Hunter, with regard to Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners, I'm
in the position of the musician who has played "Sunrise, Sunset"
one (or thirty) too many times at a wedding. How about the Italian
version? Chestnut risotto, tortellini with spicy brandy-pumpkin
sauce, trilled Caeser salad (to go along with the turkey, risotto
inside). Or how about stuffing the turkey with new potatoes, skin
and all, with butter, thyme, and bay leaf, seasoned with coarse
salt? Gravy is simply low-rent bechamel sauce. Don't really like
it. Of course there's the matter of our relative avoirdupois.
Last I weighed, I came in at 130.