Norms' four-course meal starts with cream of turkey vegetable soup or a mixed green salad, followed by roasted turkey with cranberry-walnut cornbread stuffing, giblet gravy and mashed potatoes, candied yams, fresh squash and orange-cranberry sauce.

Try Pork or ham hocks Smoked turkey in greens Fried chicken or fish Poached or baked chicken or fish Sugar Spiced fruit juice, pineapple or cinnamon Mayonnaise Mustard, low-fat mayonnaise substitute Cream used in baking pies, Evaporated milk whipped with custards and crab cakes egg whites Butter Olive, canola or safflower oil Salt Packaged no-salt seasoning or potassium chloride Candied yams Baked yams with cinnamon

Other cooks are preparing vegetables, candied yams, Bolognese sauce and seafood bisque -- all for other functions being held that day or the next.