Best Thanksgiving Side?

Best side

  • Mac and Cheese

  • Mashed Potatoes

  • Stuffing

  • Cranberry sauce

  • Other (Comment! I’m sure I missed a few)

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Hard to pick, but my personal favorite is corn pudding. In the summer, I choose the best sweet corn from a farm stand on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, use my grandma’s tool to shave the corn off the cobs, follow her directions how to prep for freezing. Use that to make the corn pudding. Not overly sweet. I think it’s because this is truly once a year.

I make stuffing for pork roasts all year, ditto mashed potatoes, mac and cheese, etc. Happy to eat them anytime.

DH likes my partially cooked cranberry, roasted fresh pineapple, roasted Vidalia onion and jalapeño salsa. He sneaks into the kitchen, finds the big glass bowl where it has been resting overnight and makes himself chips (lime chili) chips and salsa.

I still make a small casserole dish of creamed pearl onions, my mother’s favorite. She is long gone, but the soft, sweet tiny whole onions in a creamy sauce with white pepper, sage and a rash of nutmeg are pure comfort.

This is not really a side, only because people eat them right out of the oven as they are being flipped out of the hot pan, and very few actually make it to the table. Bite-size cheddar corn muffins with bacon bits, all crusty on the outside.
 
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Cranberry is there to keep you from choking on the Turkey …

And cranberry is kind of like having pineapple on pizza … just like pineapple, it mixes well with everything

*** Whenever you go to IHOP, do you poor syrup on everything like I do? ***
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Favorite side??? …. Different fruit salads for me … some with Walnuts, Coconut shavings … maybe both
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### TG Leftover Idea ###

— Ingredients—
Tortilla wrap
Dry Turkey
Grated Sharp Cheese
Corn kernels
Cranberry Sauce (Condiment)

— Instructions —

Place dry turkey, grated cheese, corn kernels in tortilla and wrap … heat in MW to desired temperature

Eat it with “Lovin’ Spoonfuls” of the Cranberry Sauce
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Capt MJ said:
Hard to pick, but my personal favorite is corn pudding. In the summer, I choose the best sweet corn from a farm stand on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, use my grandma’s tool to shave the corn off the cobs, follow her directions how to prep for freezing. Use that to make the corn pudding. Not overly sweet. I think it’s because this is truly once a year.

I make stuffing for pork roasts all year, ditto mashed potatoes, mac and cheese, etc. Happy to eat them anytime.

DH likes my partially cooked cranberry, roasted fresh pineapple, roasted Vidalia onion and jalapeño salsa. He sneaks into the kitchen, finds the big glass bowl where it has been resting overnight and makes himself chips (lime chili) chips and salsa.

I still make a small casserole dish of creamed pearl onions, my mother’s favorite. She is long gone, but the soft, sweet tiny whole onions in a creamy sauce with white pepper, sage and a rash of nutmeg are pure comfort.

This is not really a side, only because people eat them right out of the oven as they are being flipped out of the hot pan, and very few actually make it to the table. Bite-size cheddar corn muffins with bacon bits, all crusty on the outside.
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A “rash of nutmeg.” Scary. I shouldn’t be allowed to type when cooking with wine.

Here’s the corn cutter gadget. There are more modern gadgets, but this has character.



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Freshly made gravy with neck meat and giblets finely chopped, using the drippings and mixed with white wine, salt and pepper to taste.

If there is no real gravy, there is no Thanksgiving.
 
Up your game and make your own marshmallows. I swear by Alton Brown. If all you’ve ever eaten is the ones out of the bag made sometime in the last 5 years, try these. The recipe below makes 9 dozen. You’ll be eating them. A bit of work and technique, and great use of your stand mixer, but oh so worth it. I use the best quality vanilla I can buy.

The video is very helpful. Great rainy day kitchen project.

I usually make one sweet potato “thing” with, for the mallowheads, and one mallow-free loaded with pecans, hazelnuts and almonds in the topping.


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Homemade Marshmallows

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Capt MJ said:
Up your game and make your own marshmallows. I swear by Alton Brown. If all you’ve ever eaten is the ones out of the bag made sometime in the last 5 years, try these. The recipe below makes 9 dozen. You’ll be eating them. A bit of work and technique, and great use of your stand mixer, but oh so worth it. I use the best quality vanilla I can buy.

The video is very helpful. Great rainy day kitchen project.

I usually make one sweet potato “thing” with, for the mallowheads, and one mallow-free loaded with pecans, hazelnuts and almonds in the topping.


www.foodnetwork.com

Homemade Marshmallows

Get Homemade Marshmallows Recipe from Food Network
www.foodnetwork.com www.foodnetwork.com
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Amazing! I think I got a few cavities just watching that video 🤣
 
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