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Thanksgiving is practically here. It’s time talk about my My Ultimate Thanksgiving Menu.
When it comes to Thanksgiving (okay and Christmas), I get pretty serious about the menu. Like I simply cannot leave a thing out, I have to make it all! See, I have this thing where I feel the need to please EVERYONE, and when it comes to Thanksgiving, there’s no exception. This year all six of my siblings will be in town, along with two girlfriends, (Caitlin you will be missed, BUT we’ll see you at Christmas!) and my cousin Abby and her roommate Sarah. So far there’s a grand total of twelve, but I guarantee that will change and there will be last-minute additions. So I always make a FEAST.
Granted we don’t typically eat until six or seven PM, but I feel that’s OK if we have tons of really good food, you know? Plus, it just would not be a Gerard family meal if it wasn’t on the later side.
So anyway, here is my menu for this year. I have a few last-minute recipes coming your way this week, so look out for those too!
Breakfast
TIP: I always serve a good breakfast on Thanksgiving morning since we tend to eat on the later side. If you do the same, I highly recommend a delicious hearty breakfast. It keeps people full until dinner. Then all of a sudden… they’re starving!
Buttermilk Ricotta Pancakes with Candied Bacon
Chocolate Cinnamon Swirl Pumpkin Brioche Bread
Sweet Potato Pie Cinnamon Rolls with Butter Whipped Meringue Frosting
Appetizers
*TIP: Prep the appetizers in advance and then bake/warm in the oven before serving. For the hummus, prepare each hummus recipe in advance and then add toppings just before serving.
Crispy Prosciutto Baked Brie Bites with Honey Pears + Walnuts
The Big Holiday Hummus Board with Roasted Root vegetable Chips
Goat Cheese Stuffed Phyllo Swirls with Pomegranate Honey + Pistachios
Simply Salty Sweet Potato Skin Chips
5-Ingredient Cranberry + Brie Cinnamon Sugar Puff Pasty Swirls
Main Course + The Bread
Herb and Butter Roasted Turkey
Easy Fully Pull-Apart Buttery Dinner Rolls
Sides + Soups + Salad
Maple Cream Sweet Potato Soup with Cinnamon Sugar Twist
Brown Butter and Sage Mashed Potatoes
Brown Sugar and Pineapple Roasted Acorn Squash
Lighter Sweet Potato Casserole with Maple Toasted Marshmallow
Butternut Squash and Wild Mushroom Stuffing
Nutty Wild Rice and Shredded Brussels Sprout Stuffed Mini Pumpkins
Harvest Cranberry, Persimmon and Burrata Salad
Desserts
*TIP: all of these desserts can be made up to two days in advance, so do yourself a favor and start prepping them now! It will save you so much time come the big day!
Salted Bourbon Pecan Pumpkin Pie
Caramelized Condensed Milk Mini Apple Pies
Fudge Brownie and Chocolate Liqueur Creme Brulee Pie
Slice ‘N” Bake Vanilla Brown Butter Pecan Cookies…dipped in Chocolate
Chocolate Covered Cinnamon Sugar Pretzels
The Leftovers
Green Chile Butternut Squash and Turkey Enchiladas with Crispy Sage
The Thanksgiving Leftovers Croque Madame
One-Pot Cheesy Turkey Tamale Pie
Turkey, Smashed Avocado, Cranberry, Brie and Mashed Potato Waffle Melts
BONUS: 4- EASY Meals to serve this Week
Chipotle Quinoa Sweet Potato Tacos with Roasted Cranberry-Pomegranate Salsa
Crockpot Honey Harissa Chicken with Chickpeas, Feta and Jeweled Pomegranate Rice
Crockpot French Onion Soup with Cheesy French Toast
Umm, is it Thanksgiving yet? I am starving!
I’m going to make your Carmelized Onion and Brussel Sprout Nachos with Brie and Fontina as an appetizer. Can’t wait!!!!
YEAH! I hope you love the nachos! Thanks!
whoa. SO EPIC!
Thanks Betty! Have a great Thanksgiving!!
Your photographs are absolutely stunning. Are those twig and leaf salad servers from the same place as the feather cheese knives? Because WANT. 😀
Thank you so much, Kate!! Yes, they are!! Here is the link: http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/pdp/detail.jsp?&id=33000092#/
Happy Thanksgiving!
You are a wonder woman, Tieghan! The spread looks incredible and how in the world did you manage to cook massive amounts of gorgeous food and then photograph it all?!! Well done!! I am so impressed! P.S. The pecan pie looks so cute.
Trust me, I am SO NOT. BUT thank you! It means so much!! 🙂 Hope you had a great weekend!
Beautiful!!! Thank you so much for sharing all of your gorgeous recipes! I cannot tell you how much I have been loving everything I’ve made so far 🙂
Thank you so much, Sarah!! Hope you have a great weekend!!!
Oops, meant hope you had a great weekend. AND have a great Thanksgiving!
All looks delicious and perfect. Sounds like you have a good plan for Thanksgiving and know what you’re doing, I wish I was as together as you are! You have some really delicious sounding side dishes that I would love to try and honestly, I am always happy to have an excuse to eat more butternut squash, cranberry and turkey!
Awe!! Thank you so much, Fiona!! Hope you have a very happy Thanksgiving!!
What an awesome menu Tieghan, well, no-one will be hungry after that meal. Everything looks so amazing. Love that a lot can be prepped before hand to make things easier. I definitely will be using some of your ideas for our Christmas 🙂
Thank you so much, Lynne!! Hope you had a great weekend!
Tieghan, this is absolutely INCREDIBLE! Everything is styled and photographed to perfection – as usual!
Thank you so much, Lucia! Have a great Thanksgiving!
Hey Tieghan,
I love the feel and look of your website. Have you design this yourself? or perhaps use a developer?
Thanks
Thanks Mary!
Yes, I use a developer, but it was a bunch of multiple developers.
Hey Tieghan,
What a gorgeous spread! I will definitely try the buttered cheesecloth tip with my cider-brined fresh turkey. I also plan to try your crescent rolls and mashers recipe. On the potatoes do you incorporate the garlic into the final mashed potatoes or just in the cooking ? I was thinking of making the mashers early in the day, keeping them on low in my crockpot, then adding the browned sage butter before serving – Do you think that would work?
Thanks so much!
Beth
Hey Beth!
I do include the garlic in the potatoes (like in the final mashed potatoes) and YES, that is exactly what I do. The crockpot works great. Let me know if you have any other questions and I hope you love all the recipes! 🙂
Happy Thanksgiving!
I know how much work went into that post so major hats off to you!!!
Awe! Thank you! I have to say, it was hard to get all the recipes on the table before the sun set. ahh!!
Happy week of Thanksgiving!!
Oh boy, I so wanna be your neighbour, your friend, your long lost family member so I can go and just eat there!!! Perfect menu, if I ever saw one, I’m drooling here!
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hehe! Thank you so much, Miranda! Hope you had a great weekend!
I am drooling just from looking at those photos xD
That’s a very, very long menu… How do you even have time to do all this? Is multi-tasking so many dishes even possible? Haha
haha!! it is possible!! PLus, if you cook a lot the day before it makes it all very doable! 🙂
Thank you!
Tieghan! This is one stellar list of Thanksgiving yum! Everything looks delectable…I’m adding your brown sugar and pineapple roasted acorn squash to my menu…but geez, I wish I could make it all! :)_
Thank you so much!! Hope you lave the squash and have a great Thanksgiving!! 🙂
Why is it that every-time that you take pictures of what you cook, I so desperately want to eat my computer´s screen? I especially was very very very surprised reading your “soup list”. I mean Maple Cream Sweet Potato Soup with Cinnamon Sugar Twist?? Does it even exist? I am so going to cook everything: thank you so so so much for the tips!
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hehe! That is the idea! 🙂
Thank you so much! Have a great Thanksgiving!!