slavedaeva posted:

I have been tasked this Yule to make Turducken. (Yes, I cringed too.) Incredibly, the internet has failed me on this one. I need potato side dish ideas, please! All I'm finding is "standard thanksgiving dishes are fine", but I cannot agree to serving mashed potatoes next to a turkey stuffed with cornbread, stuffed with duck, stuffed with ... you get the idea. An SA search turned up exactly what I expected, goons making fun of turducken, and I felt all was right with the world once again. Which still leaves me clueless as to what actually to serve with this fowl beast.

The side menu so far is tossed salad, cranberry sauce, roasted winter squash, sauteed broccoli and brussels sprouts, and an as yet undecided biscuit/bread type thing. The fiance insists on a potato dish, last year we did gnocchi and he wishes not to repeat.

Would a gratin be as heavy next to the meat stuffed meat as I think it would be?
Would a pommes anna be acceptable? Or would it be too simple or for that matter too pretentious? When making a turducken should one even care that a side dish may upstage it?

Thank you!