Roasted Butternut Squash Sage Dip and Savory Mushroom Pithiviers: Football Foodie Thanksgiving

One of the more infuriating parts of watching the Dolphins-Bills game last night — aside of the fact Miami couldn’t get anything going after a few impressive defensive stands — was the NFL Network continually reminding people that their brand of Thursday Night Football would return in two weeks. Naming and brand are important, but there was nary a mention of the slate of Thanksgiving games next Thursday, one of which happens to be at night. It’s still your league to promote, you might want to get people excited for Patriots-Jets. Two sorts of Thanksgiving diners, ones who believe in eating early and having leftovers again later in the day and those who don’t have their celebration until later in the day. The former means getting up at 5 am to start roasting a turkey, the latter means torturing yourself with cups of nuts as not to spoil the feast. It also means considering going through the early game of Houston-Detroit — and perhaps even Washington-Dallas, depending on your time zon...