Do you have a special Thanksgiving side dish?

[amused1]

My godson, who is coming for Thanksgiving after a 2 year absence, requested my twice baked sweet potatoes and ginger carrots. He said he just can't make them like I do. Haha

 

What do you make that makes your meal special?

[cany10011]

I'm not american, but make a nice corn pudding. Apropos to the topic, this lists the geographic distribution of major side dishes: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/heres-what-your-part-of-america-eats-on-thanksgiving/

 

Hope everyone has a great thanksgiving

[+ sync]

I'm a leech on this thread as I don't prepare any side-dishes, but I sure have consumed them (sweet potatoes, cornbread, gravy, lima beans, creamed onions...somebody stop me!) . My consistent favorite is the dressing. The most memorable turkey dressing I've ever had was a chestnut dressing. Beyond that, my mother's mince pie. I was the only one in my family that liked mince pie, which kept me in mom's mince pie for a long time after Thanksgiving.

[+ Funguy]

Brussels sprouts - I know, you either love 'em or hate 'em.

Roast with garlic butter and bacon.

A very light dusting with brown sugar and YUM!

[MikeBiDude]

My family has a fairly odd but nice stuffing, traditional bread base, we cook turkey giblets, then grind them all up. Dried bread, ground giblet meat, raisins, chopped hard boiled egg, chopped sweet pickle, celery, onion...mix all up with some of the giblet stock. Stuff into turkey or casserole on the side. It’s unusual, but somehow the combo works for a sweeter not savory stuffing.

[+ sync]

Good! More for me.

Edited November 20, 2018 by Cooper

[Nvr2Thick]

Everyone in my family loves creamed onions. That could be because while growing up mom presented them to us as eyeballs in Elmer's glue. It's all about marketing.

Edited November 20, 2018 by Cooper

[TruHart1]

Because they are so easy to make the night before and everyone has raved about how good they are since I first

did them, deviled eggs are my contribution at most family holiday functions!

 

TruHart1

[+ oldNbusted]

Home made ice cream, I didn't think it was that big a deal until I didn't bring it one year and there was nearly a revolution. But I guess that's not really a side dish. I did take over making the mashed potatoes as apparently I was the only person who owned a ricer and I was tired of being served a bucket of paste glue.

[thickornotatall]

Mashed potatoes with the skin left on..Irish butter..half and half...left a bit lumpy..very little salt if any.

A bit of Italian bread crumbs..

I had some for lunch left over from a meat loaf supper

[+ oldNbusted]

@sync @Nvr2Thick We need a link to a good recipe for creamed onions!

[Nvr2Thick]

[Larstrup]

No Thanksgiving thread is complete until you have felt the fear of the turkey. Whether it’s in preparing it or trying to run from it. So without further ado, I present my annual “oh my God it’s a turkey” Thanksgiving video.

 

 

She was later pecked to death after her battery wouldn’t start and tried making a run for it.

 

Happy Thanksgiving!

[Epigonos]

I bring a prune cake which is from a very old family recipe.

[BasketBaller]

I know lots of families have creamed onions, but for some reason we always had the plain boiled pearl onions that come in a jar. I think everything else on the table was fresh and homemade, but I guess my grandmother or someone decided peeling and boiling her own onions wasn't any better than the jar. So, we always have them. I would miss them if we didn't.

[mike carey]

Oh? Is it Thanksgiving?

[BabyBoomer]

If you had stayed in the USA for an additional week you could have celebrated with us.

 

~Boomer~

[RM]

My Dad always complained that there was no meat in the mincemeat pie. His mother made it with venison. I never got a piece of Grandma's pie.

[mike carey]

If you had stayed in the USA for an additional week you could have celebrated with us.

 

~Boomer~

Indeed, I could have. As it was, the snow disrupted my departure, but before you say anything, I realise there were places where it wasn't snowing!

[Rudynate]

I like to make a cranberry chutney. The recipe I use has kind of a savory flavor to it because it has quite a bit of onion. When I host Thanksgiving dinner, it triggers my control issues because I don't like any of what I call "desserts masquerading as side dishes" at Thanksgiving dinner. But if I have even a handful of guests, of course somebody's going to bring glorified rice, somebody else will bring sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top and so on. I just have to take a deep breath and let it all happen.

[+ sync]

@sync @Nvr2Thick We need a link to a good recipe for creamed onions!

 

I wish I could help, but I wouldn't offer my cooking to anyone not on death row. My mother was an apprentice to an exceptional cook and carried it forward. I have emotionally kicked myself many times for not having paid attention while my mother was preparing meals.

[marylander1940]

Scalloped potatoes

 

 

 

Homemade carrot cake

 

Edited November 20, 2018 by marylander1940

[Larstrup]

Scallop potatoes

 

 

I prefer mine scalloped. But hey, they’re just potatoes! Carrot cake frightens me.

[marylander1940]

I prefer mine scalloped. But hey, they’re just potatoes!

 

Damn autocorrect on my iPhone...

[+ azdr0710]

I'll be in charge of the green bean casserole this year, as always......I use the Trader Joe's recipe, which is much better than the classic Campbell's Soup one......

 

https://homemadeincredible.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/trader-joes-green-bean-casserole/

 

I've mentioned here before about the tragic year Grandmother was in charge of the gravy and added powdered sugar instead of flour (it wasn't her house)......the family talked about it for years after......