What are your favorite nostalgic sides?
What sides, to accompany an entree, do you make that taste like it came straight from Grandma's kitchen? Whose recipe do you follow? A few of my favorites are: brown-sugar glazed carrots, scalloped potatoes & baked beans.
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19 Comments:
I love with meat good old fashioned mashed and green beans.
For cookouts I love baked beans, cole slaw and potato salad.
With steak baked potato and mushrooms/onions
With Chicken stuffing and green beans.
JerzeeTomato at 7:15PM on 10/03/07
JT---I like the way you answered according to the entree---really helped complete my post---thanks :)
JEP at 7:29PM on 10/03/07
B&M brown bread from the can, with baked beans and hot dogs. Though I haven't eaten a hot dog in about 20 years...
emily20008 at 10:11PM on 10/03/07
french fries with a burger
braised red cabbage with breaded veal cutlets
ham steak with sweet potatoes
salmon patties (croquettes,cakes) with creamed peas
osso bucco with saffron rissotto
coolname at 12:50AM on 10/04/07
My mom's Velveeta-based mac-n-cheese, slopped-up with lots of Heinz ketchup.
Yeah, I know, I'm weird ... ;-)
LunaPierCook at 6:16AM on 10/04/07
My favorite is a nice golden brown Rosti Potato with a slice of melted gruyere on top.
DevlChef at 8:55AM on 10/04/07
My grandma is Italian and I grew up with her in the house, so for us, "side dishes" in this sense weren't common -- more often, we would have antipasti to accompany whatever pasta and meat she prepared that day. Things like marinated vegetables, roasted red peppers, and various salads are the things that sing of nostalgia for me.
Dominic
the zen kitchen
dvchurch at 9:05AM on 10/04/07
Mashed potatoes or white rice with gravy. Gravy! I make veggie gravy now, but it's still just as good a comfort food as when I was a kid.
producestories at 9:50AM on 10/04/07
My grandma's spinach with an egg scrambled in. Now that I'm older I can eat it with a touch of hot sauce or vinegar.
Tara Tot at 10:30AM on 10/04/07
with BBQ ribs or meat, tomatoes stuffed with cheese (some combo of mozarella with asiago or ricotta or gruyere or pecorino) made on the bbq
with sandwiches, sliced avocado
with steak, creamed spinach, scalopped potatoes, french fries or a green salad with simple dressing
with cheese, wine : ) not a side but these are an inseparable pair
with any type of cake or pie, vanilla ice cream
with any restaurant meal, good bread
with seafood rice or paella, white asparragus and olives
with fish or seafood, rice or risotto.
cristi at 11:00AM on 10/04/07
My grandma's mac-n-cheese. Yes it's made with Velveeta and American cheeses but it's gooood!
Jeana at 11:02AM on 10/04/07
Following Jerzee's lead:
Meatloaf with mashed potatoes and gravy
Cheeseburger with green chile and fries
Country-style barbecued ribs with macaroni salad
Pinto beans with Spanish rice and red chile (all are sides; combined, a meal!)
Baked ham with scalloped potatoes and cranberry sauce
Favorite, all-time side? Mac and cheese, comfort food from childhood to old age
hatlady at 12:01PM on 10/04/07
With almost anything, succotash. Believe it or not. :) Diced bacon browned, then minced onions, corn, lima beans, salt pepper, cream, dill and Texas Pete.
Strangely enough, it's my children's favorite side dish and they request it often.
Karen Resta at 12:02PM on 10/04/07
Thanksgiving just seems to require homemade cranberry sauce, whipped sweet potatoes & creamy corn casserole---can't wait!
JEP at 12:10PM on 10/04/07
Gravy. Italian ragu. I always come back to that when I get nostalgic for my extremely Italian upbringing. It makes for a feast, however unintentional.
Roasted Chicken with Potatoes. Until recently, I was estranged from my daughter and that's her favorite meal. Whenever I got lonely for her, I'd re-create it. Glad to say that particular mess is cleaned up...LOL.
My mom used to make a dish that was a re-creation from a restaurant in Brooklyn called Gargiulio's. If you've ever seen Godfather I, it's the restaurant where Michael shoots the 2 guys at the dinner table after retrieving a gun from the rest room. The dish includes chicken breast, prosciutto, sliced onions, mushrooms, broken up roma tomatoes and cream. She always served it with pasta - it makes a great celebration dish.
chiff0nade at 12:29PM on 10/04/07
Collard greens, collard greens, collard greens - my mom's recipe which uses turkey ham instead of oh-so-bad-for-you-and-skim-the-fat-off-the-top ham hocks.
Especially with some cornbread..or biscuits..mmmm..hungry..
alyssa at 3:22PM on 10/04/07
My grandma's creamed onions, served at Thanksgiving and Christmas. I now prepare them in homage to her, as they are the only thing she managed to learn to cook in her ninety-six years. Whenever I read anything that promises "Just like Grandma used to make," my first thought is "I hope to hell not!"
Barbara Hanson at 4:00PM on 10/04/07
My grandma used to make these amazing potato wedges! They were crisp, seasoned, and delicious. And my mom still makes this great rice noodle casserole, I'm sure I'll follow her lead and make that when I'm the mother.
Hillary
Chew on That
Chew on That at 5:59PM on 10/04/07
My grandma's creamed onions, served at Thanksgiving and Christmas. I now prepare them in homage to her, as they are the only thing she managed to learn to cook in her ninety-six years. Whenever I read anything that promises "Just like Grandma used to make," my first thought is "I hope to hell not!"
BaHa, I think my own grandmother actually knew how to cook two things: tuna salad sandwiches on white bread (with added butter on the bread as she was from Maine) and split pea soup. :) (Shudder)
I used to like creamed onions but for a long time now at Thanksgiving have substituted cippoline agrodolce (sweet and sour onions - Mario posted his recipe for these a few days ago here).
There is one other nostalgic side that has been shimmering in my memory that finally came to the fore a few moments ago. It does shimmer, it is green, and it has cabbage in it.
My mother used to make this thing on holidays. It was a lime jello mold with shredded red and green cabbage and who-knows-what else lurking in the glimmery depths. It was, of course, served with . . . mayo.
Karen Resta at 6:55PM on 10/04/07