Friendsgiving Dinner — October 2025

If any month needed no explanation, it was this one. Everyone brings a dish and eats together; that is basically Thanksgiving with extra steps. The Friendsgiving Cookbook was built for exactly that.

Nobody made a turkey and nobody missed it. It was all the parts of Thanksgiving people actually go back for: sweet and sour meatballs, a mac and cheese nobody clocked as vegan until they were told, buffalo cauliflower with its own bowl of sauce, deviled eggs, stuffed mushrooms, mozzarella bites, and a tub of potatoes labelled Let’s Get Mashed. Bana’s Pumpkin Spice and Chill Cake came out under a crown of fresh cranberries and was the best looking thing on the counter all night, for roughly eleven minutes.

We called it the stress-free edition for people who were not confident cooks yet. Thanksgiving is an easy entry point: everyone already knows how to make at least one thing for the table, and nobody is being judged on a side.

It was also the first one that felt properly like autumn. Everyone came in from the cold and stayed far longer than planned.

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