Simple Thanksgiving recipes for college cooks
Natalie Johnson
Issue date: 11/24/08 Section: Lifestyles
For a festive Thanksgiving feast, compliment your turkey with these simple, delicious recipes that are easy to prepare and save.
Colorful Cranberry Salad: It stays fresh for days, freezes well and, with a jar and ribbon, makes a perfect hostess gift.
Ingredients: 1 orange with peel, juice of 1 orange, 2 or 3 chopped green apples, 3 cups of sugar, 1 tablespoon of lemon juice, 1 cup of chopped pecans (optional).
Grind fruit and pecans in a food processor. You can chop the apples, or all the fruit, by hand for a chunky consistency. Add the sugar and lemon juice, then mix. Refrigerate, stir and serve!
Spoon Rolls: You don't have to knead these rolls or let them rise. The dough will keep for two weeks in the refrigerator - just bake them when you are ready.
Ingredients: 1 package of dry yeast dissolved in 2 cups of lukewarm water, 1 beaten egg, one-fourth cup sugar, 1 and a half sticks of melted butter, 4 cups of self-rising flour.
Mix the dissolved yeast, egg, sugar and melted butter together, then add the flour and stir. Place the dough in a glass bowl in the refrigerator and cover. When ready, bake the rolls in muffin tins at 400 degrees until they are lightly browned on top, which takes about 8 to 10 minutes. Muffin liners are helpful for a quick and easy clean up and serving.
Green Beans You Won't Believe: As a sweet and sour alternative to traditional casserole, you can mix the ingredients ahead of time, then pop them in the oven on Thanksgiving Day.
Ingredients: 2-16 ounce cans of whole green beans, 10 strips of bacon, 6 tablespoon of sugar, 6 tablespoons of vinegar, one-half cup slivered almonds.
In a skillet, cook the bacon until crisp and crumble it. Reserve the drippings in the skillet, then add the sugar and vinegar and mix it together. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a casserole dish, layer half of the green beans, crumbled bacon and almonds and repeat. Pour prepared drippings over all other ingredients and bake for 45 minutes.
Pecan Pie: Prepare this pie in five minutes and let the oven do the rest of the work.
Ingredients: 1 cup of light corn syrup, 3 eggs, 1 cup of sugar, 2 tablespoons of melted butter, 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract, 1 and a half cups or 6 ounces of pecans, 1 unbaked 9-inch deep-dish pie crust.
Stir first five ingredients thoroughly with a spoon. Mix in the pecans and pour blend into the pie crust. Bake the pie on the center rack of your oven for about 55 minutes, according to pie crust temperature. Let the pie cool for two hours.
Colorful Cranberry Salad: It stays fresh for days, freezes well and, with a jar and ribbon, makes a perfect hostess gift.
Ingredients: 1 orange with peel, juice of 1 orange, 2 or 3 chopped green apples, 3 cups of sugar, 1 tablespoon of lemon juice, 1 cup of chopped pecans (optional).
Grind fruit and pecans in a food processor. You can chop the apples, or all the fruit, by hand for a chunky consistency. Add the sugar and lemon juice, then mix. Refrigerate, stir and serve!
Spoon Rolls: You don't have to knead these rolls or let them rise. The dough will keep for two weeks in the refrigerator - just bake them when you are ready.
Ingredients: 1 package of dry yeast dissolved in 2 cups of lukewarm water, 1 beaten egg, one-fourth cup sugar, 1 and a half sticks of melted butter, 4 cups of self-rising flour.
Mix the dissolved yeast, egg, sugar and melted butter together, then add the flour and stir. Place the dough in a glass bowl in the refrigerator and cover. When ready, bake the rolls in muffin tins at 400 degrees until they are lightly browned on top, which takes about 8 to 10 minutes. Muffin liners are helpful for a quick and easy clean up and serving.
Green Beans You Won't Believe: As a sweet and sour alternative to traditional casserole, you can mix the ingredients ahead of time, then pop them in the oven on Thanksgiving Day.
Ingredients: 2-16 ounce cans of whole green beans, 10 strips of bacon, 6 tablespoon of sugar, 6 tablespoons of vinegar, one-half cup slivered almonds.
In a skillet, cook the bacon until crisp and crumble it. Reserve the drippings in the skillet, then add the sugar and vinegar and mix it together. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a casserole dish, layer half of the green beans, crumbled bacon and almonds and repeat. Pour prepared drippings over all other ingredients and bake for 45 minutes.
Pecan Pie: Prepare this pie in five minutes and let the oven do the rest of the work.
Ingredients: 1 cup of light corn syrup, 3 eggs, 1 cup of sugar, 2 tablespoons of melted butter, 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract, 1 and a half cups or 6 ounces of pecans, 1 unbaked 9-inch deep-dish pie crust.
Stir first five ingredients thoroughly with a spoon. Mix in the pecans and pour blend into the pie crust. Bake the pie on the center rack of your oven for about 55 minutes, according to pie crust temperature. Let the pie cool for two hours.
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Greektomemom
posted 11/25/08 @ 10:07 AM CST
These sound easy and tasty....but are there supposed to be cranberries in the first recipe (Colorful Cranberry Salad)? Can we have a correction? Danke. (Continued…)
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Greektomemom
posted 11/25/08 @ 10:13 AM CST
In the first recipe, Colorful Cranberry Salad, the cranberries are ... incognito, missing, forgotten, awol? Ok, editors, how about the rest of the story?The others sound good though!
Enjoy the post feast l-tryptophan napping! Happy Thanksgiving!
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