My grandmother’s and mother’s stuffing, which is made with sausage, rolls, eggs, celery, onions. I made it once, when my mom had cancer and she told me what to do. I vaguely remember sauteeing the onions and celery in a pan with the sausage, then it went in a bowl with the broken up (Kaiser rolls) and eggs, and I’m sure some spices were added like celery salt and whatever else.
I also like mashed potatoes.
In my family, we didn’t do a sweet potato casserole, just regular sweet potatoes from the oven, sliced. We didn’t do string bean casserole, just boiled string beans. We also would have beets (my grandmother was Czech and beets were very popular for many meals). There were always lots of other things, on the table, probably rice, too, for those that liked rice, and maybe broccoli, and dinner rolls, and of course gravy.
I remember when my mom married my stepfather, one year we went to my stepfather’s mother’s house for Thanksgiving and it was turkey and boiled onions and that was it. We were amazed (not verbally, of course) that that was it.