Your favorite side dish on Turkey Day?

[taterhed]

My wife's baked squash casserole. It's made with heavy cream and topped with French-fried onions.
Honestly, it's to die for.

 

[wackymother]

I too love the stuffing . . . and homemade whole cranberry sauce. My Mom used to make the best . . . but she's long gone and I'm the only person who likes it around here, so the canned Ocean Spray gets by.

But cranberry sauce is so easy! And you can make it for yourself and eat it as a lovely snack for days afterward. It's good on plain yogurt or on toast.

 

[rapmarks]

Third day of turkey dinner and trimmings and I have had enough.

 

[VacationForever]

I have yet to get tired of turkey leftovers... I love turkey meat.

 

[Passepartout]

Third day of turkey dinner and trimmings and I have had enough.

It freezes, so you can have more later when your appetite is ready.

 

[MuranoJo]

We froze a bunch today for future meals. Only kept enough out for me to make a Turkey Pot Pie in a day or two.
Oh, man, I love those leftover turkey sandwiches, dressing, mashers and gravy.
Monday is back to dieting and if I were truly serious, I guess I would have skipped a lot of what I ate in the past two days.
But I believe life is too short to not take a few days off and enjoy a holiday of good food.

 

[taterhed]

It freezes, so you can have more later when your appetite is ready.

Great suggestion, also, there is an awesome recipe for turkey enchiladas

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[Talent312]

With our leftovers, we had two meals, and made:
-- 2 turkey pot pies
-- a bowl full of turkey salad for sandwiches

.

 

[spirits]

My mother used to make these beautiful cottage cheese filled buns....they can also be made with saurkraut or ground meat although the cheese ones are the most popular. I finally made these last month, froze them and made the cream sauce last night. Will serve them today at our Grey Cup party....hope my other guest like them....they are a lot of work but since most is done ahead of time......not too much effort on the busy day. Bring on the carbs!!!!

http://www.claudiascookbook.com/201...ian-cottage-cheese-buns-in-creamy-dill-sauce/

 

[MULTIZ321]

My mother used to make these beautiful cottage cheese filled buns....they can also be made with saurkraut or ground meat although the cheese ones are the most popular. I finally made these last month, froze them and made the cream sauce last night. Will serve them today at our Grey Cup party....hope my other guest like them....they are a lot of work but since most is done ahead of time......not too much effort on the busy day. Bring on the carbs!!!!

http://www.claudiascookbook.com/201...ian-cottage-cheese-buns-in-creamy-dill-sauce/

Thanks for the recipe.

Will certainly try it.

Richard

 

[Sea Six]

When there's nothing left but turkey crumbs and no more good slices, we finish it off with an old family Pennsylvania Dutch favorite - heat up the last of the turkey in a pot with gravy, and eat it on top of a waffle. My wife says when she was a kid there might be more waffles than turkey, so she would eat her last waffle with jelly.

 

[moonstone]

But cranberry sauce is so easy! And you can make it for yourself and eat it as a lovely snack for days afterward. It's good on plain yogurt or on toast.

I had a friend who was born & raised in Nova Scotia & cranberries were eaten often. One of her favorite ways to have home made sauce was over french vanilla ice cream. Sounds weird but it was delicious! I make big batches of it and then freeze in smaller containers, it's good with chicken as well!

Cranberries are also good for bladder/kidney infections. The extended care home where my Mom lives serves cranberry juice daily to all their residents and they have a very low rate of bladder infections.


~Diane

 

[Talent312]

"Pioneer Woman" (Lee Drummond) did a cranberry-raspberry-blueberry sauce that I intend to try for Christmas,

 

[Makai Guy]

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

Does she want to be generous and share the recipe?

Sorry, I just remembered to ask her, now that all the Thanksgiving company has gone. Turns out it is one she got online:
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/13643/cranberry-sauce-extraordinaire/

Now I know why that pear was on the shopping list she handed me ..

 

[tschwa2]

This is an old thread but I am bringing it back. Both my husband and I work on Thanksgiving (airline and retail) so we are having Thanksgiving today. It's just 4 of us today so instead of a million sides, I cut down and will do different sides with leftovers on Saturday.
Today's sides are homemade cranberry sauce, bagged sauerkraut (Baltimore thing), mashed potatoes (son want's this with every meal), stovetop stuffing (sage) and broccoli (not very traditional but wanted a fresh green vegi). On Saturday probably will do sweet potatoes, green beans, mac and cheese and what ever sides are left from today.

Happy Thanksgiving.

 

[clifffaith]

Our green vegetable is always "microwave peas", so named by my sister. Favorite appetizer is celery stuffed with cream cheese (the kind with chives) -- tomorrow we are taking Trader Joe's turkey breast and sides to Mom's house and I hadn't planned on appetizers beyond the cashews Mom says she has. But Cliff decided he had a taste for shrimp so he went yesterday to pick up a small (16 pcs) shrimp ring. Growing up, Mom occasionally had a fruit cup or glass of tomato juice as a first course on Thanx & Xmas, but usually we went straight to turkey. When we do Thanksgiving here we often do butternut squash soup (Cliff) or hot spinach salad (me). For Christmas we'd skip the soup and most often had spinach salad first course. Of course Christmas here always calls for an appetizer of "cheese whiz" (more properly called Brie & Winter Fruit), so those of us who love melted brie on toasted baguette invariably come to the table already full. Side dishes, a tie between mashed potatoes & gravy and stuffing. I haven't made my world famous cranberry/orange liqueur cranberry sauce in a few years. Easy to make, but makes a batch that lasts until New Years (not that there's anything wrong with that!).

 

[VacationForever]

This year we are going to have buffet dinner out at the Westin. No clean up at home and good food out. Happy happy.

For years when we lived in California, we ate out at nice places until we moved into a new development and our neighbors invited us over for Thanksgiving every year and food and company were always great. We moved 3 years ago, cooked and ate in the first year, ate at the Westin the second year, and last year we were invited to a home of a friend's friend and both the company, other than our friends', and food were pretty bad.

 

[IngridN]

Costco's cheesecake. I'm making baked potato instead of the usual roasted fingerlings this year, so that's a close second. Actually, I'm also making rib eye cap steak for the first time as the holiday meal, so need to rethink the order. Maybe steak, baked potato, then cheesecake. String beans and mushrooms...meh!

Ingrid

 

[Luanne]

My favorite side is still good stuffing. I could make a meal of it. I also like to pick the turkey off the carcass while we're cleaning up.

We're going to sil's this year. I have no idea what all the side dishes will be, but I'm sure it will all be amazing. We are bringing pies and a green salad.

 

[WinniWoman]

I have to decide tomorrow whether to order the Vermont Turkey Dinner or the Portabello Mushroom Wellington. LOL! Good choices at the local place- also: Maple glazed ham, crab stuffed shrimp, petite prime rib, King cut prime rib, or grilled rack of lamb.

Then I need to choose pumpkin or pecan pie. They also have apple and cherry. Not sure what the soup is. Soup or salad? Hmmmm.....

 

[PcflEZFlng]

Simple sage stuffing for me. I would also enjoy it with cooked onions and/or ground sausage. But nothing else ever added, especially things that would totally ruin it like mushrooms or oysters.

 

[pedro47]

My favorite side dish was my Mother cornbread stuffing make with that special recipe passed down from her Grandmother.
Thanksgivings Day was the only date. My Father and Mother required everyone to be home for dinner. No television or football games to watch; just good food eating at my Mom table.
There were only eleven of all us at my Mom last Thanksgivings dinner. The next year she was gone.

 

[klpca]

Our neighbors are coming over tomorrow and they had some requests (lol, but whatever. If you are picky let me know beforehand). Luckily the big deal to them was dressing - not in the bird and no extras, like apples, grapes etc. It just so happens that I completely agree with most of this (although I will eat stuffing from the bird - I know that others are skeeved out by it so I don't subject my guests to eating it). I think that dressing is the best side, nearly tied with mashed potatoes and gravy. If I could, I would eat those three meals a day for the rest of the week.

I just finished making my gravy base, my herbed butter, prepped the brussels sprouts gratin, made the cranberry relish, and just need to make the dressing. I'm stressing a bit on that. Last year I used the crock pot and while it tasted great, it was crunchy on the sides and bottom of the crock. So I am debating on just baking it after the turkey comes out or lining the crock with foil. Anyone want to offer an opinion?

 

[Luanne]

Our neighbors are coming over tomorrow and they had some requests (lol, but whatever. If you are picky let me know beforehand). Luckily the big deal to them was dressing - not in the bird and no extras, like apples, grapes etc. It just so happens that I completely agree with most of this (although I will eat stuffing from the bird - I know that others are skeeved out by it so I don't subject my guests to eating it). I think that dressing is the best side, nearly tied with mashed potatoes and gravy. If I could, I would eat those three meals a day for the rest of the week.

I just finished making my gravy base, my herbed butter, prepped the brussels sprouts gratin, made the cranberry relish, and just need to make the dressing. I'm stressing a bit on that. Last year I used the crock pot and while it tasted great, it was crunchy on the sides and bottom of the crock. So I am debating on just baking it after the turkey comes out or lining the crock with foil. Anyone want to offer an opinion?

I'm on that likes the stuffing cooked in the turkey, but I haven't had any prepared that way for years. Everyone else thought it got too moist, or it wasn't "safe" if it was cooked that way.

Your dinner sounds great, except for the brussels sprouts. But, if I were your guest I'd take a little and not complain. I wouldn't complain if the stuffing was a bit crunchy either. I'd want to be invited back again.

 

[klpca]

I'm on that likes the stuffing cooked in the turkey, but I haven't had any prepared that way for years. Everyone else thought it got too moist, or it wasn't "safe" if it was cooked that way.

Your dinner sounds great, except for the brussels sprouts. But, if I were your guest I'd take a little and not complain. I wouldn't complain if the stuffing was a bit crunchy either. I'd want to be invited back again.

They are apparently fine with brussels but I decided to make some green beans just in case they were being polite. I am a recent (past three years) brussels sprout convert. I'm good if they are roasted, and have cheese or a balsamic reduction with them. Then I find them quite tasty.