Top Ten Thanksgiving Day Recipes

by Kimberly Edwards , under Uncategorized

When it comes to Thanksgiving, you want those fabulous, old fashioned recipes that make you reminisce about your childhood at your grandmother’s house. Those sights, sounds and smells that make the Holidays special.

Here are the Top 10 Recipes of the Holiday Season to put you in a merry mood and satisfy those tastebuds that have been waiting an entire year for these tasty tidbits.

1. Old Fashioned Roasted Holiday Turkey: What kind of Holiday would it be without a fabulously, perfectly roasted, old-fashioned turkey? There’s nothing like a beautifully browned turkey with drippings to light up everyone’s eyes.

Crispy skin that tastes so good you’ll want to sneak some before anyone else gets a chance to by “helping out’ in the kitchen! Oh yes, and don’t forget, you want the white turkey meat to be moist and juicy…Check out the recipe above and the trick that’s used to keep the turkey breast full of flavor and moisture.

2. Homemade Bread Stuffing: What’s a great roasted bird without it being stuffed plentifully with homemade bread stuffing that’s perfectly seasoned.

You’ll certainly be asking for a 2nd helping with this recipe and you’ll fight over the leftovers for hot stuffing and turkey sandwiches the next day!

3. Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes: No Holiday occasion is complete without fluffy, creamy whipped up mashed potatoes! Now, picture those white, fluffy clouds of deliciousness on your plate with a kicked up roasted garlic flavor…Wow - that’s a winner, isn’t it?

For this recipe, I’ve pieced together 2 - one for roasting garlic and one for beautiful mashed potatoes. Enjoy these this Holiday season.

4. Blue Ribbon Turkey Gravy: Don’t forget about that mushroom gravy! You know, that dark, deliciousness you pour all over your turkey, potatoes, stuffing and more!

Check out that recipe above to find out what the special “je ne sais quoi” is that will take your turkey gravy and kick in into blue ribbon mode!

5. Sweet Potato Spoonbread: If you’ve never tried this dish before, you are missing out on a whole new way to celebrate the Holidays! It’s got mashed sweet potatoes, maple syrup, brown sugar, honey and spices in it.

Oh yeah - it’s best to make 2 because the 1st one will be polished off at dinner and you won’t have any for leftovers. This is the dish people will be trying to sneak home on a take-home plate.

It’s so light and fluffy and is called a bread, but needs to be scooped with a spoon because it’s so moist, like a custard or souffle. A true winner and maybe my very favorite recipe of the Holiday season.

6. Southern Candied Yams: Probably the most searched for recipe throughout the Holiday season - yes, those Southerners certainly know how to cook up something delicious.

Check out that recipe and find out what that Sweet, Southern, Soul Food Secret is to make candied yams phenomenal!

7. Homemade Whole Berry Cranberry Sauce: Sure, you can buy cranberry sauce in a can, but why would you. This is the simplest and quickest recipe there is over the Holidays and it’s so worth it to have big, juicy berries in an unbelievable sauce to serve alongside that turkey and stuffing, or even on top of it.

Oh yeah - the jellied kind of cranberry sauce, just seems “alien” to me…very strange - give me cranberries!

8. Perfect Pumpkin Pie Filling: No Holiday meal is complete without the perfect piece of pumpkin pie.

Not all pumpkin pie filling recipes are created equally - so, out of all my years searching, trying and experimenting, this is it, baby! Go no further - it’s creamy, it’s spicy and it’s oh so perfect after an unbelievable turkey meal.

9. Million Dollar Pie Crust: You may think a pie crust is just a pie crust - but you are completely wrong.

There’s nothing like breaking off a piece of your favorite Holiday pie and the crust is just as delicious as the filling. Flaky, flavorful and with an easy preparation, this pie crust recipe is worth a million dollars.

10. Heavenly Homemade Whipped Cream: No Cool Whip for this gal! Once you go homemade with your whipped cream, you’ll never buy it made EVER AGAIN!

This recipe is the essential ingredient to just about every Holiday dessert there is. People will be flabbergasted when they try your very own homemade whipped cream that takes, literally, less than 5 minutes to make and it’s 1000% better than anything out there you could possibly buy in the store.

You’ll be so upset you hadn’t made your own before - Your brand new “ace in the hole” recipe!

These Top Ten Thanksgiving Recipes will make your Holiday meals ones to remember for a lifetime.

They’re all my tastebuds need when it comes to enjoying Thanksgiving and the Holidays!

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I hope you enjoyed these Top Ten Recipes! Until next time…

Eat Deliciously,

Kimberly Edwards
CookingWithKimberly.com

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