Thanksgiving Turkey Roulade is an impressive alternative to the giant Thanksgiving bird. Sweet and savory filling surrounded by juicy turkey is a wonderful centerpiece for a more intimate holiday meal. The holiday season is upon us once again. It's the time of year that we begin to contemplate just what will be gracing the table and no dish is as important as the ...
Thanksgiving recipes
Traditional Holiday Glazed Maple & Brown Sugar Ham
Grandma's Traditional Holiday Glazed Maple & Brown Sugar Ham is a perfect centerpiece for your holiday table. This ham is easy to put together and only has 5 ingredients! When it comes to holidays, I'm a traditionalist. I will never have a hot pink tree. I will never leave Santa tofu bars and soy milk, and I will never serve fish for Christmas dinner.Yes, when it comes ...
Turkey Cranberry Sliders
Let’s be honest. Thanksgiving is delicious and all, but the best part is all of the leftovers. If done correctly, the fridge will be full of meals that I don’t have to work too hard for for the majority of the week. The first couple of meals are generally a similar version of the original meal; swap the virtuous Brussel sprouts ...
Sweet Potato Rolls
Even though the weather is more like Summer than mid-Autumn, there is no denying that Thanksgiving is just a few short weeks away. Cooks everywhere are compiling grocery lists, digging out family recipes, and trying to locate the gravy boat in order to prepare for the biggest meal of the year. Thanksgiving is all about tradition. There must be turkey and ham, ...
Duchess Baked Sweet Potatoes
The first Thanksgiving meal that I cooked was for my parents in the first apartment that my new husband and I shared. It was just the four of us, but I cooked like I was feeding an army of people. I must have had 10 side dishes plus a ham, and a turkey, and dessert. We ate Thanksgiving for weeks and I think it took me a good 3 days to wash all of the dishes. Since then, I have ...
Broccoli and Greens Gratin
Culinary ruts happen in every household. It’s why there are millions of cookbooks in print, thousands of food blogs written every day, and an untold amount of time-weathered index cards shoved into recipe boxes in kitchens across the world. The “same ol’, same ol’ “ is just part of cooking. It’s no different in this house. I can recite to you the dishes that cross the lips of ...
Turkey Avocado Wrap with Spicy Mayo
Put your turkey sandwich in a wrap with some avocado and spicy mayo and never look back! This Turkey Avocado Wrap with Spicy Mayo is a quick and easy after Thanksgiving lunch. The turkey sandwich is the iconic Day-after-Thanksgiving food for most Americans and our household is no exception. Members of our family have been known to nearly chase you around the house with a ...
Roasted Broccoli and Brussels Sprouts
Roasted Broccoli and Brussels Sprouts is a quick and easy addition to any meal. Covered in cheese and bacon and then roasted to perfection, these are not your grandmas Brussels sprouts. I'm a little late to the Brussels Sprouts train. They aren't really in season but they are in my grocery store and I couldn't pass them up. I love Brussels sprouts. I had my first one ...
Traditional Southern Cornbread Dressing
Thanksgiving isn't Thanksgiving without Traditional Southern Cornbread Dressing. It just isn't. It's probably the dish that I look forward to the most. It's the one I spend the most time making sure is absolutely perfect, and it's the cheapest thing on the table. Now I know that some of you people out there call it "stuffing" and that you actually put it inside the bird. ...
Thanksgiving: Tips and advice about cooking the big dinner
Thanksgiving is less than 3 weeks away. Can you believe it? I think I am still somewhere in the middle of August. But no matter where I am, Thanksgiving is still just a couple weeks away. This year will be my 7th ( or is it 8th) year hosting Thanksgiving for whoever decides to show up. In those years I have experienced it all; the turkey that refused to cook, the turkey I ...
Roasted Acorn Squash
Halloween was awesome. The best year yet. I haven't had that much fun on Halloween since I was a teenager rolling ( that's Southern for TPing) the sheriff's backyard. The kids were so stinking cute and collected a lot of candy which I will probably eat most of. Holiday weight here I come!! Of course, after Halloween comes November. November is a crazy month for us. Why so ...
Much Ado about Turkey
I love the holidays. I get all excited about lights and cookies and vast feasts that continue on for days and days. I also love the tradition that always comes along with the family and friends. Although this year was a little more frustrating than years past ( twin toddlers with colds and 9 people in a 1600 square foot house), there were many good memories made and lots of ...