We’re gonna have some raggits, and some rolls, and some reezinrizins.
Schedule:
I hoped to get some overtime work today, so I set up to have our family feast tomorrow on Friday instead. Its now 3pm on Thu and no sign of overtime today. Damn. I hope they don’t call tonight or tomorrow because I’ll have to say no. I hate it when I zig when I should have zagged.
Menu:
Tonight is just us two for grilled lamb steaks, green beans, and brown basmati with onions.
Tomorrow is our Thanksgiving-as-celebrated. We’ll have two other extended family members over. Which is pretty much every relative in the state.
I do the traditional turkey about half the years and something else the other years. As much as I love a good turkey I love variety even more.
This year will be a small caprese salad to start, slow roast pork loin with a stewed carrot sauce, crisped roast butternut squash with a browned butter & hazelnut sauce, a whole-grain rice / wild rice / oat / quinoa / etc. mixture, and sautéed asparagus. Plus cranberry sauce as a nod to Tradition.
Plus assorted olives & nuts for appetizers and berries & cheese for dessert. And aperitif, wine, liqueurs, etc. Eclectic but Fall-themed and bursting with healthy vibes. Cheap & easy too. With lots of leftovers for easy meals for a week to come.
We’ll eat on the patio since the temps are in the upper 70s with a nice sea breeze. We have much to be thankful for this past year.
Really? :dubious:
How is that contradictory? He could have visited those ten countries more than ten years ago.
It seems to me that being at home for the last decade makes “being near home” rather traditional.
ETA doing anything every year at the same time for the last decade counts as “traditional” for me.
Let’s see. Thursday I had tea, cereal and yoghurt, coffee, coffee and donut (at work), large fries and coffee (at work), cereal and yoghurt, chocolate sorbet and tea.
Does it get any more non-traditional than that?
I work every Thanksgiving. Smoke a turkey & have dinner with my family on Friday.
We decided to do a non-traditional Thanksgivng this year. We decided to do a ham instead of turkey and do Easter instead of Thanksgiving.
My sister and her husband hosted Thanksgiving for our family this year, and they served a full Irish breakfast instead of turkey, potatoes, cranberry, etc. Nobody was complaining … mmmmm, black pudding and white pudding! Which made much more welcome leftovers than cold dry turkey. 