What side dishes do you make on Thanksgiving?

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I love your menu. Try modifying some of your recipes to be just as tasty but less harsh on the health.
Bake the Sweet Potatoes in a real oven instead of microwave or boiling. The sweetness is incredible. You will need less sugar.
For example, I mix cauliflower in my mash potatoes and macaroni + cheese. Break the flowerettes into small bits. Cook the cauliflower in milk to give it a mild taste. Mash about 1 part cauliflower with 2 parts boiled potatoes.
Substitute about 1/3 of the cauliflower flowerettes for cooked mac. Make recipe as usual.
Make your own cranberry sauce using fresh cranberries and undiluted frozen apple juice to taste. Cook cranberries in apple juice until reduced to desired consistency. The juice is still 'sugar' but it is a natural sugar. You can add some orange peeling to one of the bowl of this cranberry sauce to give your a choice.
Try these before the big day to see if they work for your palate.
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Well you pretty much have them all. haha

What you could do is improve on what you already have. Instead of plain string beans, make it a casserole using a can of cream of mushroom soup and those crunchy French's onions.

If you like seafood, try an oyster stuffing, my mother did that a few years ago and it wasn't half bad.

Try a home made cranberry sauce rather then the stuff from a can.(add orange zest for an interesting but pleasant flavor)

You can add pumpkin bread or a pumpkin roll to the roster.(check the source for the recipe)

If you are still without any ideas head to www.recipezaar.com and search for side dishes, I am sure they have more then what I provided.

Happy cooking.

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we have a pretty traditional thanksgiving dinner. christmas and easter are the dinners we get a little creative with.

roasted turkey
stuffing
dumplings
candied yams or sweet potatoes
green beans
mashed potatoes (sometimes)
corn
rolls
deviled eggs
cranberry sauce

desserts-
pumpkin pie
dirt cake
lemon meringue pie
coconut cream pie
blueberry pie
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Yummm!! My favorite Holiday!! Every year, we do the classics--similar to your menu. We do these also-
Green Bean Casserole
Yeast Rolls
Pumpkin pie/pumpkin cheesecake
Baked Carrots
Sweet Potato casserole (with the nuts/brown sugar)
Corn Souffle

Then, each year, we also do something totally new/different-- last year our new thing was a pomegranate/mustard glaze on the turkey-- delicious!!
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For an appetizer you could make this cream cheese pumpkin dip I saw on our local news segment. Take an 8oz. package of cream cheese, softened, and a small (15 oz.?) can of pumpkin and mix them well. Add about a tablespoon of pumpkin pie spice and a handful of sunflower seeds. Mix it all together well and serve with crackers. It tastes a little like pumpkin pie, but the sunflower seed give it a different flavor and an interesting crunch....Show more