[BraveMaroon]

My issue with turkey has never been that it's dry. Dad taught me how to cook a bird, and I've been reasonably successful.

The issue is the taste. There's something about turkey that tastes, to me, mildly earthy/metallic- and I can't explain it any more or any better than that.

Now, I have to agree, fried turkey is amaaaaazing. But like Dubai Sis, my family would never, never allow a veer from tradition.

Well, on the turkey front, anyway.

A few years ago, I introduced chipotle mashed sweet potatoes rather than the default Senator Russell casserole (sweet potatoes with a pecan/brown sugar crust). My mother pouted, but the rest of the family thought they were a nice change. And not sooooo sweet.

And since my sister and I and our husbands love mashed potatoes, we did those as well. We grew up in a family where the starch of record was rice, so of course, I did that as well.

Once we came out of our carb-induced coma, it was all good.

I'm curious as to what time of day most of you eat Thanksgiving dinner?

If I'm hosting, we shoot for about 4, and end up sitting down around 4:45.

My parents are more of the 2:30 or 3PM range.