Add some heat to your holiday feast with our southern-inspired turkey dinner.
Christmas dinner is often the most anticipated meal of the year. Save your sanity by following the handy schedule below.
Timeline
Day before: Make cornbread, Smoked Oyster Spread and pastry. Microwave or bake and mash sweet potatoes for the pie.
Early in the day: Make pie and stuffing. Stuff bird just before it goes in oven. Prepare vegetables.
Before serving: Allow turkey to rest before carving. Make gravy. Cook vegetables. Serve.
Recipes
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Chipotle Smoked Oyster Spread
Oysters, raw and cooked are very popular in Louisiana. For simplicity, here is an easy spread using smoked oysters. Just...
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Cajun Roast Turkey With Cornbread Stuffing
Make cornbread one or two days ahead to allow it to dry a little for stuffing.
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Mashed Potatoes and Parsnips
Parsnips are not a southern vegetable, they grow well in cool climates and become sweeter when they have been left in the...
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Buttered Green Beans With Toasted Sliced Almonds
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Sweet Potato Pecan Pie
Adapted from Classic Home Desserts by Richard Sax (Chapters Publishing, 1994). This type of double-decker pie is a southern...
Source
Homemakers Magazine, December/January 2004. Click to subscribe online and never miss an issue.Popular Features
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