In my Greek American family, stuffing/dressing was always rice with ground meat, pine nuts, tomato.
We didn’t have bread-based stuffing until I started making it as a teenager.
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Global weirdness update: in the middle of the pandemic, my 40+ year old ficus, which currently lives in my dining room and has never seen the outdoors, produced a little fig-ish thingy. Why I don’t know. It later fell off and rolled somewhere.
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- “Pineapple Casserole”
- Dolmas
- Fried turkey ( dark meat)
- Baked macaroni and cheese
- Sweet potato casserole
- dry brined chicken (white meat)
7 ? - rice peas
- ham
Ginger beer and sorrel.
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This is a picture of beauty. I am going to share it on FB.
Dolma / Dolmades and/or Spanakopita/ Burek/ Bouregi at every holiday is the correct way.
Several years ago, my Irish German American cousin married to an Italian American in Pittsburgh asked me what we ate on Canadian Thanksgiving when I was kvetching that we had missed 3 Cdn Thanksgivings in a row due to various Pittsburgh cousins’ kids getting married that October weekend. I told her turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes and spanakopita, followed by pumpkin pie. Well, she surprised us when she had us to dinner the night before that 3rd family wedding. She made us everything I mentioned, including her first spanakopita ever. 
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OMG, I love this.
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How sweet 
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Glow. My husband was telling a friend (whose T-day family dinner invite is for later today) that we’d already had ours. And said “The table with food looked like something out of a magazine; she’s a great cook.” Now you & I know that no magazine photo would feature a bird like the one pictured here, but it and the rest of the meal did all taste just right. The 4 pound stuffed chicken was done in 2 hours in my covered roaster, and rested for 10 minutes while I got everything else into serving dishes and on the table.
Served on china inherited from my Mom’s mom, silver pie server also inherited from her and I’ve had it replated, table decorations included 2 small pumpkins gifted by grand-nieces from their garden, and kitschy turkey napkin holder was my Mom’s, made for her by a neighborhood friend.
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Well done! Looks like a nice meal worth raving over.
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Pear, quince and apple crostata with some of my lemon verbena ice cream.
This pastry really delivers. There only one quince in the fruit mixture, but it perfumes everything. It’s so delicious. And the dough, even without lamination, was beautifully flaky. A keeper.
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I have that same turkey platter! It was a gift to me a long, long time ago.
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Tday 2023 is a wrap! I accidentally over-browned the top of the stuffing under the broiler, but everything else was just about perfect. The only new recipe, Japanese Milk Bread rolls from KAF, was an absolute keeper. I’m heading to the kitchen for a second piece of pie now!
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They are stunning!
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Too much food but worked out well!
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Like others, a fine meal and a lot of leftovers. My favorites were before and after, Domaine Chandon brut rose while cooking and my daughter’s cheesecake. A wine splurge with the meal, Sokol Blosser Big Tree Lot, was terrific. I could have had only dressing and green beans and been quite happy.
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I won’t bother with photos other than my stuffing and store-bought pie.
Nothing was too photogenic tonight. The turkey thigh roast from the store was too salty. Hadn’t tried one before.
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The main course was our favorite special occasion protein - Dungeness crab. The boil called for an elaborate spice bag, along with lemon juice and cayenne in the water. The result tasted like…crab. So I could’ve saved myself some time there, and the cost of a package of cheese cloth. What the hell am I gonna do with all this cheese cloth?
The sides: spaghetti squash with tarragon, parm and roasted squash seeds; potato-flavored mashed butter; and my very first stuffing! It was too salty. But otherwise pretty good, and I got to make use of my balcony sage, still going strong despite the cold weather. Also Romaine lettuce with blue cheese dressing, and a cranberry sauce cylinder, because that’s the law.
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Well done!
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Your dining partner picks his own crab? You are living in an alternative universe!
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