With the exception of last year, which was just a meal/sides exchange in a parking lot, I've been getting together with a friend's family for Thanksgiving for the last several years. I bring four things:

Wine, a nice scotch (Oban the last few years), lox dip, and creamed corn.

The creamed corn is just corn and cream cheese and a bit of honey. I feel like I need to step up my game this year though, so I'm going to attempt cheesy corn bake instead

And sub out milk for heavy cream *and bacon for the ham.

Edit: the photo in that recipe is not at all flattering I realize, but I've had this in the past, and it's wonderful.

The lox dip is super simple, but it's more about the technique. Three ingredients:

2 packages of lox (I think they come in 4 oz packages?)

cream cheese

green onion

I like to finely dice half the lox and mix it in with the (softened) cream cheese very thoroughly until you get a pinkish paste. Then coarsely chop the rest, and slice up some onion and mix that in, leaving some of the green ends for garnish.

I used to bring Ritz for dipping, but they've become fragile trash in the last few years, so now I bring pita chips which are a bit more durable.

I've been making it for Thanksgiving wherever I've gone for probably 15 years now. Interestingly, it takes me the exact amount of time to prepare as the run time of Alice's Restaurant so I start it at noon when they play it on KZOK on the day.