Homemade cranberry sauce, definitely. Homemade applesauce, too. However, nothing with sweet potatoes or yams or marshmallows or squash or pumpkin touches the table.

Let's see: Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, applesauce, cranberry sauce, green beans (steamed, not in casserole), sautéed mushrooms, biscuits, butter, pickles, olives, tomato and cucumber. For dessert: Grapes, pineapple, apple pie, pecan pie, vanilla ice cream. Our menu has changed very little in the past few decades. Sometimes we add chocolate.

Our must-have Thanksgiving tradition isn't culinary; it's listening to "Alice's Restaurant" on the radio at noon, while I'm putting the turkey into the oven. One year when we were away from home at Thanksgiving, I brought a cassette version along so we could keep to our tradition.

I applaud your pie.