3 weeks til Thanksgiving! What's your favorite side-dish?

I do make the best cranberry sauce in the universe! lol
It converts even diehard cranberry sauce haters.
It is a 140 year old family recipe that includes apples.
Deeee-licious, will be canning a bunch soon for friends and neighbors. It is great with pork and poultry and I make it for both T’s-Giving and Xmas.

Thanksgiving feast could be nothing but dressing with gravy and I would be happy!

My mom’s mashed potatoes. Yay, I’m hungry already.

I make a 3 rice stuffing that has ‘em begging for more. Damn, I’m good!

I don’t usually care for stuffing, but that sounds really delicious.

Candied yams
Candied yams
Candied yams
Candied yams
Candied yams
Candied yams

Warm homemade rolls with butter. My sister makes the best rolls from scratch.

@ANef_is_Enuf : Because KatawaGrey is vegetarian, I make it so it’s a main course in and of itself. My mother always worries that K will go hungry on Thanksgiving…silly

We had ours in October. ;)

@tinyfaery and I will be fighting over the candied yams! But I have to leave room for pumpkin pie.

@Jude You and your US girlfriend can have another this month!

MASHED POTATOES.

GREEN BEAN CASSEROLE.

STUFFING.

PUMPKIN PIE.

Same as @tinyfaery. I always make a big batch of candied sweet potatoes and eat the leftovers for breakfast for the next few days.

Thinking @KatawaGrey is hungry. Is that why you’re shouting, sweetie? ;-)

Green beans with bacon, I can eat bowls and bowls of that stuff! mmmmm

Oooh, how could I forget PECAN PIE!
Move over Pumpkin, you pale in comparison. haha

Oh, I do love pecans. Good call.

@JilltheTooth: Yeah, I’m going to get something to eat now. I just did 100 crunches and 30 sissy push-ups. I gotta fuel up!

Oh yeah, and pumpkin pie with Cool Whip of course! :-)

Potato Salad
Stuffing
Potato Salad
Stuffing
Potato Salad
Stuffing
Crandberry Sauce
Potato Salad
Stuffing

My mother makes an insane variety of vegtable dishes. Never less than a dozen different things. I usually have to have two plates or refill one twice.

My mother’s banana bread and my uncle’s mashed potatoes. Sadly, I’m not going home for Thanksgiving this year. On the bright side, however, both show up at the family’s Christmas feast as well.

Cornbread dressing!!! And a delicious sweet potato cole slaw, the recipe for which I obtained through Fluther.

Oh, man… I never get cornbread at Thanksgiving.

Mmmm… cornbread.

Yeah, I’ll be right back. I’m now making cornbread tonight.

Mmmmm, this questions makes my stomach grumble.

I like cranberry sauce a lot. The real kind with cranberry chunks in it. I can’t get enough of it. I also really like the green bean casserole with the cream of mushroom (?) and crunchy things on top. And the sweet yams with brown sugar, cinnamon, marshmallows and apple slices. And the zucchini casserole! Oh and the PIEEESSS!!

Oh my….

My Holiday Green Beans (with shallots, walnuts, mushrooms, cream and bacon).
Cornbread dressing with gravy

Sweet potato pie and my homemade stuffing and you can’t make me choose!

Oyster stuffing. My dad loves oysters and only gets them at Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Stuffing at Thanksgiving and stew after the Sunday School Christmas Program on Christmas Eve.

Giblet stuffing, exactly the way my parents made it! We go to my husband’s aunt’s for Thanksgiving and she makes a very good sausage stuffing. Then at home I roast a turkey just for us and make stuffing the BEST way!

Mashed sweet potatoes. Pumpkin pie.

But nothing compares to mashing all the leftovers onto a sandwich every day for a week after Thanksgiving. :)

SWEET POTATOES!!!!!!!

My Mom makes killer cranberry sauce with fresh cranberries and orange juice.

I make a pretty good vegetarian mushroom gravy.

I’m looking to create or find a recipe that is similar to the traditional green bean casserole (you know the kind with the Campbell’s mushroom soup and the French fried onions) only I want to make a home made bechamel sauce and use artichoke hearts instead of green beans. And I want to put panko bread crumbs on top, plus the onions, but Trader Joe’s fried onions are way better than the greasy ones made by French’s.

I would also like to make a melange of roasted vegetables with sweet potatoes, parsnips, rutabagas and mushrooms.

And maybe a puree of roasted parsnips and celery root. Like This only I’d probably use non-fat plain yogurt instead of sour cream.

Mashed potatoes and gravy are my favorite. I make great gravy (and pumpkin bars).

Sage dressing
My wife’s Apple Pie
My sisters Brownies
Green Bean Casserole
Gravy!
Cranberry Sauce

Good Grief, I can’t wait!

First of all, I love this question because I am looking forward to Thanksgiving so much! I guess I’m one of the few people who actually loves cranberry sauce that comes in the shape of a can. That stuff is a Thanksgiving staple for me. Sometimes I like to eat the turkey with the cranberry…jelly. Sounds gross, I know.

@global_nomad We call it “red stuff” and it IS a Thanksgiving staple!

@global_nomad I’ve never met a cranberry sauce that I didn’t like. My Mom makes fresh sauce, but I also love and have a fond memory for the stuff that plops out of a can that my Grandma used to serve. I love it all.

@global_nomad My sister wasn’t going to get the infamous can of cranberry sauce last year because she said no one eats it. I told her we have to have it! We’ve always had it plopped on a plate and sliced between the can molds that encircle it LOL

Homemade bread stuffing, cranberry-jalapeno relish, roasted Brussels sprouts with bacon and pumpkin pecan pie…..mmmmmm….

I would just like to note that I got my cornbread tonight. Mmmm…

Mashed potatoes and gravy for me. :) I can never get enough of those.

I make my own cranberry sauce as well. It’s so easy. The simple way is buy a bag of cranberries, dump them in a pot, 1 cup water, 1 cup sugar and stir. The cranberries pop like corn kernels and after awhile it just melds together. Each year I make it a little differently, sometimes I use apple juice, orange juice etc in place of water and I add diced apple and or raisins and a sprinkle of cinnamon.

I also make candied yams every year which my kids love. I make a maple pork sausage dressing that is always the first thing gone and collard greens cooked the Southern way, with Ham Hocks, sweet potato pie and pumpkin pie. These things are a must, other things can change like mashed potatoes or baked macaroni and cheese. I love green bean casserole but my kids don’t like it. :-(

I always make a spinach casserole and that’s my favorite thing on the TG table.

@WestRiverrat We used to have oyster stew around Chirstmas Eve too. Love oyster crackers!

@marinelife My stepfather makes scalloped oysters every year. Yum.

@Raven_Rising I’ve never made pecan pie before and I was hoping to try it this Thanksgiving, but I was wanting something a little different. I think your recipe sounds delicious! I’m going to try it.

this Q is making me feel all warm and fuzzy and I can’t wait for Thanksgiving now =)

Let’s hear it for oysters!

@Adirondackwannabe Yum, I’d love the recipe for that!

It’s the easiest ever. Oysters, saltine crackers, and a little salt and pepper to taste. Excellent flavors come after that.

@Adirondackwannabe You said scalloped. Is there cream in it?

@marinelife You can add a little if you want. He judges that on how moist the oysters are and what the mix looks like.

Cherry cheesecake! Yum <3

I love scalloped oysters…for Thanksgiving though we usually have mostly Italian food…..go figure, big Italian family=Italian Thanksgiving.

Squash casserole! Hallllllelujah! I eat it all before anyone else gets any, I love it

One of my aunts makes Empanadas as an appetizer before her traditional Thanksgiving meal.

My Grandma used to make this delicious salad made with cottage cheese, lime Jello mix (for flavor and color, not to make a Jello mold, which is also pretty cool) with pineapple chunks and pecans. I’m having a nostalgic moment here, so forgive me for a sec, Sniff.

My Mom makes everything fantastic! My Dad’s favorite, is Mom’s applesauce. But her chocolate pecan pie is pretty damned amazing too! Imagine a fudgey layer, below the traditional pecan pie, layer. It’s to die for.

One year, in which my family went to my aunt and uncle’s home in another city, I had to stay home, because I worked that day. I realized that I had never really learned the art of Thanksgiving recipes from my family, so my Mom wrote down and coached me over the phone how to make mashed potatoes, how to properly spice the sweet potatoes, how to make a pumpkin pie and how to make both cranberry sauce and apple sauce. I’d watched her and my Grandma a million times, and sort of helped, but until that year, I really had no idea what I was doing. That was over 20 years ago.

It still amazes me how my Mom and her mother before her, were able to know how to cook a turkey and mashed potatoes and green bean casserole and dinner rolls and sweet potatoes and make gravy and get it all to come out perfect, and at the same time. It still boggles my mind that my Mom is able to instinctively know how to time her dishes just right so that they can be prepared and everything comes out perfectly. And without evening batting an eyelash.

But back in the day, my Mom and Grandmother were expected to know how to cook and they were kind of forced to learn, whether they wanted to or not. I, on the other hand, was never expected to cook, but I was generously allowed to cook and so therefore, I became entranced with the whole thing. So for her it was a necessity, and for me it’s a luxury for which I will always be grateful.

You should see us, when we have Thanksgiving at our house. Both me and my Mom have our favorite psychedlic 1960’s era aprons that we’ve had since I was a kid. My Dad’s 2 tasks, are to help put the leaf in the table and to go out to the pantry to retrieve the can of black olives for the relish tray.

@jonsblond Pecan pie is not as difficult as many people think. Give it a try and you’ll never go back to store-bought!

@Raven_Rising I just bought the corn syrup yesterday. The grocery store was sold out of it by the Tuesday before Thanksgiving last year. I’m prepared this time! =)

@jonsblond : I’m demanding tasting privileges as this is my Q!!

@jonsblond I can actually smell the pie cooking over at your house and you haven’t even started making it yet. But no one says you can’t make a practice pie this week : )

I like walnut pie better than pecan. My mom forgot to get the pecans one year before they ran out and made a chocolate walnut pie instead of pecan. We haven’t let her go back to pecans since.

@WestRiverrat I’ve never heard of anyone doing it with walnuts, although, now that you mention it, I’m not sure why not. I love walnuts!

Now I’m craving walnuts.

I especially love my moms Cheesy green beans. Yum. Just thinking of it makes me a little more excited.