Thanksgiving Planning

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This year is my first time cooking Thanksgiving dinner at my home. I would like it to be a memorable experience for my family but I am all out of ideas other then the usual turkey and stuffing and mashed potatoes! I looked online for recipes but nothing seems to be easy! I don’t cook for myself, I eat takeout day and night so I really need dishes that wont be too difficult and ones that taste good. Thanks in advance,
Jessica
Baklava is made with walnuts or pistachio nuts…I looked it up, anyway can you substitute it with fruit? Sorry to sound so ignorant but cooking is not my thing!
Maple Glazed Carrots well that sounds yummy!

Green Bean Casserole is a good and easy dish, the one with the french cut green beans, cream of mushroom soup and those Frenchs’ french fried onions. Go to the store and look at the onion can and they will have a recipe.
Then on to sweet potatoes, you can just bake them and serve them with butter, or you can get the canned ones. mash them well, add butter and cream ( or milk) and a bit of brown sugar. bake and enjoy ( do NOT put marshmallows on top please)
Creamed Corn is easy, and there are some brands that come frozen in chubs, those you can just putinto the pot and cook. You can add some fresh black pepper and a bit of butter to taste.
Creamed SPinach is a tradition at my house. I make mine from scratch, but birds eye and green giant both make a very good creamed spinach also.
take a minute and get yourself a better homes and gardedn , southern living or some sort of women’s magazine, they are going to be loaded with recipes this time fo year. If you are a non cooker. then there’s nothing wrong with buying premade and just heating and adding your own seasoning..semi-homemade is accpetable. If you really cant step up and cook, then most local grocery stores have “meals” that you can buy precooked, just heat and eat at home. and you dont have to tell anyone either.
One thing that always helps a meal is good bread. again tradition at my house is pillsbury crescent rolls. just the smell of those bring me back to dinner at momma’s house.
good luck

I’m trying to get some ideas for some new sides to bring to our familys potluck. I’m running out of ideas and am looking for a little inspiration! I’m also interested on some new salad ideas (I’m so sick of the standard fruit and ceaser salads)

Stuffing and mashed potatoes are the obvious choices. My mom usually makes sweet potatoes with marshmallows, which are absolutely delicious, and roasted veggies, like carrots. We also have green bean casserole – it’s amazing!

Thank you for the pie recipe!

Side dishes are always interesting to make.
This year I am making a nice banana salad.
So simple;
Cut bananas in to wheels.

Add strawberry flavoured yogurt and mix carefully.
Make just before serving to avoid blackening of the fruit.

Also,
My family likes a potato salad, so I am making some this year as a side item, and for sweets, here is a very special recipe for you to try;

Granny’s sweet dumpling pudding

Dumplings;
250 ml cake flour
10 ml baking powder
2 ml salt
50 ml margarine/butter
1 egg
100 ml milk

Sauce:

500 ml boiling water
25 ml margarine / butter
cinnamon sugar

Sift dry ingredients together. Rub 50 ml margarine in tot until mixture resembles bread crumbs. Beat eggs and milk together, stir in to flour mixture in until soft dough. Add milk if needed. Heat water en 25 ml margarine until boiling point. Put spoonfuls of dough in to water. Cover with lid and allow to simmer for 15 minutes. Do not lift lid while dumplings are cooking

Scoop dumplings out of water with a slotted spoon and place in dish. Shake cinnamon sugar over Boil the water that the dumplings were cooked in again. Add to that some cinnamon sugar and use over dumplings as a sauce. Add water if needed.