Can you believe Thanksgiving is barely a week away? Luckily my family looks forward to the same traditional foods every year, so I don’t have much meal planning to do. Still, I will have to brave the grocery store this weekend to get the ingredients for our favorite Thanksgiving recipes.
From breakfast through dinner, here are five of our favorite holiday recipes that we look forward to every year.
If we have house guests, I like to make a batch of pumpkin banana bread the night before Thanksgiving for a simple breakfast that people can nibble on while I use the kitchen for more serious cooking.
My signature holiday dish is my
raw Brussels sprouts salad. It’s easy to make if you have a food processor to slice the Brussels sprouts, and even easier if you buy a few bags of the pre-shredded Brussels sprouts I discovered at Trader Joe’s last year!
We always have to have mashed potatoes. I usually play around with the recipe, but the
fluffy Chobani mashed potatoes I made last year were a big hit. We also have mashed sweet potatoes–hold the marshmallows!
While the potatoes are boiling, I usually put out a plate of crudités (raw veggies) to help stave off hunger. Plain nonfat Chobani makes a good base for a guilt-free dip with Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing mix or French Onion Dip mix.
The other thing I am responsible for is the apple pie, which I make using four different types of apples following this “
Blue-Ribbon Apple Pie” recipe.
I don’t have a recipe for the turkey, because we simply
grill it on our old charcoal Weber grill (the only time we use it!). It cooks relatively quickly, turns a gorgeous golden color, and is fantastically moist. Plus, grilling the turkey keeps the oven free for more pies. 😉
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What are your favorite Thanksgiving recipes?
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Yum great recipe options. I am experimenting with brussel sprouts and trying to come up w something good
Chobani Mashed Potatoes sounds really good. I really enjoy cauliflower mashed potatoes, so these definitely will be good since the Chobani will give it some real healthy creaminess.
We mash our sweet potatoes too! We make stuffing, cranberry sauce (so easy to make from scratch!), mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes, a jello thing called seafoam salad which sounds weird but tastes good, cornbread muffins, green beans, brussel sprouts…oh and turkey 😀
That salad looks delicious! I should probably make that this year since we usually don’t have many veggies involved 🙂 I looooove mashed potatoes and stuffing. If those were the only 2 things at Thanksgiving I’d be totally ok with that.
Oh, I think I will make the raw brussels sprouts salad – that looks so good!!
These all sound great. I’m a big fan of the shredded brussel sprouts salad!!
I have been eating alot of brussel sprouts lately but have only roasted them. I have never tried them raw. Sounds different but worth a shot.
the brussel sprouts salad looks amazing! yum!
wow – allllll of this sounds good!! shredded brussel sprouts salad is interesting 🙂
It’s really good!
yum! i don’t think we’ve ever done grilled turkey but my dad often does a fried turkey that is delicious!
These are some fantastic looking recipes. I definitely will be giving some of these a try at some point.
I must try the pumpkin banana bread. I hate to waste ripe bananas! Thanks for sharing.
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