What is your favorite Thanksgiving side dish? / LJWorld.com

Asked at Dillons, 1015 West 23rd St. on November 14, 2011

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“Green bean casserole. My mom makes a giant dish.”

— J.R. Blosser, Bishop Seabury Academy sixth-grader, Lawrence

“Stuffing.”

— Kolt Kinder, sports management major, Lawrence

“I like green bean casserole best.”

— Virginia Kreider, retired, Lawrence

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Did_I_say_that 1 year, 6 months ago

First. Homemade stuffing, with mushrooms, giblets, and sausage.

misterlee 1 year, 6 months ago

Iike 'em all. My ex-wife's dressing is my favorite, though.

Pitt_Mackeson 1 year, 6 months ago

this could be the first Thanksgiving that isn't a home cooked meal...... though I did find out that Hibachi Grill on Iowa St. is open on Thanksgiving day. This may just be the best Thanksgiving ever.

RoeDapple 1 year, 6 months ago

Bluerock. The son-in-laws and I plan to have a few hundred around 2PM Thanksgiving day.

RoeDapple 1 year, 6 months ago

The wife always makes two dishes of turkey dressing. One "normal" which is the best I've ever tasted, the other has oysters in it. Those who like it rave about it. I think it tastes like stagnant pond mud . . .

RoeDapple 1 year, 6 months ago

Back in the sixties when all the Grandmas were still alive Thanksgiving was the day all the cooking skills were practiced to the extreme. Hams and turkeys, mashed potatoes and yams, turkey dressing, green beans, corn and fried okra. "Fisheye" tapioca pudding, meringue pies in chocolate, lemon and banana. Apple, cherry, blueberry and rhubarb pies. We would eat until we were miserable, the an hour or so later would drift back into the kitchen for a piece of pumpkin pie to top it all off. All while being told there was no reason why we men couldn't get a little dishwater on our hands. These days I go easy on the eating. Leftovers for the next ten days is now the rule.

grammaddy 1 year, 6 months ago

Gotta be my daughter-in-law's corn casserole. Her Mama raised her right!!

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 1 year, 6 months ago

Do you ever just get tired of it all?

jimjones 1 year, 6 months ago

Are you talkin' suicide pact?

trinity 1 year, 6 months ago

I get tired of green bean casserole-blech. Got to say sweet taters tops my list of faves! Oh and stuffing. Oh and fluffy white rolls....

charliejohnson 1 year, 6 months ago

Roe..we hopefully will get to shoot a little bluerock this year. Going to our daughters boyfriends house . Last time there, his boys got out the bows and arrows and the guns. fun,fun,fun.

rockchalker52 1 year, 6 months ago

Mrs52 makes this great salad of orange jello, tapioca, vanilla pudding, mandarin oranges, crushed pineapple & cool whip, all mixed together & chilled in the fridge. Lotsa flavor & fills the gaps around the turkey & taters in my tummy quite nicely.

RoeDapple 1 year, 6 months ago

Oh, and rum. Cookies. Rum cookies. Or rum and cookies. Okay, just rum. Forget the cookies.

Pywacket 1 year, 6 months ago

Two of my favorite dishes are these:

Cranberry relish: Into the food processor: a bag of cranberries & a couple of cored granny smith apples, skins left on; pulse until roughly chopped. Add sugar to taste (I like it on the tart side); drain a can of mandarin oranges and fold in. Chill and serve.

Of course, fresh orange or tangerine sections are great, too, but using the canned ones is one of very few time-savers I don't mind taking. With the deep red berry skins, green apple skins, and bright flecks of orange, this adds some needed color to a T-Day table dominated by bland-colored turkey, gravy, stuffing, and taters. And it's so easy and good.

Squash: A day ahead: halve, seed, and section a couple of acorn or butternut squashes or one big hubbard. Boil or bake sections until fork tender. Cool. Peel off skin and puree squash in food processor until creamy smooth.

T-Day: Mix in butter, nutmeg, brown sugar, salt, and real maple syrup to taste. Place squash in greased casserole dish. Make a topping of broken pecans, brown sugar, butter, a smidge of flour, and more maple syrup. Bake until hot and topping is crusty. If space is limited in the oven, you can microwave this, then put it in the oven for 10 min or so--just long enough to crisp up the topping--after you take the turkey out to rest.

I always salt my squash portion a little--the salty-sweet combination is what makes this so good--along with the subtle maple & nutmeg flavors.

Pywacket 1 year, 6 months ago

I make a ton, so I can send some home with my sister. She loves it.

Pywacket 1 year, 6 months ago

Haha! Sorry, TOB! Does your dislike of squash extend to pumpkin? If so, I'll refrain from talking pies here.

CWGOKU 1 year, 6 months ago

Bourbon

Yes, I get tired of it all. In fact for Christmas dinner we have given up on the usual fare and have gone with lasagna or steaks.

bevy 1 year, 6 months ago

TOB - I'm ROFLMAO. (I'm with ya on the Brussels Sprouts. Shoulda let the Belgians keep 'em!

FlintlockRifle 1 year, 6 months ago

Tomorrows turkey and gravy, just keeps getting ""gooder""

labmonkey 1 year, 6 months ago

I usually have to work most holidays, and I sincerely miss Thanksgiving the most. Stuffing with sausage gravy is probably my favorite side.

On an unrelated note... two food OTS's in a row and not a word from H_lector? I am disappointed.

somedude20 1 year, 6 months ago

Heck, I get an apple pie and go all American Pie on its crust!

Agnostick 1 year, 6 months ago

What the?!?!?! They said it was... corn starch..!!!

somedude20 1 year, 6 months ago

you made me raugh

Pywacket 1 year, 6 months ago

Now, now.... Some of us still make almost everything from scratch. I do homemade fruit pies with lattice crust, pumpkin pies, real mashed potatoes, real gravy that starts with a roux, etc...

While I do make homemade breads from time to time, I admit to cheating on Thanksgiving and buying Rhodes frozen whole-wheat dinner rolls. They are very close to homemade. You just place them on a cookie sheet, cover with a warm, damp towel, and let them thaw and rise for 4 hours before baking.

I usually have homemade cherry or strawberry jam I made over the summer to serve with them--have to check the pantry.

This fall, I also canned a lot of green tomato chutney, so a pint of that will probably find its way into a glass dish on Thanksgiving. Should be good with turkey.

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 1 year, 6 months ago

prospector, I must strenuously disagree with your statement.

Dressing is either: A. Something that covers something. i.e. bandages or salad dressing. B. Something that comes out of fowl or game. i.e. giblets and entrails.

But maybe it is like whether you drink from a bubbler or water fountain, or sit on a couch or a davenport.

Andini 1 year, 6 months ago

Natty Light & Pork Rinds.

CWGOKU 1 year, 6 months ago

Address please!

psycho_theclown 1 year, 6 months ago

Deviled eggs & skunky beer.
I like to think of myself as an artist...with an 'f' in front.

pace 1 year, 6 months ago

I love some of the left over dishes. Turkey and vegetable soup, home made stock, hm egg noodles, on mashed potatoes. Cranberry and turkey sandwiches. Standing in front of the refrigerator, late at night, opening little containers. My dear one waiting behind me, for his turn, he leaves a fork in the refrigerator, a left over bad habit from his bachelor days. Kind discussions about how we should share the last piece of pie.

Pywacket 1 year, 6 months ago

"...he leaves a fork in the refrigerator..." I love that! so funny!

LadyJ 1 year, 6 months ago

Thinking of seeing if hubby will agree to turkey and ribs instead of turkey and ham since we have an abundance of ribs in the freezer. Saw him looking at some of those turduckens on the internet though.

vertigo 1 year, 6 months ago

Best dish is the turkey and stuffing sandwich on white with Miracle Whip the next day.

bevy 1 year, 6 months ago

On behalf of the "wimmen" of my generation, I cry Foul! And, FOWL! I can roast a turkey, bake a pie (with crust from scratch,) and whip up every side dish named above. Except the bourbon. Ewww. The 20-25 people who come to my house on Thanksgiving Day - also wimmen of my generation - will bring a load of succulent side dishes upon which we will feast. The only thing the microwave will be used for is re-heating the leftovers.

Oh, and the answer to the question: PIE! (Except coconut. Yuck) Pumpkin, apple, cherry, pecan....mmmm

Pywacket 1 year, 6 months ago

High five, sister! Same here!

pace 1 year, 6 months ago

My great nephew invited us all over for Thanksgiving, senior year in highschool. We were very afraid. One of the best thanksgiving dinners I ever sit down to. Never assume. He is gifted.

Katara 1 year, 6 months ago

I enjoy a good stuffing.

vertigo 1 year, 6 months ago

snicker

vertigo 1 year, 6 months ago

I bet you do!

xyz 1 year, 6 months ago

Everyone's comments have left me starving. I think I can almost smell roasting turkey over the internets! My family starts the festivities and eating this weekend--2 birthdays in 2 days and then 3 days to digest before turkey day. Can't wait to get on the plane Thursday and head to sunny CA.