This Thanksgiving, fill your dining room table with traditional dishes and accent them with new flavors like citrus and Hatch Chili, and add sausage, tofu and cinnamon to surprise the taste buds of even your most regular holiday dinner guests.

One popular taste this season are butternut squash soups, and each recipe has it’s own specialties. The Chef de Cuisine at The Buttes Tempe Resort Marriott, Akos Szabo, has a recipe for delicious butternut squash soup with chicken and apple sausage, wild rice, hatch chili and lime. The unique ingredients are complimented by other rich ingredients like cinnamon, olive oil, heavy cream and maple syrup.

If you’re going for a more simple version of butternut squash soup, try a plain recipe with just butternut squash, chicken stock, butter, salt and pepper and créme fraiche. Top this easy soup with black trumpet mushrooms, shallots, chives and diced butternut squash like J&G Steakhouse.

If you have a few vegetarians making an appearance, make a delicious non-traditional steak with sauteed mushrooms- a tofu steak, that is! Sushi Roku makes this special dish with sauteed Hinoichi Blue Tofu, soy, sake and Mirin. Marinate the sauteed tofu until evenly golden brown and serve the tofu in the sake, Mirin and mushroom broth, topped with mushrooms, fried Japanese chili peppers and green onions.