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Thanksgiving Sides (1 Viewer)

Favorite Side

  • Mashed Potatoes

    Votes: 54 27.3%
  • Sweet Potato Pie

    Votes: 10 5.1%
  • Green Bean Casserole

    Votes: 13 6.6%
  • Creamed Corn

    Votes: 2 1.0%
  • Creamed Spinach

    Votes: 4 2.0%
  • Stuffing

    Votes: 100 50.5%
  • Mac and Cheese

    Votes: 15 7.6%

  • Total voters
    198
Not really a "side" during dinner, but an underrated Thanksgiving appetizer is deviled eggs. Don't forget the paprika.
A bunch of deviled eggs and some Wild Rice with Mushrooms as a dinner side makes for some victims that are gonna suffer a few hours later at the pub. I mean real wrath of God suffering?

 
Not really a "side" during dinner, but an underrated Thanksgiving appetizer is deviled eggs. Don't forget the paprika.
A bunch of deviled eggs and some Wild Rice with Mushrooms as a dinner side makes for some victims that are gonna suffer a few hours later at the pub. I mean real wrath of God suffering
 
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Deviled eggs make me poop good, yeah. SO worth it though. And they go great pre-dinner with Jay Cutler turnovers!

 
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Read this article about a family that does sides-only for Thanksgiving. Don't think they are vegetarian or vegan, just that they liked the sides more.

My Family Had a Side Dish-Only Thanksgiving, and It Was Awesome

Surprisingly, this decision came about without much fanfare. A few weeks before Thanksgiving that year, my sisters and I discussed the menu and divvied up the cooking responsibilities for all our usual family favorites: my oldest sister would handle the stuffing and mashed potatoes, my middle sister would make the green bean casserole, my husband would bake the pies, our friends would bring their sweet potato casserole, and I would take on the Parker House rolls, as per usual.

Then came the turkey, and the conversation stalled. Finally, someone said what we all were thinking: "Um, what if we just didn't make a turkey this year?" We looked at each other, gave an eh, a shrug, and that was that.

I have nothing against turkey. Turkey is great, turkey is fine! But it's not what I crave every Thanksgiving. It's not the first thing I reach for when we all sit down to dinner. In fact, turkey is usually the last thing I put on my plate, and even then it feels like an obligation. You, Bird, have been cooked and thus I eat you on this day. But do I get turkey seconds?

Nope.

Luckily, most of my family feels the same way. Give us soft, buttery rolls and a pile of gravy to mop up. Give us creamy green beans topped with salty, fried onions. Give us a mound of mashed potatoes and stuffing all smushed together on a fork. Give us soft, buttery rolls. (I know I said that already, but I'm just underscoring the importance of the rolls.)

So we did.

We had Thanksgiving like we always do that year ... just without a turkey. And I didn't miss it one bit.

(Since then the turkey has returned to our family Thanksgiving. Had it been left entirely up to my sisters and me, I think we would've stuck with the side dish-only plan. But my dad is a fan of turkey, and so, turkey is back on the menu.)

What about you? Have you ever had a side dish-only Thanksgiving? Would you ever consider skipping the turkey entirely?
 
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Stuffing dominates mashed potatoes - While not surprising, you'd think it would be closer.
It takes literally 30 seconds to whip up some instant mashed potatoes for dinner with your steak every night.

Stuffing is a bit more complicated, thus lazy people like me don't make it often, which makes it an extra-special treat on Thanksgiving.
I get that I'm hippling the #### out of this post, but it takes exactly as much effort to whip up ####ty instant mashed potatoes as it does to whip up ####ty Stove Top stuffing every night. At least compare actual homemade mashed potatoes to actual homemade stuffing.

 

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