I'm in the Southern hemisphere (it's 26 C/90 F) here, and we don't do Turkey Day. We took lunch to the house of some friends today -- and I like them not just because they own a BBQ and I don't
Rump steak, marinated overnight in red wine, garlic, and mustard, thrown on the grill.
Home-kill sausages, thrown on the grill.
Prawns (shrimp), marinated for a few hours in a tandoori paste (lemon juice, yoghurt, ginger, garlic, coriander, cumin, paprika), thrown on the grill.
Twice baked potatoes (baked in the microwave, halved, scooped out, mashed with sour cream + butter + snipped chives + grated cheddar + salt + egg + paprika, then the shells filled and baked again in the oven).
Layered veg salad (spinach, sliced red onion, feta with grated black pepper, roasted/caramelised butternut squash/pumpkin cubes with basil oil and balsamic vinegar, shredded mint, slivered pistachios).
Duck egg sponge cake with berries, whipped cream, and chocolate ganache.
It was a hit. All of it
For dinner at home tonight....nah, we're still stuffed. A glass of wine, skip the loaf of bread, and thou.
But as an ex-Yank, I do miss turkey. It's just simply not available here. At Xmas you can find frozen turkeys in the grocery store, but an average turkey (12 lbs? 5 kgs? dunno) costs nearly a hundred dollars, so I have never even tried. And wild turkey is just not the same, though I don't say no when someone offers me one.