Can you please give me some good ideas for side dishes to have for Thanksgiving dinner?

Question

This year is my first time cooking Thanksgiving dinner at my home. I would like it to be a memorable experience for my family but I am all out of ideas other then the usual turkey and stuffing and mashed potatoes! I looked online for recipes but nothing seems to be easy! I don’t cook for myself, I eat takeout day and night so I really need dishes that wont be too difficult and ones that taste good. Thanks in advance,
Jessica

Baklava is made with walnuts or pistachio nuts…I looked it up, anyway can you substitute it with fruit? Sorry to sound so ignorant but cooking is not my thing!

Maple Glazed Carrots well that sounds yummy!

Answer 1

Green Bean Casserole is a good and easy dish, the one with the french cut green beans, cream of mushroom soup and those Frenchs' french fried onions. Go to the store and look at the onion can and they will have a recipe.
Then on to sweet potatoes, you can just bake them and serve them with butter, or you can get the canned ones. mash them well, add butter and cream ( or milk) and a bit of brown sugar. bake and enjoy ( do NOT put marshmallows on top please)
Creamed Corn is easy, and there are some brands that come frozen in chubs, those you can just putinto the pot and cook. You can add some fresh black pepper and a bit of butter to taste.
Creamed SPinach is a tradition at my house. I make mine from scratch, but birds eye and green giant both make a very good creamed spinach also.
take a minute and get yourself a better homes and gardedn , southern living or some sort of women's magazine, they are going to be loaded with recipes this time fo year. If you are a non cooker. then there's nothing wrong with buying premade and just heating and adding your own seasoning..semi-homemade is accpetable. If you really cant step up and cook, then most local grocery stores have "meals" that you can buy precooked, just heat and eat at home. and you dont have to tell anyone either.
One thing that always helps a meal is good bread. again tradition at my house is pillsbury crescent rolls. just the smell of those bring me back to dinner at momma's house.
good luck

Answer 2

I like to do a vegetable bake. A bag of frozen veggies, (carrots, broccoli, cauliflower) and a can of cream of broccoli soup. Mix in 1/2 cup of milk. Bake at 375 degrees for 30-35 minutes. Add french fried onions around the edge, (optional) or some shredded cheese on top. This is very easy, and good. I usually doube the batch, though. So buy 2 bags of veggies, 2 cans of soup.
Enjoy!

Answer 3

Green bean casserole. It's on the back of the frenchies onion can!

Cream corn~ but take a can of regular corn and a can of cream corn and mix it together and then cook it! it taste better then just cream corn alone

Punkin pie- you can buy one

Apple pie- for people like me that dont like punkin pie, you can just buy one of these too

fruit salad!

buns

cranberry sauce, just get a can of it

Sweet patatoe cassorole- buy a can of it and the rest of the directions will be on the back of the can!

Good luck i hope everything turns out the way you want it. Don't give up the first thanksgiving can be hard. But everything should turn out good if you know what your doing!

Answer 4

Green bean casserole is an easy one. The recipe is on the can of mushroom soup usually. Also you can never fail with macaroni and cheese. Sweet potato casserole is also an easy one. There are many recipes on the web (use the canned sweet potato's). And don't forget the rolls.
You will be fine.
Happy Thanksgiving!

Answer 5

i always cook a dish called broccoli rice and cheese casserole. The recipes is simple. here is the recipe for it. 1 cup of cooked rice,1 big jar of cheese whiz,1 medium size onion chopped& cooked,1 (16 oz) package of frozen chopped broccoli,1 can of cream of chicken,1 can of cream of celery and 1 stick of butter. First cook your rice set it aside. then cook your onion then mix your broccoli and cheese whiz together then your 2 soups then put in the cake size pan.then cut your butter in small pieces then put it all over the mixture in the pan. Bake it the oven @350 for 1hr or until the cheese is bubbly. the sevre. it is great good....My whole family loves it. My three year old loves it too....and she doesn't like alot of things

Answer 6

Smoked Gouda Mashed Potatoes
Episode: Emeril's Chelsea Market Thanksgiving

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_29157,00.html?rsrc=search

This is a fantastic recipe. My husband and I have made this several times and people always love them....They are yummy!

Answer 7

Cheesy Grean Beans
2 can green beans, drained
1 jar of cheese whiz

stir green beans and cheese together in a sauce pan over low-medium heat until cheese is melted and heated throughout

Answer 8

Sweet potatoe Cassarole is a big hit with my family.. Mashed sweet potatoes with a pecan topping! Email me if you would like the recipe.. [e-mail]

Answer 9

Buy canned yams (1 can for 2-3 people), drain liquid off and dump into a 13/9 pan (make sure you spray with non stick), spread them out evenly. Dump bag of marshmallows on top, even them out and cook at 350 till hot and bubbly and marshmallows are golden brown on top.

Answer 10

Baklava