Side Dish
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Baked Tomatoes Stuffed With Bulgur, Feta and Raisins
Bulgur Pilaf With Red Peppers And Tomatoes
Beans and Peppery Lettuce Salad
Bulgur
Bulgur With Wild Mushrooms
Whole Wheat Bread, Apple and Cranberry Dressing
Having grown up with Pepperidge Farm stuffing, I will always have a weakness for bread stuffing seasoned with sage and thyme, with plenty of chopped onion and celery. I prefer to use 100 percent whole wheat bread, one that isn’t at all sweet. A mixed grains bread would also work. The apple and cranberries contribute sweetness, tartness and texture to the classic dressing. I bake this in a gratin dish; you can double the recipe if you want to use it for a stuffing as well, and put half inside the bird. But, moistened with a well seasoned vegetable stock, the dressing makes a great vegetarian side dish. Just be sure to use plenty of stock to moisten, as the problem with most stuffings that are baked outside the bird is that they are dry. Tender apples like McIntosh, Gala, Macoun and Cortland work well in this dish.
Romaine Salad with Couscous Confetti
You can use regular couscous or Israeli couscous for this lemony, confetti-like mixture of couscous, mixed diced peppers and mint. I categorize this salad as a salad with grains rather than a grain salad (I know, couscous isn’t a grain, but it plays a grainy role here), as there’s more lettuce than couscous.
Cranberry-Rice Pudding
Skillet-Baked Eggs and Asparagus
Asparagus and eggs have an affinity for each other. The voluptuous yolk softens and smoothes the grassy sharpness of the vegetable, while the asparagus brightens up the dull richness of the egg. The pair’s most classic expression is asparagus hollandaise, but that is too fussy and time-consuming a preparation for a regular home-cooked breakfast. This dish combines the flavors in a time- and cook-friendly way.
Sweet Cornmeal Cranberry Scones
Curried Waldorf Salad
Try this version this year instead of the traditional Thanksgiving salad. The original Waldorf salad combined celery, apples, and mayonnaise. Gradually walnuts and raisins were added to the mix. This version is not made with the gloppy mayonnaise we associate with Waldorf salad, but it has the same sweet, savory and crunchy mixture of celery, apples, raisins, and walnuts. Slice the apples and celery thin for a more elegant salad.
Paula and Elizabeth Brownlee's fancy rice pilaf
Sautéed Apple Rings
I came across this utterly simple idea in Deborah Madison’s “Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone.” She serves hers as a dessert with ice cream, a lovely use for the apples (which she also embellishes with raisins and pine nuts). I think they make a great addition to the Thanksgiving buffet, to go with the turkey along with cranberry sauce. Or serve them with your latkes next month! Breakfast is another meal where these are welcome, right on top of your whole wheat buttermilk pancakes. I find that the apples will caramelize most efficiently if you don’t crowd the pan, so I begin by sautéing the apples in 2 batches, then I combine the batches for the final addition of vanilla and optional brandy or calvados. Both tender apples like McIntosh, Gala, Macoun and Cortland, as well as firmer apples like Braeburns, work well in this dish.
Eggs Poached in Red Wine
This 2006 recipe from Mark Bittman takes that workhorse of the kitchen — the egg — and makes it a bit more glamorous. By cooking the eggs in simmering red wine, they become something even greater, worthy of a simple, but still indulgent, dinner.
Wild Rice Salad With Celery and Walnuts
I think of this lemony salad as a main dish salad, one that makes a perfect lunch; but it would be a welcome addition to a Thanksgiving table.
Irma Rhode's Onion And Parsley Sandwiches
Fuyu Persimmon Salad
The Fuyu persimmon, round and squat and rather tomato-shaped, is the kind you can eat raw. You want to buy the ones that have turned truly orange (if they are greenish-gold, let them ripen for a few days), then peel them and slice them. The flesh is firm but sweet. Eat them plain, in the Japanese fashion, with a pot of tea. Fuyus persimmons make wonderful salads, too.
Sweet Potatoes and Apples
Sausage Stuffing With Summer Savory
Fried Mushroom and Cheese Empanadas
Whatever their shape and size, empanadas are a very worthwhile addition to a cook’s repertory. I found that the dough is easy to make in a food processor, so whipping up a dozen or more is not a challenge. Baking, instead of frying, is a healthier and convenient option. But the dough has to be rolled as thin as possible, especially for folded Chilean-style empanadas that result in several layers along the edges.
Watercress Sandwiches
Wild Rice Pilaf With Cranberries
Borscht Salad
There are loads of ways to prepare beets beyond just pairing them with goat cheese, and in 2013, Mark Bittman looked at about a dozen or so of them. Here, they’re grated, not roasted whole, and paired with shredded cabbage and dill, some of the dominant ingredients in borscht. It’s a nontraditional approach to beets and borscht alike, ready in minutes.