Main course being jambalaya and crab legs with gluten free hushpuppies, deviled eggs w/ smoked fish, a lemon poached shrimp dip, French bread and baked corn pudding. My wife did the heavy lifting in the kitchen and I made hurricanes/kept the wine flowing
My whole family hates turkey. It took a long time to get every one of them to admit it after faking it so long through decades of thanksgivings, but we finally all agree.
Yet for some reason we still cook the turkey, eat a tiny bit of it almost ceremonially, and then eat the actual good food we prepared. Then as to not waste food, we slowly eat that turkey in sandwiches for the next couple weeks.
Really wish we could do something like this for our thanksgiving next year, this looks great minus the flag.
We did lasagna one year, it's super easy to make gallons of good bolognese and you can use it for tons of things.
My family did lasagna yesterday as a side dish. Didn't make it ourselves though, just a medium sized frozen one. I gotta convince them to let me do the cooking next year. A mostly pasta based thanksgiving would be wonderful.