Thanksgiving Gumbo and Potato Salad?

A Thanksgiving tradition for my family ,gumbo and potato salad,is a traditional menu we serve the night before a holiday. I’m not sure if it is a southern thing or just how we cook along the coast, but I can not remember a holiday without gumbo!  My grandmother, mother and aunts all cooked gumbo as an appetizer for the holiday meal. They would prepare the gumbo the night before , of course we always had to have a taste ! The taste turned into a traditional meal for the night before the holiday, we  add potato salad as a sidedish.  My grandmother’s gumbo was chicken and oyster , Josh ,my foodie Tulane med student son , cooks New Orleans style andouille sausage gumbo and I am the traditional seafood gumbo. We even make Kosher chicken gumbo for my brother- in-law. Check my next post for the recipes……….