This wasn’t our first Thanksgiving together, but it was our first Thanksgiving living together, and we love planning feasts so we did many of the traditional American Thanksgiving dishes – but with some Italian twists. If we really wanted to do an Italian-American Thanksgiving, there would have been ravioli. He should know. He has Italian Grandmas.
The menu:
-dry brine turkey (substituting Italian seasoning)
-ginger-orange cranberry sauce (not Italian at all – just delicious)
-pesto mashed potatoes
-stuffing with Italian sausage and seasoning
-parker house rolls (not Italian – just delicious)
-a sautee of tomatoes, mushrooms, pine nuts, garlic, basil, and taragon in olive oil and balsamic
-pumpkin tiramisu (in hindsight, it would have been better with the pumpkin in the cream instead of in the cake.)
-antipasto (salami, 2 cheeses, 2 olives, cucumber slices, crackers, apples)
-Martinelli’s apple-marionberry cider (tasted like slightly fizzy red wine…not a fan.)
A couple days after Thanksgiving, we always make enchiladas with the leftover turkey. Since it was just two of us, we have a LOT of leftover turkey, even after eating leftovers for a couple days. Thankfully, we both love enchiladas.
My ginger-cranberry sauce:
Alton Brown’s dry brine turkey:
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