Thanksgiving 2025

[nycfan]

Thought is might be nice to share recipes, plans and other holiday details — maybe even a place to blow off steam about family political kerfuffles.



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Since I am usually the cook, I have not had the opportunity to enjoy this new tradition, but certain my husband has (more of “I’m just going to sit out on the back porch for a while”).

 

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[Ddseddse]

What's the most "old-timey" traditional thanksgiving dish in your family (or really any other dish you would never eat any other time of the year except on Thanksgiving)?

Mine is pearl onions in butter and cream. Passed down from my maternal grandmother. I don't even like it that much, but it's tradition.

 

[GoHeelsweeeehoooo]

Luckily I'm going to my uncle's house for Thanksgiving so don't have to really prepare anything - we are going to pick up an apple pie up in the mountains when we go to pick up our daughter from Western Carolina on Wednesday

 

[Heelsandeers]

Fried turkey and lasagna bolognese this year for mains

Not sure about the rest of the menu

 

[lawtig02]

What's the most "old-timey" traditional thanksgiving dish in your family (or really any other dish you would never eat any other time of the year except on Thanksgiving)?

Mine is pearl onions in butter and cream. Passed down from my maternal grandmother. I don't even like it that much, but it's tradition.

Oyster pie.

 

[C-Money]

Give me all the deviled eggs.

 

[nrsair]

We’re in the middle of a kitchen renovation so my mom volunteered to host. She loves to cook healthy so I told her we’re looking forward to having some fresh food and would be happy to help prep or cook in any way. Last week she let me know that she was catering the whole thing from a local place which is basically a fancy Cracker Barrel- bland and salty southern white people food. Sigh.

Since she’s not cooking I will make Kenji Lopez’s stuffing, which is incredible:

Classic Sage and Sausage Stuffing (Dressing) Recipe

Our traditional sausage and sage Thanksgiving stuffing (dressing) owes its perfect custardy texture to oven-dried bread and a base of eggs, broth, and butter.

www.seriouseats.com

Will also try my hand at this cranberry tart with ginger snap crust, which my wife’s sister makes when when we do Thanksgiving with their side of the family. I cannot overstate how good it is.

cranberry curd gingersnap tart - Olives + Thyme - Pies and Tarts

vibrant and full of festive flavors. this tart is made with a sweet and tart cranberry curd and a buttery, press-in gingersnap crust.

olivesnthyme.com

 

[korgguy1971]

Mrs. Korg & I are strict vegetarians/vegans. We usually do a homemade baked lentil loaf (it's VERY good) and the rest of the regular fixin's but this year we're hosting my mother and a friend of hers from where she lives, so we've decided to go off the board and do a spread of Mexican food. We use Butler Soy Curls for the meat and I even have a great recipe for vegan queso. I know the name "soy curls" may sound off-putting, but they are AMAZING. When prepared, they are identical in texture to tender strips of chicken, beef, or turkey. If anyone's interested in any plant-based recipes that we use, I'll be happy to post some here.

 

[Ddseddse]

Give me all the deviled eggs.

This belongs on the foodie thread, but I've just discovered a new ingredient; Himalayan black salt (not the volcanic ash type black salt).

Man, this stuff is great! it is very high in sulfur and gives anything you use it in a touch of that sulfur funk you get from a good hard boiled egg yolk. My first thought was that it would be take deviled eggs to the next level!

I got mine in an Asian market, but probably most reliably found in an Indian grocery store (of which there are many in the Triangle) if you wanted to experiment this Thanksgiving.

Kala namak - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

As soon as you taste a bit of it, you'll know exactly what I mean.

 

[Ddseddse]

Oyster pie.

Do you have a recipe?

 

[lawtig02]

Do you have a recipe?

Sadly no, as one of my aunts has always made it and she's never used a recipe in her life, but it would be something similar to this -- The best traditional southern oyster pie recipe: the simplest southern holiday dish on the buffet.

 

[farce©]

My family is having Thanksgiving dinner on Friday since my nieces and their husbands haven't figured out how to tell their families that they prefer to have Thanksgiving with each family on alternate years. This was easy when I living in Ohio with my first wife. We would come to NC one year and go to Alabama to visit her family the next year. My nieces were doing two Thanksgiving dinners, one early and one late, with both families for years. Part of this issue is likely my sister insisting her daughters come together for Thanksgiving (and Christmas) every year.

In any case, we have a friend who recently moved from Uptown out to Waxhaw (!) and he is having a Friendsgiving onThursday which we will be attending. I am taking the sweet potato casserole and deviled eggs. My family will gather Friday at my niece's house on Lake Norman and for that one I am taking the mashed potatoes. My family never really ate mashed potatoes at Thanksgiving since there was plenty of starch in the dressing and other dishes, but my wife is a Yankee and she thinks it is sacrilege not to have mashed potatoes, so we will take them.

Everybody in my family is a better cook than I so they don't much care if I just show up with something like mashed potatoes or deviled eggs and a few bottles of wine. None of my dishes are in demand.

 

[Ddseddse]

Sadly no, as one of my aunts has always made it and she's never used a recipe in her life, but it would be something similar to this -- The best traditional southern oyster pie recipe: the simplest southern holiday dish on the buffet.

Thanks!

 

[gregh1]

Give me all the deviled eggs.

You been to Bright Penny brewery in Mebane? Their speciality, other than beer and pretty good pizza, is deviled eggs - they have like 10 different styles.

 

[nrsair]

Mrs. Korg & I are strict vegetarians/vegans. We usually do a homemade baked lentil loaf (it's VERY good) and the rest of the regular fixin's but this year we're hosting my mother and a friend of hers from where she lives, so we've decided to go off the board and do a spread of Mexican food. We use Butler Soy Curls for the meat and I even have a great recipe for vegan queso. I know the name "soy curls" may sound off-putting, but they are AMAZING. When prepared, they are identical in texture to tender strips of chicken, beef, or turkey. If anyone's interested in any plant-based recipes that we use, I'll be happy to post some here.

We had some vegetarian friends over for Thanksgiving a few years ago and I made the NYT’s mushroom Wellington. They still bring it up every time we talk about Thanksgiving.

Vegetarian Mushroom Wellington Recipe

Classic beef Wellington is a technical feat in which a tenderloin is topped with foie gras or mushroom duxelles, then wrapped in puff pastry and baked This vegetarian version is less exacting yet just as impressive Seared portobello mushrooms are layered with apple cider-caramelized onions and...

cooking.nytimes.com

Mine was not that pretty but damn was it good.

 

[gregh1]

Also, thanks for the reminder that it's thanksgiving. A ton of homes in our neighborhood already have XMAS lights and decor setup and powered.