What Is Your Favorite Dish/least Favorite Dish at Thanksgiving Dinner?

Favorites - really good stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce.

Consider a crime against food - green bean casserole. Everything about it is gross. I just don't get how anyone finds that appealing, but to each their own!

I love the real cranberry sauce. I eat in sandwiches afterwards. I also love my mother's stuffing. I am in charge of gravy as I can't cook - but I am allowed to stir.
I do not like heavy casseroles - just not my thing. I love all kinds of pie - haven't met one I haven't liked.

Favorite: gravy, dressing (as long as it doesn't have raisins, I'm fine), green bean casserole.

My yucks: canned cranberry sauce (fresh is fine) and that's about it!

I could totally live without the turkey, except than how would the gravy and dressing turn out so yummy? So, I guess the turkey has to stay.

Hubby's family is so "weird" compared to our family for holiday meals, especially Thanksgiving - they are all extremely fussy eaters (except my husband) so when they host, we are literally offered turkey, dressing (stove top because they aren't going to eat it anyways), canned gravy (cause they aren't going to eat that either), a cold noodle salad, and mashed potatoes. Also, no homemade pies :( I bring bread and wine, since that is all I am "allowed" to bring. I always have Christmas and I just can't do two holidays so close together and his family doesn't want to drive all the way here for two holidays so close together so I just suck it up and eat what they make. I already made a huge "Not Thanksgiving" meal last weekend for hubby, myself, son and my mom, and we gorged on turkey, homemade mushroom dressing, glazed baby carrots, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, and honestly my best gravy to date!

It's not Thanksgiving dinner with out turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy.

My dh makes homemade crescent rolls and they are amazing. He makes small-ish ones for serving with dinner, and larger ones for making left-over sandwiches with.

We buy 2 small turkeys (10 - 12 pounds) rather than a huge one because the smaller ones cook better. I start dry-brining them about 6 days before Thanksgiving. We make stuffing using several kinds of bread (sourdough, brioche, Challah if I can find it, rustic white bread), and sage and onions. No sausage or oysters allowed in the stuffing!

I make a green bean casserole, but without using any cans at all. Steamed green beans, a homemade simple cream of mushroom soup with cremini mushrooms, and very thinly sliced onions, dredged and oven-baked.

Cranberry sauce has to be homemade (I grew up very near Cape Cod, and cranberry bogs were everywhere in our area; we skated on them all winter). But dd likes the jellied stuff in the can so, hey, it's Thanksgiving - let the kid have her can of jellied sauce, right?

Mashed potatoes are made in ridiculously huge amounts. We hand-mash the potatoes with cream cheese, real butter, and cream, then transfer to a casserole dish and bake until the top is lightly golden. I make those a day or two before and just finish baking them while the turkey is resting.

I found a gravy technique from Emeril Lagasse a number of years ago and it's the only one we use now. I dump carrots, herbs, and unpeeled, halved onions in a large pot, plus the giblets from the turkeys (neck, kidneys, heart - everything but the livers). I saute them in olive oil and butter until the giblets are cooked and then stir in a bunch of flour. Then the turkey drippings go in just before the turkeys start to rest, plus a lot of homemade chicken or turkey bone broth that I made the week before. Everything gets cooked quickly and when it's thick, all the solids are strained out. It's the best gravy.

What is not allowed at our house are any sweet potato stuff with marshmallows or nuts. Nope. Not having it.

Then dessert is usually a pumpkin pie, or, if dd has her way (which she probably will), Nutella pie made with a chocolate wafer cookie crust, a layer of whipped cream mixed with Nutella, a layer of crushed Ferrero Rocher balls, another whipped cream/Nutella layer, and a drizzle of dark chocolate ganache on top. That girl loves Nutella.

Favorite: bread (not cornbread) stuffing with homemade turkey gravy that was made with the turkey drippings
Least favorite: green bean casserole (I like green beans, but not with the mushroom sauce)
It's also not Thanksgiving without cranberry sauce - made from real whole cranberries, not from a can. I only eat a little bit of it, but somehow my plate doesn't look like a Thanksgiving dinner plate without them.

I'm hungry already :)

What do you mean you accidentally bring cornbread dressing? (That's funny) Sounds to me you are from the south and that's probably what you grew up eating.

I like my moms stuffing. That is a must. We have combined our Oregon, with Texan and Alabaman cuisine for all holidays. So we have cornbread dressing, bread stuffing, many kinds of cranberry, my mom's gravy (drippings and cornstarch, not sure what else), sister-in-laws mom's giblet gravy and so many deserts that we eat them for days.

for one gathering i have to bring apple and pumpkin pies and my homemade dinner rolls. there my favorite thing to eat is the cheesy potato casserole. least favorite is the stuffing, she dds sausage and apple chunks and its not particularly my favorite.
for the other gathering we are bringing carrot cake ( everyones favorite) and the dinner rolls. and favorite thing to eat there is the carrot cake, least favorite the cranberry dish.
(at both places they talk non stop about how awesome the rolls are.. its a simple king arthur flour recipe that i just toss together but everyone loves them)

Hmmm, favorite is probably fresh homemade cranberry sauce. Least favorite is, by far, cornbread dressing. 🤢

My fave is my Mom's sweet potato pie has mini marshmallows on top! So good! My least is the cold cranberry sauce...it's there but I never eat it! Enjoy!!!!

I have a homemade cranberry sauce that is a favorite and I make it yearly. I freeze the leftovers in small containers and eat it during the year with roasted chicken and other things as well.

I serve traditional Thanksgiving... this year Cornish hens along with stuffing and all the trimmings.

We are not big sweets fans and don't care for anything pumpkin.

I really am not a fan of most thanksgiving foods. I don't care for turkey, yams or sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, stuffing, pumpkin pie, etc. What I love is when ham is served (a real bone in big one) and I LOVE mashed potatoes and gravy!

I actually prefer pumpkin pie to pecan pie - but if you like the other then there's all the more of what I like for me!
We like mashed butternut squash instead of sweet potatoes and we've tried the green bean casserole but don't have it every year.
We like cranberry jelly out of the can - others like to make theirs with whole cranberries.
Stuffing - we're fine with Stove Top - although I'll add some diced sauteed onions/celery to it to lighten it up a bit.
We make some gravy but I vertically roast my turkey - it comes out very moist - never dry- so we don't need a lot of gravy.

We don't have much more than that.
We have leftover that last for a few days and if I have more left over turkey after that it makes a great pot pie or it's added to salads.

I love stuffing based on the Silver Palate cookbook version (apples, celery, onions, and different kinds of bread (French, whole wheat, some corn) and the usual herbs, then moistened with apple cider. (I use the rest of the cider for a hot spiced cider in the crockpot).

I make whole berry cranberries (using the recipe on the bag), making sure to let it cool to room temp completely before refrigerating. My mother was famous for "cranberry soup" because she chilled it too soon. What a mess!

I make a squash dish with scallions and sometimes bacon (turkey or regular) and a little sour cram, and twice-baked potatoes with different fillings.

I'm so-so on the turkey, but as someone said below, you need something to put the gravy on. If we don't have a big crowd, I just go to turkey breast (sometimes boneless) since nobody likes dark meat, we get tired of leftovers and I get tired of dealing with the soup from the carcass.

I tried green bean casserole a few times and just can't figure out the appeal. I do make fresh green beans sometimes, steam them al dente and then top them with almonds sauted in a little butter.

Least favorites: giblet gravy and any memory of the horrible oyster casserole my mother's family used to make. No idea why they loved it - they lived in central and western PA and there were no fresh oysters nearby. Every year I was forced to eat some of it, and tried to get away with a tiny bite of the saltine topping. Still can't eat oysters to this day!

I love all the Thanksgiving foods...even the cheesy old school ones like sweet potatoes with marshmallows and green bean casserole (which I never make, but a friend often brings). I love all the pies! My favorite is probably pumpkin pie with whipped cream. My least favorite is one of my mom's Thanksgiving traditions...she always has to make - creamed pearl onions. I love onions, but I really dislike that dish. I have never seen anyone else make them though, so I don't know if it's a tradition with other families or not.

I despise green bean casserole (sorry not sorry). But my favorite is cranberry relish with oranges.

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I despise green bean casserole (sorry not sorry). But my favorite is cranberry relish with oranges.

I love my mom's fried or smoked turkey with cranberry apple salsa.And my husband's blue cheese smashed potatoes and my sister in law's pumpkin spice latte. Not a fan of the brussel sprouts, no matter how good they supposedly are,they remind me of sad, little cabbages.