Hope all of y'all had a happy Thanksgiving. And a special salute to members of the readership who work retail. Good luck getting thru the rest of today's Shopping Madness(tm). We had to cancel our plans for the weekend at the last minute when I came down with some kind of cold. Sore throat, mostly, but also some congestion and general feeling of malaise. It seems to be clearing up -- a couple of days of lying around, doing nothing but drink tea and watch TV and take medicine seems to be helping. Seeing as how we weren't having a trad. holiday with family we decided to go all the way (this is the same impulse that lead me, some years back, to cook Thanksgiving lasagna) and had dinner at Spice & Curry which is now my go-to choice for non-buffet Indian in Durham. Awesome food: spinach pakora (maybe not the best we've ever had there but still way better than most pakoras I'm used to getting at other places), paneer dosa, and lamb pasanda (super delicious sauce which seems from the recipes I could find on the internets to be mainly yogurt, spices, ground almonds).

Sorry the following is too late to help w/ your Thanksgiving menu. There's always Xmas...