For those of you who are making Thanksgiving dinner

[foxfirefey]

What are you making! Regale us with your planned tasties.

For those of you who don't do Thanksgiving, is there a particular holiday meal you most look forward to?

Comments

[hazel]

I'm in New Zealand and we don't celebrate Thanksgiving, so my favourite holiday meal is Christmas, which when I and my flat have hosted it consists of:

- scorched almonds (for breakfast - scorched almonds are coated in chocolate, and are Traditional)
- things on toast for breakfast
... and then basically a series of points during the day from about 2pm to about 8pm at which we eat:
- bread and dips (oils, dukkah, rock salt, pesto)
- cold roast ham
- salad
- barbeque (steak, shrimps, mushrooms, onion) (weather dependant)
- nut roast
- roast vegetables (potato, kumara [sweet potato], carrots, pumpkin)
- spinach and feta pastries
- Christmas cake
- usually some kind of biscuits [cookies] with chocolate in them
- trifle
- cheesecake

And drink a lot of wine! And have eggs the next morning for breakfast, along with many, many leftovers! \o/

[I find it really weird how many people seem to put sweet potatoes in sweet dishes. They're pretty exclusively treated as a savoury food here. Regional traditions for the win!]

[serene]

I *much* prefer my sweet potatoes savory. I probably belong in New Zealand. :-)

[hazel]

I really like to wrap them up in tinfoil, stick them in a low-burning fire for an hour or so, and then eat them with a little salt and lots of butter. Or else cut into wedges and served with salt and lemon juice. I can't really imagine eating them as part of a sweet dish.

[serene]

Yep, me, too. Roasted with olive oil and sea salt is also great.

[amadi]

My family has a fondness for "candied sweet potatoes" which is exactly as gallingly sweet as it sounds, slices of sweet potato baked with butter and brown sugar. My cousins are all about a casserole concoction with orange juice, brown sugar, bourbon and pecans. My cousins on the other side do a "souffle" (with no egg whites, so I don't know) that's actually topped with marshmallows.

I find all three appalling. Baked, plain, with butter, salt and pepper, thank you very much.

[existence]

I'm not a huge fan of candied sweet potatoes, but they do make a mean pie.