Your favorite side dish on Turkey Day?

[Carta]

Collard greens is mine...My sister-in-law makes the BEST..and stuffing also....Not big on turkey; but I eat it..

 

[Panina]

Collard greens is mine...My sister-in-law makes the BEST..and stuffing also....Not big on turkey; but I eat it..

Stuffing, I don't want the turkey.

 

[silentg]

Squash, and cranberry sauce.

 

[klpca]

Stuffing, I don't want the turkey.

Yes, turkey should be the side dish. Stuffing can be the main course.

 

[Elan]

Wine

 

[VacationForever]

Turkey as main dish and turkey as side dish... OK, wrong answer... Seriously, we make awesome turkey gravy... our favorite side dish is whatever the turkey gravy goes on and it is usually mashed potatoes.

 

[pedro47]

Cornbread stuffing, cranberries, chop collard green, hot butter rolls and any favor of Blue Bell ice cream.

 

[pedro47]

Sorry, folks but eating good home cook food is my only vice left.

 

[WinniWoman]

mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie and alcohol

 

[Egret1986]

Mac n Cheese

 

[MULTIZ321]

Turkey as main dish and turkey as side dish... OK, wrong answer... Seriously, we make awesome turkey gravy... our favorite side dish is whatever the turkey gravy goes on and it is usually mashed potatoes.

My grandmother made an awesome Turkey Giblet Gravy which was a perfect companion with her mashed potatoes. More fond memories of Grannies cooking.


Richard

 

[Glynda]

I like Thanksgiving leftovers the best. Turkey panini with cranberries! Yum!

 

[Luanne]

Stuffing, with gravy.

 

[VacationForever]

My grandmother made an awesome Turkey Giblet Gravy which was a perfect companion with her mashed potatoes. More fond memories of Grannies cooking.


Richard

That is pretty much what we put in.

 

[Passepartout]

I'm partial to whole berry cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes & apples, stuffing, of course. But the BEST is that turkey/dressing/cranberry sandwich & slice of pie after waking up from the nap between the mid-day and the evening football games.

 

[Makai Guy]

Stuffing, I don't want the turkey.

Ya gotta have the turkey, if only to get the pan drippings to make gravy to slather all over the dressing and mashed potatoes.

But my fave side dish is the Makai Gal's whole-cranberry-and-orange relish.

 

[VegasBella]

We don’t eat birds so our entire Thanksgiving is the other stuff.

I like 3 sisters stew and dessert the best. The 3 sisters are: beans, corn, squash. For dessert I like a lot of things but pumpkin pie tops the list for this holiday.


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[Lydlady]

Maybe I need some stuffing recipes. Stuffing is boring. I like the green bean casserole... Oh and my mom's, very untraditional, fried rice.

 

[itchyfeet]

Maybe I need some stuffing recipes. Stuffing is boring. I like the green bean casserole... Oh and my mom's, very untraditional, fried rice.

The stuffing MUST be cooked inside the turkey or it is nothing but a wanna be.

 

[Icc5]

We do Thanksgiving at our house where my wife makes 2 turkeys. One for dinner and one for everyone to take home leftovers. Her brothers each like the cranberries they make and their stuffings so we have 2 of each of them,mashed potatoes,yams,yam cassoule, usually 2 vegetables,one or two gravies and then desert which is usually a cheese cake, 2 different pumpkin pies and a pecan pie. I always say there are way too many dishes but she wants to make sure we have what everybody likes. Oh, I almost forgot the 2 different kinds of dinner rolls.
The same sort of thing happens for 4th of July,Christmas Eve. and the 5-6 birthdays we host.
Bart

 

[VacationForever]

The stuffing MUST be cooked inside the turkey or it is nothing but a wanna be.

But this is now considered an absolutely no-no as it increases the risk of food poisoning due to the difficulty in getting the cavity cooked at high enough temperature.
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/porta...y-preparation/turkey-basics-stuffing/CT_Index

 

[rhonda]

Squash, Yams. (Not together)

 

[dioxide45]

The stuffing MUST be cooked inside the turkey or it is nothing but a wanna be.

It isn't a "wanna be". Cooked outside the bird, it is called "dressing"

 

[Jan M.]

The first year we lived here in Florida my husband wanted us to eat out. He thought he was being really nice because it was our first Thanksgiving away from family and friends. I didn't have the heart to tell him no. I hated the dressing and the pies were mediocre at best. But the real tragedy was that there were no leftovers! We were both sorry the whole Thanksgiving weekend.

My must have is stuffing with chestnuts. I make really, really good mashed potatoes. We also have gravy of course, the mashed sweet potato casserole with the nut topping, corn casserole or just corn if it is only the two of us and either green beans or broccoli, homemade applesauce, we both prefer cranberry relish but sometimes my husband requests the jellied stuff. Now I make do with just two kinds of pie but I used to consider four kinds mandatory: pumpkin, pecan, apple and apple cranberry with a walnut crumb topping.

My husband and our son share a secret vice, they love the crescent rolls you make from the twist can. Even if there were good bakery dinner rolls or someone brought homemade ones I still had to bake the crescent rolls for them. Every holiday or special meal one of them would make sure to put a crescent roll on my plate while I was in the kitchen bringing something else out so I didn't miss getting one. And partway through the meal I would give one of them my roll saying that I had no room for it if I wanted to be able to eat some of all the other stuff. They both joke about me not being normal because I don't like coffee or pop (soda) but not loving those crescent rolls would have them saying that there was something seriously wrong with me!

 

[itchyfeet]

The stuffing MUST be cooked inside the turkey or it is nothing but a wanna be.

Well, I've been eating stuffing cooked inside the turkey for over 80 years--haven't had food poisoning yet.