Posts in Thanksgiving
Danette's Easy "Funeral" Potatoes

You don’t have to be attending a funeral to make this yummy dish. The name derives from the fact that this is pure, delicious, comfort food. Unlike some recipes though, mine doesn’t involve a yucky, processed can of cream-of-something soup. I won’t say it’s healthy, but it’s better than the processed stuff for sure. So good! We love having it at holiday dinners.

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Best Banana Cream Pie

When my cousin shared this recipe with me and promised it was seriously the BEST Banana Cream Pie, I was skeptical to say the least. I’m not even a big fan of bananas. I would never eat them plain as a snack. I might like them in ice cream with chocolate. She said she was the same before this pie. I took her at her word and made it last Thanksgiving. Even with 4 other pies, this pie was gone first…so dang good.

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Mark's Favorite Pecan Pie

Mark always asks me to make him his very own pecan pie for Thanksgiving. If anyone else is going to want a slice, then I better make a second pie because he’s not sharing. I’ve tried dressing this up with chocolate, caramel…all sorts of yummy concoctions. But he likes it pure and simple. This is it.

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Steam Oven Thanksgiving Turkey

Remember back when turkeys took HOURS to cook, and you had to baste them over and over if you didn’t want dried out meat? Not with a steam oven. I was skeptical last Thanksgiving when we went to cook a turkey for the first time using this new oven. The recipe said 1 1/2 hours until done. They weren’t lying! And the meat was SO tender and juicy…

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Praline- Mustard Glazed Ham

From Southern Living Cookbook. You have all the sugar from the brown sugar, maple syrup, and apple juice…then the tang of the dijon mustard…along with the saltiness of the ham. Ummm…yum! Ham is typically to salty for me, and these flavors really balance everything out. Plus I’m a sucker for salty and sweet together (anyone else remember dipping french fries in Wendy’s frosties?).

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Perfect Roast Turkey

Remember how your mother used to get up at 4 A.M. on Thanksgiving so she could put the turkey in the oven to roast for ten hours? Forget it. A 12- to 15-pound turkey cooks in 2 to 3 hours, and you let it rest for at least 20 minutes before you carve it. Everyone will say, "This is the best turkey I ever ate."

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Hill Country Pecan Spread

I had this at a get together when we were living in Houston, Texas. I took one bite and HAD to track down the person who had made it. She shared the recipe with me, which I quickly scribbled down. It came from a little spiral bound community cookbook she had…I have no idea who the author was. But I can tell you that this dip is IN.CRED.I.BLE. It has SO much flavor. It’s great on crackers or veggies. You can also serve it on baked potatoes. The jalapenos give it a little zip, but not too much. Just try it. There’s no way I can do it justice so you just have to taste.

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