Featured Friday, Volume 1.12

Posted by Michelle Rittler November 14, 2024

2024 Thanksgiving Menu and Meal Prep Timeline

* image These past few months have been busy for our family, especially since our oldest joined a local swim team. Between juggling our work schedules and balancing school with practices... we're all pretty wiped out. Although it's a lot of work, I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving. Preparing the holiday meal for our family fills my heart with joy, and I can't wait to get started. To make things easier for me, I don't deviate much from our first Thanksgiving as a family. The dishes I make are familiar ones, and the recipes for them live at my fingertips. Keeping the same menu year after year means I don't have to spend time researching recipes or planning a new one. Here are my tried-and-true Thanksgiving recipes, as well as my prep timeline for the big day!

With Thanksgiving quickly approaching, folks everywhere are planning their menus and stocking up their pantries with their must-have ingredients to avoid a holiday feast catastrophe only hours before their dinner guests are due to arrive.

One of the staples of a Thanksgiving meal seems to be cranberry sauce, so I thought the focus of this week's Featured Friday post should be recipes that call for cranberries. Given that I'm allergic to them (I still can't believe it), cranberry recipes on Taste As You Go are non-existent. Thank goodness I'm part of a brilliant food blogger community whose members are more than willing to share their recipes.

Cranberry Bog in Rockefeller Center in 2009 - Photo by Taste As You Go

Grace, Chef Duff Goldman, Michelle of Taste As You Go - Photo by Taste As You Go

Pictures from Ocean Spray's 2009 "Bogs Across America" Tour

Cranberry Cornbread from Recipe Girl
Cranberry Madeleines from Sugarcrafter
Cranberry Orange Cinnamon Rolls from Two Peas and Their Pod
Cranberry Pomegranate Ebelskivers from My Kitchen Addiction
Cranberry Scones from Sugarcrafter
Cranberry Tart with Hazelnut Crust from The Kitchn
Cranberry Turtle Bars from Closet Cooking
Fresh Cranberry Relish from Closet Cooking
Gingered Cranberry Sauce from Closet Cooking
Individual Cranberry & Pecan Croissant Bread Puddings from Willow Bird Baking
Pear and Cranberry Rustic Tart from Simply Recipes

So, when it comes to cranberry sauce on your Thanksgiving table, which do you prefer: jellied cranberry sauce or whole cranberry sauce?

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