The Ultimate Thanksgiving Recipe Guide with all your favorite heavy hitters, Roasted Turkey, Lump Free Gravy, Homemade Dinner Rolls, Pumpkin Pie, and crunchy Green Beans. Come and get it!
What are your normal plans for Thanksgiving? Do you do something different every year or do you stick with going to the same house every year? What about the food? Different or traditional?
For me, I grew up always having Thanksgiving with my mom’s side of the family. We would rotate homes every year. One year Thanksgiving would be at our house and then the next year it would be at my Uncle & Aunts house. But one thing was consistent.
The Food.
We had the same Turkey, same side dishes {green bean casserole, garlic mashed potatoes, crescent rolls, and a salad}, and same desserts. We would stuff our faces and then roll ourselves onto the couch to take a quick nap before the Turkey Day Football Game came on.
I loved those days, made for some great memories. Now that I’ve moved away I long to be with my family again on those special holidays.
Since getting married and not always having family around to celebrate we have to be intentional about planning a day to get to together. Especially now that my brother is married. Sometimes my parents are able to fly in, but my little brother DOES live near us so I always want to try and get together with him on those special holidays. This year we are doing Thanksgiving Dinner early with my brother and his wife.
My brother is he is always up for new recipes, and I love that about him. Sure he likes some of those traditional dishes, like my mom’s Garlic & Sour Cream Mashed Potatoes (and he hates it when I try to healthify it … haha!}, but for the most part he likes trying new things and experimenting in the kitchen.
So today, as a way for me to get prepared for an early Thanksgiving Dinner {and because I want to help out all those Type A planner personalities} I created a rocking roundup for Thanksgiving Recipes. Call it.. A Guide to the Ultimate Thanksgiving Dinner! I hope you enjoy!
Pesto Roasted Carrot Fries | Overtime Cook
Shaved Brussels Sprouts Harvest Salad with Hard Apple Cider Vinaigrette | Joyful Healthy Eats
Turkey Sage Cornbread Stuffing | An Edible Mosaic
Roasted Red Potatoes with Smoked Paprika | Aggies Kitchen
Roasted Pears with Cranberries, Blue Cheese, & Walnuts | Spoonful of Flavor
Pan Sauteed Brussels Sprouts with Bacon & Caramelized Onions | Joyful Healthy Eats
Skillet Honey Cornbread with Honey Butter | Kailleys Kitchen
Roasted Potatoes | Wonky Wonderful
Naan’s Cranberry Chutney | American Heritage Cooking
Spicy Sweet Potato Gratin | The Domestic Front
Roasted Acorn Squash with Cranberries, Almonds, and Brown Sugar | Joyful Healthy Eats
Mushroom Challah Dressing | What Jew Wanna Eat
Ginger Pumpkin Bourbon Fizz with Cinnamon Sugar | Climbing Grier Mountain
Pumpkin Chocolate Brownie Cheesecake | Life Love & Sugar
Make Ahead Potato Crescent Rolls | Yummy Healthy Easy
Quinoa Salad with Pistachios, Cherries, and Honey Balsamic Kefir Dressing | Food Faith Fitness
Autumn Kale Salad | Joyful Healthy Eats
Toasted Coconut Green Beans | Wine & Glue
Butternut Squash & Spelt Salad with Goat Cheese and Toasted Almonds | The Lemon Bowl
Apple Pie Lasagna | Beyond Frosting
Roasted Turkey with Herb Butter & Roasted Shallots | Cookin Canuck
60 Dinner Rolls | I Heart Eating
Pumpkin Spice Coffee Cake | Joyful Healthy Eats
Cranberry Apple Crumble | Amy’s Healthy Baking
Simple Garlic & Herb Roasted Turkey | Neighbor Food Blog
Roasted Sweet Potato Quinoa Salad with Maple Orange Dressing | The Roasted Root
Brown Butter Pumpkin Spice Cake with Salted Caramel Buttercream | I Heart Eating
Sweet Potato & Butternut Squash Hash with Cinnamon Honey Butter | Joyful Healthy Eats
Five Spice Roasted Butternut Squash | Taste Love and Nourish
Apple Cider Sangria | Lexi’s Clean Kitchen
Cranberry Orange Bundt Cake with Orange Glaze | Joyful Healthy Eats
Classic Pumpkin Pie with Bourbon Whipped Cream | Cook the Story
Butternut Squash Quinoa Salad with Goat Cheese & Roasted Grapes | The Housewife in Training Files
Easy Crock Pot Garlic Mashed Potatoes | Kitchen Treaty
Gingerbread Martini | Eat Drink Love
Mini Apple Pie Tartlets with Pecan Streusel | Joyful Healthy Eats
Make Ahead Turkey Gravy | The Kitchn
Cranberry Fig & Rosemary Chutney | Taste Food Blog
Cranberry Maple Stuffing with Jones Sausage | Joyful Healthy Eats
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Thank you for sharing these Thanksgiving recipes! There’s just too many good options to choose from. Ill probably try this weekend the Apple Cider Sangria. Ive been drinking plain apple cider for the longest time so this one will give color to my usual.
These recipes all look so good. The main dish, the turkey, should also be decided on, picked based on our preferences and desired outcome. There are different turkey types in the market, and these types have different impacts on the flavor and texture of our turkey, so we have to consider that as well.
Krista,
Thanks for allowing me to share your round up in my Best Thanksgiving Round Ups post! I appreciate your contribution to the cornucopia of recipes. With your help, we’ve got hundreds of recipes for all sorts of Thanksgiving needs, from setting the table, to making ahead, to vegetarian dishes, to more desserts than my brain can comprehend.
Happy Thanksgiving!
You’re welcome Kirsten, thanks so much for including me!
Thank you so much for including my cranberry apple crumble! Thanksgiving is by FAR my favorite holiday. It’s the one day of the entire year where it’s acceptable — even encouraged! — to stay in the kitchen and cook and bake all day. A food blogger’s dream, especially when there’s an entire family full of people to do the dishes for me! 😉
Your welcome girl, sounded divine!
Lots of people ready to do dishes is definitely a good thing! 🙂
Beautiful round up! I love all of these ideas!
Thanks Annie!
What a stunning collection of Thanksgiving food, Krista! Thanks so much for including me in this! Now I’m starving. 😉 Have a great weekend!
haha.. welcome to my world! I’m always starving!! Looking at food pictures all day does not help the waistline! 🙂
I want to eat ALL of these! Thanks for including my Quinoa salad lady! Pinned!
I know right!!? Your welcome girlie!
Wow! There are some great options here! I love the look of those carrot fries. Thanks for including my roasted turkey too! 🙂
Yeah, those sounded awesome. Basically I want to try everything here! YUM! Your welcome girl!
My mouth is watering at all these fabulous thanksgiving recipes! And thank you for including my quinoa salad!! Have a great weekend, Krista!
Your welcome friend, gorgeous photo! 🙂
Krista!!! I have loved hanging with you and everyone this weekend!! OK, your Shaved Brussels Sprouts Harvest Salad with Hard Apple Cider Vinaigrette is so happening in my kitchen. . like this week!!! yum!!! and whatever you decide to do for Thanksgiving this year with your family, I hope you guys have a special one and your table is filled with deliciousness!!
Me too Alice, you are seriously such a sweetheart and quite the little fashionista! 🙂
Hope you enjoy the salad as much as us… brussels sprouts rock!