Thanksgiving Eve Holiday Special
The Busiest Night for Bars in America & Cocktails for the Long Holiday Weekend
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With Thanksgiving Eve upon us, whether you’re on the road, already at your destination, or preparing to host at home, throughout the holiday season the warm nostalgia of gathering with family can conflict with the reality due to the often-present complications of familial relationships. The tagline for Wes Anderson’s 2001 film The Royal Tenenbaums succinctly sums up the sense of drama, conflict, anxiety, and dark humor many people face suddenly living under the same roof with their family once again: “Family isn’t a word… It’s a sentence.”
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Thanksgiving Eve Holiday Special
If you’re currently on a plane, in a train, or stuck in traffic on the highway, I wish you safe travels to your destination, wherever that may be, this Thanksgiving holiday. And if you’re making one last stop at Wegman’s or the local greenmarket to check off those last-minute items from your shopping list, good luck!
As with the tradition of our LAST CALL Holiday Specials, there’s a comfort in the familiarity of hitting the same beats year after year. Plus, there are many new readers joining us for the first time, and holidays, after all, are about creating and fostering traditions.
I spent the weekend running around a few Brooklyn grocery stores (including the Wegman’s in the Brooklyn Navy Yard), checking off my shopping list to prepare for Thanksgiving dinner. And even after a few quick pit stops throughout the week to pick up a few last-minute items, I’m sure I’ll need to make a mad dash for some ingredient or MIA item at some point today.
I picked up my turkey yesterday at Greene Grape Provisions in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Last year I switched things up and ordered a smoked turkey breast from Hometown Bar-B-Que in Red Hook, and while it was delicious, and one of the sleeper smoked meats at the acclaimed restaurant, the smokey poultry profile ultimately proved too overpowering for my palate during repeated visits to the leftovers in the fridge (I feel the same way about Benton’s Bacon. I love it and respect it, but can only enjoy it in moderation.).
So I went back to my usual Brooklyn turkey source and ordered an all-natural Nicholas breed turkey, hatched and raised in Pennsylvania Amish country and sourced from the fourth-generation family-owned Goffle Road Poultry Farm in Wycoff, New Jersey. The spatchcocked bird (with legs and wings removed and breast cracked and flattened) is currently chilling atop a rack in a half-sheet pan in my refrigerator for two days, dusted with a dry brine of salt, pepper, and brown sugar. I’ll finish it on Thanksgiving with a maple-butter glaze using a recipe from Bon Appétit’s Chris Morocco.
I always make my Cranberry Sauce a few days before Thanksgiving, simply because it’s one of the easiest dishes to assemble and check off my list. So this joined the turkey in my fridge last night. Beyond the usual turkey sandwiches (standard and hot and covered), this year instead of my usual Turkey Tetrazzini I plan to put any remaining leftovers to work in a tray of shredded Turkey Enchiladas. What is Thanksgiving but looking forward to the leftovers?
