re: What (nontraditional) Thanksgiving Dish do you Have/Make?

Have you tried dusting those tarts in powdered sugar? My mom makes something similar with a date filling but they’re made with a more flakey pastry style dough and dusted with powdered sugar. They’re awesome. For Xmas she used to make these little date cookies where she’d shape the “filling,” as it were, into the shape of strawberries. She’d roll those in red colored sugar then add green leaves made of frosting to the top. Those were beautiful and delicious but at her age she stopped making those quite a number of years ago.

I also love date pudding over the holidays. It’s traditional in my family but I’ve never met anyone from outside the rural towns where I grew up who’d heard of it. It’s a dark, sweet, cake that you dice into cubes and toss in whipped cream. It’s delicious and really easy to make.

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Get outta here with that, Turkey is great!

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I refuse to waste another bite on turkey breast. It's just terrible. I'll be doing nothing but smokes thigh quarters this year.

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With all the knowledge, cookers, smokers and gadgets these days it's pretty embarrassing for someone to not be able to produce turkey breast that's not "terrible".

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Not really, as all turkey breast is terrible, even yours.

Used to make stuffing with Spam, a WWII era recipe but tasty. Trinity, garlic, green onions, stale bread, eggs, and ground up fried Spam.

Spinach Madeleine. Good at Thanksgiving for a pre-meal dip or a side dish.

Fried pork loin

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I've made shrimp mirliton dressing in the past using Breaux Mart's recipe you can find online. I personally don't care for mirliton, but others liked it.

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My mom usually made oyster dressing, but had shrimp stuffed mirlitons as another side. I refused to eat them as a child and highly regretted it when I was older.

I don’t have her recipe and highly regret that too. Miss her!

Non traditional dish: rice & turkey au jus instead of mashed potatoes and roux-based gravy. Green peas instead of green beans. Pretty wild over here!

Oh and I do crawfish cornbread dressing because my husband prefers cornbread over bread dressing - but I had to keep it seafood based.

Air fryer bacon wrapped chicken livers.

I always make a corn pudding. It's more like a souffle texture- no corn meal.

Also, only for holidays, I make my mother's cheese ball.

@ LSU MOMMA, Would you share your corn pudding recipe? Also the cheese ball? I used to make corn pudding but I have lost the recipe and can't find anything that comes close to the souffle texture I want.