Who here would be cooking ANYTHING but turkey on Thanksgiving if your family would let you?

[jmowreader]

Trust me: if it weren't for the fact that my niece and four of her friends will be over on Thanksgiving I"d probably get a crab or something.

[SheltieLover]

1. We had ham once a few yrs ago

That's what hostess chose to cook. Lol

Cook a turkey & get your crab for yourself.

[Scrivener7]

2. I make a great turkey. I love it.

[hlthe2b]

3. Turkey has never been my favorite and since I'm working and not traveling, I will forego...

I may make some enchiladas and Spanish rice, some homemade yogurt to use to make the best fruit smoothies ever (mango-apple-pineapple-peach-flaxseed or peanut butter-strawberries-flaxseed are my current favs). I will freeze one and have the other while driving to work.

I do like the T'giving side dishes, but Christmas affords another chance.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. Turkey is not just for Thanksgiving.

Back when I had a husband and two kids I made turkey at least four or five times a year aside from Thanksgiving itself.

People make too big a deal of it. Just bake a turkey. More than once a year.

[Jilly_in_VA]

5. I'm not cooking or playing any part in Thanksgiving this year except for EATING

Husband is taking us to an inn in PA for a couple of days. We'll eat, drink, and be merry and not have to worry about cleanup or dishes or anything!

Over the past few years since we came to the understanding that neither one of us cares that much about turkey or "traditional" Thanksgiving foods, we've had lamb, roast beef, smoked chicken, and ribs. We do have a kind of tradition of a cranberry -apple cake which I sometimes make for Thanksgiving and sometimes for Christmas.

[Mz Pip]

6. We had ham last year

My son’s family doesn’t like turkey so I cooked a ham. We still had most of the regular sides.

This year it’s just me and Mr Pip so I’m roasting a chicken. Even that will be enough for a few days.

I might puck a small turkey up after Thanksgiving. I like to barbecue them in the summer if we have a big 4th of July party.

[chia]

7. Haven't made a turkey for I think 6 years now. It was a family vote, so now anything goes!

[ProfessorGAC]

8. Me

And I'm doing it.
I've done it for a few Thanksgivings now.
Admittedly, it's just my wife & I but I would do it if family was around.
I find turkey very boring so I refuse to cook it.
I'm making prime rib with saffron potato puree & wine poached the charred brussel sprouts. Wine & butter sauce on those.
Last year I made beef wellington & the year before seared scallops with a mushrooms risotto.
I don't recall what I made beyond 2 years ago.
My b-i-l was still alive then, so my wife may have made turkey. If she did, she was on her own, so maybe that's why I don't remember what I made. I made nothing
I'd rather eat almost anything other than roast turkey

[Iggo]

9. Filet Mignon.

Had it going on when my bro and SIL would travel every year for T-day. The my SIL decided she wanted our house to be the destination. So those days are over. For 3 or 4 years, though, I was livin’ the dream.

[pansypoo53219]

10. uncle does turkey + beef roasts. i'd like a pork roast. pork sholder! but makes less gravy. add ham for xmas..

[sakabatou]

11. We haven't cooked turkey for a while

It's usually chicken or brisket for Thanksgiving.

[NNadir]

12. I haven't had Turkey for Thanksgiving since 1978.

That's the year I stopped eating mammals and birds.

Not so long ago, I used to prepare this wonderful nut loaf, with a delicious sauce from a recipe I had. It usually took a whole day to make it.

I'm not sure I still have the recipe; and in any case, I'm generally too tired to make it now.

Now I just make pesto and pasta, cheese tortellini.

My wife eats turkey; so do my sons. My brother in law cooks the thing.

[hunter]

13. When I was growing up the big holiday wars were usually about religion.

Except for one Thanksgiving my parents agreed to host and they decided it would be a vegetarian feast.

OMG!

My mom's family were ranchers. My dad's family were dairy. They hunted, they fished, they were carnivores.

My grandpa stormed out of the house, drove off in his Cadillac, and returned an hour or two later with ham and turkey. I have no idea where he got it.

After that catastrophe my grandparents hosted Thanksgiving. My mom's parents would usually make restaurant reservations, my dad's parents always had it at their home with the traditional turkey.

I have Thanksgiving PTSD, not from the vegetarian Thanksgiving, but one Thanksgiving my parents hosted when I was in college. Everyone was acting so horribly, mostly my crazy grandmother, that I left angry, not knowing I was headed into the darkest period of my life. That started when a church acquaintance of one of my college housemates (they were all away for Thanksgiving) tried to kill herself in our bathtub. Soon after I wrecked my car, got into a fight with a Teaching Assistant, got an "F" in that class because I wasn't allowed to finish it, and was then "asked" to take a time-out from school, the implied threat being permanent expulsion.

I hate turkey. I'll cook it for family, but under duress.

[yellowdogintexas]

14. I would probably cook a pork loin roast

the kind with the nice layer of fat on the top which gets all crispy after it cooks

My mom often did this when Thanksgiving dinner was just the 5 of us. This was often the case because it just wasn't as much of a big family gathering as Christmas. I don't know why but that is the way it was. My dad didn't like turkey and pork loin was his favorite so we had that, with mashed potatoes and gravy ( my mom made a mean gravy) asparagus casserole, green beans and homemade rolls. We probably had a frozen fruit salad that my mom used to make for all "occasion" meals. It featured whipping cream and my cousins would check the buffet to make sure it was there. Pecan pie or some sort of cake. Maybe some boiled custard but that usually appeared at Christmas.

One year I went to my inlaws house (my mother in law had passed away the prior year) and cooked a loin for the family who came over . I honestly can't recall if it was Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year's eve. That is beside the point, however.

I was totally blown away by the reaction: none of them (except Mr YD and our daughter) had ever eaten a pork loin roast!!!! They loved it. These people are all from Alabama which is in the South of course and there is a saying in the South that we eat or use everything but the squeal when it comes to pig. I just could not believe they had never eaten it.

[Zorro]

15. Pork chops

Told my wife I'd prefer leftover Costco pizza but she wouldn't have any of that.