Canadian readers, you're so lucky. October is such a civilized month to celebrate Thanksgiving and over a long weekend, no less. (The official date for Canadian Thanksgiving is the second Monday in October but many celebrate on the Saturday or Sunday.) Many of you are likely turkey-deep in planning, even cooking, this year's Thanksgiving menu. Imagine, luxuriating in the tradition of Thanksgiving, at the height of autumn, a full six weeks before the Christmas busy-ness begins.
American readers, perhaps you'll join me in celebrating Canadian Thanksgiving this year? You see, I 'miss' cooking Thanksgiving dinner, it's been far too long since I put America's favorite meal on the table. So last year, I vowed to celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving too, cooking all the traditional Thanksgiving favorites, reveling in Thanksgiving leftovers, filling the freezer with leftover turkey, perhaps testing some recipes for this year's American Thanksgiving on the 'uncivilized' fourth Thursday in November, perhaps (with any luck!) sharing some new Thanksgiving favorites here on Kitchen Parade and A Veggie Venture!
So whether you celebrate in October or November, here are recipe suggestions for Thanksgiving menus. Enjoy!
Thanksgiving Planning
~ Six New Thanksgiving Menus ~
from Kitchen Parade
~ Thanksgiving Recipe Ideas ~
from Kitchen Parade
~ Thanksgiving Vegetable Recipe Ideas ~
a collection of vegetable recipes just for Thanksgiving
from A Veggie Venture
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Are there recipes unique to Canada (okay, I know that each province has its own flair, just like our regions in the US), that would be fun to try to help celebrate the "civilized" Thanksgiving?
Oh, and does civilized mean drinking tea with our pinkies extended? Or does it just mean saying "eh" at the end of a question? LOL
And it's so not as big a deal. We get a 3-day weekend (with the Mon. off), and when I was in college, for instance, most students didn't travel home for it unless they lived close by.
P.S., while the date Canadian Thanksgiving landed on was more or less arbitrary (seriously, it started out being celebrated in March, I think, and moved around the calendar for a while), in most of Canada there's precious little to be thankful for in November. In most of the country winter's either started or hovering ominously, and in my hometown it just rains miserably the whole month. It's no time for a harvest festival or a celebration of abundance, anyway!
I enjoy your articles very much!!
Patricia ~ Ha! At least in my family's experience, the foods are the same. As for unique recipes, I'll ask the Canadian readers to chime in. Are there typical "Canadian" recipes for Thanksgiving? Or is this another example of the similar tracks that Canadians and Americans develop?
On a serious note - I do think there's a certain Canadian sensibility that's different than what I think of as 'American'.
Thanks for a chutney chuckle!
Halifax ~ You're welcome!
Camille ~ I love that laid-back idea of Thanksgiving, yes, that I too have experienced. I wonder if it's possible if American started off that way too, but with the whole commercialization of Christmas, Thanksgiving was elevated as the "first" day of "THE holidays".
Marilyn ~ Thanks! Nice to have tomatoes so long!
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