Thanksgiving Menu Bonanza
I’m so excited for the holidays to be here, a time where we all gather together and give thanks for all of the blessings in our lives.
I hope you have a wonderful holiday season planned, too!
I’ve compiled a list of recipe ideas to help you plan your Thanksgiving meal below. Of course we don’t have all of this in one sitting but I wanted to give you plenty to choose from! Click on each recipe to view the complete tutorial of how to make it. Recipes which are in the Southern Plate Classic Comfort Food That Makes Everyone Feel Like Family cookbook are noted in the side along with page number. Recipes which are exclusive to the cookbook (not on SouthernPlate.com) are also noted beside the recipe.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Main Meal
- Buttermilk Congealed Salad (Cookbook p. 66)
- Marshmallow Sweet Potatoes
- Fried Apples (Cookbook p.106)
- Cornbread Dressing (easy and moist) (Cookbook variation p.128)
- Lucy’s Sweet Potato Casserole (Cookbook p. 117)
- Green Bean and Shoepeg Corn Casserole (Cookbook only p. 226)
- Jordan Rolls (Cookbook p.16)
- Preston Rolls (Cookbook only p.230)
- Cranberry Relish
- Candied Baby Carrots
- Fried Cabbage
- Grandmama’s Tex Mex Dip (Cookbook only p.173) – no idea why we have this at Thanksgiving but we’d all boycott the holiday without it!
- English Pea Pimento Casserole
- Broccoli and Cauliflower Salad (Cookbook only p.42)
- Fried Okra (Cookbook p.224)
- Butter Stewed Potatoes
- Sweet and Sour Green Beans (Cookbook p.40)
- Kid Friendly Relish Tray
- Corn Casserole (Cookbook p.23)
- Creamy Macaroni and Cheese (Cookbook p.200)
- Deviled Eggs (Cookbook p.24)
- MeMe’s Mashed Potatoes (Cookbook p.35)
- Cheesy Hash Brown Casserole (Cookbook p.33)
- Sour Cream Hash Brown Casserole (Cookbook only p. 32)
- Watergate Salad (Cookbook only p.218)
- Pecan Pie Muffins (Cookbook p.169)
- Streusal Pumpkin Spice Muffins (Cookbook p. 129)
- Frozen Cranberry Banana Salads (Cookbook p.188)
Pies
- Faux Pecan Pie
- Lucy’s Chocolate Pie (Cookbook only p. 146)
- Aunt Sue’s Fried Chocolate Pies (Cookbook only p.146)
- German Chocolate Pie (Cookbook only p.246)
- Perfect Pecan Pie (Cookbook p.120)
- Honey Punkin Cream Cheese Pie
- Coconut Meringue Pie
- Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Pie
- Ashley Mac’s Caramel Pie
- Buttermilk Pie
- Sawdust Pie
- Chocolate Pecan Pie
- Lemon Meringue Pie (Cookbook p.192)
Cakes
- Good N Easy Apple Cake with Homemade Whipped Cream (Cookbook p.107)
- Chocolate Velvet Cake (Cookbook p.142)
- Green Velvet Cake (Cookbook only p.170)
- Aunt Sue’s Pound Cake (Cookbook only p.8)
- Mama’s Custard Sauce – to go over pound cake (Cookbook only p.10)
- Chocolate Pecan Pie
- Daddy’s Coconut Cake (Cookbook p.154)
- Apple Dapple Cake (Cookbook p.118)
- Mandarin Orange Cake (Cookbook p.14)
- Butterfinger Cake (Cookbook p.22)
- Fruit Cocktail Cake (Cookbook p.39)
- Yellow Cake with Peanut Butter Icing (Cookbook p.258)
- Chocolate Pound Cake with Fudge Glaze (Cookbook p.100)
- Pumpkin Crumb Cake (Cookbook p.130)
- Granny’s Sheath Cake (Cookbook only p.31)
And don’t forget this…
Holiday Fruit Salad (Cookbook p.164)
Homemade Caramel Corn (Cookbook p.91)
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
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I am so glad I found you before the Holidays! I am excited and looking forward to trying several of your recipes. I have already tried some of them and they have all been great! Thanks for all your work.
I really enjoy your down to earth personality and the recipes I have copied from the e-mails. We don’t have a large book store in our area, but went to Virginia yesterday to Barnes and Noble and purchased your cook-book. I was going to put it on my Amazon wish list, but couldn’t wait that long. Wishing you and your family a joyous Thanksgiving!
Hey Sally! Thank YOU so very much! You just made my day and I sure am glad you found me, too! I think I’m the lucky one in the deal here!
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Gratefully,
Christy
Welcome to Southern Plate Sally!! I am glad you found me too, look forward to getting to know you and I hope you have a very Happy Thanksgiving!!
Hi Christy – Your recipes are delicious! I have made your sweet & sour green beans, cranberry/banana frozen salad, and mac & cheese – all this week!
Excellent cookbook – the recipes work.
Thank you for the video.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family~
Joy
Dallas, Texas
Hey Joy! Well boy howdee do you ever live up to your name! thank you SO MUCH for injecting sunshine into my life today and I hope you have a WONDERFUL Thanksgiving!
Gratefully,
Christy
Same here! I have gotten to where I come check out your website every day and look forward to any new post you have. Thank you so much for sharing above and beyond with all of us! I have been on your site just for a few weeks and have made something of yours almost every day!
Oh WOW Tracy! You just made my day. I am so blessed to have you here and I hope that you and your family have a Happy Thanksgiving!!
I have been going thru cookbooks, looking at websites for my Thanksgiving recipes. Now you come up with todays post. Thank you so much. All I have to do is go to my one stop place and find the best home cooked recipes-and I have no worries that they will be a hit. Thank you so much for all you do. I enjoy so much your new book and it is definetly going to be passed out for Christmas presents. You are truly a southern girl thru and thru. Love ya.
Love you Donna, Happy Thanksgiving!
It makes me wish I had more people to cook for. Good Job on the Video!
Hey Christy wonderful video makes me wish I could be there. I kinda envy you as my parents passed away years ago and your video made me sad for a moment as I missed all those wonderful traditional Rockwell gatherings where generations of families gathers if not for just a half a day to share wonderful memories together. You have such a blessed life as you cherish every second of your hectic day it’s amazing. One of the things you do that I wished I had done awhile back was document everything as those memories are very important. Always keep that camera rolling as you are all together you’ll never regret it. Wishing you and your family the best Thanksgiving ever and thanks for sharing those wonderful recipes, videos and memories with us.
Sista C.,
Wow, did you just make this so easy for all of us today….with just this one post?!? Thanks for ALL the time you take to gather, organize and post all these recipes to make our lives simpler. Hope this Thanksgiving is your best ever. Blessings to you and yours….Terri
Your mother’s house sounds like my in-laws’ house! There’s always so much food, the table will barely hold it! The problem with the holiday is that my parents live in the area, too, and my mother will not go to my in-laws’ even though they have been invited. I think my mother wants to be the one in charge, not a guest! Of course, my husband wants to eat at his family’s house since there’s more food, and, well, it’s his family! It always makes for a long, awkward Thanksgiving and Christmas every year! Whoever we visit second in the day gets offended no matter what!
Had this problem for a while…now he goes to his and I to mine…everyone is happy and we don’t mind it a bit…
The Preston roll recipe is great. IMO, worth the price of the book. I’m making those for our Thanksgiving meal.
i really enjoyed today’s recipes we were to have thanksgiving here at our home but my wonderful husband ed was diagnosed with cancer so we are going over the hills and through the valleys to have the holiday with all of our blended family the kids want to take care of us by cooking dinner they are afraid with radiation starting in two weeks that we might not be up to a big christmas and they want to show their love isn’t that just the sweetest thing but the daughter-in-laws want me to e-mail miss christy’s recipes love to everyone joy and ed ross
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. You are truly Blessed and I am so glad to be a part of your extended SP family.
Of course your recipes have been tried and proved, but I also look forward to your uplifting quotes.
This timely list is wonderful to have, Christy, thanks! We’re adding fried okra to our feast table this year and I’m chuckling again your corn and okra spaghetti dish after revisiting your okra recipe post . Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
I have read your book cover to cover and enjoyed every minute of it…..you are so personable and down to earth. Your honesty is refreshing and completes yourself with sincerity. I look forward to all my family enjoying the holidays and fellowship. One of my favorite dishes for Thanksgiving is Pineapple Casserole! Yummy either as a main dish or a dessert with ice cream!
Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Hey Christy…I have just got your book…I have a friend that told me about you.. I love your book..I am goine to make your sweet and sour beans and try out this Manderine cake for Thanksgiving…Love yor website….Happy Thanksgiving to you and all your family….
I think cornbreak dressing is the absolute best thing…I look forward to holidays when i can get away with eating it day after day…
Hey Christy,
Have you started on cookbook number 3 yet???? Ya need one that is nothing but desserts! I have both your cook books and LUVVVVV THEM!!
Hey Christy – Thanks for the Butterball offer. I can’t get the link to work!
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I am sooooooo looking forward to the and dressing with giblet gravy. That is my favorite thing to eat at Thanksgiving. I can do without the rest of it, it I can eat my fill of dressing! May God bless each of you and your families, and may you have a glorious Thanksgiving!!
Everyday is a surprise on your blog. Look forward to it each day. I cannot get the link to work but love those Butterballs turkeys. I am so looking forward to making my mom’s pumpkin chiffon pie with Amish lard crust. Yummy.
So far I’ve found a few of your recipes that I know I’m going to make. They are # Cornbread Dressing, Coconut Meringue Pie & # Butterfinger Cake.
oh I want to make one of everything! getting started now! thanks Christy for all the love you put into these wonderful recipes…Happy Thanksgiving right back at ya…from Macungie, PA!
Thanks I am going to try your Jordan rolls….
Happy Thangsgiving to you and your.
You have another cookbook? Where do I get the first one from? I have my wonderful autographed copy of Southern Plate but I knew nothing about another one!
Hey Rita! Thank you so much! I self published a little cookbook shortly after starting SouthernPlate.com but it was retired when I got a book deal with Harper. I own three copies myself and am saving them for the younguns
. If this book goes well, though, I’ll definitely do another one!
Gratefully,
Christy
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Dear Christy – just wanted to wish you a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family. Thanks for all you do!
Julie
What a sweet post you did this time. It is nice to hear from someone who is grateful for all God has given her, and He has really piled it on this year. I am so happy for your family and for you. I know that your Mama is so proud of you. We live through our children sometimes and it is such a blessing to have a child who turns out as great as you have. You have paid back every bit of your raising. A blessed Thanksgiving to you and all your family! Love, Marianne
I stumbled onto your cookbook today while browsing Amazon for gift ideas. When I saw it, I immediately ordered three, one for my daughter, one for my best friend and one for ME! Then I googled you & found this website and subscribed to your email. You have a new fan in NC and will have two more as soon as I give the cookbooks as presents!
These are awesome recipes. Thank you for taking the time to do all of this before taking off for your Thanksgiving holiday.
Can I just say, Granny’s Sheath Cake is hand’s down, the best what we like to call “Texas Sheet Cake” I’ve ever tried. It ranks a Hee Haw SALUTE! Yes, I watched Hee Haw with my grandparents as a child.. Junior. Grandpa. Minnie Pearl… need I say more.. but back to that cake! The only thing I left out was the cinnamon. To me, that’s a mood thing. But my gosh FINALLY I found a recipe for uhhmm, (sorry) Texas Sheet Cake that is truly moist and scrum-dilly-ump-tious! Just loved it. Had to break the last half into two pieces, put them in a couple of Lock & Lock’s to freeze them because I just kept taking a bite when I walked by. I left a fork in the pan to make that easy of course. Again, thank you Christy! This is checked as a “done!” on my “Recipes To Find” list!
I am so glad to hear it was such a hit Deb!!!I leave a fork in my dishes quiet often ~giggles~
These recipes are the best! Keep them coming! Do have a recipe for Cake Balls?
I have been making the buttermilk salad for many years, but I always used peach jello. I am going to try the strawberry next time, looks great. Give the peach a try also, it is really good!!!!
I would love to have the grannys sheath cake recipe please.
Thanks for sharing. As a child, my best friend’s mom made butter stewed potatoes.
It was always such a treat when I was invited to dinner and the potatoes were part of the meal. I will definitely be trying these.
Also, I would like to thank you for adding the Ziplist “button” to make it easy to save and sort your recipes.
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Thanks to your Mac & Cheese recipe, “my mac & cheese” is now the go to for all family get togethers. Thank you. Thank you, Thank you.
You forgot to mention your Overnight Turkey! http://www.southernplate.com/2008/11/overnight-turkey-easy-delicious-and-always-moist.html
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!
Christy thank you so much for putting this together. I know it was a lot of work. It was so helpful. Will be cooking several of you recipes during the Holiday, I pray you and your family have a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving. Tell your mom I wish the same for her. Love and prayers!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING hope you and your family have a wonderful day. Make it a safe one. GOD BLESS
Thank you so much for putting this all together for us! It is so Wonderful to have these Great recipes at our fingertips! Wishing You and Your Precious Family, a Beautiful and Blessed Thanksgiving! <3 and Hugs!
I hope you have a blessed Thanksgiving too Debi!!! ~HUGS~
Christy, your recipes just keep getting better and better! I have cooked for many years but I so enjoy trying all of yours. So far, I have made over 20 of your recipes and each one has been great! They are so simple, yet very good! I have several already to give as Christmas gifts! Thanks you for making each one so easy and good and with ingredients that can be found in any store. Keep up the good work and am patiently waiting for your next book! You are THE BEST!
~blushes~ Mary, you are just too kind! I am so glad that you are enjoying the recipes and I hope that you have a blessed Thanksgiving!!!
Christy, really, really enjoy your website and your recipes. This morning I made your Jordan rolls and they are so good and easy. This recipe was one I had about 3 years ago and had lost. I enjoyed making this recipe and so far the folks that I gave a pan of rolls to have enjoyed them too. Also, I have forwarded your site to about 7 or 8 people tonight. Thanks so much.Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.
Oh yeah, Happy Thanksgiving!
I am so glad you are part of my life. Thank you for all that you do to make our lives easier and sweeter.
Cannot print the Old Southern Butter Roll Recipe. This is what I have been waiting for and no one else has had the recipe.
Joan Young
Mississippi & Tennessee Gal
Love all the recipes for Thanksgiving. You are so thoughtful to do this for everyone. SSome I have tried and they were great.
Wishing you and your family a Happy Thanksgiving.
Love the family pic. Happy Holiday to all!
This post would make a great cookbook. The photo of your family would make a great cover. If you don’t print one for sale I think I will print one off for myself. One of the most helpful posts ever. Thanks.
oh, Happy Thanksgiving! <3