If you have turkey for Thanksgiving please eat a heritage or wild turkey. The commercial birds have terrible lives and can barely walk let alone fly before they meet their end. And they do not taste like an actual turkey. Remember, real turkeys fly.
Several years ago we changed our traditional Thanksgiving meal from turkey and the typical trimmings to sauerbraten and new trimmings such as pumpkin soup, potato pancakes and lemon pie. Why? Several reasons. The wife has NEVER prepared a turkey. Someone else always did the work. Secondly, our son’s favorite meal prepared by one of his grandmothers was sauerbraten. In honor of her memory, we began this new tradition.
Below are a few views of our meal:
Thanksgiving table
Drew carving the sauerbraten and comments about Hell’s Kitchen