Dustin Little McEwen’s chef
Some of my thanksgiving favorites are deep fried Cajun turkey, asparagus and blue cheese casserole with shaved prosciutto and my mom’s sweet potato pie. I like the turkey because frying it gets the outside crispy while keeping the inside juicy. I like the casserole because it’s delicious! I love my moms sweet potato because…. Well, it’s my mom’s sweet potato pie!
Corbin Evans Oxford Canteen chef/owner
I love Thanksgiving. I love the smells and the tastes and especially the leftovers. But my favorite dish is my Grandmother’s lazy susan. May sound odd, but she filled it up with all the amazing foods and pickles and relish items that I still associate with Thanksgiving dinner to this day. The canned, pitted black olives, which my brother and sister and our cousins would always put on our fingertips and eat one at a time. The red stuffed green olives, that we mostly stayed away from. The pickled watermelon rind, which I still make today. The cranberry relish out of the can and the fresh stuff she made with apples and oranges and fresh ginger. The pickled red crabapples – weird taste, but delicious. The Bread and Butter chips – the recipe I use here at canteen. The candied beets, yuck then – love them now.
I miss that lazy susan. It was like a merry-go-round of fun for us kids and it kept us busy while all the other food got passed around family style.
Lynn Hewlett – Owner Taylor Grocery
Well my favorite Thanksgiving menu is turkey and dressing, candied sweet potatoes, turnip greens, mashed potatoes and gravy, and pecan pie. My grandmothers made the best dressing and they could actually cook a turkey. It’s what we always had and I guess it brings back thoughts of that time.
Shannon Adams – Honey Bee Bakery chef
Shannon’s favorite Thanksgiving food is a leftover turkey sandwich at the end of the night. She loves this holiday treat because it combines all the best parts of the meal: homemade bread, roasted turkey, delicious gravy, mashed potatoes, and—of course—cranberry relish!
