Blog Giveaway – Le Creuset Side Dish Prize Package
700 Comments | Written on October 24, 2011 at 5:00 am , by Kristina Vanni
Thanksgiving will be here before we know it! How many of you are already planning the menu? We are here to help! The blog giveaway this week is all about those beloved side dishes. From stuffing to mashed potatoes, green beans to candied yams, this prize will have you set for the holidays! Best of all, you will serve in style with the legendary Le Creuset items in this package. (It’s the best and lasts forever!)
Here is what you could win:
Le Creuset Oval Baking Dish
Le Creuset Rectangle Baking Dish Set
“Casseroles” Cookbook
“One-Dish Bible” Cookbook
Set of 8 Thanksgiving napkins
Just for fun, I am going to throw in some free coupons for Green Giant products. No Thanksgiving meal is complete without some vegetable side dishes and now you can prepare them for free!
Here is all you have to do to win:
Leave a comment here on the blog telling us your favorite Thanksgiving side dish. Do you like the lumpy mashed potatoes just like Mom used to make? Is Thanksgiving not complete without green bean casserole? Tell us your favorite and share your holiday stories and traditions!
I can’t wait to hear from you all and give one lucky winner this fantastic prize package!
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Winner will be announced one week from today. Official Rules
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Roasted Brussels sprouts are delicious!
I am a recent immigrant to the US and have only experienced one Thanksgiving. I just love the entire process and am looking forward to cooking my very own FIRST Thanksgiving meal. I totally love the green bean casserole.
A must have in our house for Thanksgiving is chunky sweet potatoes with brown sugar and butter, topped with marshmallows.
My family’s favorite side dish is Scallop Potatoes, its delicious. One side this requested year after year.
The best dish is sweet potato casserole with Apples and cinnamon syrup.
Green Bean casserole is a must…especially with the cheese fried onions!
My mom’s homemade cranberry chutney is a must-have for our Thanksgiving … wouldn’t be the holiday without it!
the dish would be wonderful and look great filled with a vegetable, on my table
It’s not Thanksgiving unless we have my MOM’S made from scratch CORNBREAD DRESSING. With the fresh cornbread ,stock from the Turkey gibblets,chopped celery,onions,spices and Etc….Though I lost my Mom last April to a very short battle with Cancer I keep trying to get her recipe just right. Everyone loved the dressing I made last Thanksgiving,but I think it still needs my moms touch !!!! I’ll try again this Year !!!! Wish Me Luck !!!!
I would love to have that recipe, sounds awesome!
I love everything about the holidays, especially the food! My family has always had good cooks and all of them have their special dish. Mine is Sweet Potato Casserole. Everyone says it is not Thanksgiving at our table unless my casserole is there! I prepare the one with the pecan, butter and brown sugar topping. It is such a warm, comfort and delicious food that everyone loves! Can’t wait to have some of them myself! Happy Holidays to all!
I started making my Thanksgiving stuffing with apples. Yummy…Love new recipes.
Sweet potatoes. Every year I try a new receipe. Last year I made a cassserole in a slow cooker that was full of pecans and marshmallos. One year I hollowed out oranges and fulled with mashed sweet potatoes topped with marshmallows. Yum
My fav’s are southern Mac and cheese and my gram’s sweet potato soufflé!
I agree, roasted brussel sprouts are the bomb. I always have to make chocolate pecan pie and rustic corn stuffing for my kids.
My mother-in-law, who passed away a few years ago, used to make the best sweet potato casserole I have ever eaten..have never been able to make it as good..I guess it must have been the love it was made with..I need to work on that…Happy Thanksgiving
My mom has made an English pea casserole for every Thanksgiving I can remember.. its fresh green peas layered with garlic cheese mixed with milk and a layer of grape nuts cereal. The top is more cheese and grape nuts. It sounds weird I know, but its sooo good with turkey!
Cheezy Potatoes are our favorite dish! Easy to make since you combine pantry and frozen items.
my favorite thanksgiving pie is pumpkin.
Creamed onions are a favorite.
My favorite Thanksgiving dish is the stuffing that my husband makes. If there’s any left over, I’ll eat a dish full of it the next day. YUM!
No Thanksgiving is complete w/o stuffing. Each year my father would sample the stuffing as it was being prepared and always tell my mom “it needs something”. She would then add a little salt and it always turned out perfect.My father has been gone for a few years now but I’ve carried on the tradition w/ my husband.
I am a HUGE fan of sweet potato streusel. I found the recipe inside a newspaper many moons ago and now it’s a holiday standard!
Stuffing. I grew up on Long Island and we called it stuffing whether it was in the bird or along side it. Plain, simple, bread, sausage, celery, onion, poultry seasoning, sautéed in more butter than should be legal. Unassuming and just plain delicious.
I LOVE stuffing with brown gravy, YUM!
I think that green beans casserole with french crunchy onions is one dish that I always look forward to, of course mashed potatoes, turkey and sweet potato pie too..yummy..got to have those 4 together on the table for Thankgiving:))
I love the green bean casserole!
I would have to say my favorite Thanksgiving dish is the stuffing… and the mashed potatoes!
It just isn’t Thanksgiving without bread stuffing! Or the potatoes and cranberries. I can’t choose…
cranberry relish! mmmmmm
My favorite side dish HAS to be the green bean casserole! I could have just that an the turkey and be a happy camper! Ok and the mashed potatoes a gravy. And the pie. Lol!!! Ok final answer, green bean casserole!
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I love mashed potatoes and gravy. My favorite.
Dream salad and/or mom’s stuffing…oh, and don’t forget the turkey skin!
Corn Pudding and stuffing!!
My fav Thanksgiving dish is sweet potatoes…either in a casserole with the crunchy topping or as candied.
My favorite dish is vegetable casserole. I got the recipe from my granny before she passed away. I make the dish each year because to me it feels like she is still with us during the holidays.
Grandma’s homemade cranberry sauce. She makes it every year, even if Thanksgiving isn’t at home for her, she makes and brings it to wherever we are celebrating Thanksgiving. My Grandma is 94 and legally blind and still makes it!
It is always served in a beautiful glass bowl with blue flowers
My favorite side dish is Oyster Dressing, with LOTS of oysters! (Simple – we use the Sav-A=Lot brand stuffing mix, saute some veggies (onions, celery, green pepper), and then follow the directions on the box, and add the oysters. Delish!)
stuffing and real mashed potatos
Hi! My favorite, would not be Thanksgiving without it, side dish is my family’s Sweet Potato casserole! It is filled with yummy sweet potatoes, sweetened with vanilla and spices and then topped with a toasted coconut, pecan (or walnut), brown sugar mixture!
I make it every year – even though it is just me who eats it! LOL!
Our traditions for Thanksgiving are simple, wake up to a cinnamon roll or coffee cake breakfast, watch Macy’s parade and football, make what we call a garbage plate (olive, pickles, stuffed celery,etc) and eat a very yummy turkey dinner with family!
Thank you for the chance to enter! Enjoy your day and happy Thanksgiving!
homemade cranberry sauce/salad
Mom always makes an apple cranberry crisp that is a Thanksgiving staple! Look forward to it every year and always reminds me of family and the holidays!
Mashed potatoes and gravy! This is a must at Thanksgiving and they MUST BE LUMPY or don’t have them at all! My mom always made them lumpy and to this day my siblings and I ask for lumpy potatoes. If we are with my mom for Thanksgiving we always ask her even though we know the answer which is “of course!” She even makes about 10 lbs.even though there are only a couple of us! They are always a good evening snack later that day as well!
Homemade cranberry sauce/salad.
Thanksgiving isn’t complete without my mom’s Sweet Potato Casserole or dressing! I love helping my mom with the last-minute prep, usually done after we’ve had breakfast while watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade.
I look forward to Corn Souffle every year during the holidays.
I am a huge fan of Alton Brown, so when he endorsed Tyler Florence’s Roasted Chestnut Sausage dressing on his Thanksgiving show, I had to try it. It is amazing! The chestnuts add such wonderful flavor and texture. It’s so good there are never any leftovers! I also love Alton Brown’s techniques for the perfect Tday bird!
Tyler Florence’s Roasted Chestnut Sausage dressing recipe is at:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/tyler-florence/roasted-chestnut-sausage-dressing-recipe/index.html
Hi there! My favorite recipe is a vegetarian sausage and rice stuffing. Made with morning star farms products, brown and white rice, onions, garlic, baby bella mushrooms, and of course some savory herbs! So amazing, so filling, and the spices in the “sausage” taste similar to meat sausage–but without the cholesterol or anything! Yum!
I grew up with my grandma, and every year I would look forward to Thanksgiving, she would make a delicious Coconut cake from scratch and a Waldorf salad with marshmallows, cranberry dressing with real cranberries not the canned lump. I loved everything she made but these stood out for me. Although she passed away several years ago Thanksgiving is still my favorite holiday and even though my food doesn’t taste like I remember hers tasted I still try and incorporate those traditions into our meal.
Has to be a tie. My family loves the simple bread stuffing I make, so I always make a ton of it and still have none left over. As a kid, I loved my mom’s ambrosia salad that she made every Thanksgiving. It was ridiculously simple, fruit cocktail, maraschino cherries, mandarin oranges, and loads of whipped topping. Last but not least, I know it isn’t technically a side dish, but my pumpkin custard cake with whipped topping goes almost as fast as the stuffing every year.
cornbread dressing with cranberry sauce
No thanksgiving meal is complete without dressing (or what some know as stuffing. I look forward to it every year. My mom makes 2 dressings. A regular one, then one with crabmeat. Yummy!
My mom is asian and for the longest time I couldn’t understand why everyone didn’t have fried eggrolls with Thanksgiving dinner.
My favorite side dish is my mom’s sweet potato mash. I look forward to it all year long. She even makes me my own pan full so I have lots left over, and there is still enough to for the 20+ people that come to dinner! My mouth is watering for it just thinking about it!
I LOVE my mom’s cheesy potatoes! They are sooo bad for me, which means they are super tasty
broccoli casserole..yumm yummy!
Roasted vegetables!YUM!
I am crazy about stuffing that has been cooked INSIDE the turkey! My mom’s stuffing is the best and I look forward to it every year
I have had cancer 3 times so I am always so THANKFUL to be able to cook and spend THANKSGIVING with my family. My favorite side dish is cornbread dresssing and all the fixen’s !!!
i love every thing at thanksgiving i think my moms stuffing is the best she puts sausage in it
I love creamed corn!
I’ve started making Thanksgiving dinner for my family (including my parents and siblings and THEIR families) and the thing that is always requested is my pineapple stuffing. I made it on a whim a few years ago and everyone loved it. I’ve started making 2 trays of it just so everyone can get some!
I once made pineapple stuffing on a whim and now it is always requested at Thanksgiving!
Everybody LOVES my Sweet Potato Souffle – it’s almost more like a dessert!
My favorite Thanksgiving foods were always at my Grandmother’s house. She made the best lemon icebox pie, and the best lumpy mashed potatoes. Since she’s gone, I’ve tried to replicate those dishes, but no one can do it like Mamaw.
Green bean casserole and homemade stuffing!!
Mashed potatoes and my mom’s giblet gravy!
I am in love with my stuffing recipe! My family asks me to make an extra pan of it…I toss in some small cubed potatoes and bake. MMMMMM….
It’s so hard to pick just one, but I must say I’m a fan of green bean casserole.
It’s funny – we tried making some changes one year or even reducing the number of dishes to put less burden on the cooks and our waistlines, but the crowd was in uproar! My personal “must haves” for Thanksgiving are green been casserole and stuffing. I could just have those two (with turkey) and be satisfied. Oh, and I guess pumpkin pie too.
The one year we tried to reduce the number of dishes to cut back on the stress on the cooks and our waistlines, our family was in uproar! My personal favorites are the turkey, stuffing and green bean casserole – I could have a meal just with them. Oh, and I suppose I have to have pumpkin pie too!
My favourite Thanksgiving side dish is Heavenly Potatoes (they’re a little like scalloped potatoes)
I absolutely adore good pumpkin pie – that is a must. I love all the usual stuff, especially roasted Brussels sprouts and butternut squash. But is especially fun is that our family adds in Italian comfort food (we’re part Italian) – we usually have my aunt’s amazing meatballs with sausage, which is awesome with fresh bread.
We have a tradition of a break between the main meal and dessert. I love it because it we get to sit around the table or move to the sofa and catch up as we digest our delicious meal before going back for dessert and tea/coffee.
Broccoli cheese rice casserole is my favorite side dish at Thanksgiving. I am the only one in the family who makes it and when we’re not hosting, I feel let down when it’s not on the table.
my 19 yr old daughter makes the best mashed potatoes, but then there is the pumpkin pie!
The corn bread dressing and the best sour cream mash potates!
My sister in law makes the most amazing HOT potato salad. Lots of cheesy potato-ey goodness. It’s my FAV!
My mother isn’t originally from the US, so her take on Thanksgiving goodness probably has taken more “liberations” than most. My absolute favorite thing she makes is stuffing with pecans, focaccia breadcrumbs, and cauliflower, with hints of curry and cumin. Probably not great for purists, but with an open mind, it may be the best thing ever.
Honestly, I’m not a big fan of the dinner. At least not until the pumpkin pie makes it’s appearance.
We do mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes and cranberry sauce.
A must have for my Mom would have been a cottage cheesy green Jell-o “salad” with shreds of carrot and topped with a dollop of sour cream. This is not delicious.
Lately I have been experimenting with my sweet potato and cranberry recipes. Last year we did roasted sweet potatoes mashed with brown sugar, maple syrup, salt and butter + drunken sweet potatoes with sherry. They were both delish.
In a similar vein we did cranberries in the style of the recipe on the bag with orange juice substituted for the water + cranberries simmered in port. They were both great.
This year I think I’m gonna keep it simple and stick to the old standbys.
Chris (Shrimp13)
I love stuffed strawberries, but they’re so rich (and strawberries are hard to come by this time of year!). My next would be cornbread dressing.
Growing up my mom couldn’t eat turkey(or chicken) so we always had ham, so I always fix turkey and ham w/all the traditional sides while the family watches the parade. Then we all watch football and snack on a relish tray til the food is ready.
I love this time of year!
Gotta have Homemade Turkey Noodles!
My mom’s giblet gravy! Mmm, mmm, good!
I love that we all sit down as a family, eat together, and enjoy each other’s company – this does not happene often enough, but it definitely does on Thanksgiving! Oh, and we also all eat way too much. Without fail.
love sweet potatoe casserole. made with sweet potatoes, pinnaple, and marshmallows.
Corn pudding! It is the one side dish that MUST be on the Thanksgiving table.
I love having smoked Turkey and Dressing and Thanksgiving. I also love the yams, and all the fattening things you do not eat during the year. That is why I love Thanksgiving. It is my way of waiting to splurge on the fattening foods I do not eat during the year.
Green bean casserole and cheesy potatoes.
Green Bean casserole and cheesy potatoes. These are two of the staples we must have at every Thanksgiving gathering. The cheesy potato recipe changes each year depending on who makes it that year. Always fun to try to figure out who made it.
Pumpkin soup made with my kids…made from fresh pumpkins, onions along with the book “Pumpkin Soup” by Helen Cooper.
Gravy and mashed potatoes!
Thank you
Our family tradition, from my Mom’s side of the family, is Oyster Stuffing! Fresh Oysters from the Gulf, celery, onions, toasted bread crumbs, garlic and turkey stock all mixed together with love! THAT is Thanksgiving in our house.
Favorite dish to make is a sweet poato apple dish. Our family tradition is always to eat early! Yummy.
Sweet potato casserole in all its brown-sugary nutty buttery glory is my number one side dish favorite. Loaded with pecans I shell myself, to the mashed yams I stir in melted butter and a bit of half and half and top if with pecan halves. I could eat it all myself!
(no, this is *not* the diet version! LOL!)
And for dessert and mostly snacking, my grandmas date nut loaf. Oh, the memories …
Turkey Cranberry Braided Wreath made by my sister
I love buttered rolls.
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I totally have Thanksgiving on the brain, already!!! My favorite side dish is the gourmet mac & cheese. It is not out of the box, or even through some shredded cheese on hot macaroni. No this is food of love mac & cheese. Roasted nutty shallots and garlic, gourmet cheese and a butter toasted panko and bacon crust. Yeah It makes you hungry just reading it, right?!
Can’t do without homemade cranberry sauce. It is so easy to make and do delicious!
Every year I make CRANBERRIES in one form or another. Each year I try a new recipe which I test a week before
It’s got to be homemade cream biscuits, cornbread stuffing, both with giblet gravy, and whole berry cranberry jelly!
The stuffing of course!
It’s a tie between a fresh cranberry relish and a praline-topped sweet potato dish – both excellent and always on my Thanksgiving table!
Roasted brussels sprouts with bacon and garlic. Yummmmmmmm!
Thanksgiving would not be complete without sweet potato casserole and home made cranberry sauce.
a toss-up between stuffing and green bean casserole
I have 2 favorite things and I make them both myself: Bourbon Sweet Potatoes and Sugar Cream Pie.
my favorite side dish wild rice stuffing with cranberries, almonds and some goat cheese.
Sausage stuffing!
One year, because of all the different family gatherings on Thanksgiving, we held a brunch at my sister’s. We got pretty creative with dishes that had a Thanksgiving flair. I combined/fiddled with a few recipes and created SQUASH Cinnamon Rolls. They were wonderful! The cinnamon flavor compliments the squash dough so nicely! I have been making them every fall with the squash season!
Mashed potato
My two favorites are my mom’s sausage stuffing with apples and walnuts and my kale and brown rice gratin http://www.abigmouthful.com/kale_and_brown_rice_gratin/ YUM!
My dad’s mashed sweet potatoes are a must!
Chestnut stuffing
My cousin Mary makes it It is quite addicting
I live for mashed potatoes and green peas with mint
Green bean casserole is my gravy for the mashed potatoes. Along with turkey is my entire meal! YUMMMM
My favorite is a good cranberry chutney or sauce. It completes the flavor of everything else on the plate!
There are so many great veggie side dishes that I like (squash casserole, green beens almondine, roasted brussels sprouts) but I love love LOVE any type of sweet potato side dish! From the traditional marshmallow topping to candied yams to nontraditional dishes like coconut milk smashed sweet potatoes. YUM! I’m so excited for Thanksgiving!
My mom’s gravy & “fruit salad” that is not healthy at all. Mmmmm.
Fruit salad & my mom’s gravy!
I love my dad’s mashed potatoes! When my sister’s fiance first came for Thanksgiving, he brought his mashed sweet potatoes along. Ever since we’ve had both side by side.
Greenbean cassarole is a must, but i have to inspect the crispy onions that go on top first. I eat any of them that are ‘too big’ in my opinion. THEN it can be baked!!!!
my favorite thing to eat on Thanksgiving is the crispy bits of stuffing.
Ill let you in on our dirty little Thanksgiving secret shhh… dont tell anyone.. We dont eat turky on Thanksgiving! Yikes.. do you all hate us now! I made a turkey for years then about 5 years ago my husband said..”Ihate turkey”..then my kids chimed in that they didnt like it either and frankly neither do I!! so instead we make a baked chicken and ALL the fixins and we dont have to think of 100 ways to use leftover turkey… Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!
My favorite thanksgiving side is cranberry sauce.
My fave side dish is mashed turnip & carrot…boil them together…mash them with a little butter…it is pure heaven! Yummm!
Im a sucker for corn pudding, just can’t get enough of that salty/sweet combo. Last year I made balsamic glazed roasted cauliflower (with honey & chili flakes in the glaze), it’s a new favorite!
Le Creuset is THE BEST!
I always make my grandma’s homemade stuffing. She died at 98 years old in 1979. My mom made it and now I make it. Everyone says the secret recipe is the best they’ve ever tasted. When our kids were little, my moms dining room was small so they’d crawl under the table when they were done eating. Even when there was room to walk around they still had to crawl under, it was their “tradition”
Fave side dish is mashed carrot & turnip…just boil them together…mash with a little butter…they are pure heaven!
My favorite side dish is Gruyere Scalloped Potatoes, I love Thanksgiving so very much.
Thanksgiving dinner wouldn’t be complete without green bean casserole! Even when it’s not Thanksgiving I make it for a side dish when the craving hits.
Its not thanksgiving without my mom’s twice baked potatoes! They are so good I wish I had them year round!
My new favorite side dish is stuffing with spicy sausage.
As a child, it was always the mashed potatoes until there was an unfortunate incident a few years ago. My mother made the mistake of over whipping the potatoes so they got extra starchy. We called them wallpaper spackle! The were like cement after sitting on the table for a hour! No one had the hear to tell her how bad they were and we try to choke them down. We didn’t think she suspected until the year after so said she wasn’t going to make potatoes since it took her so long to clean the pan from last year! They were rock solid on the bottom. We all laughed hysterically at the table, she said she couldn’t believe any of us attempted to eat them! So from now on, we have our sweet potato casserole and everyone fights over my mom’s perfect spice sausage stuffing. Maybe this year we’ll attempt potatoes again.
Oh boy, now that Halloween is just about here, my mind is absolutely thinking ahead to the next holiday. Every year we make my granny’s recipe for stuffing. The secret to this recipe? Ya gotta take those rings off and use your hands! Love it and would love it more with this prize pack!
My favorite side dish is potato gratin!
My favorite part of Thanksgiving dinner would either have to be green bean casserole (made with fresh green beans – not the canned kind) or my mother-in-law’s mashed potatoes made with sour cream and cream cheese. Mmmm… Fall is my favorite time of the year!!
I love stuffing with sausage, almonds, cranberries, and onions. I could eat it every day.
I love stuffing with sausage, almonds, apples, cranberries and onions. Oh my.
Has to be the dressing! It’s even better the next day!
Stuffing says Thanksgiving to me. My Mother and my sister make the most delicious bread stuffing. Using some diced apple is the key to keeping it moist. Even though Thanksgiving will be at my house this year, I told them one of them has to make the stuffing and bring it over early so I can stuff the bird! Mine just isn’t as good.
What a nice prize package! stuffing made with Italian sausage, parmesan cheese and apples-now I am salivating
My favorite is the dressing (southern style cornbread) and it’s even better the next day!
It is soooo hard to pick a favorite. Our family has two traditions in addition to the turkey/dressing/mashed potatoes/sweet potatoes/green bean casserole/rolls/cranberry sauce. Someone always makes my late mother’s green jello which has pineapple, walnuts, cottage cheese and horseradish in it and my brother-in-law make dill pickle slices wrapped in cream cheese and chipped beef. Wouldn’t be the holiday without those!!
Most definitely definitely creamy mashed potatoes with vegetarian gravy (It’s surprisingly good), and my mom’s homemade cranberry sauce. Can’t wait for Thanksgiving!
My absolute favorite is my mom’s sweet potatoes. Thanksgiving just isn’t the same without them.
My absolute favorite side dish would have to be my mom’s sweet potatoes. Thanksgiving just wouldn’t be the same without them.
Choosing a favorite thanksgiving side dish is a little like trying to choose my favorite song: several pop into mind, but it would take days of intense internal debate to narrow the field to a single victorious favorite.
That said, the first ones that pop into mind are *incredibly* easy, travel well, and are always complimented (even by notoriously picky eaters) and any leftovers vanish fast.
Obscenely Delicious Mashed Potatoes
Roughly chop (variety of sizes adds depth to the texture) and a bunch of white and red potatoes, and boil them — skins on– in a big stock pot till you can easily mush a piece with a fork against the side of the pot. I usually put several spoonfuls of chicken boullion in the water instead of salt.
Drain the potatoes and put them back into the same pot, and put a whole mess of Smart Balance in, and start grinding black pepper (or pepper medley) until your hand starts to cramp. (You could use butter, but it’s good with a *lot* of it, so smart balance will reduce your risk of stroking out at the dinner table)
Toss in a couple of spoonfuls of minced garlic, or garlic paste, and either some fresh minced rosemary or a bunch of ground rosemary — avoid using unground dried rosemary if you can. If that’s all you have, go at it with a mortar and pestle for a few minutes.
Start mushing the potatoes by hand — if you’ve boiled them long enough it’s not hard, and the mushing will stir in the butter analog and spices. At this point, sploosh in an eensy bit of heavy cream (less than half a cup unless you boiled a huge sack of potatoes) and adjust the butter/pepper/rosemary ratio to taste. The chicken boullion will probably have salted the potatoes enough, but if not, either sprinkle a little kosher salt in, or add some chicken boullion paste, and mash/stir some more. You can stir in shredded parmesan if you like, and it adds a nice tang.
Simple, nomliscious.
Scrumptious Orange Goo
A can of yams, a can of pumpkin, and a couple of chopped up winesap apples. Put them in a big pan with a bunch of cinnamon, a good amount of ground cloves, a handful of raisins, some currants if you’ve got them, and cook — adding either orange juice or white wine to keep it from scorching — until the apples are a texture you like eating. It’s good with small bits of crunchy apples, or with larger, softer apples. Depends on the time you’ve got to make it, and how much you like chopping. Toss in a bunch of slivered almonds or pecans (it’s better if they’re not candied) and a couple of shakes of nutmeg. A little bit of butter or smart balance, and stir it all up: voila: scrumptious orange goo! (I’ve learned to serve it in earthy-looking dishes, where it appears hearty and filling, whereas in delicate china it just looks like goo. Tastes great regardless of what it’s served in, though!)
Lime Ginger Apples
Roughly chop several apples (I’ve successfully mixed Pink Ladies, Winesaps, and Granny Smith) and toss in a large pot with a half cup or so of lime juice, and either two tablespoons (not teaspoons) of ginger paste or a whole bunch of freshly grated ginger. Simmer briskly, stirring occasionally, until the apples start to soften, and splash in a tiny bit (a few tablespoons, perhaps — I rarely measure) of either sweet or hard cider. (If you only have hard, you may want to add a spoonful of sugar to this.) If you have any golden raisins, toss a handful of those in as well, and you can skip the sugar — if you want, that is. :> Add a pinch or three of cardamom, a little bit of ground white pepper (one or two light shakes) and adjust the spices to taste. I always end up adding more cardamom and ginger at the end, often splashing in a little white wine (cooking wine is ok, but usually better if you’ve added it around the same time as the lime juice.) Mince up several pieces of candied ginger (the quantity depending entirely on how much you adore ginger) and stir in. This is one of those things that’s really forgiving and you can cook it a little, or until the apples are mushy and the candied ginger has plumped up, and it’s still delicious.
Cloves Carrots
Scrub or peel a bunch of big carrots (you can use baby carrots if you want, but big carrots look earthier) and chop them roughly into bite-size chunks. (I like to angle the knife back and forth while I’m chopping so I get clearly hand-cut results, and a variety of sizes — a little variety is better than a *lot* of variety, so the pieces all cook enough) Steam or boil them to your particular level of doneness. While they’re cooking, melt a bunch of butter (appropriate to the amount of carrots you’re making) and stir in a couple of teaspoons of ground cloves, a shake or two of cinnamon, and a pinch of sea salt. Grind a bunch of black pepper in while keeping the butter warm, and when the carrots are ready, toss them all together and serve. Uber-simple, and you can keep it this simple or add intuitively-yummy things like currants, or nuts, etc.
I’ll be keeping my fingers crossed — and happy holidays everyone!
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My favorite side dish is my mom’s sweet potato casserole. Thanksgiving just wouldn’t be the same without it.
My favoritw Thanksgiving dish is cranberries. Each year I try a new recipe
Stuffing or dressing is my favorite. Some recipes made in the bird and some made in a baking dish. So many recipes to select.
Two things I have to have! First, my Mom’s stuffing and second, my sister-in-laws cheesy potatoes. Yum, yum, yum, can’t wait!!
There are two must haves – first my Mom’s stuffing and second, my sister-in-law’s cheesy potatoes. Yum, can’t wait!
My favorite is that good ol’ southern cornbread dressing (notice I said “dressing” as we say in the south, not stuffing) – the one that has been handed down for generations from my mamma, aunts and grandma who are now in heaven watching down as we enjoy it this Thanksgiving!
I like to make wild rice stuffing with dried cranberries and walnuts. It’s a delicious gluten-free stuffing.
My favorite side dish is stuffing! I love stuffing with all sorts of add ins, sausage, sage, jalapenos, bacon, veggies, fruit. Yum, yum, yum!
Chicken and Sausage Dressing with a rich brown gravy
My favorite is that good ol’ southern cornbread dressing (notice I said “dressing” like we say in the South not stuffing) – the kind that has been passed down for generations. My beloved mama, grandma and aunts will be looking down from heaven this Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!
Sage Sausage Stuffing, Homemade Cranberry Relish, and those Sweet Potatoes with Pineapple and Marshmallows. Yummy!!
sausage stuffing and mashed potatoes
Favorite side dish is the stuffing!
Cranberry relish is my favorite.. I only make it once a year.
Yellow turnip is the best with turkey.
A CRANBERRY SALAD MY AUNT USE TO MAKE.
Sweet potatoes and deep fried turkey are my favorites!!
My favorite side dish is sweet potatoes with marshmellows on top….even if I am the only one in my family that eats it!
Stuffing is my favorite
My favorite sides are corn bread dressing and baked beans. I just wish my mama were here this year to make the dressing. No one’s was better.
corn casserole
My favorite dish is a make-ahead mashed potato bake. The recipe calls for lots of cream cheese, butter and cream. They come out extremely creamy and I never have leftovers. I best start making 2 batches!!
It has to be the homemade bread stuffing!
Favorite side dish is “Tourtierre” (pork pie)
Wouldn’t be the holidays without biscuits made from scratch.
Sweet potato pudding with marshmallows on the top.
Always loved my Grandma’s peppery mac & cheese!
My Grandma made the best sweet potatoes. She would put extra marshmallows around the edge to get crunchy because she knew that was my favorite part.
Cranberry sauce & apple pie
My favorite “side dish” is actually a combination. Yeast rolls with butter, rice & turkey gravy, & dressing. The perfect taste mix.
I love the green bean casserole and the stuffing! We also start the night off with taco dip trays which are a T-Day staple.
My favorite Thanksgiving side dish would have to be the sweet potato casserole. So good.
Ohhhhhh do I have to pick just one!!! I love my Mom’s bread dressing and I love cheesy onions and whole berry craberries–I just love foood!!!! Thanks–I would love to win!! Happy Eating!! Barb
I love having sweet potatoes as one of our sidedishes for Thanksgiving. Sounds yummy!
My Favorite Thanksgiving side is stuffing smothered in gravy. I could forego everything else for plate after plate of stuffing and gravy!
Any form of sweet potato and the green bean cassarole are a must for Thanksgiving. Love the stuffing, also. Sorry, hard to pick
For the first time ever we grew sweet potatoes and I can’t wait to try them in sweet potatoe casserole and pie.
My favorite thanksgiving dish is my Mom’s
stuffing and if I can add another one the
parsnips we always had only then. My Mom
has been gone and I miss her cooking.
My Moms cranberry relish. She makes them frome scratch the old fashioned way and they are delicious! Would’nt be a holiday without them!
My family has a tradition of making a hamburger stuffing that is absolutely delicious!!
Mashed potatoes and home made gravy – yum!
Mash Potatos and Creamy Slaw
Cranberry Sauce
Turkey gravy, hands down! All the “mandatory” sides are marvelous, the green bean casserole, sweet potatoes with marshmallows, etc., etc., but you can have those anytime! Turkey gravy is just my favorite thing EVER, and since I don’t roast a turkey for my small family very often, I look forward to Thanksgiving just for that very reason!
I love boiled potatoes but have to use some of them to make mashed potatoes for my husband. And I love cooked carrots with brown sugar.
The canned cranberry “sauce”, still in its gelatinous can form. It’s a must for every Thanksgiving!
it’s not thanksgiving at our house without the brocoli casserole.. we would take turns making it.. one year my brother who is a bit of a cheapskate made it and used fresh brocoli which he didn’t cook first, he baked it in a salad bowl which broke in the oven, well he scraped it in another bowl and brought it anyway.. after he told us what happened none of us wanted to eat it, but he said I”ll eat some and was crunching away.. so i thought he was eating broken glass, but as it turned out it was just uncooked brocoli.. it’s become one of our favorite stories at thanksgiving time LOL
Brussel sprouts with bacon simmered in a reduced chicken broth.
Homemade cranberry sauce!!! That form that comes out of a can just doesn’t cut it.
Favorite side dish is fresh cranberries.
One year we had so many people, we used the BBQ to keep all of the side dishes warm. When it was time for dinner, all of the side dishes were being placed on the table. Took the lid off of the last dish from the BBQ & noticed a lot of liquid & realized somehow the jello missed the refrigerator. I was laughing so hard when I came to the dining room & ask who does did the dish belong to & if they brought straws for serving.. Now every year, I make sure I put at least one straw some place on the table. Whoever finds it starts the whole house laughing.
Nothing compares to my mother’s stuffing. Every year we all overstuff ourselves with it. I have tried to duplicate it without success. It makes Thanksgiving!
homemade mashed potatoes and stuffing with mussels
My favorite has always been sweet potato’s. Thanksgiving and Christmas seem to be the only time of the year that anyone in my family ever makes it.
My mom’s homemade cornbread dressing and sweet potato casserole. We love her cooking and I can’t even do it the same way she does so I knew it’s her love pouring into her cooking when she makes them. My mom is not going to be around much longer so I cherish it truly.
stuffing with mussels
My Mom always made Thanksgiving a very comfort filled day with family and friends. She has been gone for 7 years now but I still feel her love in the her recipes that I prepare now. My favorite is turkey giblet dressing!
My favorites for Thanksgiving dinner are Sweet Potato Casserole and a great Brocolli Salad that my daughter makes.
swwet potatoe casserloe with marshmallows!!!
My favorite side dish would be the Sweet Potato Casserole my sister makes using our grandmother’s recipe – it is absolutely the best!
No Southern Thanksgiving is complete without Homemade Sourdough Bread! It’s the only thing to make leftover turkey sandwiches with while watching THE BIG GAME! Our favorite turkey sandwich is a turkey salad with turkey, mayo, stuffing and dried cranberries on sourdough. YUUUUUM! I can’t wait!
corn casserole
A must have for Thanksgiving is chestnuts in the stuffing.
I and my family love the traditional Thanksgiving meal of turkey, stuffing, yes lumpy mashed potatoes, a must is the green bean casserole, black olives, deviled eggs and end it all with pumpkin pie. I have tried other items such as ham or sweet potato casserole, but the family is stuck on the old traditionals, no matter if I am serving 20 or only 4, I need to fix the same. I love fixing, serving, and of course eating the basic traditional Thanksgiving meal!
Acini Salad (like ambrosia but not) & green bean casserole…
I love candied sweet potatoes and home made cranberries.
Favorite side dish is fresh cranberries.
One year we had so many people, we used the BBQ to keep all of the side dishes warm. When it was time for dinner, all of the side dishes were being placed on the table. Took the lid off of the last dish from the BBQ & noticed a lot of liquid & realized somehow the jello missed the refrigerator. I was laughing so hard when I came to the dining room & ask who does did the dish belong to & if they brought straws for serving.. Now every year, I make sure I put at least one straw some place on the table. Whoever finds it starts the whole house laughing.
Thanksgiving is not complete without pumpkin pie.
I just love my Mom’s stuffing. It’s funny, there is nothing special about it as in she doesn’t use raisens or apples or anything fancy…..but it’s the same stuffing she has made me the last 48 years and I look forward to the first bite this Thanksgiving too.
Thanks Mom!!!
Thanksgiving is not complete without HOMEMADE STUFFING. Yummy!
Ambrosia is Always on our table at Thanksgiving.
Fresh homemade yeast rolls. I could eat an entire pan.
My favorite side for Thanksgiving is Oyster stuffing
THE FAVORITE DISH IS THE GREEN BEAN CASSEROLE AS A SIDE DISH . .
Hands down, my favorite side dish for Thanksgiving is homemade dressing. Smothered in giblet gravy!
Thanksgiving isn’t Thanksgiving without mashed potatoes (no lumps, thank you), and my mother in law’s recipe for green beans – chop & cook bacon, saute onion, add green beans & water and cook for 15 minutes or so. And don’t forget the Seasoning Salt!
love the turkey
My favorite holiday dish is green bean casserole, after Celiac this has been one of the good things – I get the whole dish to myself since it has to have different topping & soup. I do make enought to share though. My most interesting holidaystory was running out of propane (cooking fuel) when the temperatures were -30F and colder. Stations do not pump propane at that temperature. So, our holiday dinner turkey thru pies) was courtesy of our convection toaster oven. We had a lot of fun getting creative.
I love a green bean casserole
Mashed potato’s and gravy, and stuffing and creamed onions
My favorite thanksgiving food is homemade stuffing with apples & sausage. It’s the only time of year that we have it so I always make extra. It’s even better the next day!
Green bananas with chicken gizzard salad. You can either have each one separate or mix them. I love any way they are served, but prefer them on one dish. You cook the bananas in water and once done you cut them in pieces about one inch thick. You mix them with olive oil, olives, red (or any color you prefer) pepper, capers, onion, garlic and some vinegar. Let it sit in the refrigerator for a while and then serve. The process is the same for the gizzards, only they take more time to cook.
Oh what a terrific prize, I need these things so badly! Pick me, pick me, lol.
I love sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top.
Sweet Potato casserole with pecan topping.
Cornbread Dressing and Greens
My favorite side is cranberry sauce infused with ginger and orange peel.
I love it all, but since I don’t have sweet potatoes too often it’s one of my favorites.
Bourbon Sweet Potatoes. I make them so strong that you really enjoy the bourbon. Yummy
Sweet Potato and Apple Casserole! YUM
I love the green bean casserole
It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without my mom’s Harvard Beets. They are sweet and sour and just the right fit with the dressing and turkey.
I’d have to stuffing, which is odd since I didn’t like stuffing at all as a kid. Shows you how tastes change.
My all time favorite are the sweet potatoes.Have cooked them so many different ways. These dishes would be perfect to serve them in. My family grows the sweet potatoes.
it’s not the food – but the family i love being with – i won’t get to see them this year but they will all be in my heart.
Sweet Potato Casserole makes a perfect side dish for Thanksginging.
Our family traditional favorite side dish is green bean casserole. It wouldn’t be a holiday meal without it!
Mashed potatoes.
My favorite Thanksgiving side has always been stuffing, a big ol’ serving of it too. My favorite memory of Thanksgiving would have to be from three years. At 26 years old I have only spent one Thanksgiving dinner away from my family. Every year dinner is served at my grandparents house where you can easily find 30 people. They invite all four of their children and spouses, all 10 of us grandchildren and any significant others, as well as their brothers, sisters, and our preacher. In 2008 I was the lucky employee who had to work Thanksgiving day. The whole day I thought about how I wasn’t able to spend the day with my family, but also how thankful I was to have been blessed with each of them and how lucky we were to share so many holidays together. That evening as I sat at my house I got a call from my grandaddy. It brought tears to my eyes (and still does now) to have him call me, say how thankful he was to have his family, have me as a granddaughter, and that he saved a big ol’ plate of stuffing for me. Even though we talk and see each other a good bit of times throughout the year it melted my heart to know he missed me and was thinking of me, his oldest granddaughter.
Our family favorite traditional side dish is green bean casserole. It wouldn’t be a holiday meal without it!
Who says pie is not a side? In tribute to my beloved late Grandmother, who was a true chef in spirit, heart, and good old fashioned natural intuitive homemaker culinary skills. She made those Thanksgiving Dinners where you started prepping weeks in advance. And her cooking!!!! Food sooooooooo darn good that when you took your first bite you couldn’t help but sing and sigh in bliss. And out of all her Thanksgiving sides…I treasure the memories of her (nothing short of magical) Sweet Potato Pie!!!! Sure to some pie a dessert, but in our family…a big slice of Grandma’s “make you sing hum clap and dance” chilled Sweet Potato Pie was indeed the most delicious side dish!!! (and the perfect compliment to all the other yummy sides…capicola collard greens, baked apples and chestnuts cornbread dressing, golden delicious apple potato salad, tangy turnips, four cheese baked mac and cheese…) Thank you so much for this contest, all the posts are heartfelt and participating has inspired some very beloved Thanksgiving memories
My favorite would be the old fashion turkey and noodles my Aunt would make every year. She would make the noodles from scratch. They were the highlight of the holiday season!
My favorite is the stuffing right out of the turkey.
I do love my turkey. But Thanksgiving always makes me think of fall. I also love my homemade mashed potatoes w/ homemade gravy, you can even take extra gravy & dip your homemade biscuits in them. Yummy.
It has to be cornbread dressing with lots of sage and homemade hot rolls. Yum!! Can’t wait.
Who says pie is not a side? In tribute to my beloved late Grandmother, who was a true homemaker chef in spirit, heart, and good old fashioned natural intuitive culinary skills. She made those Thanksgiving Dinners where you started prepping weeks in advance. And her cooking!!!! Food so delicious that when you took your first bite you couldn’t help but sing and sigh in bliss. And out of all her Thanksgiving sides…I treasure the memories of her (nothing short of magical) Sweet Potato Pie!!!! Sure to some pie a dessert, but in our family…a big slice of Grandma’s “make you sing hum clap and dance” chilled Sweet Potato Pie was indeed the most delicious side dish!!! (and the perfect compliment to all the other yummy sides- capicola collard greens, baked apples and chestnuts cornbread dressing, golden delicious apple potato salad, tangy turnips, four cheese baked mac and cheese…) Thank you so much for this contest, all the posts are heartfelt and participating has inspired some very beloved Thanksgiving memories!
My Mom always made ‘special’ gravy for my husband and father. They were the only ones who liked gravy so she would buy bottled gravy, put it in a fancy gravy boat and tell them she had made it just for them. Everyone but my father and husband knows this and we get a good laugh over it every year.
My favorite Thanksgiving dish is Skillet Corn. We have made it for years and my family loves it.
Sweet potatoes and stuffing! Mmm!!
Favorite is Skillet Corn. Love it.
brocolli and califlower salad, sweet potato pie are my favorite things
My favorite Thanksgiving side dish is sweet potatoe casserole.
I love everything about Thanksgiving! When our grandparents were alive, we would have a big dinner with all the trimmings. But before we could eat, we had a toast of Morgan David wine (even the little ones had to have small glass of grape juice for the toast) for the upcoming year.
My favorite dish is the dressing. Thanksgiving is not complete without my mother’s dressing made the old fashion way. I also make a wonderful fresh cranberry sauce. It is great served together.
I love sweet potatoes layers with apples and covered in a sweet butter sauce. SO GOOD! I also love the sausage cranberry sage stuffing.
My Mom’s Hen and Cornbread Dressing!! The recipe was stored in her head and I had to talk it out of her and write it down. I can make it now and it is our family favorite and no holiday would be complete with out this dish!!
Thanks for the clove carrots recipe – it sounds great, I might even try it tonight! I guess our favorite Thanksgiving side is mashed butternut squash. We’re pretty traditional in my house!
My favorite is our family’s secret recipe for candied sweet potatoes. I remember in high school we held a “soul food” bakesale and my art teacher threatened to fail me if I did not reveal the recipe. I have now passed it on to my son – the future chef. The beauty of the recipe is that each generation adds their own touch to it, so it grows and evolves with the family.
We could skip the big dinner and just serve a big pumpkin pie with whipped topping…that would be just fine with me!
my husband’s famous canjun honey butter bourbon turkey!!! I could eat just that all day!!
Stovetop stuffing and mashed potatoes enjoyed with family.
Real mashed potatoes. It’s not Thanksgiving without the real thing.
We love chestnut dressing for Thanksgiving. Also love having broccoli rice casserole – a classic!
green bean casserole
My favorite side dish is Candied Sweet Potatoes with Pecans
My mom’s cornbread and sausage stuffing – it’s definitely not Thanksgiving without it. She always makes enough for me to have leftovers for at least a few days too!
That would have to be Sweet Potatoes, just about any way, but preferably my Sweet Potato Pie! Close second would be Stuffing Muffins.
Mashed potatoes and savory gravy
Favorite side is honey sweet potatoes – ever since I found this recipe a number of years ago. My children, who had never been a fan of sweet potatoes, make this a few times a year they love it so much!
My mother-in-law’s sweet potatoes are the best!
Thanksgiving would not be complete without your loved ones all gathered together to give thanks for “being together again”. Remembering our absent loved ones are our “invisible guest”, but to show their presence, we always make a dish that they would have made. I have to make my mother’s cabbage, okra, and tomato dish; my sister-in-law, has to make her mom’s sweet potato pie; my husband does his dad favorite barbecue ribs, and yes we still have turkey, but the conversations always drift to how and what our beloved relatives used to…..oh, and I can’t forget the many stories we have about whose turn it is to churn the ice cream. Yeah, we do cheat on that notion as we now have electricity. We give thanks.
favorite side dish is creamed onions at Thanksgiving
I’m not big on Thanksgiving foods, but my favorite is mashed potatoes, lumps and all! And I love my Aunt’s sausage stuffing, just like Grandma used to make!
Love Home cooked Meals & Spending Time with Family—- It what True Blessing are about…We need to SLOW DOWN IN THIS WORLD
& GET BACK TO HOME COOKED MEAL’S & FAMILY TIMES…..
Ever since I was a little girl, my Mother used to fix her sweet potatoes like you would a baked potato – nothing fancy, just washed and wrapped in tin foil, on the rack in the oven, along with the turkey, halfway through the cooking time. I still fix my sweet potatoes that way, since my Husband isn’t a sweet potato fan, and I can have as much as I want. The people we have over for dinner expressed how much they like their potatoes that way as well, so it makes me twice as glad that I don’t have to fix them any other way. I also like my cranberry sauce out of the can, which my company prefers as well. As for the vegetable, it depends on what strikes my fancy as the time gets near. Sometimes it’s just plain corn with butter, other times I get a little fancier. I also make sure that I have extra stuffing as well, because my husband loves the way I make it. I hope that everyone has a Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving!!
My mom’s homeade dressing and her candied yams!!
I can’t pick just one! Stuffing, creamed onions, canned cranberry sauce – the jelly kind – mashed potatoes and gravy. Favorite meal of the year!
My favorite side dish is sweet potatoes with orange juice. Yummm. I try to make a new side dish every Thanksgiving. Last year I tried homemade cranberry relish – even people that dont like cranberry sauce loved it!
Sweet Potato souffle with the sugar and pecans on top!!
My all-time favorite Thanksgiving side dish is Jiffy corn casserole made with Jiffy mix. I’d tell you how to make it but my daughter just moved out and while she was packing up her things she swiped my recipe…that’s how good it is!
I love the dressing and/or stuffing – In the south, everyone believes “their” recipe is the best, and it’s fun to see how many variations you can get at any one dinner….when you have a lot of people for dinner, you can end up with 3-4 different dressings to have……….It’s a hoot!
Sweet Potato Casserole!
I love mashed potatoes and turnips!
favorite side dish is mashed potatoes and gravy, and or stuffing. YUM YUM
Must have’s at my Thanksgiving table:
Paula Deen’s Green Bean Casserole
Butter Noodles
Mom’s Mashed Potatoes
Cornbread and Sausage Stuffing
and Corn Casserole
YUM!!
My fave would have to be the stuffing. And the family and friends around the table, of course.
i love stuffing balls. fist sized balls of stuffing that are baked to give a crispy outside and soft inside
My favorite Thanksgiving dish to make is sweet potato pie; to eat is mashed potatoes with onions in it. My mouth is watering as I write.
Anything that is there.But probably the best is the baked corn.For a couple of years it was almost forgotten in the oven to finish up so there is always some for the leftovers.But the best is that we all bring something an are together for the day.
corn bread stuffing with chopped livers in it…a friend’s Mexican recipe – the best I have ever tasted…
My personal favorite is my mom’s homemade creamed onions with dill. A family favorite is the southern sides transplanted with us when we moved from Texas to New England. Our new England family is now also hooked on sausage cornbread dressing (stufing, but not cooked in the turkey), sweet potato casserole, and chess pie. They still marvel at my basting the turkey with coke…
Hmm..sweet potatoes or vegetable casserole. Love them both!
My favorite dish is my dad’s oyster stuffing.
Does dessert count as a side? If so rum pie screams Thanksgiving to me and the holidays aren’t right without it. But if desserts don’t count, I’d have to say oyster dressing. Really brings me back to my childhood Thanksgivings with the east coast half of our family ( all 40 of us).
My favorite Thanksgiving side dish would have to be the stuffing. I make extra loaf pans of stuffing and freeze them for later.
My favorite is mashed potatoes with homemade turkey gravy. delicious
Yummy Corn Casserole! Cannot get enough of it!
Fresh Green beans with carmelized onions, bacon, and sauted mushrooms.
My favorite side is candied yams.
I love the cranberry salad and the green bean casserole alongside the wonderful, creamy mashed potatoes!
Two favorites: Turkey bread stuffing prepared with little cubes of fried Spam and Mom’s cranberry Jello with pineapple, oranges, apples and pecans.
We love green bean casserole the most along with stuffing. Great time for family get together and sharing foods each one of us bring.
Homemade stuffing and cranberries is always requested for our dinners. My family never leaves any for leftovers!
got to be the stuffing, lwith lots of sage and celery
Love cranberries. Every year I make a new recipe
Love the green bean casserole.
Three kinds of quiche and three kinds of strata.
Favorite side dish is Stuffing and roasted vegetables.
I make ham hocks and green beans, it is the only way I can get my boyfriend to eat beans. I make them for all Holidays and there is never any leftovers.
My favorite side dishes at Thanksgiving are my mom’s stuffing and sweet potato casserole. Ooh this makes me really ready for Thanksgiving dinner!!!
My family doesn’t want turkey dinner on Thanksgiving if we don’t have Sweet and Sour Red Cabbage!
The whole thing turkey,stuffing,sweet potatos,
my Mother used to make scalloped potatoes, YUMMY, she is no longer with us, but I have fond memories.
My favorite part is my mom’s homade stuffing.
My favorite side is yams baked with marshmallows.
My favorite holiday meal is my father’s oyster dressing. I love it so much that I’ve even started taking it to my in-laws for their Thanksgiving and now it’s part of their tradition. Thank you Daddy!
My mom’s stuffing is the best ever! I especially love the stuffing in the pan drippings-it’s so decadent!
my mom’s homade stuffing and my mother in law’s hashbrown cassarole
It just isn’t Thanksgiving for me without sweet potatoes. They can be prepared any way, not real picky but it just has to be available. I love sweet potatoes so much that i eat them throughout the year.
My favorite is sweet potatoes, either candied or marsh mellowed lol!
The stuffing – southern style – with water chestnuts. Wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without it.
Anything with sweet potatoes – roasted, mashed, candied…whatever…Yummy!!
Fresh homemade cranberry orange relish!
Homemade dressing!! yummy that and the mashed potatoes. Can’t be beat.
My favorite thanksgiving dish is a country ham soaked with just a little of salty taste!
Marinated mushrooms are the BEST! Wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without them.
Homemade sweet rolls with dinner are a must that I learned from my mother and my girls and my granddaughter make them with me! I give thanks for that!!
my favorite dish is country ham with just a little salty taste! ready for some now
My favorite is my moms cornbread salad. I love anything made out of cornbread.
Absolutely love creamed onions with a touch of nutmeg
Wild rice sausage stuffing is great
Thanksgiving was my Mom’s holiday. Only day of the year we had to be there. When she passed away I decided to make it my holiday in my new house to try a new tradition and cooked all the usual things but added a Roast Beef (had defrosted the day before and never got a chance to cook). It will be 17yrs this Thanksgiving and we all can’t decide whether we like the Turkey or the Roast Beef. We do agree that its a great new tradition and Mom is watching over laughing…
Fresh oyster and herb stuffing, the best!
Aside from the every popular mashers/gravy and stuffing, we have come to love baked scalloped corn made with sour cream, corn, creamed corn, butter & jiffy corn muffin mix. It’s a huge hit and just as good left over.
This is a must have dish.My Mom’s Sweet Potatoes!! Must be sweet potatoes, not yams.My mom was not a cook, but this was the best. par-boiled sweet potatoes, peeled and in a baking dish. A glaze made with LOTS of butter, brown sugar, and orange juice.NO marshmallows here! I make this now when we go to other people’s homes for Thanksgiving just so i don’t have to have that marshmallow thing!
My grandmas homemade dressing…the one without the oysters though please!
Favorite side dish is a Party Potato Casserole, it is layers of mashed potatoes, layers of squash, and layers of spinach topped off with cheddar cheese. Not only is it a favorite, it saves space on the table for lots of other goodies!
Stuffing. You have to have stuffing. The only time I make it is at Thanksgiving. Savory with sausage, bursting with sage, mellowed with onions…….mmmm, mmmm, mmmm….can’t wait for stuffing.
I like cornbread stuffing the best
Dressing from inside of the turkey with all of the flavor, is the best dish that day and the next, add some gravy and then scream in delight.
My favorite all time thanksgiving side dish is the stuffing—wait, no yes I love the stuffing and the greenbeans and the gravy. Ah I love thankgiving!!
Oatmeal dinner rolls!
I’d love to have that recipe, oatmeal rolls sound delish!
I love Stuffing and Sweet Potato Casserole.
Always the dressing!! I love to cook, bake, fry, boil and everything else especially at the Holidays!!! Best time of the year!
Every year I make a receipe that my Nana used to always make at the holidays. My brother’s always ask for it. Brocolli, rice and cheese casserole. Sometimes I even make a lightened up version and no one can tell the difference. It just wouldn’t be the holiday without my Nana’s receipe. It’s also a really nice way to remember my Nana!
My favorite Thanksgiving side dish is apple and onion stuffing…or is it the butternut squash with brown sugar and cinnamon…oh yum!
I love mashed pototoes and gravy…Our old family funny was My Aunt always brought cranberry sauce and no one ever ate any. The childrens table (everyone under 15) always laughed and laughed when this went around and My Mother in the Adult table always took a spoon full but it always went in the trash….smiles….
My mom made the best pumpkin pie squares. I now make them for Thanksgiving, but, unfortunately, not everyone in my family likes pumpkin. More for me. . . .
the side dish of black and green olives, pickles and carrots. I always enjoyed them at dinner.
My mom’s homemade cranberry relish. She would make it a week ahead so that all the flavors were blended.
Corn casserole
My favorite is the pecan pie for dessert.
My family would kill me if I did not make my cheesy broccoli soup and cream corn, those are everyones favorits!
My favorite side dish is cornbread stuffing with apple pieces. My mother’s recipe.
STUFFING!! It does just what the name says. No matter what kind you make – it’s the best.
Stuffing, a treat reserved for
Thanksgiving.
My favorite Cranberry dish, I follow the recipe on package and add a seedless jalapeno pepper dicd very fine, juice of 3 oranges plus the zest,and juice of 3 lemons plus zest, and you get a mellow spicy flavor, try it.
Our thing to do for Thanksgiving is try something new, My family picks something we never had for a side dish so far so good. Green bean casserole,mashed potatoes & gravy are a must. New desserts are also tried. Always looking for recipes. And oh ya Turkey is key.. lol
My favorite side dish is cranberry dressing with giblet gravy and green beans on top. ummm
This is our first Thanksgiving without my mother. She always liked my dressing and I know when I make it I will be thinking of her. I also think it is the best part of the feast…
Thanksgiving would not be complete without sage dressing!
A family favorite that has been passed down thru the generations is pearl onions and peas. I don’t know of any other families that have this but everyone loves it. We all look forward to these on Thanksgiving.
My favorite Thanksgiving dishes were handed down through the years from my Granny. My Sister and I simply cannot make it through Thanksgiving without making her Brocalli Rice Casserole with a little bite by using Jalapeno Cheese Whiz, the Candied Yams made with red hots and sugar, almost like a candied apple and her cornbread dressing. I still mix it all up in the same huge washtub she mixed it in. Even if our family gathering does not include these three items my sister and I get together after to have our own little feast that includes these three things. That is when it is really when we are “thankful” for having known our Granny and learned so much from her.
My personal favorite is the squash. But recently our children who are not teenagers have wanted to help more with the cooking. We have each of them choose a side dish to make on their own. They do the whole dish by themselves. It not only helps with their cooking skills, it creates wonderful memories of being with me in the kitchen.
My favorite to make is sweet potatoes with roasted marshmallows. My hubby can not get enough of these. This will be an interesting year this Thanksgiving because I have to be thankful that my hubby & I survived the Historic 2011 Flood in Minot, ND. We lost alot of my kitchen cookware, but we have each other & our pets.. Happy Thanksgivig Everyone!!!
I love the corn bread dressing. We do not stuff the turkey with it but bake it thin in a baking dish. It gets those crispy corners on it. Yum. I also make turkey dumplings with the broth. So good over the dressing. Can’t wait.
One of my favorites, like green bean casserole, but substituting canned asparagus pieces for the green beans. Yum!
Sweet potato cassorole and a pumpkin cheese cake…yum-yum…
Broccoli salad with dried cranberries, sliced almonds, red onions, blue cheese, and cherry tomatoes. YUM. I need the fresh salad.
My favorite side dish is stuffing made from scratch–not the boxed kind. I only eat this once a year; so, I really look forward to having it.
I love Thanksgiving because of the family getting together to celebrate our “Thanks to God” and the delicious meal of turkey and all the fixings along with delicious desserts.
My culture comes from Puerto Rico so we not only make turkey but we also make a nice pork roast, oven roasted sweet potatoes and some delicious rice with pigeon peas. For dessert my famous cheescake with a strawberry topping.
Sweet potatoes, simply baked or roasted, but homemade cranberry sauce is a close second.
my mom’s stuffing and mashed potatoes with butter, sour cream, and cream cheese
As long as I can remember there was a jello, pinapple and carrot salad on the Thanksgiving table. When my grandmother pasted away, I got the bowl.
Every Thanksgiving we use the bowl. My husband made a wooden box to hold bowl. And my grand kids take turns making the jello.
one of my family favorite new side dish is mashed cauliflower with garlic & butter yummmmmm
In my house the favorite side dish is my italian sausage stuffing. That is the first dish to go!!!
This would have to be a tie between my little brother’s creamed onions and my sister’s Dixie Salad.
Two of my holiday faves are green bean and corn casserole made with onion, cheese, sour cream & cream o celery soup and topped with ritz crackers as well as sweet potato casserole topped with a kalua sauce, crushed honey bunches of oats (w/almonds or pecans) and a few marshmallows around the edges.
When I was a kid my favorite side dish was sweet potatoes with a substantial marshmallow topping. Now I love homemade cranberry sauce. It’s great with a forkful of turkey.
Green Bean Casserole with the cheese fried onions!!!!
I am hopelessly addicted to Green Bean Casserole, but mashed sweet potatoes are a close second, yum!
My favorite is Ciabatta Stuffing.
Grandma always made “seafoam Salad” and it never made a second pass aroud the table because it was always gone. When she passed away I took over Thanksgiving and I use the recipie card in her own handwriting every year and I can never make enough.
mom’s gravy is to die for
Must have sausage stuffing!!!
My favorite is cornbread dressing just like my Mother made.
Not many of my family members like sweet potatoes. With that in mind, every year I try to come up with a sweet potato dish that will inspire them to eat a sweet potato. I’m hoping one of these years I will find that perfect recipe. After 15 years it hasn’t happened yet.
Nothing beats the warm dinner rolls! Sometimes I like to make orange cranberry muffins…delicious!
My favorite thing at Thanksgiving has to be cornbread stuffing. Grandma would make a huge pan of homemade cornbread a few days before the holiday and we would have home made chili and corn bread one night for dinner and then corn bread with syrup and scrambled eggs for breakfast. It got to the point that she had to make two pans just to have enough left over slightly stale corn bread to make her famous corn bread stuffing. It was so good. Mine is close but Grandmas was the best. Veggie wise we always had buttered brussle sprouts. I now use the Green Giant single serve as some how over the years I have gotten to be the last brussle sprout lover.
Only one side dish? Mom’s sweet potato casserole. Yum! One year Mom was baking the sweet potatoes and one exploded in the oven. Gave us all a laugh! Mom is no longer with us so this year I will be using her recipes. Seeing the family sitting around the table will warm my heart.
The brined roasted turkey is still the star. However, Niece Lori’s Cranberry Relish is always a big hit.
I look forward to the sweet potatoe casserole every year! Its a close tie to the seven layer salade though.
I look forward to the sweet potatoe casserole every year!
My wife’s cornbread and sausage stuffing. It’s worth waiting an entire year for!
Fresh green beans.
I love the Thanksgiving roasted turkey and the cranberry sauce and especially pumpkin pie with real whipped cream.
Have to have cornbread dressing, turkey & my moms pecan pie
I can’t say only one, I can narrow it down to two. Sausage stuffing with lots of onions, garlic, peppers and of course sausage. Baked until a crusty brwon layer forms on top. Delicious fried as a leftover! The other fav is moist not to sweet corn bread slathered with sweet creamy butter. I can’t wait.
I have two favorite side dishes…mashed potatoes with gravy & the dresssing!
It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without cornbread dressing, sweetpotatoes and green bean casserole
We have a very large family and Thanksgiving is one time that we all try to gather together to share a meal. We now all bring a dish(es) and we really run the gamut on what is a favorite. Last year I made cheese grits which we all overate. My sister in law made a crawfish quiche. We had fresh baked breads, pumpkin gooey butter cake and just about anything you could think of. Looking forward to more of the same this year!
I love using baking dishes that go from the oven right to the table. My family knows I make my all my side dishes the day before and bake them 75%. Then I stick them in the refrigerator. When the turkey goes in, I take the dishes out to come to room tempature slowly. When the turkey comes out to rest, the dishes go back in to finish cooking. Last year’s favorite side dish was sweet potato casserole with pecans, bacon and marshmallow on top. Yes bacon. The salty flavors are great with the sweet marshmallows and pecans. People who claimed they didn’t like sweet potatoes ate it and loved it. It makes me really happy to see them eat something they normally wouldn’t eat. This year I am going to add a new dish-carmelized, roasted brussel sprouts with brown butter and garlic. I am fortunate that my crowd is always willing to accept a new dish to the traditional menu.
I love that sweet potato casserole with the bacon. What a fantastic idea.
It isn’t Thanksgiving without the dressing I learned to make from my mom. She hasn’t been with us for 23 years and making the dressing always reminds me of her.
I enjoy Spanish style stuffing which consists of a combo of ground beef and chorizo with onions, peppers, olives, capers, etc. Its very appetizing and a hearty alternative to bread stuffing. Of course, oyster dressing is fabulous as well.
I love sweet potatoes, especially mashed with marshmallows baked on top! My grandma always made them and now that she has passed I make them! But I love how my mom, sisters, and I try new side dishes every year. Some recipes we do again and again!
Three-Bean Salad, my dad’s favorite — he passed 2 years ago, but we always include this to honor him, plus it’s delicious!
I love stuffing. It’s my favorite side dish to have on Thanksgiving.
I love mashed potatoes and gravy.
My favorite side dish was my aunt Virginia’s oyster dressing. No Thanksgiving was ever complete without her dressing.
My families favorite thanksgiving side dishes are fluffy mashed potatoes & turkey gravy. You can’t have that without homemade warm yeast rolls. Yum!!! I can’t wait!
What is the point of Thanksgiving Turkey without gravy ? Sage,broth,dried cranberries,pecans,celery,fresh pepper and salt,seasoned bread cubes, LOTS of butter and love.
YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY
I love the sweet potatoes! Thanksgiving is not Thanksgiving without Mom’s sweet potatoes!! They look good, taste good, make you feel good and warm and fuzzy inside!! A feeling a cheerish every year!
My mom’s sweet potatoes. They are so good.
Cranberry Chutney, a bit of tang for Thanksgiving.
Cpispy turkey skin because it is delicious and it is usually the first thing available to eat (if you a lucky enough to be the carver.
I love my momma’s sweet potatoes!! Thanksgiving isn’t Thanksgiving with sweet potatoes, they look good, taste good, make you feel good and warm and fuzzy inside. I cheerish those feelings and memories every year!
My daughter has been making the green bean cassarole since she was 10 so it is a staple on our holiday table!
Whats not to like about Thanksgiving? The mashed potatoes the sweetpotatoes, for me it’s the relish dish…deviled eggs, stuffed celery, green olives, black olives etc. MMM it won’t be long now!
I love garlic smashed potatoes!!! We make them smashed with the skin still in tack to get the vitamins from it. Then add creme cheese, garlic and sour cream. Top this with cheddar and it’s devine!
My mom makes this fantastic fresh cranberry sauce with oranges and it’s to die for. LOVE IT. Would also love to win the Le Creuset prize…
Cranberry Chutney — a bit of tang for Thanksgiving!
Cranberries with juice,sugar,cilantro,lemon and orange zest and jalapeno pepper.
If gravy is a side dish than that gets my vote. However, sweet potatoes with butter, brown sugar and black walnut extract is a runner up.
My daughter has been making the green bean cassarole since she was 10 which was 14 years ago. So that cassarole will alway be on our holiday table!
Sweet potatoes w/marshmallows melted on top is a MUST for me & my family.
It’s the whole picture for me! My mother, sister and I try to do most of the prep work the night prior to the big day- although there always seems like just as much work the next day!
Here’s our menu: Turkey and gravy,(giblets or not)our *kitchen sink stuffing,* roasted garlic mashed potatoes with goat cheese and chives, roasted asparagus, glazed carrots, peas, fresh cranberry sauce, and croissants. And recently my eldest nephew has been baking the dessert! Last year he made bouche de noel.
My favorite is sausage cornbread stuffing
The one dish that I have to make not only for Thanksgiving but for every occasion that we have a family get together is deviled eggs. Sounds really strange but the family asks for them each year.
I was treated to a great sweet potato dish made with crushed ameretti cookies when I lived in England and it is now a part of every Thanksgiving we celebrate here.
The one dish that I have to make not only for Thanksgiving but for any family get together is deviled eggs. Everyone from the oldest to the youngest starts eating them before the meal is ready. It is really a family tradition.
These are some scrumptious side dishes. I would love to win this giveaway package and make some wonderful side dishes and try out these recipes here.
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when my husband was discharged after serving in Viet Nam, it was the day before Thanksgiving and he was stuck in San Francisco with little money until the banks opened. He had to celebrate and did so at a Chinese restaurant. Now we have at least one chinese dish each Thanksgiving in rememberance.
I like creamy mashed potatoes with my turkey. And of course it must have gravy! The best part of thanksgiving is finally seating down and eating the delicious food that was eagerly being prepared in the kitchen.
We like the classics at our house. Minus the sweet potatoes. Green bean casserole and loaded garlic mashed potatoes are our favorites.
Growing up my Mom made the best stuffing. there was celery and raisins, the most wonderful taste.So one year I asked for the recipe one year and Mom handed me a box of Stove Top…I thought she worked hours on the stuffing….I was so heartbroke,but, at the same time…relieved. I wasnt looking forward to putting in the time that I thought Mom had…
My absolute favorite sidedish at Thanksgiving is mashed sweet potatoes w/melted marshmallows on top. Yummy!!
My favorite has to be the squash cassarole.
i would love to win this prize i can make a great meal for thankgiving and christmas
fluffy mashed potatoes and turkey gravy
Sweet potatoes w/marshmallows on top. You know when they’re done when the marshmallows flow over the sides, lol
My family gets together every Thanksgiving and everybody brings a different dish. My side dish would look great in these Le Creuset dishes.
Grandma’s corn casserole. My green bean casserole and Potatoes with lumps and creamcheese
I love it all, but last year I made green beans with grilled onions and slivered almonds. Yummy!
My Thanksgiving is not complete without green bean casserole and baked sweet potatoes.
Who would want to pick only one favorite…without any of them, Thanksgiving dinner would be a bust….now, pass the cranberry sauce, please!
We have the traditional Thanksgiving. We have turkey, ham, yeast rolls, thick lumpy mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, and much more. Yum!!
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My daughter’s corn pudding, it’s fabulous
For me it has to be the scalloped corn, a family favorite of creamed corn, crackers and eggs that is baked in the oven……YUM!!!
It would not be Thanksgiving without mashed potatoes made with milk and sour cream and corn
This will be the first year with out our mom at Thanksgiving. I will miss her so much,she made the gravy. Its the best. I’m glad she showed me how, along with many other family favorites for the holidays.
My favorite side dish for Thanksgiving would have to be the cranberry sauce. I think it wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without it. Love the stuff and only eat it for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
mashed potatoes and gravy-YUMMY
My favorite side dish was my Mom’s gravy. She would roast the turkey in an electric oven and the gravy would come out all dark and rich. We had friends that said she should bottle it and sell it. After I got married I called her on my first Thanksgiving all excited because my gravy had turned out perfect just like hers.
Can’t have Thanksgiving without my mashed potatoes & my homemade NOODLES!!! has my mouth watering for them already =)
I have to make the family favorite Pumpkin Bars.
This recipe was given to me by my mother in law and is a must to make and share with family and friends. They are so yummy….they quickly disappear.
I have been hosting Thanksgiving for approximately 30 people for the past 10 years. It is always a lot of work, but when we all sit down together & eat our meal, it is all worth it. My favorite dish is rutabaga. My husbands 93 year old Grandma makes it every year. I think it tastes even better when she tells the stories about how she has cut it open over the years. My favorite story has to be the year she got my uncle to use the chainsaw to cut it open! (Which isn’t the way i suggest to get it open, by the way!)
I have to have my Mom’s homemade stuffing, she’s not around to make it anymore, so I do it now, but it being made with her hands made it soooo much better
I love my husbands fried green beens. His own recipe but real delicous.
We love not cranberry – apple bake. My family calls it “crapple” for short, horrible name but famous food!
Give me some good ole’ Oyster Dressing.
With Thanksgiving being the official start of the holiday season, I really look forward to sharing it with family and friends. Being Italian-American, the traditional menu consists of antipasto, tortellini/turkey broth soup, lasagna, meatballs, sausage and bracciole in ‘gravy’, and then the turkey, veggies, sweet potatoes, stuffed artichokes and mushrooms, salad, fruit, American coffee, expresso, assorted pastries and pumpkin and custard pies. How can you beat that? Always too much to eat, but no one complains.
Buon appetito and Happy 2011 Holidays to every one, however you spend them!
We love acorn squash, cut in half, placed in a baking dish with butter, brown sugar and a little salt in center, baked until tender. So good!
Fried Turkey is wonderful, love dressing with gravy. My Aunt Jean makes the best sweet potatoes and corn casserole! Pecan pie is the best!
Oyster dressing
My Green Bean Casserole is an improvement on the “standard” by using Green Giant frozen whole green beans with herbs, rather than french-cut green beans or those that are canned. Of course I also have to use more of the french-fried onions than called for in the recipe, too!
Every Thanksgiving I ask each of my 5 kids and their spouses what they would like me to make and make it so it is special for everyone. I have a son in law who always asks for mashed potatoes, a son who asks for cheesey potatoes, a daughter who must have green bean casserole, and one who must have jello pretzel layer salad. I myself love a corn casserole that my Grandmother always made. I love making everyone’s favorites. I think it makes everyone feel special to have what they asked for on the table. I am so thankful to have my family with me during the Holidays!
Every year I try different side dishes but, it’s not Thanksgiving without my cranberry orange relish and, of course, stuffing. Thanksgiving is the only time of the year I have stuffung.
We love our family’s traditional stuffing which we stuff into the turkey with extra flowing over into a seperate casserole dish.
We continuously pick in it allllll dayyyy longggggg……
I love homemade cranberry relish with apples, oranges and wine but my youngest daughter won’t eat anything but canned jellied cranberries. The rest of the family enjoys the relish so she usually gets most of the can for herself.
give me stuffing!!!
We always have mashed potatos, and some in my family insist on green bean casserole. We also have a favorive pistacio jello salad that we have been making for 20 years. This is a favorite.
Thanksgiving dinner is not complete without homemade mashed potatoes topped with homemade turkey gravy.
Thanksgiving is just not complete without a spinach and artichoke casserole with cream cheese – even qualifies as the best leftover! A close runner-up is whipped sweet potatoes with a tinge of lemon! YUM!
my favorite dish is my mother’s special fruit salad. it is wonderful!
My favorite is sweet potato casserole topped with melted marshmellows
Thanksgiving isn’t complete without my Italian Stuffing. I make 3 times the amount needed, as after it is “compiled” some goes into the bird, some in cassarole dishes, and some baked early and left onto the counter to pick at through the day. We keep it warm and as everyone goes by we pick “pieces” out! Sometimes it is celery, sometimes it is the sausage, sometimes it is the bready part…it doesn’t matter as long as you can pick at it all day!
We always have home made noodles yummy!!!
The Dressing. It’s always the center of attention at Thanksgiving dinner. My Granny has been making this recipe for “as long as my mom remembers”. It is more than a tradition; it is a combination of love, experience, and ingredients that represent a family’s differences coming together as one. I am thankful.
Sweet Potato Cassrole.. I look forward to it every Thanksgiving since I was a small child. just dont feel the same without it.
My favorite dish for Thanksgiving is the dressing patties that my daughter-in-law always brings it is her grandmothers recipe put gravy on top and is so delicious.Sorta like your own portion in a patty.
I love making baked and mac and cheese!
I love my mom’s sweet potato casserole.
My mom was British, and I learned to make the best sausage and sage stuffing to put in the bird!! Yum, yum.. Nothing like it!!
I look forward to the stuffing.
We always buy Uncle Ben’s wild rice, use chicken broth to boil it instead of water, then when it’s absorbed add a can of cream of chicken soup.
give me the fresh cranberry and orange sauce anytime!
Love the sweet potato casserole with crushed pineapple
Close enough to family to have 2 thanksgivings that we bring mashed potatos and string bean casserole and an apple crisp to share.
I am having family company for Thanksgiving. You see, my cousin and his wife are coming to stay with me Thanksgiving week; I have not seen my cousin in 38 years since I left home in NY (live in FL) and I’ve never met his wife. So, for me, the best side dish this Thanksgiving is having my family with me!
You gotta Have the cornbread dressing, because without it yourthanksgiving meal is incomplete. When it is done rite you cant beat it. Yum-Yum
My family’s favorite is cornbread dressing, with mushrooms, celery, toasted pecans, etc. We make a huge batch, and my sons always help mix it all together.
At our house it’s the stuffing my wife learned to make just like my mom’s and the chunky sweet potato,marshmallow and apple casserole.
My favorite side dish was the one that sat on the table beside my parents. An empty place that was set for all those who are not with us at the table and who we remember with love.
The best side dish is fresh Cranberry jello-salad that my Grandmother gave me the receipe for many years ago.
Definitely the stuffing is the favorite sidedish of the meal – loaded with apples, nuts and sausage, it’s even better the next day!
Mashed rutabaga is our tradional with our family.
My two favorites are the stuffing and a broccoli cheese casserole.
My favorite side dish is sweet potatoes with melted marshmallows on it. It is always fantastic tasting.
Recreating Mom’s green jello salad filled with cottage cheese, pineapple chunks and roasted walnuts. It’s like having her near again.
Our favorite dish at Thanksgiving is my home
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Sweet potato casserole with marshmallows! And not the canned yams, but fresh ones.
My Mom’s cranberry relish. Made with Cherry Jell-o and ground cranberries, ground apple and orange, and of course walnuts. Yummie!!!
So many things for dinner, but then there is desert, PIES!!!!
Green bean casserole oriental style with bean sprouts and water chestnuts in addition to the other goodies.
My Dad’s famous Melba Toast Salad. It’s so easy and you will even enjoy it the next day. Saute broken up melba toast in garlic butter until all the butter is absorbed. Let cool. Mix mayo with whatever seasonings you enjoy. Combine lettuce, melba toast and mayo in a bowl and serve.
Would love to have my first win! And cornbread dressing is the best!
It would have to be the cole slaw and lima beans.
Love the sweet potato casserole and of course the mashed potatoes and of couse the cajun deepfried turkey and of course…..LOL
My favorite is my Mom’s Southern Hen and Cornbread dressing with Giblet Gravy! Yum!
One dish that everyone expects on Thanksgiving is a Raspberry Jello. It is a Raspberry jello with raspberries and applesauce with a sour cream and marshmallow topping. This is our cranberry sauce.
I love Thanksgiving! I’ve been preparing it since i was 16! I go all out and make everything, including one stuffed Turkey and one fried! My favorite is the pumpkin pie and treats i make! No one leaves my house without a homemade pumpkin pie!! AMAZING!!
With 5 kids,12 grandchildren, we number 24, so we have many side dishes, but since we have a Texan in the bunch the favorites are cornbread, pecan pie,pumpkin pie and sweet potato casserole as well as turkey and all the trimmings.
One of the dishes everyone expects on Thanksgiving is Raspberry Jello. It is a raspberry jello with raspberry and applesauce and a topping of sour cream and marshmallows. This is our cranberry sauce.
We always had scalloped corn&green bean casserole.
Our Thanksgiving dinner is not complete without the green bean casserole….
Persimmon pudding – made with my great-grandma’s recipe. It’s an acquired taste and bring back SO many memories!
Having married into a Czechoslovakian family nearly 50 years ago, our family Thanksgiving dinner consists of Potato Dumplings with sour cream gravy, side dishes of sweet & sour cabbage and of course sauerkraut. Turkey and ham are the meats, and with aunts, uncles, cousins & friends, we have nearly 30 people so pot luck furnishes the rest of the table. It is a fun family gathering which happens every major holiday and those first 3 dishes are always a must-have!
My family’s tradition is a little different. My mother’s family emigrated from Lebanon, so our Thanksgiving turkey stuffing is very different. It’s like the stuffing used for eggplant of zucchini – Rice, mixed with minced lamb (lamb sauteed in butter) and pine nuts. I was a teenager before I ever tasted bread dressing. I still prefer the rice.
My Mom’s home made dressing! Sadly she passed away last year. I cant believe I’ll never get to taste that dressing again!!!!! Thanksgiving just won’t be the same!
My favorites were the vegetables – peas and corn – from the garden, to the freezer, to the Thanksgiving table.
Homemade cranberry sauce!
My favorite is our family’s tradition of oyster dressing. Make a standard cornbread dressing, and add two jars of oysters and their liquor. Also- lots of chopped garlic. I am from New Orleans if you can’t tell…
My husband makes¤ the best dressing with sausage, apples, cranberries and roasted chestnuts! Yummy stuff(ing) !!
I love Turkey and dressing along with candied yams, green beans with new potatoes, biscuits, fresh cream corn.
I just gotta have Green bean cassoral and that canned cranberry jelliton.
Gotta have our family salad tradition, Overnight Lettuce salad! A favorite of our entire family for YEARS.
Brussel sprouts with balsamic vinnagrette and pecans … sooo yummy!
Thanksgiving isn’t complete without stuffing from the bird, and broccoli cheese casserole.
I love my Dad’s kidney bean salad. He always loved to make an apple salad and a kidney bean salad for Thanksgiving. We would prepare both salads the night before because he insisted they tasted better after sitting overnight.
The best Thanksgiving ingredient is one entire family together with love and whatever favorite food your family has.
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I love stuffed strawberries for a treat. They’re really rich and hard to get strawberries this time of year but they’re a great treat.
Growing up my Mom couldn’t eat turkey or chicken so we had ham; so now I fix ham and turkey plus all the traditional favorites.
We eat a relish and watch the games while everything is cooking, then enjoy the meal!
My favorite was my mom’s stuffing. I have tried to make it like she did but it just doesn’t taste the same. She has been gone now 22 years and I can still taste it when I try to make it like she did.
Chunky sweet potatoes with brown sugar, butter, mini-marshmellows and cranberries is my favorite all time Thanksgiving side!
Thanksgiving is the best meal of the whole year! My family just loves the green bean casserole and of course pumkin pie. We always try a new dish each year as well. I haven’t decided yet what that will be for this year….
Stuffing is my favorite part of Thanksgiving! My Mom always made her own stuffing, and it was the most requested by everyone in attendance! After many years of her making it, my sister and I have figured out how to make it, and now do that for our families!
No Thanksgiving is complete in our home without my mom’s recipe potato salad.
Deviled Eggs – We are in the minority in the family on these. My boyfriend and I don’t like mayo and I don’t like sweet pickles, but we love eggs so we have created our own version. We use spicy mustard and a dab of sour cream and a touch of honey with dill pickle relish. Delicious!!!!
Thanksgiving is just not complete without my Step-Mother’s cornbread dressing! She uses cream of chicken soup and turkey stock to make it extra moist! Yummy!
Thanksgiving is all about tradition! We have two kinds of dressing…homemade cornbread and bread…special cranberry relish…glazed sweet potatoes….green bean casserole….pumpkin and pecan pies! If I had to pick my favorite….the cornbread dressing!
My favorite dish is dressing. It has been since a child. I found a great recipe a few years ago and adapted to my family’s taste. Now, since I have no family left, I make it for my boyfrien’s family and they love it!!
I have been designated the dressing maker for both Thanksgiving and Christmas.
As a young girl, waking up to the smell of onions sauteeing in butter was a sure sign that Thanksgiving was here and it was Filling making time! PA Dutch potato filling was always our family’s contribution to the dinner and I can’t imagine a Thanksgiving without it! As an older young woman, my mother always made me a separate dish of my own if I had to miss our Thanksgiving dinner. She’d put it in the freezer so I could enjoy whenever I made it home! Anytime I make onions in buuter, it takes me right back to those mornings waking up!!
The best part of Thanksgiving is green bean casserole and everyone together!
This is a really hard question. Really hard to choose just one Thanksgiving dish. My favorite is the Mac-n-chesse dish my mother makes. However, my very favorite part of Thanksgiving is having my family all together.
This is a very hard question. There are so many wonderful dishes for Thanksgiving. I would have to say my favorite dish is my Mothers mac-n-cheese. But my very favorite part of Thanksgiving is having my entire family together!
Our Thanksgiving is only complete with home made rolls. We have a special recipe that makes the lightest fluffiest rolls I’ve ever tasted. We usually make about 48 and they are gone by the end of the day.
This is a hard question. I would have to say my favorite Thanksgiving dish is my Mothers mac-n-cheese. But my very favorite part of Thanksgiving is having all my family together!
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We make Turkey and Emeril’s fabulous Spiced Baked Ham and Sweet Potatoes. It is “demanded” of me to make this every year….its sooo good!
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emeril-lagasse/spiced-baked-ham-with-sweet-potatoes-recipe/index.html
Our Thanksgiving meal would not be complete without our “Jeweled Cranberry Salad”.
My favorite thing of course is my Mom’s Mashed Potatoes and Gravy!! Nobody makes it like Mom’s!!!!!
My favorite Thanksgiving side dish is my grandma’s orange jello salad. She makes a huge bowl of it every year and sends some home with me. I love it!!! I make it, but mine still doesn’t taste like hers!
Our favorite Thanksgiving dish would definitely have to be mashed potatoes. My hubby loves mine, because I hand-mash them (not with the mixer) and leave some lumps in it, just like his mom in Australia did when he was growing up.
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I am not a big fan of turkey. So on Thanksgiving I eat an extra helping of my aunt’s oyster casserole instead. I love it!
sausage stuffing is a must,
Thanksgiving dinner would not be the same without homemade sausage stuffing.
Stuffing always reminds me of my Grandma Thelma. She loved having stuffing all year round. She was such a wonderful part of my life and I miss her. She was proof that you don’t have to have the same blood to be family ~ WE adopted HER when I was a kid! She didn’t have any children of her own, and we became “family.” I always loved spending Thanksgiving (and any other meal) at her house. Her husband, Grampa Earl, used to make the BEST pumpkin pies! They were his specialty.
My favorite side dish is Green Bean casserole. I make it every year along with Mushroom/sausage stuffing.
Very hard to narrow down to one dish. But the stuffing would have to be my pick. Hands down the best!!
Thanksgiving was never complete without my great-grandmothers yummy potato rolls. Everyone had a part in the making. My mother mixed, daddy punched it down, my brothers rolled it out, and my sister and i got to cut them out and dip them in butter and put them in the pan. Good memories.
Turkey cooked on the grill along with Oven baked Sweet Potato Mash (sweet potatoes, butternut squash, maple syrup, butter and seasoning).
my father in laws creamy mashed potatoes are always a favorite
The one item that stands out with me is we have always had a traditional thanksgiving with a butterball turkey and all the fixings, but once when I was medically discharged from the service I stopped in MO and had thanksgiving with some friends from the service and we had a wild turkey and to me that’s beets out a butterball any day
I just love the fall soups. this time of year is made for soup and sandwiches. My fav. is tomato rice soup and tunasalad sandwich. Good Times !!!
Every year we have the same traditions with the same food for Thanksgiving. I LOVE IT!! So now I am raising my daughter the same way. My favorite is my grandmothers sausage stuffing! Now with my daughter (who is now 5), we will have 4 generations preparing her famous stuffing
EZ Stuffing made in the bird with Bell Seasoning and s. My Mom had me and my brothers and sisters (there are 6 kids)up early like 4am tearing apart loves and loves of bread,seasoning and mixing in this and that then she would let Me help stuff the bird, damn good time I share with my children. And lightly lumpy potatos with butter and salt. ; )
My family always says what they are thankful for and the same prayer my great grandad used. As for the meal has to be the homemade noodles !
Green Bean casserole, and I make fresh cranberry sauce. My son who is going to school to be a chef the one thing he really like to make is the green bean casserole any time of the year.
I love the stuffing that is cooked in a slow cooker because the outsides get nice and crusty and the inside is soft and moist. We also have a special dish with every holiday. We call them baked beans, but there is a very special recipe handed down from my Dad’s grandmother. It is like no other! Yum!!
My favorite side dish is sweet potatoe casserole with marshmallows.
Sweet potatoes. I have changed them from what I remember as a child. But I think that my family likes the new creation to this dish.
Had a “southwestern” themed Thanksgiving one year and made a chili relleno casserole as a side. Incredibly delish and you can make ahead of time and reheat. Now it has become my go-to dish for any brunch or potluck.
My family and friends would kill me if I did not make my broccoli cheese soup and creamed corn!
green bean casserole is my favorite.
Definately my grandmas homemade stuffing
Dressing. My grandmother used to make it with tomatoes. Some family members didn’t like it so she stopped, but I still love it. also mashed potatoes & gravy. Mmmmm.
My favorite T-day side dish is something I learned many years ago from my “L.A. Mom”:
mashed sweet potatoes in empty orange shells, with toasted mini-marshmallows on top – YUM!
Roasted Parsnips and Carrots…mmmm!
Every Thanksgiving I absolutely have to bring my corn souffle and pecan pie!
My favorite is my Mom’s Sage and Onion Dressing.
I have to have buttery sweet potatoes with lots of marshmallows!
Love stuffing and gravy.
My Fav is sweet potato soufle with the lightly browned melted marshmellows…yummy!
I love my crockpot stuffing, very moist!
Our family tradition for Thanksgiving are two side dishes – Raisin Dressing, which was handed down from my Grandmother to my Mom to me to my daughter! The other is North Pole Brocolli Casserole – my daughter’s favorite!
Our favorite family tradition for Thanksgiving are two dishes – one is a Raisin Dressing handed down from my Grandmother to my Mom to me to my daughter! The other is a North Pole Brocolli Casserole that is loved!
celery stuffed with cream cheese, black olives and walnuts—it was always my job to make the stuffed celery when i was young and i loved scraping the bowl after mixing the cream cheese and add ins
My momma-in-law’s wonderful cornbread dressing!! The rest of us kids have tried and tried to make the dish like she does and it just doesn’t happen. Oh, of course her jiblet gravy is out of this world too!! And then a couple of days after, she makes her wonderful Turkey Pot Pie!!My momma-in-law is 85 yrs. old and as sharp as a tack and going strong! God bless her!!
My momma-in-law’s wonderful cornbread dressing!! The rest of us kids have tried and tried to make the dish like she does and it just doesn’t happen. Oh, of course her jiblet gravy is out of this world too!! And then a couple of days after, she makes her wonderful Turkey Pot Pie!!My momma-in-law is 85 yrs. old and as sharp as a tack and going strong! God bless her!!
Wow!!! I don’t know how you’ll do it, but you have alot of reading to do! Well, my favorite dish for Thanksgiving is Baked Beans with turkey bacon. Yes I do like lumps in my mashed potatoes – lol. But my children don’t. So I take more time to mash them. Oh yes, the Green Bean Casserole is a must! No pork this year. Doing this is making me miss my Mother. We would all go to her house for the holidays. Since her passing, the family is split. So now it is just my children & I. I really try to do it up, with the food. I want them to remember Our holidays TOGETHER. I have 3 children & eachone has a favorite that I make for them. We have Turkey with cornbread stuffing. Mixed Greens (Kale, Turnip & Mustard), Baked Beans, Green Bean Casserole, Potatoe Salad. Deviled Eggs, Sweet Potatoes, Dinner Rolls. Don’t leave out the Apple Pie & Carrot Cake. All that aside, my Family & I wish you & yours HAPPY HOLIDAYS & GOOD EATS.
My mom makes the best bread dressing. We have tried to get the recipe from her but she does really follow one!
I love the mashed potatoes and gravy. We take a family trip on Thanksgiving every year and I sure miss sharing a big family meal on that very special day. It’s a day that restaurant food just can not do justice!
We loved our Moms home made cranberry salad & dressing.
I love giblet gravy on creamy mashed potatoes.
My brother’s pumpkin pie is the best!
What a great prize. I could certainly use it.
My mother’s cornbread dressing! She makes her own cornbread and biscuits and grows her own sage. It’s moist and tasty. I always thought she had the best and was disappointed when I ate dressing at other homes or restuarants. When I married, my husband fell in love with it as well and requested an extra pan (not serving, but the entire pan) of it to take home. He gave some to his father, who raved. Then, his family requested mom prepare her dressing for their family functions. See–it is the best.
Our tradition is to watch the Macy’s parade while the meal is cooking. We’ll then have our meal, and go into town for the holiday open houses. The stores are decorated for Christmas, open for business, have giveaways, and serve even more food. We get a headstart on Christmas shopping. We’ll take a buggy ride and wait for Santa. He comes in a different mode each year. It could be by car, motorcycle, horse, tractor…It’s always fun to guess how he is coming this year. He lights the town tree and we sing Christmas carols. We then go home for leftovers and decorate our tree. It’s something to look forward to and enjoy each year.
My favorite side-dish is the marshmallow/fruity/nut stuff that is so hard to find! Is it Waldorf Salad, maybe? YUM!
Stuffing! Stuffing! Stuffing! & more stuffing!! Can’t get enough!
I love sweet potatoes with lots of brown sugar and marshmallows melted on top.
Love Brussel Sprouts Au Gratin! However, I am the only member of the family that like brussel sprouts, can’t even get the others will try them!
Thanksgiving is not Thanksgiving without mashed sweet potatos topped with marshmallows.
I love to serve Carrot Souffle, which my family now prefers over sweet potato casserole.
My mom passed on her family’s tradition of homemade “cinnamin rolls.” We’d get them for the holidays. They were apportioned out because only so many were lovingly made and would be devoured if left unsupervised! Thankfully, I have the recipe now and will be making them very soon.
My favorite Thanksgiving dish is the squash casserole. It is always a race to this family specialty.
Each holiday season, my mom would recreate a recipe from her mother for irresistible cinnamon rolls. These were different in shape and texture – truly original. Mom would have to delegate a “body guard” for the rolls lest they be gone before the meal ever started! They are a true comfort to us; a treasure always.
My favorite Thanksgiving dish is the all-encompassing football-watching’ Thamksgiving Supper Super Sammich! Everything you loved from Thanksgiving dinner between 2 slices of bread, topped with a soupçon of gravy and followed by the dessert o’ the day slathered in whipped cream. Of course this little feastlet is then followed by hopefully polite little urps and burps and perhaps not-quite-so-polite snores! YUM!
My favorite dish is the old fashioned cornbread stuffing…so savory and moist…this year will be a little different at my house…my last daughter married in September and moved 1500 miles away…so, we will host several friends who won’t be able to go home for the holiday…the baking dishes would come in really handy.
Green Bean Casserole- something everyone loves but for some reason our family only makes it for Thanksgiving and Christmas
It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without ham baked with pineapple and cherry sauce.
Stuffing, stuffing, Stuffing!!! I usually make 2 to 3 different kinds of stuffing. It is my family’s favorite.
When I cook all the Holiday favorites like turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, I flash back to very happy memories of my family. So many family members are no longer with us, but the memories are with me forever.
All the wonderful tastes and smells, like turkey and stuffing are wonderful.
Our favorite would be a package of frozen corn mixed with 8oz. Of cream cheese and a little milk. wonderful!!!!
I love stuffing and I like to eat in a sandwich the day after and the day after that. I also like mashed sweet potatoes with gravy.
Stuffing and more stuffing: sausage stuffing, mushroom stuffing. And, I love to eat it in a sandwich the day after and the day after and the day after. Also like mashed sweet potatoes w/gravy.
I love the dressing! It was a new find for me as I got older and really feel in love with it. It makes the turkey worth having!
My favorite Thanksgiving side dish has to be the stuffing or dressing whichever you want to call it. Mom took her favorite ingredients from her Mom’s and my Dad’s Mom’s stuffings and made one of her own. My daughter, sister and I are carrying on the tradition and have been making it for the past few Thanksgivings.
It’s just not Thanksgiving without spiced apple rings!
Thanksgiving as all about the turkey,stuffing and pumpkin pie.
Thanksgiving is all about the turkey,stuffing and pumpkin pie.
Sweet potatoes with toasted marshmallows. My mom’s been making them for as long as I can remember.
My favorite side dish is green bean casserole. I like the mix of flavores. It was my dad’s favorite and since he passed away a year ago I always remember him when we enjoy it with our Thanksgiving meal
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday…love, love, love the traditional menus, the fall decorating and the family together time!
My favorite side dish by far is the stuffing!
I try to change it up a bit every year and my family enjoys the subtle surprise!
Stuffing is my favorite side dish. Nice moist stuffing made with celery, onions and butter and smothered in turkey gravy. Yum oh yum!!
My mother, who was born in Italy, would stuff our turkey with a ground beef mixture that was out of this world…we all liked it better than the turkey.
It’s hard to think just one as a favorite – cornbread dressing is a requirement and so is brocolli & rice casserole. Oh wait, maybe it the sweet potato casserole that’s the best.
Every dish is the best–stuffing, potatoes and gravy, sweet potatoes,and of course the turkey and pumpkin pie!
My grandmother’s from scratch sage dressing… yummy!!
My grandmother’s from scratch Sage Dressing!
The sweet potato dish is crucial to the Thanksgiving table for my family.
The stuffing that my mother-in-law made (she is now deceased). There was just something about it that even though she showed me how to make it, its just not the same.
My mother’s (passed down from my grandmother) stuffing recipe. We don’t call it dressing even though we don’t stuff it any more. Kind of a traditional bread stuffing.
Sausage stuffing is a must at Thanksgiving.
We all gather at my house (grandmas) All the men request my daughters made from scratch pumpkin pie. My favorite is ground cran-berries and orange.My mother used to fix it every year. I would honestly miss any of it if it weren’t there. I wish all people were as lucky as I. Too many are doing without. I pray for them.
I have taken my mother’s recipe for dressing and added a few of my own twists and it is now my favorite holiday food. It still smells like my childhood home when I make it on Thanksgiving…but it is just a bit more natural and flavorful. It is nice to have it a bit mom, a bit me.
My favorite dish of Thanksgiving is after the meal, a few hours later we make tiny little sandwiches with the rolls and put mayo leftover dressing and turkey.
It is a tradition in our family to have cranberry jelly right out of the can. But is has to stay in the shape of the can. Nobody really seems to eat it anymore but it has to be on the table. What is Thanksgiving without an already prepared can of cranberry jelly?
sourkraut!
My mother mashed sweet potatoes with a little orange juice and shaped it into balls, rolled in cracker or cornflake crumbs, and baked. Sometimes a couple of mini marshmallows were included in the middle. I want these every year.
We don’t eat turkey for Thanksgiving or Christmas. We usually have a ham that my Mom makes that is out of this world. She has a really sweet gravy that goes with it. If she doesn’t make that then she makes her roast with a yummy thick gravy we pour over rolls. We always have the cranberry sauce that is shaped like a can but we love it. I always make yams with marshmallows and green bean casserole. It’s all tradition that we look forward to. Can’t wait for my Mom’s chocolate pie.
Green bean casserole is absolutely essential.
My moms famous broccoli cauliflower parmesan bake topped with croutons! Mmmmm it is soooo delicious! Growing up, our family was big on holiday traditions. My Aunt would come down and she, my mom, my grandmother and myself would gather in the kitchen for several days prior to Thanksgiving dinner preparing dishes, exchanging stories, and laughing a lot! With all the yummy dishes we would make we ALWAYS had the traditional cranberry sauce straight out of the can! So many warm memories of those days! I love my parents for instilling the importance of family and lots of love and laughter during the holiday season!
My favorite dish is spiral honey baked ham. My favorite tradition is making cookies as a family. Thanks for the awesome giveaway
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I just love fresh sliced cranberry, topped with real whipped creme. Just the thought of it makes it hard to wait until Thanksgiving!!
We make purple potatoes (mashed) and I love it because they’re really different (we get them once in while but not often due to price). We have them with our regular white mashed potatoes too but there’s something about them that makes me love the change & adds a touch of color to the table.
Corn pudding made with havarti cheese and poblano peppers…corn is traditional but this dish jazzes it up a bit.
My all time favorite side dish is my grandma’s homemade mash potatoes. She got cancer one year and wasn’t able to do the whole dinner so I surprised her by showing her how much I really did love watching her cook, by bringing all the side dishes that where her family recipes. She was so moved that year we sat down and I wrote all her recipes down so that her legacy could continue on. I still make them for Thanksgiving every year, and it has been 13 years since she lost her battle with cancer. But I get to keep a little bit of her with me when I cook.
I have a meatloaf stuffing that my mother made every Thanksgiving and I continue the tradition.
Our family started a tradition a few years back by just simply adding one new side dish to the menu each year so that we have something new and different to look forward to along with the usual suspects.
We use this formula:
1 old tradition +
1 new tradition =
2 absolutely perfect starts to great memories!
Side dishes are my favorite thing to make on Thanksgiving! I recently starting making my Green Bean Casserole from scratch! No canned fried onions and no canned soups! Its the best! Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! =)
Side dishes are my favorite things to make for Thanksgiving! I recently started making my Green Bean Casserole from scratch! No canned fried onions and no canned soups! Its the best! Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! =)
Side dishes are the best! Green bean casserole is great but stuffing just does it for me! Squash and sweet potatoes are good too. Yummy!!!!!!
My favorite pie for Thanksgiving is of course the traditional pumpkin pie with lots of whipped cream!
To me, it isn’t just the food, but the family and friends that you share the food with. Being one of eight children during Thanksgiving, and all of us getting together and making dinner with all the aromas from the different dishes being made, the memories come flooding back. Like the one year my brother Chris and I made the turkey stuffing, which is the most favored side dish that everyone can’t wait for and is almost all gone before the meal is over. Anyway, we made so much that it wouldn’t fit in a bowl to mix all the ingredients together evenly, so we used a drink cooler to mix the stuffing. His wife asked what we were doing and that we couldn’t use a drink cooler to mix the stuffing. We told her that if everyone wanted the stuffing to come out right we had to mix all the ingredients together evenly. So, with the stuffing in the cooler Chris picked up the big cooler and shook it until all ingredients were evenly mixed together. The stuffing came out just as wonderful and tasty as every year and as usual the stuffing was all gobbled up.
My favorite dish at Thanksgiving time is my mother’s homemade stuffing. I buy a few loaves of bread and mix with salt, pepper, bacon fat, bells seasoning, and onion. This stuffing is so delicious and it is fun mixing the ingredients with my clean hands!
Oh Boy, Thanksgiving here we come. All the leaves in the table, family and friends. A time to reconnect with everyone and give thanks for our lives and that we all are making it through the year.
We all love the green bean casserole….it is so good it just wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without all of our favorite recipes.
My favorite pie is Coconut cream pie! But I do love a fresh apple pie too
We love mashed sweet potatoes with orange juice and cinnamon. Easy to make and tasty
We have two “must have” sides. The first one is Green Bean Casserole and the 2nd dish is Aunt Corrine’s Frozen Cranberries. I didn’t make the cranberry dish last year and both our “kids” said it just wasn’t Thanksgiving without it! It’ll be on the table this year!!
Baked candied sweet potatoes. Yummno!!!
I love to have mashed potatoes with melted herb butter on top for Thanksgiving feast…Thanks….
One favorite is stuffing made with browned sausage, turkey broth, onion, pine nuts, and Pepperidge Farm bread crumbs–cooked in the slow cooker until it forms a yummy crust.
Rhutabegga’s are yummy!
My daughters, ages 17 & 11, agree that Thanksgiving is their very favorite holiday. Every member of our extended family is included in providing for the meal. You never know what will be on the menu. There are some expectations though: My daughter makes a wonderful potato casserole and I’m required to bring the shoepeg corn casserole (Green Giant is honestly the best corn). Even my 11 year old is expected to arrive with her special deviled eggs. I can’t wait!
I love cranberry the best. I was born on Thanksgiving and this year my birthday is on Thanksgiving too. I can’t wait.
The gravy has always been the main attraction,how will it turn out.
My husband loves egg noodles made in chicken broth…it would not be a special meal without this dish. I am a Thanksgiving baby who loves the traditional stuffing. My husband makes it each year and takes it very seriously. He starts about a week before Thanksgiving preparing the ingredients.
Favorite Thanksgiving pie has to be the traditional pumpkin pie with whipped cream!
Pumpkin pie just the way my late father and I used to make together.
Homemade Stuffing like my mom and grandma make it
My Homemade gravy and stuffing is looked for every time.
Homemade pies are always a must
Sweet potato casserole! I don’t like it TOO sweet, but you have to have that crunchy nut topping.
A family must have side dish at Thanksgiving is oyster dressing. Super easy to make, but tastes great!
Corn casserole
It is essential to have fresh (not bottled) gravy!
Thanksgiving is my dream holiday! Cooking for and feeding family and friends brings all of us together. We all get to enjoy each other without the external stresses of work and school. My family’s favorite dish is spinach salad with hot bacon dressing. A big bowl of velvety yet crisp spinach, walnuts, hard boiled eggs, croutons, cheese, and Craisins is topped with a hot, fat-laden bacon dressing. I am salavating just thinking about it.
There is a different favorite for each member of the family, so I have to make it all. Still I try to add one unique dish each year just to spice it up. I loved pumpkin mousse, so light after a big meal. I now make fried brussel sprouts with basalmic glaze every year, and try out different sweet potato recipes in addition to our current favorite. One thing I’ve learned is to never mess with the stuffing, though, unless I want a revolt on my hands!
Love pies!!!!! I just wish I could make them.
I love these dishes. I would love to make my sweet potatoes in them.
Non traditional Alaskan here so we enjoy a meal of baked halibut, it’s even better the next day.
tender young sweet peas in butter but gramin loves gravy on hers we make sour dough stufing caus shes dieabetic and can handle it
A traditional favorite in our family is a recipe for Scalloped Corn which has been passed down through the generations.
We started our own tradition when we needed to go as low fat as possible on the side dishes. We now whip sweet potatoes with crushed pineapple and a small amount of brown sugar.
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Stuffing would be my all time fave or creamy mashed potatoes with garlic & cream cheese
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I am seeing a number of recommendations to pair pea soup with sparkling wine or champagne. Any thoughts?
My favorite side dish is my wife’s scalloped potatoes with swiss cheese.
My favorite side would be oyster stuffing and my corn dish (corn, diced green pepper, diced fresh tomatoes, diced onions, and lots of butter). The colors are great together!
Cannot have Thanksgiving without the lumnpy mashed potatoes and gravy!