What are your favorite thanksgiving foods?

[IrishEyes]

I don't eat turkey but I like the rest of the dishes. I love stuffing, sweet potatoes, cornbread and pumpkin pie.

[braddy]

1. Gravy.

[Shrike47]

2. Stuffing. Pecan pie. Potatoes with cheese (several recipes, all good). Jello something.

[Beringia]

3. Everything but stuffing the best, don't like mushrooms added

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Wild rice - the real kind, grown by the tribes in N. Minnesota, not the cultivated crap

you get in the grocery stores that's all black and crunchy. Wild wild rice is awesome. We always had it for Thanksgiving dinner, and we usually had pheasant or grouse from my dad's hunting trips instead of turkey. The dish I hate the most is that godawful concoction of sweet potatoes and marshmallows. A few years ago my SIL, who always serves that glop, accidentally set fire to it when browning the marshmallows, and I rejoiced.

[Fresh_Start]

5. roasted veggies

brussel sprouts, turnips, carrots, potatoes

[IcyPeas]

23. Yes!

I'm just going to add cauliflower to your roast veggies.

[CottonBear]

6. My mom's Southern cornbread dressing & her homemade turkey gravy.

We don’t stuff turkeys in our family. We make dressing and gravy.

[Docreed2003]

12. Cornbread dressing is the best!!

[CottonBear]

24. Oh, yes it is! Homemade cornbread in a cast iron skillet+ turkey gravy! 🍳

I think that I could eat dressing & gravy, homemade cranberry conserve and my mom’s sweet potato soufflé every week of the year! I’m hungry now!

Happy Thanksgiving! It’s all about food, friends, family & college football!

[Docreed2003]

25. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours as well

[Cracklin Charlie]

37. Southern born person here.

When I first saw my midwestern mother in law make “dressing”, I couldn’t believe my eyes. There was not a speck of cornbread in it! I still can’t believe it, really, 33 years later.

I’m kinda not sure what’s in there, cause it’s so not right, I still won’t try it. Thanksgiving always makes me wish I still lived in the South.

ps...my favorite food of Thanksgiving is green bean casserole. MY green bean casserole.

[OriginalGeek]

58. My son and his wife now live

in the house my wife was born in and where, for several decades, my mother-in-law made the most fabulous thanksgiving dinners.

We are in Florida which counts as the south I reckon but MIL was originally from Indiana. She always made both cornbread dressing and oyster dressing and her cornbread dressing is still what I dream of when I'm eating anything dressing related. Man I miss her and I often wonder how my wife inherited none of her cooking abilities and we lost all her recipes.

I never even tried the oyster dressing because gross.

[safeinOhio]

7. Pie

Any kind.

[Coventina]

8. mashed potatos and my mother-in-law's homemade potato buns!!!!

I'm also partial to my own homemade fresh cranberry sauce, if I do say so myself.

I also make a pretty good broccoli/Gorgonzola casserole and for dessert sometimes I made a peppermint cheesecake that people seem to like.

The staples I detest are: the hideous green bean casserole and pumpkin pie.

[hlthe2b]

9. Green Bean Casserole!

Well, it IS a classic!

[Freddie]

15. Yes!

The unhealthy kind with canned beans and soup. Hint: it’s better with cream of celery.

[stopbush]

31. Ugh.

[Ohiogal]

36. Ugh for me too

[Luciferous]

63. Yuck, my husband is the only one in our family that likes it... more for him I guess lol

[Arkansas Granny]

10. Stuffing and gravy. The rest is good, too, but stuffing and gravy define Thanksgiving, IMO.

[happybird]

21. +1

[randr]

11. Herb stuffing, mashers w gravy,

breast skin w stuffing, piece of meat at lower spine, cranberries, pumpkin pie.

[MFM008]

13. Gravy.

[dameatball]

14. The best parts are the leftovers, with the exception of oyster dressing.

Also, cranberry sauce made from scratch, thank you.

[msongs]

16. broccoli, spaghetti nt

[Freddie]

17. PA Dutch bread-and-potato stuffing

Or “filling” as we call it here. I don’t stuff the bird though. Actually the turkey is my least favorite part, but it’s kind of obligatory (unless you’re a vegetarian) and needed for gravy. On second thought, leftover turkey on white toast with mayo is divine.

[leftieNanner]

28. Oh, this takes me back!

The very last purchase on the day before Thanksgiving, we always stopped at the local bakery for a loaf of their Dutch crunch (white) bread. And we made the most delicious sandwiches the day after. That was my Mom's favorite. Thanks for the memory.

[Brother Buzz]

18. Dressing, Baby!

Our family nixed that stuffing stuff back in the early sixties when the smart ones discovered the turkey cooked much, much better without stuffing.

Oh, and mashed potatoes and gravy. The gravy is a BIG old school production working up the giblets (sans the liver).

And of course the pumpkin pie, but I reintroduced a desert into our fare when I discovered my grandmother's recipe for carrot pudding and found her two old Lipton tea tins to boil them in. Boy howdy, I make a wicked whisky sauce to serve with it!

[subterranean]

19. Definitely the stuffing. And cold turkey sandwiches for days afterwards.

The only traditional Thanksgiving food I don't really care for is cranberry sauce.

[happybird]

20. All of it

if made by my mother. It’s my top of the list, number one favorite meal. Roasted turkey, real stuffing cooked inside the bird, her kickass giblet gravy, cranberry sauce (yep, the canned kind), green or orange jello with mandarin oranges in it, crescent rolls, random veg (corn, carrots, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, whatever- it’s all good).

We start with squash bisque and end with pie. I’m not much on pumpkin, but her apple is fabulous. With ice cream, of course.

I am soooo freakin’ happy to be home for Thanksgiving this year! For many reasons, not just Mom’s excellent cooking. It’s been a while. Too long.

[IrishEyes]

22. Squash bisque sounds good.

I may have to add that to my thanksgiving menu. I hope you have a great thanksgiving with your family.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

46. I loved the cranberry sauce out of the can, especially the way it slid out of the can

and landed in the serving dish with a big *splort*, and it retained the shape of the can, including the seams.

[madaboutharry]

26. Pumpkin Pie.

I love it so much. It is my favorite.

I also love stuffing.

I hate turkey and always have another dish for myself and the other people who also dislike turkey. I usually have salmon as a second main dish.

[leftieNanner]

32. And one of the most important lessons I learned from my Mom

is that pumpkin pie is, in fact, a breakfast food.

It contains eggs, milk, and a vegetable. You can even count the crust as a stand-in for toast. Voila! Breakfast!

I also put a little bourbon in my pumpkin pie. Pour out one shot of the evaporated milk and replace it with a shot of bourbon in the custard before you cook it. This keeps the liquid volume the same. Also, a lot more cinnamon than the recipe on the can calls for.

[madaboutharry]

34. Absolutely, pumpkin pie is the very best breakfast!

The bourbon sounds like a great idea.

[LeftInTX]

42. I've made the custard just for breakfast

I use Splenda instead of sugar. And I bake it in the microwave. It's consistency isn't quite what you would get if it was baked in an oven etc, but I make it for myself, so I don't care. It lasts several days.

[leftieNanner]

43. When Mom was pregnant

Her doctor told her to be careful about gaining too much weight so she would bake herself a pumpkin pie without the crust and sit down and eat the whole thing! She was always slim anyway, but we thought this was funny!

[sakabatou]

60. Yes!

[The Genealogist]

27. My favorite...

tends to come after the big dinner. Turkey sandwiches consisting of turkey on home-made hot rolls, with just a little Miracle Whip.

[OregonBlue]

29. At our house I have to make double southern cornbread dressing and gravy and both pumpkin and pecan

pie or I hear the whimpers the next day!!

[stopbush]

30. Mince pie.

[kaycee22]

33. Turkey

Gravy and mashed potatoes. Apple pie for dessert.

[smirkymonkey]

35. My mother's light, fluffy mashed potatoes, hands down!

But now she always tries to doctor them up w/ sour cream, cream cheese and other things and they are very heavy. I am a purist. I just loved the plain old fluffy potatoes w/ a little butter, milk, salt and pepper. They were perfection! I think I am going to have to start making them myself.

I also like the vegetable dishes. I like the turkey too. I only like the stuffing if it is started on the top of the stove and baked separately in a casserole dish and is crispy and dry (w/ gravy on it). I hate it if it is all mushy and gross after being cooked in the bird.

Dessert doesn't really interest me at all. I'm usually too full anyway.

[Ohiogal]

38. Stuffing cooked in the bird

with homemade gravy on top. And you’d better get some quick or else my husband will eat it all.

I really like everything else, but could do without the mashed potatoes. No green bean casserole, ugh. Fresh asparagus!!

My son made a pie with a Japanese pumpkin last year... it was fabulous.

[defacto7]

39. Raw cranberry relish w/ Grand Marnier

1 bag cranberries
1 whole orange w/ rind
1 whole lemon w/ rind
1 apple w/ skin cored
Some apricot jam
Sugar to taste
Grind, grind, grind
Add a quart of Grand Marnier (or 1/4 cup)

[Clash City Rocker]

40. Definitely stuffing

My mom’s stuffing, made from bread stuffed in the turkey, very moist. My sister-in-law’s family does a rice stuffing, and that just isn’t right.

The right kind of stuffing, smothered in gravy, is the essence of Thanksgiving to me.

[Major Nikon]

41. Whiskey

[MustLoveBeagles]

44. My husband does the cooking. I'm the dishwasher and taste tester. (The best part)

I like his turkey gravy, garlic mashed potatoes with bacon bits, brussel sprouts fried with bacon bits, homemade cranberry garnish, cheese cakes, and pies. So in other words, all of it.

His turkey is to die for. Tender and juicy. Even the white meat isn't dry.

[Glorfindel]

45. Mama Stamberg's Cranberry Relish (but really it's Craig Claiborne's)

From Susan Stamberg at NPR: Mama Stamberg's Cranberry Relish

2 cups whole raw cranberries, washed

1 small onion

3/4 cup sour cream

1/2 cup sugar

2 tablespoons horseradish from a jar

Grind the raw berries and onion together. ("I use an old-fashioned meat grinder," says Stamberg. "I'm sure there's a setting on the food processor that will give you a chunky grind -- not a puree.&quot

Add everything else and mix.

Put in a plastic container and freeze.

Early Thanksgiving morning, move it from freezer to refrigerator compartment to thaw. ("It should still have some little icy slivers left.&quot

The relish will be thick, creamy, and shocking pink. ("OK, Pepto Bismol pink. It has a tangy taste that cuts through and perks up the turkey and gravy. It's also good on next-day turkey sandwiches, and with roast beef.&quot

Makes 1-1/2 pints.

It's much better than it sounds, easy to make, and a pleasant change from canned cranberry sauce.

[CrispyQ]

52. "It's much better than it sounds..."

LOL. I have some recipes like that.

[ploppy]

55. I make it every year.

It's a beautiful pink and tastes delicious!

[Rhiannon12866]

47. Stuffing. That's all I need, especially my mother's.

[flotsam]

49. Not one thing, but a time

after the feast and the company is gone, when the last cup, plate, pot and pan is washed...the lovely leftovers have been parceled out to fridge or freezer, you can sit and contemplate the arrival of the Christmas season...this is best done with an ice cold glass of eggnog with a touch of spirits and a slice of mince pie. It's happening this month and I eagerly await it.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

50. The whole thing! All together on a plate so I can mix and match as I eat myself into ecstasy! 😋

[CrispyQ]

51. Mushroom gravy. On everything.

I don't eat turkey either, but I make fab vegan mushroom gravy. I put it over lentil loaf & mashed potatoes, or even rice.

[get the red out]

53. The dressing!

Corn pudding
Deviled eggs
"Shuck" beans, if you can get 'em. (I no longer have my Dad back in eastern, KY getting them for us.

[gopiscrap]

54. stuffing and yams

[NotASurfer]

56. The sandwich the next day with everything left over

Using leftover in-bird stuffing as one or both slabs of bread to hold it all. Gravy, gloppy green beans, mash a yam in there, scoop of canned cranberry sauce, it all counts as condiments. Ham or roast beef too if those were in the table to stretch the turkey.

I just had lunch and I'm hungry again. 'It's the season!

[lastlib]

57. Mincemeat pie!!

My grandmother made a KILLER mincemeat pie--since she stopped cooking, I haven't had a nibble of mincemeat. I really miss it.

[wnylib]

59. My mother's homemade stuffing cooked

inside the bird. But I never learned to make it myself and she's gone now. I piled stuffing on a slice of breast meat and poured gravy over all of it.

My own home made cranberry sauce from fresh cranberries and oranges. Sweet potatoes baked in their skins, with a pat of butter on them. Not glazed or mixed with marshmallows which is guilding the lily IMO.

Veggies -- Asparagus with white sauce. Succotash.

Pumpkin pie. I always add more cinnamon.

My own cranapple pie.

I made a pumpkin pecan pie once from a BH & G recipe. Very good but very rich. Could only eat a small slice.

[zanana1]

61. I'm Franco American and the food reflects that.

I'm talking about French Canadian food (the best kind). Turkey with meat stuffing, tourtieres, mashed potatoes (mashed with the skin on) fantastic gravy, homemade cranberry sauce and veggies galore!

[Luciferous]

62. Stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, and pie. I could care less about the turkey :)

Actually when we don't visit the family and I make the dinner I just roast a chicken for the kids.

[lpbk2713]

64. My daughter's deviled eggs.

There's no point in showing up if there are no deviled eggs.

[dware]

65. I would have to say cornbread stuffing

and broccoli with melted cheese topped off with pecan pie.