It's only early November and already I am thinking turkey and pumpkin. Maybe I should have a pre-Thanksgiving dinner, just to taste test all the other recipes I won't make on Thanksgiving? Perhaps instead of that oldie but goodie - sweet potatoe casserole with crushed pineapple and marshmallows I'll try something more sophisticated? How about pecan praline and bourbon sweet potatoes? (Extra on the bourbon.)
Why, really, does the table have to have anything green on it at all, I wonder? Is it to assuage our guilt? I'm in favor of an all protein and carb dinner, though the other long-standing traditional casserole (green beans, cream of mushroom soup, and Durkee French fried onions) is still a fave with everyone. But wouldn't garlic roasted brussel sprouts taste wonderful, too?
Desserts are dominated by pies: apple, cherry, pumpkin, pecan-sometimes, but last year we snuck in a cranberry pound cake which was fab. Once we ran out of pie plates and made our pumpkin pie in an 8 x 8 square! (Not easy to cut, I must say.) Does the absence of chocolate not bother anyone? How about a chocolate-pecan chess pie?
And we could have stuffing three-ways: sausage, apple, chestnut; spicy corn bread; wild rice...hmmm --
Now, that's a new tradition I could live with. I'd better get cooking.
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