My vegetarian daughter loves Thanksgiving, and has put down my vague guilty suggestions that I should make some main dish for her, alternate to the Turkey. She loves the vegetable sides, and declares herself more than delighted just to have all those vegetarian versions of the carb ones (mushroom gravy, stuffing that baked in the oven with vegetable broth, mashed potatoes without broth, etc.)
This year, early in the November, I heard a radio spot about the eel industry, how it is mostly processed, cooked, and vaccum-wrapped in China, even if you buy it in a restaurant here. And, I heard one of the inevitable "what our Pilgrim ancestors really ate," which mentioned the importance of eel.
Eel. My daughter loves unagi, and now I'd learned that I wouldn't be expected to prepare it, just warm it up from frozen. All it took was a quick trip to my local
Ranch 99 Asian market to get the prepared frozen eel. It became the "dare" food on the Thanksgiving table, and lots of people, including the kids gave it a try.
