This year, I will decline all invitations that gracious friends extend to me in an effort to include me in this holiday. This year, I will set my own Thanksgiving table, complete with vegetarian dishes, and invite all my Hindu friends and relatives to share in the celebration. It is a motley, unforgiving crowd. My meal has the potential of going down in family legend as the worst feast in the history of Hinduism. I tell them that I plan to cook a Hindu Thanksgiving dinner.
Refusals turn into acceptances.
If nothing else, it will be entertaining to watch her fall on her face, they think. But I am determined not to make a turkey of myself. Eggplant in a sesame sauce. Raita Chop cucumbers, tomatoes, and red onions for the raita, sprinkle some salt and pepper and douse them with thick white yogurt. Arrange fresh green cilantro in concentric swirls.