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Because waiting for the 22nd is for amateurs
There's no law that says you can't start your Thanksgiving feast right now.
Because waiting for the 22nd is for amateurs
As the best holiday (and in fact, the best Thursday) of the entire year creeps up on us, we find ourselves asking: how can we cram more Thanksgiving into this month? Happily, there are some years where the particulars of family schedules necessitate multiple Thanksgivings, and 2012 is one of those magnificent years. Even so, the fact remains that we could eat stuffing every day of the month of November and still enter December wondering, “What if?” What if we had found just one more niche to cram full of cranberry sauce, one more potatoey something to douse in gravy? What if we had thought to factor in breakfast?!
In this spirit, we’d like to take a moment to salute the local spots that humor us and our fixation on all things related to the Thanksgiving feast:
Jake’s Sandwich Board (122 S. 12th St.) brought back a couple of perennial favorites that they’ll be serving until the end of the month: their pumpkin pie shake (it’s topped with gingersnaps, people!) and turducken sandwich, which seems like the perfect culmination of Jake’s over-the-top approach to the sandwich arts. It’s got the turkey, chicken, duck, and stuffing the name would lead you to expect, plus cranberry sauce, gravy, and hash browns. (It's also worth mentioning that Jake's has a year-round sandwich that features turkey, cranberry spread, and gravy—to get you through the 11 turduckenless months of the year.)
In other gingersnap-pumpkin news, we'd just like to note that Zsa's Ice Cream bakes their own snaps to crumble and fold into their pumpkin ice cream. NBD. (Check out their Facebook and Twitter to find them.)
We’ve mentioned these before, but it bears repeating: the Hot Diggity (630 South St.) put up the Pilgrim Harvest dog as their November special—that’s roasted veggies, apple-Brussels sprout slaw, orange-cranberry mostarda, and crispy fried onions on a sage butter-toasted bun. And while it’s always on the menu, Underdogs’ (132 S. 17th St., 1205 S. 9th St.) Tryp dog can’t be overlooked, with its smoked turkey sausage, stuffing, gravy, and cranberry sauce.
Shake Shack (2000 Sansom St.) fans wait for November’s special Pumpkin Pie, Oh My! Concrete all year, and we think the “why” of it is pretty self-evident: it’s a hunk of pumpkin pie blended into Shack custard, and that’s good enough for us. Unlike most Thanksgiving specials that are cruelly ripped away from us by Nov. 30 (or, in some particularly dismal instances, on Nov. 23), this one is available through Sun., Dec. 2.
Speaking of things you can’t get after Black Friday, Square Peg (929 Walnut St.) has a good one: Thanksgiving poutine. Sweet potato fries make up the base, turkey gravy replaces standard brown (natch), cheese curds are still cheese curds because it’s poutine after all, and toppings of turkey and cranberry sauce complete the picture.
And of course, we have to give a nod to the Blind Pig (702 N. 2nd St.) for making their Thanksgiving Balls available year-round. They remind us so much of our long-time go-to solution for the very last of the Turkey Day leftovers*, but with one major improvement: they’re just always there.
* Mix up the dregs of the mashed potatoes, stuffing, and turkey bits with an egg; adjust the seasoning as necessary; form into patties; roll in a mix of breadcrumbs seasoned with poultry seasoning and finely grated parmigiano; pan-fry. Eat with leftover cranberry sauce (and gravy, we guess, if you somehow ever manage to have leftover gravy). Best breakfast of the year!
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