Slow cooked shredded ham in a brown sugar and mustard sauce. This is the sort of thing you prepare a day or so in advance so that when you serve it you don't really have to do much of anything at all. Great for times when people will be in and out, eating irregularly all day.
A half head of fresh garlic is mashed into Yukon gold potatoes with cream cheese, butter and chives in this bold variation of an indispensable side dish to roast turkey.