Favorite Thanksgiving Side Dish?

[BCMtnHound]

Anybody remember ambrosia salad? Was always part of the family thanksgiving dinner when the whole tribe got together at the grandparents 70’s thru the 80’s. As a kid I enjoyed it - probably more to do with it’s strangeness - I think the last time I tried it, something changed (me or the recipe) and it got left behind on my plate (which for a growing teenager that was very rare). Haven’t seen it since.

Happy Thanksgiving neighbours.

[TBS]

^^^Is it true that your Thanksgiving comes before ours because you have more to be thankful for?

[The AD]

Anybody remember ambrosia salad?

That was the fruit in some kind of creamy sauce, right? Remember it well but haven't eaten it in decades.

[BCMtnHound]

^^^Is it true that your Thanksgiving comes before ours because you have more to be thankful for?

I think we just like to spread our stat holidays more evenly across the year.

But yes, always thankful to have our dominion avoiding becoming part of your union :P

[old goat]

My wife's cornbread, hot Italian sausage, mushroom, water chestnut stuffing.
I hate dealing with the remains of the turkey. I'd rather change a diaper or do an autopsy.

[Supermoon]

I find that people who don't like turkey have just never had a well prepared turkey. It can be just as moist and flavorful as any other bird if you know what you're doing.

That being said, I'm always into T-Day for the sides.

I made a homemade cranberry sauce for the first time a couple of years ago and holy hell it's so much better than the jelly stuff that comes out of a can. Totally different food products.

[The AD]

I made a homemade cranberry sauce for the first time a couple of years ago and holy hell it's so much better than the jelly stuff that comes out of a can. Totally different food products.

Amen to that. I don't understand why anyone would buy canned cranberry sauce. Real cranberries are not expensive and hardly difficult to prepare.

[J. Barron DeJong]

We make our own regular cranberry sauce, which is super simple and much better than canned.

But a few years ago my wife started making ‘Mama Stamberg’s’ cranberry relish too, and it’s so good.

https://www.npr.org/2006/11/23/41760...-relish-recipe

[MakersTeleMark]

Mine is pretty simple:
Your sugar of choice (agave, honey, sugar, etc.);
cranberries;
orange zest;
garam masala, salt, and pepper.

[dunfree]

Amen to that. I don't understand why anyone would buy canned cranberry sauce. Real cranberries are not expensive and hardly difficult to prepare.

isn’t the canned stuff generally cranberry jelly? My general view is cranberry thanksgiving stuff sucks because it’s sweet in a meal of sweet, and that’s the way most people want thanksgiving. Go back 100+ years and they referred to it as an old time meal

[J. Barron DeJong]

isn’t the canned stuff generally cranberry jelly? My general view is cranberry thanksgiving stuff sucks because it’s sweet in a meal of sweet, and that’s the way most people want thanksgiving

You can get both. Jelly is worse than sauce IMO.

[Toadman]

I always like the stuffing. My aunt makes amazing stuffing. And the other side I like is a nice Oregon Pinot to go with my Turkey and the rest of the side dishes.

[J. Barron DeJong]

I always like the stuffing. My aunt makes amazing stuffing. And the other side I like is a nice Oregon Pinot to go with my Turkey and the rest of the side dishes.

Stuffing is the correct answer. Congratulations.

[SumJongGuy]

PUMPKIN Pie. Sweet potatoes belong in a casserole with marshmallows and pecans NOT IN A FUCKING PIE SHELL.

Pumpkins have one fucking job PIE

Sweet potatoes have one fucking job.. CASSEROLE.

Anything else will be pure anarchy!

[J. Barron DeJong]

PUMPKIN Pie. Sweet potatoes belong in a casserole with marshmallows and pecans NOT IN A FUCKING PIE SHELL.

Pumpkins have one fucking job PIE

Sweet potatoes have one fucking job.. CASSEROLE.

Anything else will be pure anarchy!

Fuck that. I had sweet potato pie for the first time a few years ago and I’m never going back!

[The AD]

isn’t the canned stuff generally cranberry jelly?

I guess. Whatever it is it sucks.

[TBS]

isn’t the canned stuff generally cranberry jelly? My general view is cranberry thanksgiving stuff sucks because it’s sweet in a meal of sweet, and that’s the way most people want thanksgiving. Go back 100+ years and they referred to it as an old time meal

Disgusting is what it is.
Food should not remain in motion when set on the table

[ötzi]

You people are insane. That's the real stuff, all the fake artisan farm-to-market holistic whatever bullshit is just shit that gets thrown out a week later. Cranberry Sauce (that's what is called, yeesh) has ridges from the can.

Next you'll tell me brown bread doesn't come in a can. Or baked beans for the love of god.

[TBS]

^^^Philistine!

[ötzi]

That may be but I'm about 30 miles from Plymouth Rock right now and we invented this shit.

[Toadman]

Disgusting is what it is.
Food should not remain in motion when set on the table

[The AD]

Next you'll tell me brown bread doesn't come in a can. Or baked beans for the love of god.

I'll admit I'd never heard of canned bread before.

[ötzi]

It's good shit my man. A New England thang.

[J. Barron DeJong]

That may be but I'm about 30 miles from Plymouth Rock right now and we invented this shit.

They had this shit at the first thanksgiving?:



This stuff is better:



But homemade is best, and super simple.

[TBS]

That may be but I'm about 30 miles from Plymouth Rock right now and we invented this shit.

Who’s this “we”? Don’t think the Plymouth Colony Pilgrims did much canning, since the process didn’t come about until the early 1800s.

But I agree with your assessment that it’s shit…

ETA - DeJong beat me to it