Country Stars Reveal Their Favorite Thanksgiving Dishes

Everyone loves a good Thanksgiving meal. But there’s usually that one dish that makes the meal just right. Well, some of your favorite country stars are “dishing” on what their favorite Turkey Day food is.

Thomas Rhett loves a good dressing when it comes to his Thanksgiving meal. “My favorite Thanksgiving dish would probably be dressing. Every year both grandparents make a dressing, they’re kinda similar, but I don’t’ like gravy on my dressing, which is probably the weirdest thing in American culture. But, dressing is probably my favorite Thanksgiving dish.”

Alan Jackson loves his Thanksgiving dressing too. “My favorite Thanksgiving dish would be the homemade dressin’ that we, cornbread-based kind of dressin’ that we always have with turkey. That recipe is a kind of a combination of my mama, and Denise has taken it and perfected it over the years, so that me and my children really enjoy it.”

Trisha Yearwood agrees that the dressing makes the meal. “I’d mentioned my grandma’s cornbread dressing – everybody’s dressing is very particular to their family, and mine doesn’t have sage in it; it doesn’t have that flavor. I’m not a big sage fan. So it’s like, just a basic, and it has a lot of bread in it. It has cornbread and bread crumbs and saltine crackers, and then you use the stock from the turkey, so it’s just…it’s my favorite thing. And because it’s really a traditional Thanksgiving dish, you don’t have it all the time. And so I really do miss that, and I’ve been known to make her dressing in the summer, just ’cause I’m like, ‘I need some dressing; I can’t wait ‘til November.’”

“God Made Girls” singer RaeLynn can’t pick just one dish, so she’s got a few she can’t live without. “My two favorite things that I have to have on Thanksgiving: first of all is, my Aunt makes this corn casserole and it is the most amazing cheesy thing I’ve ever had in my life; and then also pumpkin pie with Cool Whip on top. That is just so classic Thanksgiving. Oh, and buttermilk pie, buttermilk cream pie is amazing too. So, if I have those three things it’s just a great Thanksgiving.”

Tyler Farr is all about some good ole Southern side dishes. “My grandma, my mom and aunt and them — they always make chicken and dumplin’s, with the gravy on the mashed potatoes, all out. You know, that’s, hands down, my favorite side, the potatoes and the gravy. Add some weight onto my back thighs, so it looks like somebody hit me in the back of the legs with a bag of nickels, after I leave, so that’s my one thing.”

The Band Perry’s Reid Perry’s favorite dish is made by bandmate and sister Kimberly. “Probably my favorite Thanksgiving dish, like I could probably just have this just for my Thanksgiving meal, is sweet potato casserole. But the kind, Kimberly actually makes a really good one, like really great.”

Country newcomers Maddie & Tae have quite different tastes when it comes to their favorite Turkey Day dishes. Tae Dye keeps it simple and just simply loves her Cranberry sauce. However, Maddie Marlow’s palate is a little more complicated. “My mom and I make this delicious broccoli cheese casserole and it is the bomb.com. I cannot go Thanksgiving or Christmas without that casserole. And then my mom makes this amazing chocolate pecan pie.”

For Josh Turner, his favorite dish is something you may not typically think of as a Thanksgiving favorite. “Uh, deviled eggs! [laughs] Where I’m from in South Carolina, I don’t think I’ve tasted a bad deviled egg. It’s like everybody has their own twist on it, but they’re all good, but I always loved it when my mama made ‘em. I’m learning as I get older, making deviled eggs is no easy task. It’s more complicated than it looks, and so that’s probably why I never made ‘em myself.”

Lady Antebellum’s Hillary Scott credits her grandma with the best dish of the season. “So, my favorite Thanksgiving food would have to be my grandmother’s sweet potato casserole. There’s just something she puts in it — probably all the love – that makes it better than anything I’ve ever tasted.”

And one we can’t argue with… Mickey Guyton. “My favorite Thanksgiving dish that has to, has to, has to be at Thanksgiving dinner is dessert. Dessert is my favorite Thanksgiving dish. I mean, it doesn’t matter what it is, as long as it’s sweet. My mom actually makes an Italian cream cake that’s absolutely awesome. It’s homemade, and the entire family, that’s the first thing to go at Thanksgiving dinner. And my Grandma D, she makes a pecan pie that is awesome. She taught me how to make them when I was little, and I just love them, and that’s the other thing that I look forward to at Thanksgiving dinner, and I love them both so much!”

What’s your favorite Thanksgiving dish?