It’s about time for Thanksgiving: a holiday of rest, family, gratitude, and of course, a massive amount of delicious food. I know we’ve all got our traditions, but for people who want to try something brand-new, here are three delicious Thanksgiving recipes, collected from various sources, and simplified for your personal convenience.
Stuffing
Everyone loves a good turkey—- but a turkey’s no good if the stuffing isn’t! From Julie Clark, we present to you a tried-and-true recipe for turkey stuffing.
Ingredients:
13-14 Cups of Bread Cubes (White Bread, Preferably)
1 Cup Onion
1 Cup Celery
2 Eggs
½ Cup Chicken Stock
2 Eggs
Poultry Seasoning
Salt
Black Pepper
Instructions
- Sauté the vegetables in the butter on medium heat until tender.
- Pour the butter and vegetable mixture into the bread cubes.
- Add the rest of the ingredients directly to the buttered-up bread.
- Mix thoroughly.
- Spread the stuffing evenly in a shallow pan.
- Bake for 30-35 minutes until golden brown.
- Stuff a turkey, or eat it as you please!
Two
Let’s move on to a rarer thanksgiving dish: oysters! This might be a bit of an odd one out, but it’s a dish my father makes for Thanksgiving quite often, so it’s near and dear to my heart. Since the recipe comes from him, though, it’s a little vague. You may have to use your imagination!
Ingredients
- Oysters
- Lemon Juice
- Oil (or Butter)
- Salt
- Cream
- Pepper
- Shallots
Instructions
- Open the oysters using proper technique (gloved hands and a thin knife or screwdriver).
- Add the oil/butter to a pan, and heat.
- Add the shallots to the pan and sauté until brown.
- Mix this with cream, salt, pepper, and lemon juice.
- Pour this into/on the oysters.
- Bake until golden brown.
- Enjoy!
Three
Last, and certainly not least, it’s apple pie! A simple dish, to be sure, but you can never go wrong with it. It’s always an excellent way to round off a good, hearty, Thanksgiving dinner. Luckily, Amy Duska has just the perfect recipe.
Ingredients
Pie Crust (Homemade or Storebought)
Apples
Brown Sugar
Granulated (White) Sugar
Cinnamon
Nutmeg
Egg
Lemon Juice/Zest
Flour
Recipe
- Line an oven-safe pan with pie crust.
- Place the lined pan in the freezer.
- Peel and cut the apples.
- Toss these apples in both sugars, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg and lemon juice/zest.
- Take the pan and crust out of the freezer, and fill it with this mixture (do not add any liquid, which sits at the bottom of the mixing bowl).
- Lightly flour a countertop, and roll out a second piece of pie crust.
- Place this over top of the filling.
- Trim off any excess, but be careful not to trim off too much.
- Press the lined crust and the top crust together, using either your hands or a fork (which I’ve found works best).
- Cut vents in the top of the pie crust with a knife. If you don’t, chances are your poor pie will crack, or even explode in the oven!
- Coat with an egg wash, and sprinkle with sugar.
- Take a piece of tinfoil, fold it in half, and wrap it around an oven-safe pie dish, then take the excess and cover the rim of the dish, so it obscures the edges of the top of the pie. This is called a pie shield!
- Bake the pie at 400 F for 25 minutes.
- Remove the pie, and take off the pie shield.
- Lower the oven temperature to 375 F, then bake for an additional 30-35 minutes.
- Once the crust is golden brown, you’re all set!
That’s all for Thanksgiving recipes; I sincerely hope we’ve added something new to your table! But that being said, I want to take the time to remind you that Thanksgiving is a holiday of gratefulness. I know we’ve all heard it before, and we’re all probably sick of it. But we hear it so often because it’s true— I find that we don’t often sit and think about what we’re lucky to have, instead focusing our attention on what we don’t.
So I implore you all to just pause, for just one moment, and think about what you’re grateful for on Thanksgiving. Maybe it’s your friends, or your neighbors, or your family; maybe it’s whomever is making you the food you eat. Trust me, you’ll feel all the better for it.
Now, that being said: Have a happy Thanksgiving!
