Posts Tagged ‘cranberry sauce’
This is the first year I have to make Thanksgiving dinner, need good recipes and ideas PLEASE!!!?
I am cooking for my boyfriends family of about 10-12 people, my family always does seafood for Thanksgiving so I never have made a traditional Thanksgiving dinner till this year… PLEASE HELP WITH SOME IDEAS!
Make a schedule for the day of. That way you can figure out what’s going in the oven, on the burners, on the grill at what time and you don’t run out of burners or forget to cook something and if you get behind you can grab someone to help!
Besides the turkey (figure about 14 lbs for 12 people, 1 per person and 2 just in case), make another meat – ham’s probably most common, but you can do beef, fish, chicken, whatever. Also, you don’t need as much of your secondary meat since most people will take turkey, but for example I’d say 6 lbs of ham. Or you could ask people what they want 🙂 but I like to surprise!
To make things easier, throw some frozen veggies – corn, peas, broccoli – on the table. They taste so much better than canned with less work. Since some people don’t like naked veg, put out an au gratin sauce – could be as easy as melted Velveeta, or make one yourself. *One serving* 2 T margarine melted (med heat) in a pot on the stove, whisk in 1 T flour. Slowly stir in 1 c milk, and keep stirring until sauce starts to thicken. Add 3/4 c shredded cheese, and keep stirring until sauce has a smooth consistency.
You might want to at least double that recipe for 12 though.
Green bean casserole is a generally beloved Thanksgiving dish. I use the recipe on the bag of French’s French Fried Onions, but the link is here ( http://www.frenchs.com/recipe/rds/frenchs/?id=9374 ). This goes fast, so make at least two.
Mashed potatoes and gravy, cranberry sauce, and possibly an acorn squash (cut it in half, gut it, add about 1/2 c marshmallows, 3 T brown sugar, and as many raisins as you can cram in after that stuff – it will depend on size of squash – then bake in the oven) round out your veggies.
Serve fresh bread from a bakery, put butter, salt, and pepper on the table.
Deviled eggs.
And at least 3 kinds of dessert!
GL
What kind of stuffing are you planning on making this Thanksgiving?
I’m going to cook a sausage cornbread stuffing. I made it last year, and it turned out great. I’ve also seen some other good recipes.
I’ll be making two kinds for Thanksgiving dinner this year. It’s kind of a family tradition to have an extra kind of cranberry sauce and at least two or three different kinds of stuffing.
I’ll be making a batch of traditional stuffing and another of Sausage-Apple stuffing. The recipes are in the link that’d below.
For the record, I really prefer the texture of the dressing when it’s cooked in a separate backing dish and not inside the turkey.
Good luck and Happy Thanksgiving!
Ben
Cranberry Sauce Recipe | Thanksgiving Dinner
How to make the Best Cranberry Sauce with Port Wine Recipe for Thanksgiving or Christmas Turkey Dinner. Cranberry Sauce is one of the most important side dishes for your Holiday Turkey dinner. If you are like me, I usually buy a can of cranberries but this year I was shown how to make an amazing Port Wine Cranberry sauce and it was really easy! Canadian, American Thanksgiving and the Christmas Holidays are just around the corner. You can make this sauce he night before and refrigerate in your serving dish. And of course you will have some Port left over for your guests after dinner.
Duration : 0:5:3
