Holiday Menu Bonanza With Time Saving Tips! 70 RECIPES!
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I love big family get-togethers and two of my very favorite are coming up: Thanksgiving and Christmas Dinner! We tend to have a few celebrations, with larger family gatherings as well as smaller special meals (just the four of us) to celebrate the occasion. Often, with the larger family gatherings, the meal consists of a huge assortment of everyone’s favorites – and Mama and I pride ourselves in making enough for everyone to carry home at least one plate (or two!) per person to enjoy later.
But meals like this can be very stressful for the cook unless you plan ahead of time to make them easier and as pre-prepped as possible. With that in mind, I’ve written a post with the tips and tricks I use to make my Thanksgiving just as enjoyable as it is for the folks who aren’t cooking the meal 🙂 To read that post, please click here.
Below, you’ll find a pretty long list of some recipes we have had in the past or plan on having this year at our holiday dinners. Click on each recipe title to be taken to that post.
I hope these inspire you and make your Thanksgiving even more delicious!
RECIPES! RECIPES!
The Main Meal (or the grand event!)
Clockwise: Grandmama’s Cornbread Dressing (easy and moist!), Roasted Asparagus, Baked Mac and Cheese, Cranberry Relish, Easiest Ever Creamed Corn, Candied Baby Carrots, Jordan Rolls, Sweet and Sour Green Beans, and Slow Cooker Turkey Breast with Perfect Baked Sweet Potatoes (center). Many more recipes are listed below!
Slow Cooker Turkey Breast
Baked Ham With Easy Glaze
Cornbread Dressing
Sweet Potato Casserole With Marshmallows
Buttermilk Congealed Salad
Loaded Marshmallow Sweet Potatoes
Fried Apples
Jordan Rolls
Southern Spoon Rolls
Cranberry Sauce
Candied Baby Carrots
Fried Cabbage With Bacon
Fried Okra
Butter Stewed Potatoes
Creamed Beans and Taters
Collards
Roasted Asparagus
Sweet and Sour Green Beans
Last Minute Green Beans
Easy Creamed Corn
Kid-Friendly Relish Tray
Corn Casserole
Creamy Macaroni and Cheese
Baked Mac and Cheese
Deviled Eggs
MeMe’s Mashed Potatoes
Butter Dill New Potatoes
Cheesy Hash Brown Casserole
A little something sweet…
Clockwise: Red Velvet Cupcakes, Sweet Potato Creme Brûlée, Super Fruit Salad (low sugar), Pumpkin Pie Dip, Pumpkin Roll Cupcakes, Aunt Sues Pound Cake with Mama’s Custard Sauce, Faux Pecan Pie, German Chocolate Pie, and Lemon Meringue Pie (in center). These and many more recipes are below!
Faux Pecan Pie
Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Pie
Pecan Pie Muffins
Streusel Pumpkin Spice Muffins
Frozen Cranberry Banana Salads
Lemon Meringue Pie
German Chocolate Pie
Triple Chocolate Brownie Pie
Perfect Pecan Pie
Honey Pumpkin Cream Cheese Pie
Coconut Meringue Pie
Ashley Mac’s Caramel Pie
Buttermilk Pie
Sawdust Pie
Chocolate Pecan Pie
Red Velvet Cupcakes
Easiest Red Velvet Cookies
Aunt Sue’s Famous Pound Cake
Mama’s Custard Sauce
Sweet Potato Creme Brûlée
Pumpkin Roll Cupcakes
Pecan Pie Cake
Cranberry Crunch
Good N Easy Apple Cake with Homemade Whipped Cream
Chocolate Velvet Cake
Carrot Cake Bars
Sugar Plum Cake
Daddy’s Coconut Cake
Apple Dapple Cake
Mandarin Orange Cake
Butterfinger Cake
Fruit Cocktail Cake
Yellow Cake with Peanut Butter Icing
Chocolate Pound Cake with Fudge Glaze
Pumpkin Crumb Cake
Super Fruit Salad (Low Sugar)
Holiday Fruit Salad
Watergate Salad
And don’t forget this…
Homemade Caramel Corn
Butter Caramel Puff Corn (No kernels, No hulls!)
Now that you have a list of dishes you’d like to make, be sure and click here to find out how to pull all of this off AND remain stress free!
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“Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.”
~Maya Angelou
Hi Christy. I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I appreciate your blog and web site and really look forward to your positive attitude and upbeat personality. Thank you for the wonderful words of wisdom.
Yummm! I think I gained fifty pounds just looking at your recipes!! I hope that you and your family have a blessed Thanksgiving!
Hope you and your family have a blessed Thanksgiving. I am thankful for you and your beautiful witness. You make us Southern ladies proud.
Thank you so much for this list of Thanksgiving goodness. This year my son is in South TX working and won’t be home so he will miss the family get together. He loves to cook so he called me this morning to ask how I make my dressing, he was going to cook for his crew tomorrow. I just referred him to your website for your dressing, I knew it would be good and he would have all the ingredients and instructions in one place. I cook your recipes frequently so he knows it will be good.
If we take the word Thanksgiving apart, we have Thanks Giving…not Black Friday, not open early on the holiday, and not Christmas decorations up before the turkey is down…so tomorrow, I will give thanks for all His blessings and for all the trials. When I count my blessings, I can rejoice and when I groan over the trials, I can also see a growth in my faith which is just another thing for which to be thankful! So Happy Thanks giving!
Hi Christy, I was reading up on pie crust techniques and recipes, and was stressing out a bit. Then I remembered your wonderful mix-in-the-pan pie crust recipe! I’ve made it before and I think it is far tastier than a store-bought crust, yet it is so easy and quick to pull together. I have the recipe bookmarked for tomorrow, thank you!
Cleaning house today – tomorrow is cooking!!!