I like the challenge of making traditional-esque Thanksgiving items, but making them more delicious and globally inspired. We're vegetarian now, but when we ate meat, we tried making Vietnamese-flavored turkey meatballs with a rice-based stuffing kind of dish and spicy greens and sweet potatoes sautee that was delicious. We incorporated the cranberry into dessert.

It's sort of like Iron Chef. Pick a dish for each of the traditional ingredients, but spice it up. With older kids, they each do a couple dishes in a competition to come up with the best recipe. It ends up being pretty collaborative.

We make traditional Thanksgiving dinner but always pick either Christmas Eve or Day to just do apps from afternoon into evening. It's a lot of fun and we have no theme- everyone just gets to pick a few favorites for the "menu."

Go for another theme, like Indian that you mentioned or Italian or Mexican or whatever the majority might prefer. It's a nice change of pace from having traditional Thanksgiving and then basically the same menu at Christmas.

We don't celebrate Thanksgiving. We just get dim sum, Chinese, or cook a regular meal.

We have had Indian,waffles, steaks, beef bourgion

Appetizers sounds so fun! I’d love to eat that instead of thanksgiving food.

No one in the family likes traditional Thanksgiving food. I thought about ordering out Indian. And I also thought about just making a meal of ridiculous appetizers.

Any ideas? Suggestions?