Side dishes for Thanksgiving

[Berrie]

ooh man, I'm sitting here drooling! you all have given me great ideas, I'm going to have to get serious, make a menu and assign various dishes to friends who have asked "what can I bring". Now, I'm hungry.......

 

[dsny1mom]

Breakfast
Cinnamon Rolls (Pillsbury)
Bacon
Coffee with Pumpkin Spice Cream

Appetizers
Cheese and Crackers
Sliced Summer Sausage (Hickory Farms)
Mixed Nuts

Main Course
20 lb Butterball Turkey
Gravy
Dressing with pork sausage from scratch
Mashed Potatos
Sweet Potato Cassarole (lots of marshmallows)
Kugalie with Sour Cream
Green Bean Cassarole
Saurkraut with Pork Sausage
Corn
Crescent Rolls
Cranberry Sauce
Stuffed Celery
Spiced Apple Rings
Sweet Pickles
Develed Eggs

Dessert
Pumpkin Cheese Cake (Sara Lee makes and amazing frozen one)
7 Layer Bars
Turkey Shapped Sugar Cookies
Home Made Chocolate Chip Cookies
Home Made Fudge

Late Night
Pepto Bismol for the Over Eaters

dsny1mom

 

[drcmk]

Okay DH and I sat down and put our menu together. We cook for twelve.

Escarole Soup
Turkey
Stuffing
Mashed Potatoes
Corn
Peas
Cranberry sauce
Spinach/Egg Noodle Casserole
Biscuits

Cranberry Kir Cocktail for the adults

Pumpkin Pie
Blueberry Cobbler
Chocolate Cupcakes for the kids

I wish I could make more exciting foods, but I cook for a tough crowd that just wants the same old comfort foods every year. The spinach/egg noodle casserole is my break out dish this year.

 

[HALEYSMOMMOM]

We have alot of the same staple dishes-but our different one is chicken and dumplings, homemade. Really delicious, and oddly enough goes great with the turkey. I need to ask my mom how that tradition got started without making her feel its odd....she's a wonderful cook BTW

 

[amamax2]

OP here - everyone's menus sound delish We are transporting our food by putting it into those disposable aluminium trays with the lids, then putting those in a cardboard box that has a towel in the bottom. The orzo dish I made when DD graduated high school and DH says his stuffed mushroom recipe is a secret but I found his recipe .

Thank you soooo very much for the recipes!!! We just got the "official" invite from our friends, so I immediately got back on here to see if you had posted them. They sound so yummy and I think that is what I will bring.

 

[Abbie]

This looks alot like my baltimore menu...but we just stick an old hambone in the sauerkraut, and don't go near any pig tails! We also have oyster dressing.

I guess sauerkraut is a Baltimore thing! I just bought a can since I think I'm the only one who really likes it but then went out and bought a whole bag anyway. Most of it will be tossed but I just want the real thing! We are getting home late the night before (from Disney!) so I'm trying to keep low-key with our dinner. We decided to stay home and just be the four of us. I'm cooking a turkey breast this week then will freeze and reheat. The rest of the meal:

Mom's special recipe stuffing with sage sausage and raisins
Mashed potatoes and gravy
Sliced yams baked with butter and brown sugar
Corn (I said NO to that green bean casserole this year!)
Sauerkraut cooked with a piece of pork (don't know what a pigtail is!)
Cranberry sauce (the kind that holds its shape from the can, lol)
Rolls
Cider, Wine, Tea

Pumpkin pie with whipped cream

 

[momxx5]

Not sure if it was posted or not, but DDs fave side is a broccoli casserole.

It is super duper easy, yummy and can be made festive.

Make as much or as little as you want, no set amounts.

Bag of chopped broccoli, cooked and drained
Cream of mushroom soup
sour cream (I always used reduce fat)
sautee diced onion
breadcrumbs...sauteed(lightly brown) w/butter in frying pan. Be careful not to burn.


Put broccoli in oven friendly casserole dish. Mix mushroom soup and sourcream. Pour mixture over broccoli. Put sauteed onions over mixture. Lightly fold ingredients together to not make broccoli mushy.
Top with bread crumbs and bake 350 or 25ish minutes until its bubbly(and heated all through).

*To make it festive you can lightly mix in a small jar of pimento.....the red makes the dish Christmas red/green colors and the pimento does not really add taste.

 

[scrapquitler]

How are your plans coming along?

I think I might be off the hook for Thanksgiving My MIL is being pissy about it. I'm working on Thanksgiving and on Friday, so we told her that I will do Thanksgiving dinner on Saturday, instead. She got all snotty about it (she thinks that it's not worth doing the holiday on a different day). And she told my DH that she's not going to come if I'm going to do it all 'special' just because they are coming. Uh, yeah. I wouldn't be cooking that big complicated dinner if they aren't coming, DH and I don't even LIKE turkey and my kids won't eat any of it anyway, so yeah, I'll be doing it just because they are coming. So at the moment, she says they aren't coming. Which is fine with me. But I know she'll change her mind at the last minute (it happened last year too, she just likes to cause drama).

I forgot to add: So when she does change her mind, we'll be having the turkey (breast only), gravy, rolls & butter, homemade stuffing (with giblets and sausage), green beans, corn, jellied cranberry sauce, homemade cranberry/orange relish, mashed potatoes, candied sweet potatoes, harvard beets, apple cider, apple pie and pumpkin pie.

If she doesn't change her mind (I can only HOPE), we'll just have ham and homemade mac/cheese and green beans in peace without them.

 

[loreyb]

My best friend does a big dinner, Thanksgiving is her favorite holiday. We go there for dinner and every year I make a huge pan of homeade noodles to take. I was so surprised to not see noodles on anyones menu. Nice to see the different ideas.

 

[crazelion]

Kids is asking why not add devil eggs to the menu to. So I add to the menu. Sigh the things to I do keep everyone happy. Okay I probably eat most them. I love devil eggs. LOL

 

[Halbleib1]

We will be having:

Turkey
Stovetop Stuffing
Potatoes with homemade gravy
Pillsbury Biscuits
Corn
Cranberry Sauce
Cabbage Salad
Possibly a fruit salad

Pumpkin pie for dessert

 

[DominicaAnne]

My 2 siblings and I are having our first Thanksgiving together in Texas since we've all moved down here. It will be on the 20th because my brother and his fiance are pharmacists and have to work Thanksgiving Day. (There will be 11 of us total.)

Our menu:
Turkey w/ turkey gravy
Tofurky (for me, DH and DD) w/ mushroom gravy
Cornbread stuffing (vegetarian version)
Mashed potatoes
Sweet potato casserole
Cranberry sauce (canned)
Italian-style sauteed broccoli (I insisted on something green )
Deviled Eggs
(and possibly the baked brie puffs I saw posted on another thread)

Apple Pie
Chocolate pudding pie
Pumpkin pie