Your Recipes For Thanksgiving.

[MrsPopetobe09]

I thought it would be so cool to start a thread where you can share you thanksgiving recipes that you always make.. or just recipes in general that you always cool.

I know on Thanksgiving our there is always Pumpkin pie but last year for thanksgiving i started something new.
Pumpkin Cookies with cream cheese icing!

Try them!

http://i36.tinypic.com/5ckaoo.jpg

This is what they are supposed to look like...

This is what mine look like....

http://i33.tinypic.com/2rhprg2.jpg

1 cup golden raisins
1 cup orange juice
1/2 cup butter (1 stick) at room temperature
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon Watkins Vanilla Extract
1/2 teaspoon Watkins Ginger
1 cup canned pumpkin
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon Watkins Cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon Watkins Nutmeg

(I made these cookies yesterday. They taste so yummy with the cream cheese frosting! If you don’t like raisins in your cookies, omit them and the one cup orange juice from the recipe. Add 2 tablespoons of orange juice (not concentrate) with the pumpkin. Continue with recipe.)


Preheat over to 350 degrees F (180 degrees Celsius). Place raisins in a small bowl and cover with orange juice. Set aside.
In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugar. Stir in egg, vanilla, and ginger. Mix in pumpkin.
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
Fold dry ingredients into pumpkin mixture. Drain raisins and add to the batter, mixing just enough to incorporate.
Drop by tablespoonfuls onto an ungreased cookie sheet, allowing a one-inch space between each cookie. Bake until set and slightly golden brown around the edges, about 15 minutes.
Allow to cool completely and frost with cream cheese frosting.

Now i always buy cream chesse frosting.. But if you would like to make your frosting here is the recipe for the frosting...

4 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
4 tablespoons butter, at room temperature
1 1/2 cups of confectioner’s sugar
1/2 teaspoon Watkins Vanilla Extract
1 teaspoon milk or cream
Cream butter and cream cheese together. Stir in sugar, vanilla, and milk. Wisk or mix with mixer until smooth and creamy.
Frost cookies and eat!


Please please try them!

they wil be a huge hit!

PROMISE!

[BarceloMayaPalaceBride]

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1-9" graham cracker pie crust
4 oz cream cheese, softened
1 tbsp sugar
1 cup plus 1 tbsp milk, divided
8 oz Whipped dessert topping, divided
1-15 oz can pumpkin
2 (4 serving size) pkg. instant vanilla pudding
1-1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice

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Beat together cream cheese, sugar and 1 T milk until smooth. Fold in half of the whipped topping.
Pour into pie crust.
In a separate bowl combine pumpkin, pudding mixes, 1 cup milk, and pumpkin pie spice.
Beat for 2 minutes, or until smooth.
Mixture will be thick.
Spoon pumpkin mixture on top of cream cheese mixture. Refrigerate 4 hours or overnight.
Garnish with remaining whipped topping when ready to serve.

Number of Servings: 8 *If you want to make a low fat version, just sub the cream cheese, milk, whipped topping, and pudding for the lite/low sugar versions. ;)

[Whitewater]

Marshmallow Hater's Sweet Potatoes

(This recipe is perfect for those who like sweet potatoes but who HATE the added sugar with brown sugar and marshmallows. It's vegetarian but not vegan, just FYI)

You can use yams and/or sweet potatoes interchangeably with this recipe.

Ingredients:

Enough yams (It's typically a half a yam per person -- use the smaller ones, the big ones are tough and woody)
Cream (or milk if you're watching your calories, though cream gives a fantastic texture)
Butter (gotta use real butter, anything else becomes way too oily)
Canned Mandarin Oranges (2 small cans are typically enough for 4 people) in syrup.

Boil the yams with their skins on. When they're mushy, as in mashed potatoes, drain them and take the skins off and get rid of any of that woody stuff -- you might want to cut off the tips of the yams too, makes it easier. Put the skinned yams in a bowl and add cream and butter, like you would for mashed potatoes. You're going to use less of it though, because you're going to add the mandarin orange syrup -- should be about half cream/butter and half syrup.

You can whip the potatoes themselves with a beater, but you'll need to fold the mandarin oranges in by hand, after the yams have been mashed.

Put it into a container that's safe for baking. Sprinkle more orange pieces on the top, artistically (you can make shapes, spell people's names, whatever), and then bake until things look and smell done. Basically you're just getting the orange syrup to merge with the potatoes, that's all. If you don't bake these they taste kind of flat and bland and boring.

Serve hot

This recipe adds a delicate orange flavor to sweet potatoes and doesn't overwhelm you with gooey sweetness, even though the syrup does add sugar.

[WebLady]

I don't make anything terribly special for Thanksgiving; we have the usual ham and/or turkey, mashed potatoes, green beans and mac n cheese. There is usually pumpkin pie and pecan pie, but I am pretty sure it is store bought; I don't eat it ;)

[girlggc]

I always make cranberry sauce.

Ingredients:
12 oz fresh cranberries (I get the ones at the local farmstand, but if you don't have a local farmstand, you can get them at the supermarket)
1 cup white sugar
1 cup water

Method:
Go through each cranberry individually and remove all stems. Trust me, they always miss a few before packaging. I know it's tedious, but trust me, you really do not want any stems in your cranberry sauce.

Wash the cranberries, even if it says prewashed on the packaging. You have just touched every last cranberry.

Put all the ingredients in a saucepan, at least medium sized, but if in doubt, go larger.

Simmer for about 10 minutes or until all the skins have popped.

Now you have 2 choices. You can either wait until after the sauce is done cooking to skim off the white froth, or if you are impatient, like me, you can skim off the white froth as it forms.

Turn off the stove and move the sauce to a cold burner.

I use this time, because I am disorganized lol, to get out a tupperware container. I am not biased at all among brands. The reason I use tupperware is that I live with my mother and that is what she owns. If you don't own any tupperware, you can use rubbermaid, gladware, etc. The point is, you'll need a plastic container large enough to hold the cranberry sauce.

After you have located your container, you must determine if the cranberry sauce is cold enough to put in the container without melting the plastic. If you are on the ball and have gotten out your container before you even started, you'll probably have to wait a little while. If, on the other hand, you fall on the other extreme of the organizational spectrum (like my neighbors who I'm still trying to figure out why they keep their give away pile in the master bath tub) by the time you locate an appropriate container the cranberry sauce might actually be cool enough to put in it. Use your judgement on this one.

After you have determined that your sauce is cool enough to put in your plastic container, put it in. I recommend washing the pot right away, mostly because I don't like to leave dirty pots out. Anyway, let it sit on the counter with the lid off for awhile because most likely the cranberry sauce will still be steaming.

After you have decided the sauce is cool enough, put the lid on the container and stick it in the fridge. Don't forget about the sauce though, remember the 2 hour rule.

After the cranberry sauce is in the fridge, let it chill there for a minimum of 8 hours, but ideally 2-3 days. This is because cranberry sauce is best served cold.

[NOTKT]

Anyone have a recipe for carrots? I need to find one for this week!

[NurseLau84]

Anyone have a recipe for carrots? I need to find one for this week!

Try this one: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/roasted-carrots-recipe/index.html

I love all of her recipes, she's a genius!

[KMS]

I always make cranberry sauce.



I love love love homemade cranberry sauce!! I always fiddle with the sugar until it is the right amount of sweetness so maybe this year I'll go with your ratios instead of changing it up ten thousand times! I also add mandarin oranges, diced apples, walnuts, cinnamon, and vanilla...and probably a few other things too.

[NOTKT]

Try this one: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/roasted-carrots-recipe/index.html

I love all of her recipes, she's a genius!

Wow! Thanks! I printed it out, I think it's the one!

[MrsPopetobe09]

Anyone have a recipe for carrots? I need to find one for this week!

I know you think you have already found the carrot recipe you want but i have made these carrots before and they are amazing. I just couldnt remember where i got the recipe from.

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Maple-Dill-Carrots/Detail.aspx

[KMS]

We bring different things to our family dinners every year. I think that I finally figured out most of what we're bringing this year. I can't wait until we can do a Thanksgiving meal and make the whole thing ourselves.

steamed broccoli w/ a flavored salt. It's similar to this recipe from epicurious, but I pretty much just grind a ratio of salt, toasted sesame seeds, and red pepper flakes together in a spice grinder to make a seasoning.
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Broccoli-with-Sesame-Seeds-and-Dried-Red-Pepper-106326

I'm going to bring one dessert. I have a recipe for a vegan chocolate pie from Alton Brown that I'm going to make. http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/moo-less-chocolate-pie-recipe/index.html

We will also make some dressing and gravy so that we can have some. We'll probably make enough for everybody so there's an option besides just the packaged stuff the family will make. I have a go to gravy recipe from Vegan with a Vengeance cookbook and I'll whip together some sort of bread/cornbread dressing.

I still need to think of another veggie side to bring...

[EarlyBird]

i know you found your carrot recipe but my mom makes something called shredded carrots.. its sooo good. the carrots are sliced from the top to bottom (they make long, thik widthed strips- we use a cheese slicer or a veggie peeler to do this) add some oil and butter in a pan. fry the carriots up----add parsley, oregano, some garlic and butter if you want.. too rich to eat alot of but when she makes it i usually grab a slice or two

[NOTKT]

sounds delicious! I really don't know which recipe I will use, I thought I did! I want to make them fresh on Thursday, not sure they will reheat very well. I only have about 30-40 minutes between getting home from church and sending them off with my DH. :) Thank you!

[Brian's Bride]

I made Hot Apple Pie last night!! Extremely tasty alcoholic beverage, served in shot glasses topped with Reddi-whip.

1/2 GL apple cider
1/2 GL apple juice
1 1/2 C. sugar
4 cinnamon sticks

Bring these four ingredients to a boil and cool. Then add 1/2 L. Everclear and put into bottles, mason jars, etc.

I just poured mine back into the cider and juice containers (with a little extra that fit into a water bottle). Can't wait to drink this tomorrow! :)

[KMS]

That chocolate pie recipe I posted earlier on was so freaking amazing. I even had some die hard tofu haters ask for the recipe. That is definitely a super simple recipe I'll be making for years to come. We made a raspberry coulis to go with it too.

We made a really good dressing and gravy. I was really frustrated because we couldn't find our usual gravy recipe, but the new one we tried was even better! It had a whole head of roasted garlic in it! I want to slather everything in that stuff now. LOL

We made a pretty basic dressing recipe, but for the bread we used half whole wheat sourdough bread and half cornbread. We also used onions, celery, garlic, portabello mushrooms, diced apple, wild sage, dried italian seasoning, s&p, veggie broth, and olive oil.

[starsthrumysoul]

I thought it would be so cool to start a thread where you can share you thanksgiving recipes that you always make.. or just recipes in general that you always cool.

I know on Thanksgiving our there is always Pumpkin pie but last year for thanksgiving i started something new.
Pumpkin Cookies with cream cheese icing!

Try them!

http://i36.tinypic.com/5ckaoo.jpg

This is what they are supposed to look like...

This is what mine look like....

http://i33.tinypic.com/2rhprg2.jpg

1 cup golden raisins
1 cup orange juice
1/2 cup butter (1 stick) at room temperature
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon Watkins Vanilla Extract
1/2 teaspoon Watkins Ginger
1 cup canned pumpkin
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon Watkins Cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon Watkins Nutmeg

(I made these cookies yesterday. They taste so yummy with the cream cheese frosting! If you don’t like raisins in your cookies, omit them and the one cup orange juice from the recipe. Add 2 tablespoons of orange juice (not concentrate) with the pumpkin. Continue with recipe.)


Preheat over to 350 degrees F (180 degrees Celsius). Place raisins in a small bowl and cover with orange juice. Set aside.
In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugar. Stir in egg, vanilla, and ginger. Mix in pumpkin.
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
Fold dry ingredients into pumpkin mixture. Drain raisins and add to the batter, mixing just enough to incorporate.
Drop by tablespoonfuls onto an ungreased cookie sheet, allowing a one-inch space between each cookie. Bake until set and slightly golden brown around the edges, about 15 minutes.
Allow to cool completely and frost with cream cheese frosting.
Now i always buy cream chesse frosting.. But if you would like to make your frosting here is the recipe for the frosting...

4 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
4 tablespoons butter, at room temperature
1 1/2 cups of confectioner’s sugar
1/2 teaspoon Watkins Vanilla Extract
1 teaspoon milk or cream
Cream butter and cream cheese together. Stir in sugar, vanilla, and milk. Wisk or mix with mixer until smooth and creamy.
Frost cookies and eat!


Please please try them!

they wil be a huge hit!

PROMISE!

A woman in my program at school made these - they were DELICIOUS!!!!!!