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For weeks now, everywhere you turn, it has been Thanksgiving as far as the eye can see. Here at Slashfood, we posted three menus, a bevy of side dishes and some excellent suggestions for wines to drink with your meals. At The Kitchn, they've been talking pie since November 1st (that's a lot of pie). Ree, The Pioneer Woman, has photographed so many Thanksgiving recipes I'm astounded she can still bear to be in her kitchen. And every newspaper section in the country has written about turkey, apples, pumpkins and cranberries ad naseum. The thing is that for all these recipes, tips, suggestions and turkey tricks, how many of us actually vary our Thanksgiving day menu from year to year? I'm serving up a meal this year for the holiday that is very much like the one I've eaten with my family since I could first gum a couple of spoonfuls of mashed potato.
Over at Slate, Regina Schrambling has written a piece that describes just this conundrum - food sections, blogs and magazines who feel the need to reinvent the holiday each year, when most people turn to the familiar recipes they've been making for years. It's a good read that will get you in the mood to head to the kitchen and cook up your Thanksgiving favorites.
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11-27-2008 @8:03AM CJ said... I make Thanksgiving pretty much like my mom did. I have changed the sweet potatoes several times. 2 years ago I found a recipe for them my in-laws finally liked. They are mashed, sweetened, and spiced and topped with pecans. They have a pumpkin pie taste.
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11-27-2008 @9:22AM Sally said... My biggest problem with Thanksgiving dinner is that once we get beyond the turkey and mashed potatoes and gravy, everyone likes something different. Some like corn bread dressing, some like white bread; some like sweet potatoes, some don't; some like green beans, some want corn; Some like pumpkin pie, some like pecan, some like apple. And on it goes. Everyone wants the things they like at the Thanksgiving feast. This wouldn't be a problem but that we are a very small family, so to make this for one meal is ridiculous.
Fortunately, we often have Thanksgiving dinner with family friends and I take the things I know will be missed if they don't appear. Whew! If something is missed, I make it sometime over the long weekend.
I've found that there is one meal annually that I can't change: Christmas dinner. Both the food served and how it's prepared must be the same year after year.
Our traditional Christmas dinner started when I was newly divorced and couldn't afford much. I bought a ham steak and made scalloped potatoes and had broccoli on the side. As our situation improved, I tried to upgrade the dinner to a beef tenderloin. My children vetoed it; they wanted what we'd been having. Over the years, the only change I've made to that menu is to add roasted carrots.
If we have Christmas dinner with friends, my kids demand that this exact meal be made sometime between Christmas and New Year's -- the closer to Christmas the better.
I've never been able to work the beef tenderloin into the holiday rotation!
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