s/o What nontraditional dish do you serve @ Thanksgiving?

I always make spanakopita (spinach & feta in phyllo pastry) for DH and usually get asked to bring them if we aren't hosting dinner.


ETA I don't have a true recipe, just a little of this, little of that I learned from my MIL. There are tons of recipes out there, and this is the one closest to what I make.

Spanakopita

Parmesan is a substitute for the Greek cheese kefalotyri (usually available at a Mediterranean market or Whole Foods).

I also add about 1/4 tsp of nutmeg and a little finely chopped lemon zest.

I never add any salt because the feta is salty enough and I use salted butter.

If you don't want to make triangles, layer 5-6  sheets of phyllo in a 9x13 baking pan, add the filling and top with more layers of phyllo and just bake a little longer than the individual pies (35-40 min?).

Do you just saute it olive oil/butter with the soy sauce and toss in the cashews?  Need a recipe please!

Where I live most people have keibasi with all holiday meals but I don't think that's traditional in most areas. So its sort of traditional and sort of not.

And how could I forget the waldorf salad my Mom always makes. Apples, grapes, walnuts and a sweet mayonnaise based sauce.

I wrote this in a different post, but we always start Thanksgiving dinner with a pasta course, usually cavatelli with tomato sauce. It's an Italian thing.

A family member used to always make an "adult" jello that had big soft black cherries soaked in port as well as pecans and other stuff. Everyone raved about it ( I was a kid and not allowed to try it). These days I dont eat jello.

If you haven't seen it yet, check out the old jello salad thread on the history board which will have you in stitches

On my side of the family we have lefse and we also have chocolate cake. My uncle's birthday is right around Thanksgiving so we cake as well as pie. Works out great for me, as I am not a pie eater.

We always have a pasta dish to start and I serve guacamole and chips as one of the appetizers. A lot of us love guacamole and chips (I make a really good guacamole!) and everyone always requests it, so I make it for all the big holidays! It definitely isn't a traditional Thanksgiving course but it is pretty darn delicious!

I would love your recipe if you'll share it!

We always have a green salad. It's not that untraditional, but I don't often see it on the Thanksgiving menus shared here.

We usually have some kind of seafood - usually shrimp dish but occasionally gumbo. Mom is trying to get down to the boats today to pick up the shrimp.

We also always have a green salad (at pretty much every meal at my parent's house), but I probably wouldn't list it on the menu either. I would just forget.

In my family it's against the rules to have salad for Thanksgiving or Christmas. Why? Because you can't put gravy on it! My SIL tried to sneak one on the table a few Christmases ago (her family always has green salad) but we quickly nipped that in the bud! Totally random aside, but your post made me think of that. We do salads for every other meal, Christmas and Thanksgiving are a no go due to the gravy factor.

ETA: And the broccoli cashew sounds like something I want to try for tonight's "we have to use up as many vegetables as possible because the fridge is bursting" meal.

Not sure if this is non-traditional since it's traditional for our family, but I make my Grandma's fruit salad every year. It's a combination of apples, bananas, walnuts, cranberry sauce and whipped cream. It's more a dessert than salad but we always have it on holidays