46 Fabulous Thanksgiving Recipes
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I can’t believe that it’s almost Thanksgiving. Time has been flying way too fast for me right now. I have assembled a collection of 46 Fabulous Thanksgiving Recipes for you.
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday! I love the food, family, and looking at what I am grateful for. Plus, the classic Thanksgiving meal is my favorite meal!

A few years ago was crazy for me, so I just wasn’t able to work on any new Thanksgiving recipes. There had been illness for several members of my family and that was just a part of the craziness.
So, as a result of the craziness, I have gone through all of my archives and compiled this collection of my favorite Thanksgiving recipes all in one place. I have everything from turkey to rolls and from sides to dessert. This is the best of the best that I have – 46 recipes in all! I wanted to share this again.

46 Fabulous Thanksgiving Recipes
Turkey
- Savory Turkey Brine – If you want to try brining, this is a good basic recipe.
- Brown Bag Turkey – the main reason to use the brown paper bag over an oven safe roasting bag is that the bag is breathable allowing the turkey to roast.
Cranberries
- Cranberry Orange Relish – This is a fun change from your usual cranberry sauce and no cooking involved with this one.
- Cranberry Sauce – This is your basic homemade cranberry sauce.
- Cranberry Apricot Sauce – This version of cranberry sauce includes dried apricots and apricot nectar.
Potatoes and Dressing
- Mom’s Sage Dressing – This is my go-to recipe for Thanksgiving.
- Sausage and Sourdough Stuffing – This heartier stuffing includes sausage and you make it with sourdough bread.
- Rich and Creamy Slow Cooker Mashed Potatoes – Let your slow cooker to the work for you. You can leave it and mash when it’s ready. Keep it in the slow cooker to keep the potatoes warm too!
- Perfect Mashed Potatoes – Half and half, along with cream cheese, help make these perfect potatoes.
- Ultimate Slow Cooker Mashed Potatoes – These potatoes cook with chicken broth and don’t require draining.
- Instant Pot Garlic and Rosemary Mashed Potatoes – Up the flavor of mashed potatoes with the inclusion of garlic and rosemary.
- Baked Parmesan Sweet Potatoes – I’m not oa fan of sugary sweet potatoes so this savory baked version is more up my alley.
Other Sides
- Slow Cooker Brown-Sugared Baby Carrots – Slow cooking makes these another worry-free side to include with your meal.
- Oven Roasted Carrots – Oven roasting really brings out the sweetness and leaves some nice crispness to the carrots.
- Sweet Carrots – A few extra ingredients can make your carrots sweetly amazing!
- Skillet Dill Green Beans – The fresh dill is the perfect complement to these fresh green beans. The fresh dill just added to the freshness of the beans.
- Panko Topped Green Bean Casserole – Make this recipe with fresh green beans and fresh mushrooms along with a delicious panko topping.
- Green Bean Casserole – This recipe is similar to the classic recipe with the addition of cheese!
- Cran-Orange Almond Salad – The flavors in this salad are perfect for this time of year.
- Apple Cranberry Fruit Salad – This fresh fruit salad is perfect for this season.
- Cranberry Pomegranate Jello – This Jello recipe includes those two fun seasonal fruits of cranberries and pomegranate.
- Make-Ahead Cranberry Salad – This salad uses fresh cranberries and is also known as cranberry fluff.
- Cranberry Jello Salad – This includes canned cranberries, crushed pineapple, apple, and raspberry jelly.
- Autumn Apple Salad – This leafy salad uses store bough dressing along with apple, craisins, pecans, and bacon.
Rolls
- Overnight Refrigerator Rolls – Make the dough for these the night before and then chill in the fridge until shaping the next day.
- Refrigerator Crescent Rolls – Also, store this dough in the fridge. however,you can be keep it there for up to 3 days.
- Speedy Whole Wheat Rolls – These rolls are ready in under 1 hour.
- 30 Minute Rolls – These are ready in about 30 minutes and are very popular on my site.
- Easy Potato Rolls – Mashed potatoes are added to these fabulous rolls.
- Orange Rolls – This dough is made overnight and make a frequent appearance at our Thanksgiving table. This recipe comes from my mom.
- Molly’s Rolls – These are similar to the Lion House roll recipe but are quicker to make.
- Lion House Dinner Rolls – Lion House rolls are a beloved Utah classic and a family favorite.
- Shaping Homemade Rolls – This tutorial gives you ideas on how to shape your rolls into different shapes.
- Maple and Pumpkin Spice Flavored Butters – Up your roll game by serving them with flavored butter.
Pies
- Perfect Pie Crust – This is the recipe I use for that classic flaky pie crust.
- No Bake Cranberry Orange Cheesecakes – Make these with biscoff cookies for the base and an easy no bake orange cheesecake filling. The topping is homemade cranberry sauce.
- Chocolate Pretzel Pecan Pie – This classic pie includes the addition of chocolate!
- Coconut Cream Pie – My go-to when I’m craving creamy coconut!
- Black Forest Cheesecake – Fishing aff this layered pie with cherry pie filling from a can.
- Maple Pecan Pie – This pie includes maple syrup instead of corn syrup.
- Banana Cream Pie – You make this recipe with a Nilla wafer crust, so it’s kind of along the lines of a Southern banana pudding but in pie form.
- Pina Colada Pie – One bite, and you will think you have died and gone to Pina Colada heaven.
- Raspberry Cream Pie – This pie is so delicious. It’s like eating raspberries on a creamy cloud!
- Sugar Cream Pie – This pie is all covered in a crunchy coating of sugar, cinnamon, and butter! It makes a nice sweet crisp topping just like the sugary top of a creme brulee!
- Lemon Supreme Pie – This amazing lemon pie has your regular pie crust followed by a sweet creamy cream cheese layer, finishing with a bright yellow lemon curd-like layer.
- French Silk Pie – This French silk pie is smooth, creamy, chocolate, satin goodness. Love it. Definitely a keeper.Â
This collection was originally published in November 2018.