We also deep fry our turkey, and we're quite proud to have begun doing it before it was cool. It's become a rite of passage to drop the turkey into the vat of boiling oil the year before you go away to college.
We're Italian, so we do a traditional Italian antipasto with dried meats and cheeses. We used to do pasta, but it just got to be too much especially after people died and moved further away and the group became smaller, so we stick to traditional sides:
Green bean casserole
Mashed potatoes
Mashed turnips with crispy friend shallots
Two types of sweet potato (neither of which I care for)
Stuffing (with Italian sausage)
For dessert it's usually a variety of pies, my favorite being chocolate pecan.
Ugh - I am SO ready to go home! Now I'm thinking of
Kenny Loggins (ignore the cheesetastic video)
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