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OT: Hit me with your best Thanksgiving side dishes

Ketchup on turkey, for that special someone:

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August_West said:
Arbys always killing it.

If you MUST have Turkey on thanksgiving that is a WAY better option than the overcooked white meat/ raw dark meat flavorless dreck 90% are going to sit down to on Thursday.
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The turkey slider looks suspiciously like the mojo sandwich. I figure it's like 50/50 that you sold the idea to Arby's.
 
Only on Thanksgiving. Olive salad. Chopped black and green olives. Chopped carrots and celery. Oregano, Pepper and Garlic Powder. Olive Oil and vinegar.
 
Not a side dish but my daughter is getting her Masters in Wine Management (at the CIA in Napa). We were out in Cali visiting (I have 2 kids and their spouses out there) and had a pre-Thannksgiving dinner with them all - anyway, she brought a Gewurztraminer wine to drink. I'm normally a pinot noir with turkey guy but I really had my eyes opened.

Basically she had us take a bite of the turkey with cranberry sauce and then a sip of the gewurztraminer - it will make you appreciate the turkey a lot more!
 
August_West said:
If thanksgiving food was so great there would be restaraunts selling the stuff year round. I mean the profit margin on Turkey is astronomical. stuff is, what, 79 cents a lb? But nodody does it, because nobody would order any of that crap on a nice night out, not even the people who pretend to like it on Thanksgiving.
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More and more sandwich places carry a "thanksgiving" sandwich. I for one love the food and have ordered the sandwiches as well!
 
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Wow, what a bunch of complainers! I never knew so many people didn’t like the holiday. Could it be the crowd and the formality of the meal? Maybe that’s why leftovers are so good- the pressure’s off, you can eat them watching TV.
My favorite side is homemade bread, it has a yellow color from lots of egg yolks. Great toasted too with butter slabbed on it. The stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy are way up there too.
Growing up, we usually went to my Uncle’s house in Terryville. He had a movie projector (this was in the 60s), and we kids would watch in his basement an old black & white, 30 minute film of The Wolfman. Oh, did we scream! That was so much fun
 
Drumguy said:
More and more sandwich places carry a "thanksgiving" sandwich. I for one love the food and have ordered the sandwiches as well!
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The only thing I've ever really liked about Thanksgiving is the days after when I eat a bunch of turkey sandwiches. All I want is some good bread, turkey, and mayo. I like them cold.

The Thanksgiving sandwich looks like vomit between 2 slices of bread, I even see it on menus at burger places these days.

In the Midwest it seems like most people have green bean casserole and grape jelly meatballs, bunch of weirdos.
 
For leftovers: Turkey Terrazinni. (sp?)

For the holidays: Bulleit, Blanton's, Hudson Baby Bourbon, or good old Beam.

Cheers!
 
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8893 said:
North Haven. Killer olive oil, too. Also my go-to for pizzagiana, which I believe they call pizza piena. They also sell nice pre-made beef braciole and pork spedini that you can bring home and cook. I like the ones from A&S in Fairfield better, but Liuzzi's are fine if I don't want to make the trip to A&S.

Now that you've got me on the Italian delis, one couple who comes to the Thanksgiving leftovers pizza party always brings their "leftover" eggplant pizzaiola from Sapori d'Italia in Hamden, and that stuff is the bomb. There is no way what they bring is leftover; they clearly buy extra now just to bring to our party.
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Conndog said:
Wow, what a bunch of complainers! I never knew so many people didn’t like the holiday. Could it be the crowd and the formality of the meal? Maybe that’s why leftovers are so good- the pressure’s off, you can eat them watching TV.
My favorite side is homemade bread, it has a yellow color from lots of egg yolks. Great toasted too with butter slabbed on it. The stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy are way up there too.
Growing up, we usually went to my Uncle’s house in Terryville. He had a movie projector (this was in the 60s), and we kids would watch in his basement an old black & white, 30 minute film of The Wolfman. Oh, did we scream! That was so much fun
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If you think the first pass of the meal is gross, what makes you think leftovers are going to sell us on it?
Yay! Leftover vomit casserole!
 
superjohn said:
The only thing I've ever really liked about Thanksgiving is the days after when I eat a bunch of turkey sandwiches. All I want is some good bread, turkey, and mayo. I like them cold.

The Thanksgiving sandwich looks like vomit between 2 slices of bread, I even see it on menus at burger places these days.

In the Midwest it seems like most people have green bean casserole and grape jelly meatballs, bunch of weirdos.
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I’m now boycotting the whole holiday. Grape jelly what?
 
I did a job across the street from Liuzzi’s and randomly walked in for a sandwich. Best day ever. Its $60 everytime im close now.
 
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Deepster said:
I make Thanksgiving leftover ravioli.

Turkey, stuffing, mashed potato and cranberry pulsed with an immersion blender. Homemade pasta for the ravioli. Stuff them, boil them and drizzle in gravy.

I also make stuffing waffles the next morning. Crispy on all sides.
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Stuffing waffles sounds like something worth a try. Thanks!
 
Deepster said:
I make Thanksgiving leftover ravioli.

Turkey, stuffing, mashed potato and cranberry pulsed with an immersion blender. Homemade pasta for the ravioli. Stuff them, boil them and drizzle in gravy.

I also make stuffing waffles the next morning. Crispy on all sides.
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I am sure I am in the minority and I'm ready to admit that there is a chance I am completely wrong here....

But all of that sounds horrifying.
 
We have been doing a smoked Ham for a number of years now with a fried Turkey breast. My sister makes a lasange plus the normal sides, like Green Bean Casserole, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes with marshmallows, gravy and cranberry sauce.
 
8893 said:
Ok, there's an interminable week before our next game, and turkey sucks almost as much as hosting in laws; booze, side dishes and catching up with my daughters and friends will be the highlights of the week for me.

As I've mentioned before, we host a post-Thanksgiving leftovers pizza party, so side dishes have increasingly become the focus for us, as well as for the friends who attend our post-Thanksgiving leftovers pizza party, because it's the various sides that really make the leftovers pizzas sing. So I'm looking for some more interesting ideas to throw in the mix this year.

Thanks in advance for your offerings. I'm sure this will go swimmingly.
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Gin.
 
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Deepster said:
I make Thanksgiving leftover ravioli.

Turkey, stuffing, mashed potato and cranberry pulsed with an immersion blender. Homemade pasta for the ravioli. Stuff them, boil them and drizzle in gravy.

I also make stuffing waffles the next morning. Crispy on all sides.
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Duncan Idaho said:
Here you go.
food52.com

Roasted Brussels Sprouts With Pears & Pistachios

Food52 Site.
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Thanks.
I'm tasked with roasting brussel sprouts, essentially for my 22 year old vegetarian niece,who is presenting a grad school paper in FL and won't be able to cook.
She also requested roasted broccoli, plus I'll be doing some root vegetables. Not anticipating a particularly adventurous crowd, so anything creative is gonna have to come from me.
 
August_West said:
Yes but the the balsamic has to be put on as a reduced glaze OUT of the oven.

Balsamic is a condiment not a cooking solution.

used properly it makes a lot of stuff better including and especially the pancetta / Brussels sprouts deal I mentioned. But I reduce the killer balsamic I buy at liuzzis in north haven/ Hamden like a pro, not a turkey chef.
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Something like this'll be the 2nd pound of brussels for my niece, the one that the others will try.
 
krinklecut said:
With you guys all the way. Thanksgiving food is garbage, especially turkey. Turkey is trash. "You have to try my turkey it's so good and juicy!" No it's not. It's bad.
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Im puerto rican so our Thanksgiving food is a bit different but we do Turkey and you're right, turkey is trash most of the time. Im 43 and only once in those 43 years have I eaten a legit "so good and juicy" turkey. My mother accidentally made an amazing turkey one year about 25 years ago and has not had the same luck again. Turkey at friends, family, exgf and work related gatherings, yup! all trash! I really haven't eaten turkey in the last 5 years.
 
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