I'm not a traditional Thanksgiving meal kind of girl. I don't love turkey. Or mashed potatoes. Gravy can be good, but if it's not, no thank you. Stuffing is usually good. Sides are questionable. I don't love pies. So yeah, me and the Thanksgiving meal have had issues for a lot of years. In the pandemic year when we stayed home, and I saw my chance to go nontraditional. We had a 9 course meal. We had cranberry brie bruschetta, fish packets with fregola, creamy leek soup with maple bacon, macaron (made by the masterful Danielle Braithwaite), stuffing with roasted carrots, Cornish game hen, charcuterie board, mini pie and grapefruit fennel salad. We loved it. In 2021 our menu featured food from around the world: Again, a hit--if you were off spring; if you were a progenitor, you had other feelings.... This year we would have loved to do something like unto those. But pulling into town a few days...