Thanksgiving

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Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in the United States, Canada, Grenada, Saint Lucia, and Liberia. It began as a day of giving thanks and sacrifice for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. Similarly named festival holidays occur in Germany and Japan. Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and around the same part of the year in other places. Although Thanksgiving has historical roots in religious and cultural traditions, it has long been celebrated as a secular holiday as well. SEE MORE ABOUT THANKSGIVING HERE!

I love Thanksgiving, enjoying it with friends, family, or just alone. Some years I have cooked for many, some years we have taken the day to reflect and enjoy life together.

Take a drive and take advantage of the quiet time that the holiday brings.

Learn how the locals around you celebrate the holiday, each place enjoys it in a different way.

In New Mexico, the holiday can be celebrated with amazing and exotic recipes. I have chosen this page from New Mexico Magazine to show you a fantastic set of recipes for the day and the holiday!

NEW MEXICO’S MELTING POT of cultures delightfully graces our holiday dining tables. I can attest: The first time the plain pan gravy of my youth was replaced by red chile “gravy” at a Santa Fe feast, this East Coast boy knew he’d found his new home. I was thrilled that the standard green bean casserole was overshadowed by calabacitas fired up with green chile. And who would have guessed that pecan pie could be even more delicious with piñon nuts?