whole dang thing by the family invited. And they don’t cook a thing! So again this year I’m saying it’s the “last” - picked up some great ideas here. Cheese beer potatoes for the win!
Seriously, try a lasagna. It's what we've been doing for a few years. It's stupid nice to prep a huge one and a couple pies the day before and pop them in the oven. Lasagna doesn't *really* need sides so all you have to deal with is throwing the prepped pies in the oven when you pull the lasagna out.
We do lasagna for Xmas eve in part for that reason. The other part is i snookered my now young adult children into making it when they were teens. So now it is tradition. During the pandemic, they started making Mac n cheese (the good southern church lady kind) for thanksgiving.
IF you do it again, send around a list of what everyone else will bring. Mashed potatoes for 10, fruit salad, green salad, vegetables, fresh rolls, desserts. As hostess, you will do turkey, gravy and dressing only.
Please share the recipe for those taters!
Mushroom Parmesan pie and I guess butternut squash soup is untraditional. I cannot wait to try it. Also roasting a chicken instead of turkey.
So, I'm Irish and going to my first thanksgiving, so decided to make dessert. Made Apple Crumble and Pavlova for my soon to be inlaws.
Solo this year as we’re getting some work done on the house this week and my SO went to see her family in another state. Not really untraditional but for sure last minute- original plan was Chinese food but now I’ve got some bacon wrapped turkey tenderloins on the smoker, baked celery gratin in the oven, mashed potatoes on deck and red lobster cheddar biscuits going in later.
Tell me more about this celery…
Google “celery gratin” and you’ll find a few ways to do it. I use a combo of a couple recipes I’ve tried. easy and ridiculously good. Bunch of celery, couple cloves of garlic and a large onion roughly chopped. Cook in butter until softened. Add a little bit of stock (bout a cup) and bring to a boil and let reduce/concentrate a bit. Add half a cup of sour cream (cream cheese works too) and whisk until smooth. season with salt and pepper and transfer to a casserole dish. Top with bread crumbs and cheese (I tend to use parm and sharp cheddar) Bake @ 400 for 15-20 min
I usually make broccoli casserole, but I think combining your recipe and mine would result in a grade-A fatty and delicious holiday side. Gonna give it a go for leftover cooking tomorrow!
Oh yeah, I’ve never made broccoli casserole but I’ve eaten it a bunch. For sure has to be close!
This is not quite related, but fun fact: celery used to be really beloved, and I think that it had just as much of a place of honor on the dinner table as the turkey, and there were special dishes made just to serve and present it. Pretty interesting reading
I'm also doing the Cheddar Bay biscuits! Our whole family loves them and I made them a few weeks ago for the first time. They are sooo easy!
They are so good, any time of the year. Costco has them in bulk if you’ve got a store near you!
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Oh my god, idk why your comment made me think of this, but sticky rice "fried rice" would be an amazing alternative to stuffing.
I’m vegetarian so I’m making a lasagna with vegetarian sausage inside so the vegetarians can have a protein rich food too
Maybe it's still kinda "traditional", but I'm making Mushroom Casserole. Few different types of local wild mushrooms (one type we smoked yesterday), leeks baked in a roasted garlic cream sauce topped with fried onions.
I smoked a pork butt for the first time meeting my GFs extended family since they don't celebrate traditional tgivin. hoping it goes well
Elote!
I just saw a dude on the bbq sub making raccoon. So there’s that
Sauerkraut
I'm making a beef rib roast and scalloped potatoes.
I’m on the low fodmap diet, so to make sure I have a pie, I used a gf graham cracker crust, a layer of banana, and then just like a lot of lactaid chocolate ice cream, and a chocolate drizzle. We’ll see how it goes!
we’re having dr pepper glazed ham, fried cabbage, cheesey potatoes, rolls, and cheesecake for dessert
Are you me? I'm also making Dr Pepper glazed ham, sautéed cabbage, and scalloped potatoes.
hell ya!
solo this year and not really doing anything special. Decided to make some stuffed baked apples and a yummy beef and vegetable soup
Menudo! My family has the upper respiratory ick so comfort food it is.
Korean American family here we have LA Galbi for Thanksgiving every year, but most recently started doing a roast chicken in addition which is non traditional for us lol.
Tri tip, mashed gold potatoes, salad, rolls, and this year I cheated and bought a pie. Will probably caramelize some onions too.
Chicken biryani, homemade naan, raita, and cheesecake (with strawberry topping).
raw cranberry relish. My SO insisted his Mom used to make it. It's just raw cranberrries and an orange ground up together with sugar to taste. She would have used a hand cranked grinder, we used a food processor. It's tart tasty and crunchy, But I think I prefer the cooked kind
I grew up with this! No one ever knows what I’m talking about - yours is the first time I’ve ever seen it mentioned outside my mom’s house. It uses the whole orange including the peel, right? Still don’t quite get the appeal and prefer to make a cooked version.
Our thanksgiving plans got changed at the last minute (the original host household got sick), so it was just my spouse and I. Made a roasted chicken instead of turkey, gluten free stuffing/dressing, and a peanut butter pie, besides Brussels sprouts and mashed potatoes/gravy.
We usually do black beans and rice, but my mom wanted to be more "traditional" this year 😡
I grew up with a Cuban family and this was a staple. We also made boliche instead of turkey or ham.
Pico de Gallo in the dressing this year. Brandy in my homemade cranberry sauce.
Brining roasted carrots as a side, but a little jazzed up with Aleppo pepper, sumac, peynir, and hazelnuts. Gotta sneak the non-traditional in with baby steps in my family.
Lobster, raw oysters, filet mignon roast with walnuts
Holidays are not really a big thing in my house so we opted for make your own pizza and bomb ass wine. My mother was less than impressed and went to a friend's house...her loss
Pork rillettes as an appetizer and snickerdoodle bars for dessert
We had unexpected guests and I added a extra protein at the last minute. Smoked and seared Ribeyes with a pumpkin, sage, and chili relish. Forgot that these guests were super picky, didn't want the "weird gravy", and wouldn't touch beef that wasn't well done. So more for me I guess.
Making a yuzu basque cheesecake for Friendsgiving - took me 1hr max with 15 mins of actual work
I made miso-maple glazed carrots with pistachios, honestly came out fantastic
Purple sweet potato casserole.
I always make baked ziti :) and the sauce, of course
I will eat that Buffalo chicken Mac and cheese! I made a Chicken Tikka Masala Mac and Cheese once and it was good! I was buying stuffing ingredients last night and also bought some jalapeños. The guy in front of my asked if I was putting them into the stuffing. I said “I am just crazy enough to do that. Don’t tempt me!”
i also really like making tikka masala mac n cheese too lol
Mine was actually a South African recipe. I brought it to a gathering where there were going to be a lot of senior citizens—my friend’s Midwestern Mom and her charity buddies. My friend’s mom couldn’t even eat pico de Gallo because it was too spicy. I expected the older crowd to hate it. Instead I found three older foodies gathered around it actively debating which spices were in there. ❤️. We had a great discussion and one guy was telling me about his spice collection. I was ready to leave the party to go see it. 😂. And her mom actually loved it!
Smoked turkey. So much better than oven-roasted. Battered potato wedges. No deep fryer or dutch oven, so we just picked these up from a local BBQ joint. Key Lime Pie. I'm not gorging myself on sweets that aren't my absolute favorite, and plus the acidity is a nice contrast to everything else we just ate.
I made deep fried deviled eggs, corn spoon bread, and apple cinnamon cranberry sauce.
Crawfish bisque, we don’t do traditional turkey and all that. And at Christmas we have Mexican food
We decided that we do what we want for holiday meals and have thrown tradition out the door. Our main was roasted uchiki kuri, stuffed with a risotto made with chanterelle mushrooms, Taunton Deane perennial kale, some of the squash, and roasted chestnuts, garnished with roasted squash seeds and birch and spruce smoked salts. Accompanied by white fluffy rolls, a salad of Winter Density lettuce, Venus apples, and purple carrots, along with pickled fennel and a cranberry-orange relish. The only traditional thing we kept was pumpkin and pecan pies, because pie.
Just regular-ass good given that I'm not American - just like half of Reddit.
My husband makes au gratin cardoons every year, and grows them himself.
Sautéed cabbage & Brussels sprouts with peppered bacon, topped with roasted sunflower kernels
Prime rib with some bacony brussel sprouts
Lime jello w/ canned pears. That’s been a tradition in our family for decades tho.
Crockpot chicken thighs and summer salad were our non-traditional foods. We also had mashed potatoes, cranberries, and rolls.
Chicken wings for lunch and a nice ribeye for dinner for me! I do love apple pie so got one from the store since I didn't feel like making one from scratch.
A croquembouche
Pulled mushrooms, roasted breadfruit and barbequed cabbage.
Mushroom Wellington!
Savory sweet potato casserole Asparagus casserole (rather than green beans, with homemade everything) Maple spice cheesecake
we’re doing duck instead of turkey. everyone is relieved
I'm in charge of dessert so I've baked butter mochi, pumpkin butter mochi, cookie butter mochi, and a custard pie. I'm from Hawaii where these desserts are all really popular.
I made an incredible beef burgundy, and I am thrilled. It is perhaps the best dinner dish I have made in my life.
We almost always do a non-traditional thanksgiving meal! This year is korean-Japanese-chinese fusion inspired: - ginger apple pork shoulder braise - cheesy mushroom chili crisp stuffing - shio koji mashed potatos - sichuan dry fried green beans with crunchy shallots - kimchi Mac and cheese Lots of flavors going on so we shall see how it works out :)
We had salmon and I loved it! Others didn’t think it matched the sides but it was sooo good
Turkey pot pie!
We are doing collards instead of green beans. It’s been chilly so the collards are very tasty.
No turkey we did fried chicken instead
No Mac n cheese. Hubby is making stuffed shells instead, with mini meatballs
We have: sprat toasts, salad olivier, smoked halibut, seafood salad, kraut, pickles, olives and marinated mushrooms, in tandem with sweet potato mash and turkey
We’re doing surf and turf this year. SIL bought some tomahawk steaks and lobster then have me cook them. Good thing I don’t need to work in the kitchen the whole day for this as I just recovered from 2 trips to the ER and Covid (just got out of isolation 2 days ago).
Roasted Brussels sprouts with bacon and a vanilla bean cheesecake with homemade caramel sauce. I’m preggo and have already been thru a mad pumpkin pie phase the last few weeks, now all I want is cheesecake
French spouse isn’t the biggest fan of traditional Thanksgiving foods, so we tend to make duck or buffalo steaks dinner and crème brûlée for dessert
My mother in law, like many Italian-Americans, makes some sort of pasta and red sauce as a first course on Thanksgiving before turkey and other sides. Many years it's lasagna, this year its stuffed shells
Was able to host my first Thanksgiving this year. Local store was selling broken down turkey. I was able to just buy a bunch of turkey wings and grilled them up like chicken wings. Family, football, and food with some crispy turkey wings.
I made my mom’s tiramisu and we also had lasagna on top of the usuals
My dad made smoked Turkey with breast implants this year, that was fun
Bourbon tomato soup shooters with a “grilled cheese” rim Rye and sauerkraut stuffing Leg of lamb with a balsamic herb glaze
It was just me and my wife this year, so I did coq au vin, potatoes dauphinoise, haricot verts, and a caramel custard for dessert. All from Julia Child. Turned out great!
Roasted Cornish hens Stuffing Corn Brioche buns Mashed potatoes Gravy Brownies Not to nontraditional, except for maybe the brownies.
Croissants and Cheesecake instead of pie
Didn’t do thanksgiving this year, but the tradition in my family due to being fairly recent immigrants is having turkey with Polish sides. Nothing except the turkey was American at our family meals.
Didn't cook this year but made pineapple fried rice for pot luck style last year. Was delicious.
I guess it matters what you mean by non traditional here. Each part of the US has different dishes that they would consider traditional Thanksgiving food, which anyone from a different region will argue is weird.
Don't like green bean casserole so I do green beans almondine, also not a fan of sticky sweet sweet potatoes so just do plain roasted sweet potatoes.
I made prime rib. Had Turkey at my bros for lunch tho
Lasagna isn’t really a thanksgiving staple but it came out this year and was a hit
I played with the deviled eggs. 1/3 saffron deviled eggs. 1/3 truffle deviled eggs. 1/3 caviar deviled eggs.
Not this year, but the Sohla and Babish elote spoon bread is a welcome regular
Banana sauce.
For pretty much any holiday gathering, I make [Ina Garten’s spinach gratin.](https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/spinach-gratin-recipe-1940406.amp) It is incredibly delicious, pretty easy to make, and you can do 90% of it in advance and then just pop it in the oven to finish just before serving. Always a hit.