Thanksgiving Memories

As I mentioned earlier, I was busy last week with an illustration project. The piece, a reminiscence about Thanksgiving, is finished now, and it's live on Saveur's website. What are your favorite side dishes from your childhood? And do you still make them now?

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My grandmother, Eva Mary Quinn Fitzpatrick, was raised in the Green Lake area, back when it was country, but as a young woman married my grandfather, a dairy farmer in Tillamook, Ore. She raised four children on the farm, and even when I was a youngster I remember her cooking on a woodstove, long after the rest of us had electric stoves. Her pumpkin pie was in great demand at Thanksgiving. I don't know where she got the recipe, but it makes the most velvety pie around. We always just called it Eva's Pumpkin Pie.

Karen Jones
Edmonds, Washington

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I have to admit, my favorite is still the green bean casserole. I love the crispy (canned) onions and the creamy beans. My mom makes it and brings it to our feast in the City. Though she is a much more sophisticated cook than this stuff requires, no one makes it better than my mom, as far as I am concerned.

One of the key elements to me is that the beans, thanks to the onions, just don't make great leftovers. So the specialness about them comes from eating them only on Thanksgiving day.

Hope you have a happy and healthy one!