All North American Thanksgiving dish -

[pinto]

Every year I go to my sister's for T Day. BIL does the turkey and we all bring sides. We compiled all the dishes today. This year I'm doing black bean and corn salad.

All N. American ingredients - beans, corn, avocado, onion, tomato, sweet peppers, chilies, lime juice, avocado oil. Besides being a really tasty dish, a simple reminder that we Northern Europeans were the immigrants of the day.

[fizzgig]

1. sounds really tasty

don't know if you watch iron chef america, but it was battle thanksgiving past and present last night. the altar had foods from early thanksgivings and modern times.

[pinto]

2. Love the show, but missed it yesterday. I'll check for rerun.

I've made the black bean and corn salad before - it's actually enough for a meal, as is. And simple to throw together.

[Retrograde]

3. Limes are from Asia, but I like the idea of an All American feast

I look at traditional Thanksgiving dishes as the first fusion cuisine: a pumpkin pie, after all, is an English custard pie made with an American fruit.

[pinto]

4. Yeah, overlooked that. So ubiquitous here it's often seen as a native. I'm going to fudge a bit.

[Retrograde]

5. Hey, maybe one washed ashore and someone collected the seeds

I have no problems with creative anachronisms. But you got me thinking - what, if anything, did Native Americans use for tartness? Cranberries? Other native fruits? I know we're talking about a whole continent here, and a lot was lost, but pre-contact people must have had big feasts on occasion.

[azurnoir]

6. a question do you use cilantro in the corn and bean salad?

okay I know that's not native either but just it's really good in that stuff