This 30-minute easy Thanksgiving dinner menu includes turkey, gravy, stuffing, candied yams, mashed potatoes, green beans, biscuits, and cranberry sauce! I share my best tips and tricks and a full game plan so you can get this meal done fuss-free. It’s delicious and doable on any night of the year....
5-Minute Velouté Sauce Recipe (How to Make Gravy without Drippings!)
5-minute rich and flavorful velouté sauce is a French “mother sauce” made from roux (butter cooked with flour) and chicken stock. It’s basically gravy without drippings, and it’s a great recipe to have up your sleeve for serving with things like roast chicken, roast turkey, or even pot roast!...
Beautiful Sausage Stuffed Acorn Squash Served in Squash Bowls {video}
This Sausage Stuffed Acorn Squash is a gorgeous, hearty meal full of cozy flavors like winter squash, Italian turkey sausage, cranberries, and fresh herbs. No worries if you’re new to winter squash; I will show you how to easily cut and roast acorn squash to use it as a beautiful edible bowl!...
Leftover Turkey Puff Pastry Pie with Mashed Potatoes, Broccoli, and Cheese Sauce – You’d Never Know This is Leftovers! {video}
Delicious Leftover Turkey Puff Pastry Pie with Mashed Potatoes, Broccoli, and Cheese Sauce is easy to make and the perfect way to reinvent Thanksgiving leftovers!...
Keto Pumpkin Cheesecake Recipe (Easy to Make in the Oven or Instant Pot!)
If you’re looking for a festive autumnal dessert, this Keto Pumpkin Cheesecake Recipe is easy to make in the oven or Instant Pot, and it’s rich and creamy with a hint of pumpkin and the perfect spice level. It makes a lovely addition to a holiday dessert table or as a treat after any fall meal!...
Small Thanksgiving Dinner for 4 (Made on a Sheet Pan!)
Here you will find the menu and recipes for a beautiful small Thanksgiving dinner for 4. The entire meal (except the gravy) is cooked on a sheet pan! It comes together in much less time than a typical Thanksgiving dinner, and it still has all your family’s favorites, including homemade stuffing, roast turkey, mashed potatoes, candied sweet potatoes, homemade cranberry sauce, green beans, and even pan gravy!...
Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe (Gluten Free)
With a hint of warm spices, just the right amount of brown sugar, creamy sweet potatoes, and crunchy oat and pecan streusel topping, this classic Southern Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe is a crowd-pleasing gluten free side dish! Don’t wait for the holidays to make it, whip it up to serve with a Sunday roast chicken or steak. The wonderful thing about this classic Southern Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe is that it can double as a side dish or dessert. It’s traditionally served as a side dish for holiday meals, but I think it’s sweet enough to enjoy instead of pie!...
Pumpkin Coffee Cake Recipe
This Pumpkin Coffee Cake Recipe is moist and perfectly spiced with a thick crumble topping similar to New York crumb cake. Are you a math person? I’m a weird sort of non-math math person. I’m the type of person who can figure out completely convoluted math word problems quickly. But then, I’m sad to say, my basic math skills – like multiplication and division – are pretty lacking. Sigh. I have absolutely nothing to say for myself....
Easy Apple Cranberry Sauce Recipe
This Easy Apple Cranberry Sauce Recipe takes just 20 minutes to make and is a delicious balance of sweet tart flavor with a hint of vanilla aroma. This week I’m doing something very special and a little different. In honor of the humble cranberry, I’m sharing a new recipe that features cranberry every day from now through Saturday. And I’m calling this series Crazy for Cranberry! Because isn’t it high time cranberry got to spend some time in the limelight?...
No Bake Pumpkin Tart Recipe with Chocolate Ganache (Paleo; Vegan)
This flavorful No Bake Pumpkin Tart Recipe with Chocolate Ganache is vegan and paleo, whips up in just 30 minutes, and makes an elegant addition to your holiday dessert spread. I admit, I’m not much of a pie-eater except for my mom’s crumble-topped apple. Maybe it’s because pie is one of those things that’s usually an all-day affair to make. Or maybe it’s because it’s one of those things that’s so easy to mess up one of the components of. In any event, pie just usually isn’t my thing....