Happy Thanksgiving Ya'll

Another year, another opportunity to stuff ourselves silly while engaging in time-honored family bickering. I'm not going home this year, so I get to skip (most some a bit of) the bickering, but I still fully intend to eat unreasonable quantities of food. Thing is, I'm being very lazy and not making anything particularly novel this year. So, I figure this is a good time to remind us all of the many wonderful Thanksgiving-themed dishes we've had at DCFüd over the years.

For our first Thanksgiving, ZAF taught us how to be stronger, better people by properly whipping chocolate into shape - shapeless-in-a-bowl shape, to be precise, with her orange-tinged chocolate mousse.

Next, in 2005 it was discovered that some fools don't like turkey. Abetting this horror was Füd alum TCD, who shared some very fancy vegetarian options, puff pastry and all. Just because they're delicious doesn't mean they're a turkey substitute! Shortly thereafter I shared my pecan pie recipe, which I may well be making again this year.

2006 was the year Ray shared insight into his family's possibly demonic celebratory habits, and offered a survival guide for those perhaps similarly condemned, including turkey-cooking guides and alternatives to actually doing any work, or, if your family is like mine and would shun you for not cooking "normal" food, talking to your crazy relatives at all.

In 2007, I shared yet another secret to my record-breaking failure to look like Kate Moss: a fabulous pumpkin-eggnog bread pudding, which is guarantee to make everyone at your table immensely happy. We also had a tasty (and very healthy!) fall pasta, which could serve as a nice accompaniment to any Thanksgiving feast.

And already this year - distressingly out of season but what the hell - YDB taught us how to definitely NOT deep-fry a turkey. If you really must have fried bird this year, try DCist's instructions first. Unless you're evil, in which case just use YDB's.