Canadian Thanksgiving is October 14, 2024.
American Thanksgiving is November 28, 2024.
I want to switch things up this year.
What are your plans for Thanksgiving 2024?
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Yikes it’s October already!
Here are some of the past T-day threads to jump-start planning:
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The New York Times Cooking website & cookbooks are Cookbooks of the Month from Oct-Dec, so if there’s anything from there on your menu, please join in there.
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I want to repeat a few things from last year:
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Homemade beet-tinged Gravlax (over tiny toasts with lemon creme fraiche)
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Shredded potato & sour cream cheesy casserole aka funeral potatoes (from the NYT, made by my friend’s teen daughter)
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Self-saucing Chocolate cake (ditto source & chef)
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The Cheesy Potato Casserole aka Funeral Potatoes recipe that my cousin’s wife makes for Thanksgiving is this Best of Bridge recipe. I hadn’t had them until Thanksgiving 1999. My cousin celebrates both Thanksgivings in Edmonton, because her mom was from Massachusetts. That visit, in 1999, was my first time having Thanksgiving at their house. Another relative brought a corn casserole with olives, something I had never had before. The turkey was stuffed with a French Canadian-style ground meat stuffing which is tastes a lot like tourtière filling.
Best of Bridge was a really popular cookbook series in Canada for a good 30 years.
The mushroom soup is an interesting addition, but I wonder about the salt combined with the cheese
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It’s high sodium, for sure.
I have made a similar casserole with cheese and sour cream, but regular leftover potatoes instead of frozen hash browns, which has worked. Really, it’s the cheese and sour cream, not the processed potatoes, that make the dish for me. 
