Homemade Sesame Seed Crescent Rolls will steal the show on your Holiday Table, be it Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, Graduation, or any day you and your loved ones feel like celebrating. I should know, because they certainly stole the show in the house where I grew up! And I can truthfully say that the recipe I’m …
This is the recipe that was waiting to happen: Sticky Toffee Pumpkin Pudding. It almost had to happen. It was destined to happen. What is this Sticky Toffee Cross Cultural Fusion? English Childhood Comfort Food meets America’s Favorite Fall Flavor, Pumpkin: it’s a beautiful cross-cultural union! Cultural appropriation of the very BEST kind. We’ve stolen …
Wondering what to do with leftover turkey? Creamy Smoked Turkey and Wild Rice Soup is just the ticket. It will help you make good DELICIOUS use of that leftover turkey carcass! Every Thanksgiving weekend, on the first or second day after Thanksgiving, my husband makes us one of my most favorite recipes of the year: …
This easy recipe for Spiced Pumpkin Bread has all the beautiful smells of the fall baking season! As the days grow shorter, and the nights grow colder, there’s just something about fall weather that calls us back to the flavors that speak “comfort” to our souls. Year after year, my daughter begs me to make …
This post contains Seven Smart Tips for Roasted Sweet Potatoes, and the end result is Maple Thyme Glazed Roasted Sweet Potatoes. This type of recipe produces what’s sometimes called “melting potatoes“: crispy on the outside, tender on the inside. It’s based on science, but I think once you taste them, you’ll agree that artistry is …
Tuscan Bread Stuffing with Goat Cheese, Dried Cherries and Prosciutto is, for me, the highlight of my Thanksgiving table, where I only serve the best recipes of the season that I know. Why Is This Your Family’s Favorite Stuffing? Oh for a thousand tongues to sing this great stuffing recipe’s praise. It really is the …
Oh, my. Pecan Pie. I thought I’d make it easy for you to find any of my Thanksgiving recipes that you might be interested in, and link them all up in one post, so…here ya go! How To Brine and Smoke a Turkey How To Brine and Grill a TurkeyWorld’s Best Cream Gravy World’s Best …
Refreshing and palate-pleasing, a bite of Easy Cranberry Orange Apple Walnut Relish is the divine soulmate to a bite of turkey. It’s also the perfect foil to so many of the *heavy* fat-laden dishes, that cause our heavily-laden Thanksgiving tables to groan under the weight thereof. An additional reason I adore this dish is because …
This Apple-Pear Salad with Maple Pecan Bacon is the perfect salad for Thanksgiving. Apples, pears, grapes, salad greens, with Maple Pecan Bacon, drizzled with a cranberry vinaigrette! How I Discovered This Apple-Pear Salad I went to a slumber party with my wonderful girlfriends, and came home with the salad of my dreams: Apple-Pear Salad with …
Last year, I gave you my recipe for how to cook your Thanksgiving Turkey. I went back and revisited that recipe, and I think I SHOULD give you a bit of an update on how we REALLY cooked our Thanksgiving Turkey last year. Because rather than grilling it, we smoked it. And I feel like …
This recipe for Bourbon Pumpkin Cheesecake with Bourbon Sour Cream Glaze is one of the most amazing Thanksgiving Desserts you’ll ever try! My daughter LOVES my Fluffiest Pumpkin Pie, AND she loves my blueberry cheesecake, too. She was TORN between which to ask for for her birthday dessert. And then, I remembered this cheesecake …
Pumpkin pie is typically dense, and heavy, but in this post, I’m going to teach you how to make the lightest, fluffiest pumpkin pie, ever. When I was a kid, I didn’t even ~like~ pumpkin pie. Till I made this one for my husband, on the first Thanksgiving that I hosted, all by myself. He …
This easy, southern, homemade, Old-Fashioned Pecan Pie Recipe is just like my mom, the best pie maker I ever knew, used to make. She taught me a secret ingredient, and I’ll share it with you! I love pie. I especially love Old-Fashioned Pecan Pie. Have you SEEN how many pie recipes I have on this blog??? …
This turkey recipe is a hybrid of a couple of recipes I collected at epicurious.com. They have a world of good turkey advice over there, so if you need some ideas or advice, I’d really encourage you to go over there and take a look for yourself. They’re not paying me a dime to say …
First, a cautionary, heads up kind of word: If your turkey is frozen, you’re going to want to go ahead and start thawing that thing. I usually start to thaw a frozen turkey by placing it in the refrigerator on Sunday, or definitely by Monday before Thanksgiving. So, if you have a frozen turkey, get …