Stockpile Recipe – Thanksgiving Dinner

For years and years and years I had 25 – 30 people over for Thanksgiving dinner. It sounds like a massive amount of work, but it really was not. I had one or two people bring a dish, and I made the rest. While dishes varied slightly over the years, here is what a typical Thanksgiving dinner consisted of:

Green Salad
Turkey
Stuffing
Mashed potatoes
Bread (my ex-SIL made the BEST homemade rolls ever!)
Candied Yams
Corn
Beans
Jellied cranberry (no one would eat fresh)
Gravy

For dessert we would have pumpkin pie, cherry pie, chocolate cream pie and Cheesecake

Keeping the menu simple went a long way towards making the meal easy to prepare. I doubled or tripled the recipes below depending on the amount of people expected. Looking at the list above, it is no wonder everyone was in a stupor after the meal!

Candied Yams I do not mess around with candy yams, they are just brown sugar and butter, but the secret is allowing the liquid to dissipate without burning the yams. When done correctly, it is like eating a piece of candy. These are not low fat, low cal or low anything. I also do not use marshmallows:

(1) Large can sweet potatoes (I suppose you could use yams ) drained
(1) stick of butter
(1) 1 cup brown sugar

Melt butter in pan on stove. Add brown sugar. Slowly add sweet potatoes sliced in half. Cover and allow to gently bubble. Flip occasionally with spatula. Uncover partly to allow the liquid to start to dissipate. You may want to add a little more brown sugar. Keep on low heat for approximately one hour. Make certain you flip the sweet potatoes occasionally. You want the sugar to turn to candy. The end product is not pretty, but oh my is it tasty!

Stuffing – again this is very plain as I hate cooked celery. I have added mushrooms in the past and it works well. This recipe can be used to both stuff the bird and bake in a separate covered casserole.

2 loaves sourdough bread lightly toasted and cubed (although white bread works fine, it just ends up mushy)
1 stick butter
1 medium onion, dice fine
Bell turkey seasoning

Melt butter in pan on stove, add onions to lightly saute.
Add butter and onions to cubed sourdough bread.
Mix well
Add Bell turkey seasoning to taste
Stuff bird

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Previous Stockpile Recipe Posts:

Monday’s Meal
Stockpile Recipe – Harvest Soups
Stockpile Recipe – Baking With Apples
Stockpile Recipe – Crock Pot Pumpkin (or Squash) Pie Pudding
Stockpile Recipe – Pear Cobbler and Pear Pie
Stockpile Recipe – Banana Bread
Stockpile Recipe – Skillet Cookies
Stockpile Recipe- Labor Day Menu
Stockpile Recipe – Chocolate Slush Cake
Stockpile Recipe – Snickerdoodle Coffee Cake
Stockpile Recipe – Clafoutis
Stockpile Recipes – What to do with zucchini?
Stockpile Recipe – Steak, Chicken and Seafood Meals
Stockpile Recipe – Zucchini Cobbler
Stockpile Recipe – Apple Brown Betty
Stockpile Recipe – Cherry Kuchen
Stockpile Recipe – Ice Cream Cake
Stockpile Recipe – Deviled Eggs
Stockpile Recipe – Sour Cream Cheesecake
Stockpile Recipe(s) – Cool Whip
Stockpile Recipe – Easy Chicken
Stockpile Recipe – Quiche
Stockpile Recipe – Spaghetti Sauce
Stockpile Recipe – “Stuff”

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