Thread: Thanksgiving Dinner, what's on your menu? Mine needs help.

I'm asking because I want some suggestions. I'll have turkey, potatoes, and stuffing (naturally). I need to have something else besides green beans as a side dish, though. Does anyone have any other good suggestions for a healthy vegetable dish? I hate to just throw a salad on there, but I may have to do just that.

Homemade cranberry sauce (not the goo in a can). My wife also makes carrots glazed with just a touch of honey. Or sweet potatoes glazed with maple syrup and tossed with pecans.

Originally Posted by fyrfyter43

Homemade cranberry sauce (not the goo in a can). My wife also makes carrots glazed with just a touch of honey. Or sweet potatoes glazed with maple syrup and tossed with pecans.

I live in cranberry country here, so fresh cranberry sauce is required. I forgot about carrots. I'll have to add those to the menu, too. I always make both mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes.

The pecan thing sounds interesting. I may try adding walnuts or pecans or almonds to one of the side dishes. Thanks for the response!

Honey brined smoked turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, green beans, mashed potatoes, candied yams, pumpkin pie. I like simplicity

Collard greens could work (do you know what those are?). You could also go with squash or zucchini. In you neck of the woods, you may ask some asian friends for a green side. I myself will not be eating vegetables so I can save room for food.

Originally Posted by JohnnyCakeDC

I myself will not be eating vegetables so I can save room for food.

+1. I have a 100+ lb whole hog that will be roasting in the ground for Thanksgiving. No room for vegetables.

Don't forget the corn on the cob.

shush a tash, take a bag of lima beans and 2 cans of corn, mix together add a few onions slices adn cook in a pot , mix n about half a cup of bacon grease cok for a while and enjoy, Its much better than it sounds, dont forget the cracklins from the butchering that day o wait thats just my family

Due to finances I went with the free turkey scary to think what might be in it...

Veggie dish I'm thinking on is Taquilia glazed carrots and what ever else I can find. Reduce some stock till it started to thicken add booze and flame down, add a touch of cream and toss with carrots in the skillet. Hard to type while slicghtly bombed... trying out a new beer and it's good

Originally Posted by Theseus

+1. I have a 100+ lb whole hog that will be roasting in the ground for Thanksgiving. No room for vegetables.

Yep. We have this discussion every time we BBQ as well. I tell my wife not to bother too much with vegetables, because BBQ is about meat.
If there is bacon, ribs or the like, you don't need veggies.

Remember guys: vegetables are not food, vegetables are for food.