Try These Thanksgiving Sides That Steal The Show

The Federalist ^ | November 19, 2021 | Rich Cromwell

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

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[cdcdawg]

Diet status: not looking good for a few weeks.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Take a can of sweet potatoes drained. Mash them up with a little cinnamon and orange juice. Then mold some mashed sweet potato around a marshmallow and roll it in shredded coconut. Place on a no stick cookie sheet and bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes. So good!

[DJ MacWoW]

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[NEMDF]

I usually include all of these in my Thanksgiving menu:

homemade whole-berry cranberry sauce
canned gelatin cranberry sauce
mashed potatoes
sweet potatoes (mashed, baked with a little brown sugar, marshmallows on top)
corn
green bean casserole (classic recipe)
bread rolls (Kings Hawaiian)
turkey
stuffing homemade with sage sausage, celery, onions, giblets
gravy
pies (purchased)with some redi-whip
olives, sweet pickles
leaf-shaped butter patties

I think that is all.

[j.havenfarm]

You can throw enough nuts and sweets on sweet potatoes to make them edible, IMO

[eyeamok]

Here is our Thanksgiving Side Dish

[circlecity]

For me a good turkey gravy is the key. I smother everything on my plate with it.

[VanShuyten]

Yams aren’t even close to sweet potatoes.

[Rebelbase]

Expressing my annual disgust with Green Bean casserole which is an abomination upon the Earth from the depths of culinary hell.

[bgill]

Never understood the whining about making Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. Oh, the time! Oh, the effort and exhaustion.

Bake your pies and cornbread the day before.

Put the turkey in the oven at 7 am. Get the sides ready and go sit down. They giblet gravy pot is put on the back burner the heat from the oven comes off so doesn’t need to be turned on. Water, giblets and two washed eggs in the shell. Start the rolls dough.

At 10, take the foil off the turkey, get some stock out of it’s pan and mix up the dressing. Go sit down.

At 11, take the bird out of the oven and put the foil back on. Put the sides into the oven. Shape and let the rolls rise. Go sit down.

As the sides come out of the oven, put the rolls in to bake. Go sit down.

At noon, eat.

Friday and Saturday, finish off the leftovers.

Sunday, pick meat off bones and freeze. Boil carcass for broth and pick off another freezer bag of meat.

[DUMBGRUNT]

—”I think that is all.”

Thinking you overlooked potato HEART ATTACK on a plate??

Potatoes, bacon, cheese, sour cream...

I can only sample it once a year, for fear I might OD.
First thing after dinner the guests are given as much as they like for personal consumption later.
I have many loud relatives and might not miss them next year.

[Sans-Culotte]

There are certain things I won't eat on Thanksgiving. One is the jiggly can of cranberry "sauce". I have hated it since I was a kid. I think the fact that a gelatin was called a sauce was confusing to me. I like "real" cranberry sauce that is made with real cranberries. However, it is very sweet and a little goes a long way or it will swamp the other flavors. Sometimes my wife and I make one that is made with cranberries and a whole navel orange. I don't remember the exact reipe, but you combine the cranberries and orange (peel and all) in a food processor and grind them up. You add a lot of sugar (don't remember what else) and let it sit in the fridge for a day. You get the sweet and tart flavor, but it is not overpoweringly sweet because it is uncooked and fresh.

The other ting I won't eat are mashed sweet potatoes with marshmallows. I don't know where that came from, but I find it off-putting. We do have candied sweet potatoes though. We cut them in chunks and cook them in butter, brown sugar and pecans. The potatoes stay in chunks but are very soft.

[DUMBGRUNT]

I forgot the mass quantities of butter, cream...

[NEMDF]

So you are trying to kill off the LOUD RELATIVES with the heart attack on a plate? You need to include more BUTTER.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Cranberry Salad

1-1/2 cups cranberries
1 orange w/peel
1 green apple w/peel

grind and mix, add

1 cup sugar
1/8 tsp salt

Make two small or 1 large cherry Jello, when semi-firm,
add ground fruit and mix.

Top with whipped cream, or if you want to impress, use
mock Devonshire cream, which is amazingly good:

3 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
1 Tbsp granulated sugar
1/8 tsp salt
1 cup heavy whipping cream

In a large bowl, combine cream cheese, sugar, and salt;
stir until well blended. Stir in whipping cream. With an
electric mixer, beat mixture until stiff. Store in refrigerator.

[Tommy Revolts]

I think I will try the Praline Sweet Potato Casserole. I do Sweet Potatoes each year anyway and will try a different spin on that.

I'm a fan of southern cooking and am also smoking a turkey with cajun spices this season.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

One family recipe that was always a crowd pleaser, is the Asparagus-Egg-Cheese casserole. It is a treat to see kids vying to get more *asparagus*, that many of them normally shun.

6 tbsp butter
3 tbsp chopped green pepper
2 tbsp grated onion
4 tbsp flour
2 cups milk
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp ground pepper

Saute until tender in top of double boiler, then add flour
and blend. Gradually add milk and cook until smooth and thick.
Add salt and pepper.

3-15 oz drained cans of asparagus
6 sliced hard boiled eggs
American cheese slices
3/4 cup buttered crumbs

Alternate layers of asparagus, egg slices and cheese slices, and
sauce in a large, square baking dish. Top with final layer of
sauce and buttered crumbs.

Bake in 350F oven for 20 minutes.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Nothing the matter with green bean casserole. 😁