Thanksgiving Menu Bonanza
I’m so excited for the holidays to be here, a time where we all gather together and give thanks for all of the blessings in our lives.
I hope you have a wonderful holiday season planned, too!
I’ve compiled a list of recipe ideas to help you plan your Thanksgiving meal below. Of course we don’t have all of this in one sitting but I wanted to give you plenty to choose from! Click on each recipe to view the complete tutorial of how to make it. Recipes which are in the Southern Plate Classic Comfort Food That Makes Everyone Feel Like Family cookbook are noted in the side along with page number. Recipes which are exclusive to the cookbook (not on SouthernPlate.com) are also noted beside the recipe.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Main Meal
- Buttermilk Congealed Salad (Cookbook p. 66)
- Marshmallow Sweet Potatoes
- Fried Apples (Cookbook p.106)
- Cornbread Dressing (easy and moist) (Cookbook variation p.128)
- Lucy’s Sweet Potato Casserole (Cookbook p. 117)
- Green Bean and Shoepeg Corn Casserole (Cookbook only p. 226)
- Jordan Rolls (Cookbook p.16)
- Preston Rolls (Cookbook only p.230)
- Cranberry Relish
- Candied Baby Carrots
- Fried Cabbage
- Grandmama’s Tex Mex Dip (Cookbook only p.173) – no idea why we have this at Thanksgiving but we’d all boycott the holiday without it!
- English Pea Pimento Casserole
- Broccoli and Cauliflower Salad (Cookbook only p.42)
- Fried Okra (Cookbook p.224)
- Butter Stewed Potatoes
- Sweet and Sour Green Beans (Cookbook p.40)
- Kid Friendly Relish Tray
- Corn Casserole (Cookbook p.23)
- Creamy Macaroni and Cheese (Cookbook p.200)
- Deviled Eggs (Cookbook p.24)
- MeMe’s Mashed Potatoes (Cookbook p.35)
- Cheesy Hash Brown Casserole (Cookbook p.33)
- Sour Cream Hash Brown Casserole (Cookbook only p. 32)
- Watergate Salad (Cookbook only p.218)
- Pecan Pie Muffins (Cookbook p.169)
- Streusal Pumpkin Spice Muffins (Cookbook p. 129)
- Frozen Cranberry Banana Salads (Cookbook p.188)
Pies
- Faux Pecan Pie
- Lucy’s Chocolate Pie (Cookbook only p. 146)
- Aunt Sue’s Fried Chocolate Pies (Cookbook only p.146)
- German Chocolate Pie (Cookbook only p.246)
- Perfect Pecan Pie (Cookbook p.120)
- Honey Punkin Cream Cheese Pie
- Coconut Meringue Pie
- Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Pie
- Ashley Mac’s Caramel Pie
- Buttermilk Pie
- Sawdust Pie
- Chocolate Pecan Pie
- Lemon Meringue Pie (Cookbook p.192)
Cakes
- Good N Easy Apple Cake with Homemade Whipped Cream (Cookbook p.107)
- Chocolate Velvet Cake (Cookbook p.142)
- Green Velvet Cake (Cookbook only p.170)
- Aunt Sue’s Pound Cake (Cookbook only p.8)
- Mama’s Custard Sauce – to go over pound cake (Cookbook only p.10)
- Chocolate Pecan Pie
- Daddy’s Coconut Cake (Cookbook p.154)
- Apple Dapple Cake (Cookbook p.118)
- Mandarin Orange Cake (Cookbook p.14)
- Butterfinger Cake (Cookbook p.22)
- Fruit Cocktail Cake (Cookbook p.39)
- Yellow Cake with Peanut Butter Icing (Cookbook p.258)
- Chocolate Pound Cake with Fudge Glaze (Cookbook p.100)
- Pumpkin Crumb Cake (Cookbook p.130)
- Granny’s Sheath Cake (Cookbook only p.31)
And don’t forget this…
Holiday Fruit Salad (Cookbook p.164)
Homemade Caramel Corn (Cookbook p.91)
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
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Hey Christy…I have just got your book…I have a friend that told me about you.. I love your book..I am goine to make your sweet and sour beans and try out this Manderine cake for Thanksgiving…Love yor website….Happy Thanksgiving to you and all your family….
I have read your book cover to cover and enjoyed every minute of it…..you are so personable and down to earth. Your honesty is refreshing and completes yourself with sincerity. I look forward to all my family enjoying the holidays and fellowship. One of my favorite dishes for Thanksgiving is Pineapple Casserole! Yummy either as a main dish or a dessert with ice cream!
Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
This timely list is wonderful to have, Christy, thanks! We’re adding fried okra to our feast table this year and I’m chuckling again your corn and okra spaghetti dish after revisiting your okra recipe post . Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. You are truly Blessed and I am so glad to be a part of your extended SP family.
Of course your recipes have been tried and proved, but I also look forward to your uplifting quotes.
i really enjoyed today’s recipes we were to have thanksgiving here at our home but my wonderful husband ed was diagnosed with cancer so we are going over the hills and through the valleys to have the holiday with all of our blended family the kids want to take care of us by cooking dinner they are afraid with radiation starting in two weeks that we might not be up to a big christmas and they want to show their love isn’t that just the sweetest thing but the daughter-in-laws want me to e-mail miss christy’s recipes love to everyone joy and ed ross
The Preston roll recipe is great. IMO, worth the price of the book. I’m making those for our Thanksgiving meal.
Your mother’s house sounds like my in-laws’ house! There’s always so much food, the table will barely hold it! The problem with the holiday is that my parents live in the area, too, and my mother will not go to my in-laws’ even though they have been invited. I think my mother wants to be the one in charge, not a guest! Of course, my husband wants to eat at his family’s house since there’s more food, and, well, it’s his family! It always makes for a long, awkward Thanksgiving and Christmas every year! Whoever we visit second in the day gets offended no matter what!
Had this problem for a while…now he goes to his and I to mine…everyone is happy and we don’t mind it a bit…