OK, list your top-five Thanksgiving sides in order and prepare to be wrong about what you like to eat. For those who are #TeamPie, it's your special day, so feel free to drop you top Thanksgiving pies.
- Gravy
- Brussel sprouts cooked in butter and bacon
- Potato casserole
- Gelled (this is important) cranberry sauce
- Stuffing of any type or variety
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Lets see, I haven't made gravy at Thanksgiving for at least 2 decades. Nobody in my family uses it. The turkey is moist enough without it.
1. Stuffing - Homemade from scratch pork stuffing is the best.
2. Cranberries - Home made from scratch.
3. Brussel sprouts cooked in bacon grease.
4. Do mashed potatoes count? I don't do potato cassarole.
5. Gravy- don't even bother making it.
I see someone has been listening to a little Chad Dukes on 106.7
1) Mashed Potatoes
2) Yams (with brown sugar and marshmallows)
3) Gelled Cranberries
4) Stuffing
5) Grandma's Green Bean Casserole (not the canned crap)
1- Sweet Potato Casserole
2- Mac 'n Cheese
3- Mashed Potatoes w/gravy
4- Pecan Pie
5- Pumpkin Pie
*Bonus- My great aunt is from India and she makes this awesome spicy-curry dish with spaghetti noodles that I get at least 1 pound of every year. It gets its own plate.
1) Potatoe Pancakes-- like mashed potatoes but you cal fill them with cheese and bacon bits
2) Yams with bourbon soaked marshmallows + sugar
3) Greenbean+Corn casserole with candied walnuts
4) Wild Turkey
5) Ginger Ale--- for the stomach ache 2 hours after eating
Gravy isn't a side, it's a beverage. With that out of the way:
1. Stuffing
2. Green Bean casserole
3. REAL (this is important) cranberry sauce
4. Corn pudding
5. A sweet potato dish
Special mention: mashed potatoes
1. Stuffing
2. Cranberry Relish (not the sauce, something my grandma makes that's boss)
3. Chocolate Ches Pie
4. Mashed Potatoes
5. Yams
1) Stuffing. Betty Crocker cookbook page 281.
2) Ocean Spray Whole Berry Cranberry Sauce, only terrorists, communists, and Hitler like gelled cranberry sauce and all of you disappoint me in every conceivable way
3) Candied yams or mashed potatoes (russet OR redskin). If none are available, a potato salad or casserole is an acceptable substitute, but would come lower down on this list.
4) Green beans sliced on the bias and steamed with salted sliced almonds mixed in. Green bean casserole is an acceptable sub.
5) Hay, carrots, oats, what have you.
Gravy isn't a side, it's a condiment, but it is required and would rank at #3 on this list if it had to be there.
This is a good topic. I didn't list any pies because they're not sides, they're main course, but I'd have to go apple and if you say pumpkin I'll disown you.
This, coming from an animal whose primary food supplies are grass, hay, and whole grains
Ahem... russet or native ethnic persons potatoes?
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Your avatar betrays you!
Let's bury the hatchet. We smoke'm peace pipe!
1 - Gravy
2 - Mashed Taters
3 - Cranberry sauce (gelled)
4 - Sweet Potato Casserole
5 - Cheesy Bread
What's taters, precious?
PO-TA-TOES... You know, boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew?
I love this website
Well, since I do a standing rib roast and not turkey, and I like gravy, then I get gravy.
It's good to be the cook. /MelBrooksvoice
carrots roasted in butter and garlic
Roasted garlic mashed potato (note the gravy previously mentioned.)
a fine stout beer
1. Turkey
2. Turkey
3. Turkey
4. Ham
5. Rolls.......
6. Gelled (It really is very important) Cranberry sauce
edited for #6
1. Mashed Potatoes with gravy of course
2. Stuffing (oyster stuffing specifically)
3. Green Bean Casserole
4. Grandpa's Apple Pie
5. Roasted Sweet Potatoes with a Bourbon Maple Syrup
YES. Team oyster stuffing
1. Stuffing (from inside the turkey)
2. Real Cranberry Sauce (pack of cranberries, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup BOURBON, boil, simmer, chill, serve!)
3. Mash Potatoes
4. Green Bean Casserole
5. Sweet Potato Bake/Casserole...
Period done!
I want some of your cranberry sauce
5. Is dead on....my mom makes these little stuffing "cakes"....they're kinda like mini stuffing pancakes, and they are the bomb.
Also, crockpot (this is very important) Mac and Cheese, with a bit of turkey gravy poured on top....I never said I wasn't extravagant.
Unfortunately, this will be the 2nd Thanksgiving in which I will be at work :(....at least I get Christmas off this year
Side note/advice: if you smoke or fry or get Sam Rogers to stare at your turkey to cook it, you will not be able to put stuffing inside of it. This fact makes any outside-the-bird "stuffing" actually dressing. To add done moisture/turkey flavor, use turkey stock while cooking in the oven.
Source: me! We've smoked or turkey for several years now, and using turkey stock let's you take any stuffing recipie and cook it as a dressing
I've been thinking long and hard about #PieDraft and I've decided I would trade picks 1 through 5 for about 15 picks in the last two rounds and take nothing but mincemeat.
I'm with you fellows.
1. Brussel sprouts roasted in butter with center cut bacon.
2. Properly prepared mashed potatoes. I use Yukon Gold potatoes because they actually have flavor and thin skin, unlike Russets. Redskins are good, too. No peeling, leave the skin in there. Lots of sea salt, real butter, and a little heavy whipping cream. More bacon, if you didn't use it all with the brussel sprouts. The mashed potatoes really are the foundation of the meal. They also do double-duty as your plate's own gravy boat.
3. Cranberry gel. Straight out of the can. Slice it without disturbing the can shape so people know it is authentic. You need a little tartness to counteract all of the butter in the other dishes.
4. Sweet potato casserole made with a little orange juice and pumpkin pie spice. Topped with marshmallows cooked to a golden brown.
5. Stuffing (dressing, if you were raised incorrectly). I personally don't like the stuff. It is mostly bread and bread is just filler. I also don't like onions and people cannot seem to make stuffing without the vile weed. Either way, you have to have stuffing to make everyone else happy.
6. A six pack of New Belgium Pumpkick that I have been holding onto. It's a beer with pumpkin and cranberries. How could a beer be more appropriate for Thanksgiving?
Gravy is a condiment. A delicious, essential condiment.
Might I introduce you to the Pumking?!
stuffing
cranberry sauce
my sister makes green beans wrapped in bacon. they're labor intensive but damned if they aint the sheeeeit.
stuffing
buttered rolls
the next day my mom always makes cream turkey. mmmmmmm
Stuffing
Twice baked potatoes
everything else
1) CORN DOG
I smell a closet LSU fan.
This is a very good read.
1. My mom's homemade applesauce
2. Mashed potatoes
3. stuffing
4. Pumpkin pie
5. Apple pie
If you had some of the family recipe applesauce you would rank it number 1 too
1 Biscuits (how the heck has no one mentioned this yet?)
2 Deviled Eggs
3 Gravy
4 Mashed Potatos
5 Stuffing with Gravy
6 Apple Pie
1. Gravy
2. Mac n' cheese
3. Stuffing
4. Gravy
5. Green bean casserole
We don't need to go to 5 on the side dishes..
1) Stuffing
2) Cranberry Sauce - I like to split the difference. Real stuff on T-day, gelled stuff for leftover sandwiches.
3) Mashed Potatoes
1. Mac n' cheese
2. green beans with a healthy slab of rib meat in it
3. cool whip with a slice of pumpkin pie
4. warm buttery fluffy homemade rolls
5. mashed taters
5 (tie) Mac n' Cheese again
Sweet potatoes with brown sugar and (this is important) marshmallows
My grandmothers sweet potato casserole. So sweet its almost a dessert.
Stuffing. We're frying our turkey this year so dressing will have to do.
Mashed potatoes and gravy.
Pumpkin pie. YES IT'S A SIDE!!!
Pecan pie. Also a side.
1. Oyster casserole
2. Mashed potatoes w/ gravy
3. Stuffing w/ gravy
4. Pumpkin pie w/ whipped cream
5. Green bean casserole
1) Rice and gravy
2) Macaroni and cheese
3) Candied yams
4) My mom's homemade rolls
5) My grandma's German chocolate cake
1. Dressing
2. Pecan (pronounced pick-AHN) Pie
3. Sweet potato casserole (the kind with butter, brown sugar, nuts, more butter and more sugar)
4. Pumpkin Pie
5. Apple Pie
All bout dat Pie
PE-CAN! lol
1) Southern Candied Yams
2) mashed potatoes
3) boiled owl (new from better half's family)
4) LOTS OF SWEET POTATO PIE!!!!
Fascinating! Is it boney, like quail? Any seasonings?
1. Sweet Potatoes
2. Stuffing
3. Cranberry Sauce
4. Gravy
5. Regular Potatoes
Bonus: Pumpkin Pie
1. Gravy (because everything that follows (besides the pie, and thats becuase it doesnt fit on the plate) is literally swimming in it)
2. PIE (type: yes please)
3. Stuffing (I love stove top, fuck off)
4. Mashed potatoes (MOAR GRAVY)
5. Cranberry Sauce (from the can, and again, I DONT TELL YOU HOW TO LIVE YOUR LIFE!)
1. Lots of Wine to survive the relatives
2. Mashed Taters
3. Made from scratch biscuits
4. Excellent Football games
5. One piece of each type of pie
Note, main course should always be ham as I do not eat my own kind :)
1. Mom's broccoli casserole
2. My cousin's sweet potato casserole
3. Stuffing
4. Mashed potatoes
5. Pumpkin pie
1. Sweet Potato Casserole
2. Corn bread stuffing
3. Mashed potatoes
4. Fresh cooked carrots
5. Green Beans (Cooked any way, so long as they're not overcooked and mushy)
Desserts:
1. Pecan Pie
2. Apple Pie
3. Pumpkin Pie
4. Pumpkin Cheesecake
5. Pumpkin Cheese Roll
1. My wife's Sweet Potato casserole made with brown sugar & freshly squeezed orange juice)
2. Wifey's Cauliflower casserole (made with cream of shrimp soup)
3. My homemade Clam chowder
4. Mom's spicy Pumpkin pie
5. Hot Pepper Jelly with Cream Cheese & crackers hors d'oeuvres
1. Cornbread Turkey Dressing
2. Homemade gravy with turkey grease mixed in for flavor.
3. Bourbon based cranberry sauce.
4. Sweet potato casserole (have to have marshmallows on top)
5. My moms homemade sourdough bread.
1) Fried turkey leg (no I'm not just sucking up for the web site. Dark meat FTW)
2) Strawberry pretzel salad
3) My grandma's chocolate pie. I'm technically #TeamPie, but this is literally the only reason why.
4) Mashed potatoes w/ gravy (for a unique touch, add Worcestire sauce on top. Delicious)
5) Green beans
1) Fondue (or any stinky cheese)
2) Cauliflower
3) Croissants (pronounced properly)
4) French fries, with french dressing and french bread
5) Crepes
Such a hard decision but...
1) Sweet potato casserole
2) Mac and cheese
3) Rolls
4) Corn Pudding
5) Stuffing
and I really love stuffing, so you know this was a tough list to make.
1. Whipped Sweet Potato casserole made with white Nancy Hall sweet potatoes
2. Baked Stuffing with roasted chestnuts
3. Smithfield Ham
4. Homemade Parker House rolls
5. Jello ribbon mold- mother in laws speciality
For everyone preping for a big chow down here's a funny tale from my wifes family. Her parents are first generation Italian on both sides and their parents viewed Thanksgiving meals as a two part affair- the traditional American meal followed by a full 6 course Sunday supper. Of course how much you eat is directly proportional to how much you love grandma.
One year my mother in-law somehow agreed to go to both her parents and her in-laws for Thanksgiving
My brothers in law were little kids whuen thisnhappened and say they damn near died from being over stuffed. Decades later they all still give her massive grief about this.
It's all about the Smithfield Ham