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What's your favorite side dish for a turkey dinner?
Please share your favorite traditional and non-traditional side dishes for turkey.
Re: What's your favorite side dish for a turkey dinner?
My favorite traditional side is stuffing cooked inside the bird...yum.
I don't know about non-traditional, but I love having popovers with turkey dinner.
So Tasty, So Yummy
Spinach Madeleine. Best side dish ever! It is nontraditional for some, but very traditional for many in Baton Rouge.
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(no freaking idea why they replaced the original cheese with VELVEETA though. It originally called for this pasteurized pepper cheese that came in a tube/roll but it's no longer made, so everyone just uses regular pepper jack. DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT use Velveeta!
Egg noodles - It reminds me on Thanksgiving with my parents
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Sweet Potato Casserole. Yum. My favorite recipe (other than Boston Market's
) is this one from Southern Living:
http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/classic-sweet-potato-casserole-10000001940936/
Traditional: my BFF's cornbread dressing or my cranberry relish
Non-traditional: broc. salad. I just incorporated it into the menu last year.
Traditional - Ocean Spray Jellied Cranberry Sauce
Non-traditional - my dad's baked beans
Baked sweet potatoes with pecan streusel topping. We use this recipe, minus the marshmallows. Yum!
I also like roasted carrots and parsnips.
Sweet Potato Casserole (pecan topping, not marshmallows...)
Cranberry Salad
Ditto! My grandmother always made spinach madeleine, and now my dad does. I had no idea it was common in Baton Rouge, but that makes sense because that is where my grandmother was from. This post made me miss her!
traditional: twice baked sweet potatoes
non-traditional: "fluff" lime green jello blended with cool whip
I only do traditional. :-)
Cornbread dressing
Homemade mac & cheese
Deviled eggs
YUM!
Yes. love this stuff.
my favorite dish is my mom's broccoli-rice casserole.....the recipe calls for a cheese tube too, but for the past few years i can't find it *anywhere*. :-(
Ditto.
Green Bean Casserole is my favorite! And not fancy green bean casserole. The recipe on the french fried onion can. Let the pearl clutching begin on using canned cream soup!
I had to look up the recipe...definitely trying this! Looks yummy!
It is so good. You can easily cut the butter in half. I prefer the cheese mixed in rather than on top, and we also add a can of chopped green chiles.
Green Bean Casserole is my fave, as well. I actually proposed a healthier version this year sans the canned soup...my family revolted with immediate emails and phone calls and talked the sense back into me
Non traditional fave...probably my MIL's "pink salad" - strawberry jello mixed with cool whip, cottage cheese, pineapple and walnuts....sounds bizarre, looks bizarre, tastes amazing!
it is sooooo good when made with WS's mushroom gravy base instead of c. of mushroom from a can. and i'm guessing the mushroom gravy is better for you preservative wise, but still fatty/tasty ;-)
aww! Yes, it was first published in the Baton Rouge Junior League cookbook. I think it's the standard way to get kids in South La. to eat spinach.
I despise mushrooms, so that wouldn't touch my green bean casserole with a 10 foot pole
It is Thanksgiving. It isn't healthy, but it is one day.
do you not make your green bean casserole with c. of mushroom from a can?? **psssst** it has mushrooms in it too ;p
i used this base last year. it added more flavor, but it isn't really "mushroomy" - has the same kind of mushroom "chunks" like the canned soup.....
I made this pumpkin/sage polenta that is delicious. I can't remember where I got the recipe, but here it is:
Cornbread dressing, no contest.
Sometimes I'll make Ina Garten's spinach gratin, which is awesome.
Sweet potato casserole for traditional.
Corn pudding is a family tradition that I love.
This year I am looking for new ideas--I need to come up with 2-3 sides that contain no dairy, soy, or eggs.
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