I could eat a whole meal of stuffing. But making a big turkey dinner? Not my cup o tea. Hubs does not like it and the boys do not care. So, I don’t. But if someone cooks it for me, well I am all over that. So let hubs cook away.
I think there a lot of people who don’t like turkey, ie me. If it were up to me, we’d have a big pot of spiced black eyed peas. My husband likes turkey, so he cooks one. He also makes vegetables (potatoes, squash, carrots) roasted in whole spices and they are divine.
By the way cooking an unstuffed turkey takes way less time than playing 24 holes of golf, so maybe your husband should adjust his priorities.
Way to compromise. It’s true – managing the merging of your family traditions with his family traditions in order to make your (plural) family traditions can be a delicate business. Either way — it would be just wrong if someone who hates turkey was forced to cook a turkey.
Your dinner sounds delish! Much better than the traditional turkey dinner!
I don’t eat turkey either (or any other meat), but I am required to cook it for Thanksgiving, per my husband’s wishes. Every year I am so grossed out and pitying the poor little bird. Yuck.
You had me until you started knocking pumpkin pie. Some things are SACRED, don’t you know?
I’m so deeply, deeply disappointed. 😉
I have to agree with the husband here. We like turkey dinner so much we had it twice. However, the soup and salad sounded like good Thanksgiving additions.
LisaDay
Whereas we host Thanksgiving for the entire family, complete with TWO turkeys. 🙂