What is your favorite Thanksgiving side dish?

[the game]

The bacon is on the turkey! Basting is for fools. Strap a pack of thick fatty bacon on top of it, it bastes and crisps up the skin nicely. Then the run off is collected in the roast drippings.

yes and then use the bacon in the gravy as well. Gordon Ramsay said so.

[Tradewind]

yes and then use the bacon in the gravy as well. Gordon Ramsay said so.

idk why, the bacon is mostly flavourless by that time, cuz all the bacon molecules have been extracted and put into the turkey atoms.

[Toxigen]

Its the only time all year I eat mashed potatoes.

So yeah, I make a BIG ASS POOL of mashed taters and fill it with gravy and just go fucking nuts.

[belfpala]

Or make it from a packet or tin...fuck that noise. Simmer the neck and gizzards, toss in some onions and other flavoring veg if you want, add roast drippings, strain, bit of flour, salt, pepper. Fucking gravy.

What. Maybe I have a different conception of gravy. It's essentially a Sauce Velouté. That would be whatever drippings you have (estimate here), you'll want to add enough flour to be about 1 to 1 with the drippings. Then about twice that in cups of your stock of choice, and let it simmer down. I like to add some thyme, or sage, or rosemary, depending what I'm doing.

[Pink Panda]

What. Maybe I have a different conception of gravy. It's essentially a Sauce Velouté. That would be whatever drippings you have (estimate here), you'll want to add enough flour to be about 1 to 1 with the drippings. Then about twice that in cups of your stock of choice, and let it simmer down. I like to add some thyme, or sage, or rosemary, depending what I'm doing.

This plus mashed potatoes and brussel sprouts.

[Vermicious]

Cranberry Sauce... I know I could eat it year round but it's such a Thanksgiving staple.

The stuff from a can is 'meh' depending on the brand, but my grandmother used to make homemade stuff that was totally yummy.

[Tradewind]

What. Maybe I have a different conception of gravy. It's essentially a Sauce Velouté. That would be whatever drippings you have (estimate here), you'll want to add enough flour to be about 1 to 1 with the drippings. Then about twice that in cups of your stock of choice, and let it simmer down. I like to add some thyme, or sage, or rosemary, depending what I'm doing.

Sort of, though a veloute starts with a roux, which is close but you're just adding flour, instead of butter+flour(blond roux). Otherwise it's not that dissimilar, I'm just making stock with the turkey bits, onions + herbs instead of using something from a carton or w/e. Then adding to roast drippings and straining it.

[the game]

Sort of, though a veloute starts with a roux, which is close but you're just adding flour, instead of butter+flour(blond roux). Otherwise it's not that dissimilar, I'm just making stock with the turkey bits, onions + herbs instead of using something from a carton or w/e. Then adding to roast drippings and straining it.

Onions are so gross. Unless they're deep fried.

[Reeve]

Corn casserole.

[Tradewind]

Onions are so gross. Unless they're deep fried.

You're gross unless deep fried!

Onions are flavour

[the game]

You're gross unless deep fried!

Onions are flavour

Of course I am. Everything tastes better when deep fried.

[Sundreamer]

sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top, cooked in a slow cooker

Of course I am. Everything tastes better when deep fried.

i don't know....i'd prefer my....sausages not to be deep fried. i like them raw

[Naxere]

Stuffing, no doubt.

[THE Bigzoman]

Collared Greens.

Chitlins.


Mashed Potoaos.

Biscuits.

[belfpala]

Sort of, though a veloute starts with a roux, which is close but you're just adding flour, instead of butter+flour(blond roux). Otherwise it's not that dissimilar, I'm just making stock with the turkey bits, onions + herbs instead of using something from a carton or w/e. Then adding to roast drippings and straining it.

I'm quite familiar, thank you. Roux can be made with any fat, in this case the drippings.

[Tradewind]

I'm quite familiar, thank you. Roux can be made with any fat, in this case the drippings.

Yeah I suppose. idk why you hating on my gravy though

It's good!

[lockedout]

The stuff from a can is 'meh' depending on the brand, but my grandmother used to make homemade stuff that was totally yummy.

How long did it take to grow the cranberries?

[belfpala]

Yeah I suppose. idk why you hating on my gravy though

It's good!

No complaints. I'm the dickface who insists that alfredo sauce needs garlic.

[Tradewind]

No complaints. I'm the dickface who insists that alfredo sauce needs garlic.

Everything needs garlic!

[THE Bigzoman]

Who could forget corn bread?

Every time I'm having thanksgiving with my dad's family in Atlanta, I get to hear this gem....