Thanksgiving Side Dish Ideas

[guido911]

I do not recall if we have had a thread like this. I am curious what TNFers serve alongside the turkey & stuffing and the recipes for the same.

[RecycleMichael]

I love this website for recipes...

http://allrecipes.com/

I feed my wife's family and all their friends for Thanksgiving. We will have at least twenty people.

We will have all the staples including green bean casseroles and fruit salads. We have mashed potatoes and stuffing and usually a sweet potato dish. The mother-in-law will make four or five pies.

We have had fun with the holiday. One year we had different potluck Chinese dishes.   

[MH2010]

Our Thanksgiving is small. It's usually just my parents and the kids.  The staple dishes are mashed potatoes, corn, green beans, Candied Sweet potatoes, and giblet gravy.

The pies are always pecan and pumpkin.

[Breadburner]

Stuffing with smoked oysters is very good.....

[custosnox]

we try do do it right with green bean casserol, pea salad, deviled eggs, mashed patatoes, stuffing, cadied yams, celery w/pamento chees and rolls.  There are always various new side dishes that turn up as everyone wants to try something new.  For example, my grandmother has found a new recipe for a cranbarry salsa that should be, at the very least, interesting.  There will most likely be pumpkin pie, apple pie, pecan pie and red velvet cake for desert.  This year my other side has been working on a pumpkin cheesecake that is pretty good that will most likely make a showing as well. 

[AngieB]

We're having Thanksgiving with my side of the family tomorrow and I'm taking Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Pomegranates and Vanilla-Pecan Butter that Bobby Flay made in the Thanksgiving Throwdown with Ree Drummond a/k/a The Pioneer Woman. http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/bobby-flay/roasted-brussels-sprouts-with-pomegranates-and-vanilla-pecan-butter-recipe/index.html

If they taste as good as they looked on the Throwdown, I'll have to make them again to take to the other side of the family's Thanksgiving on Thursday.

[GG]

we try do do it right with green bean casserol, pea salad, deviled eggs, mashed patatoes, stuffing, cadied yams, celery w/pamento chees and rolls.  There are always various new side dishes that turn up as everyone wants to try something new.  For example, my grandmother has found a new recipe for a cranbarry salsa that should be, at the very least, interesting.  There will most likely be pumpkin pie, apple pie, pecan pie and red velvet cake for desert.  This year my other side has been working on a pumpkin cheesecake that is pretty good that will most likely make a showing as well. 

Your menu is similar to ours with the Green Bean Casserole, deviled eggs, mashed potatoes, candied yams, celery w/pimento cheese.   But we will also have cornbread and bread dressing.  My family always did cornbread dressing and the wife's family bread dressing.   So my wife compromises and makes both kinds of dressing.  Noodles too, for some reason my wife's family has to have noodles. 

We will also have turkey and ham.   My boys love ham.   

As far as cranberries go, I love that cranberry jelly out of the can.   My sister in law fixes up these exotic cranberry dishes but the mother in law and I still prefer that cranberry jelly out of the can.   

Then after Thanksgiving the is the traditional Turkey Salad.  The wife will (with my assistance) make turkey salad with the left over turkey.   My father in law lived for at Turkey Salad.  Too bad he is no longer with us to enjoy the tradition he started.   

[Gaspar]

Stuffing with smoked oysters is very good.....

YES!!

[Conan71]

Stuffing with smoked oysters is very good.....

Tasty but does not re-heat well.  Takes on a taste and odor like river bottom silt.

Angie, FMC and I are going to try the brussel sprout recipe as well that was a fun episode of Throwdown.

I've always done a cranberry relish that's basically fresh cranberries, orange peel, loads of sugar, and walnuts or pecans.  I'm pretty sure the recipe is on the bag of Ocean Spray cranberries.  It's great stuff and only gets better the longer it sits in the refrigerator.

One thing which has been interesting on a lot of the Food Network shows over the last week is the idea that turkey was not even at the first Thanksgiving dinner.  Rather they would have more likely had venison, lobster, and cod for meat.  Hmmm, maybe next year we will try surf 'n turf.