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Nov 16, 202354
Below are over 50 of my favorite Thanksgiving recipes below, as well as a handy printable Thanksgiving menu planner.
Now tell me this: what’s the Thanksgiving dish/recipe your family can’t live without?!? Mine would definitely say homemade rolls! (And my personal favorite is this cranberry pomegranate jello.)
Thanksgiving Leftover Recipes
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**Special shout out to this LEFTOVER TURKEY SOUP that has more than 500 5-star reviews. It’s one of the best ways to use those turkey leftovers!
Thanksgiving Dinner Menu Planner
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Free Printable Thanksgiving Dinner Planner
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Thanksgiving Menu Planner
Thanksgiving Day Schedule
Thanksgiving Grocery Shopping List
50+ Thanksgiving Recipes
Turkey/Ham
Homemade Rolls
Stuffing
Veggie Sides/Salads
Fruit Sides
Potatoes
Drinks
Pies/Desserts
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posted on November 16, 2023
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54 comments on “50+ Thanksgiving Recipes {Plus a Thanksgiving Menu Planner!}”
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Shannon Francis — Reply
Thank you for the menu planner and timing sheets! It made my Thanksgiving day go so much better! Thank you for providing my family with excellent recipes for years. You have helped me feel confident in the kitchen and when I’m hosting or have a reason to try something new, I know I can come to your site for tried and true recipes that everyone will love. Thank you Mel! And thanks to your family for supporting this endeavor! You all are awesome!
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Mel — Reply
Thank you for taking the time to share your appreciation, Shannon – that means a lot to me!
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Melissa Caldwell — Reply
I just want to say thank you for sharing all of your cooking and recipe wisdom. my sister and I have been using your recipes from when we were in college and now you are still my go to for recipes with my family of 5. You do a fantastic job of explaining how to make things and I love the step by step and pictures, it helps new recipes seem doable. I also really enjoy your random banter and genuiness to your posts. Anyway, I was just on your webpage looking up which thanksgiving recipes I wanted to use for my family while we are living in Belgium and craving those traditional thanksgiving meals and I just thought after all these times of coming to your site I would leave you a thank you. Thank you for sharing your talent with the world. I hope your family has a fantastic Thanksgiving and holiday season.
Best wishes
– a random mom who loves your recipes-
Mel — Reply
Melissa! This was such a sweet comment to read. Thank you for taking the time to share with me! I am so honored that you are still here after all these years, and I am so happy you still enjoy the recipes. Thank you so much! I appreciate you!
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Sarah — Reply
Hi Mel! Off topic, but will you be offering a special Bosch deal this year like you have in the past? I would finally like to purchase one, but would prefer you to get the referral credit if so.
Thank you!
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Mel — Reply
Thank you, Sarah! Yes, the Bosch sale just went live and it’s one of their best sales ever! Here’s the link.
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Amy Banks — Reply
Hosting 45 people, you are a saint! I’m hosting 7. Trying your cranberry jalapeño dip and the tried and true instant pot mashed potatoes. For dessert doing Paula Deen’s pumpkin ooey gooey butter cake. Happy Thanksgiving. I am grateful for all the recipes you post. Cannot wait to purchase your cookbook!
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Mel — Reply
Thank you so much, Amy!
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Tracy — Reply
Thanks so much! Love all this help. I was just filling out the Thanksgiving Menu Planner and I think adding a category for what type of cookware and serving dish could be super helpful. Last year all of my assignments required 9×13’s and I didn’t have enough so I was scrambling with random smaller dishes and it could have been avoided if I had thought it through earlier. Just a heads up for anyone else that might run into this.
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Sage — Reply
Can’t believe I’m already planning for Thanksgiving! Where did this year go? These recipes look delicious! I will 100% try some of these out this year. I’m trying to get ahead on meal planning for this year so I’m not rushing to get everything done. Needless to say, I will be referencing this post a lot over the next month. Thank you for sharing!
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Misty — Reply
I can’t live without your coconut cream pie recipe at Thanksgiving! Love it!! Been dreaming about it for about a month just waiting for Thanksgiving so I can make it!! And I had to look through your dessert section twice to make sure I wasn’t missing it, and no it really wasn’t on the list! It’s seriously the best pie ever! I’m excited to try your new upside down apple pie recipe though, it seems like a combination of my hubs 2 favorite pies, apple and pecan! And of course homemade rolls are a must for Thanksgiving at our house as well! So I’m excited to check out your new roll recipe as well! Thanks for all this yumminess that makes our thanksgiving perfect!
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Kat — Reply
Your Thanksgiving printables are so helpful!! I’ve used them the last two years, and they are the best!
The food we can’t have Thanksgiving without is carrot casserole (cooked carrot rounds in a basic white sauce 9×13 pan, topped with cheese and buttered breadcrumbs. So yummy!)
The tradition we can’t live without is pie night. The night before Thanksgiving is pie night. Family and friends gather and everyone brings 1-5 pies and we eat as much as we can 🙂 After the full Thanksgiving meal, everyone is too full for pie- or you wait and make room for at least a piece. Having pie night the night before fixes that!
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Julie — Reply
I love, love, love your Apple Cranberry Pie! It’s beautiful and tastes so yummy the next morning for breakfast too. Can’t wait to try several of these ideas.
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Diane — Reply
For any reader who has not yet tried Amazing Easy Fluffy Blender Rolls – try them! They are the best rolls I have ever tasted or made. In fact I had taken a many year break from making homemade rolls due to an unfortunate Christmas roll making experience, and this is the recipe that convinced me to try again, and I am so glad I did!
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Gigi — Reply
Your cream spinach gratin and parker house rolls are Thanksgiving staples ! I roll the Parker house rolls like regular rolls though.
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Gloria — Reply
Thank you so much for all the lovely recipes all year. You are always my go to site for any recipe I need & your never disappoint.
Happy Thanksgiving -
Kamber Bishop — Reply
No way!! This is sooo great to have all these fun Thanksgiving favorites in one place, right at the top of your site. Thank you! I just logged on this morning to decide what sides and desserts I’m bringing. You’ve given me so many options. Always just what I need, thankyouverymuch!
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Abigail — Reply
Ever since you posted them, I have made pumpkin cinnamon rolls for breakfast on Thanksgiving morning…and I think and hope it may be one of those things my kids look forward to/think fondly about into their adulthood.
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Kaelynne — Reply
Didn’t you use to have a recipe that was rolls shaped like pumpkins? I can’t find it anywhere.
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Mel — Reply
No, I haven’t posted a recipe like that. Sorry!
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Melissa — Reply
I almost exclusively use your recipes for thanksgiving because I just trust your recipes so much. Made pumpkin cheesecake and apple cranberry pie last year and I can’t wait to again this year!
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Keri — Reply
I spent all last year on Thanksgiving day making the traditional food that nobody really enjoyed and I thought to myself why am I doing this?! So this year everybody got to pick their favorite food that and we’re combining them to make our version of Thanksgiving! So we’ll have hash brown casserole for breakfast and then pork, mashed potatoes, and mac and cheese!
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Tina — Reply
Love this, Keri!
Happy Thanksgiving
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LoriZ — Reply
Mel! I used to make your overnight crescent rolls. So good, highly recommend. BUT last year I tried your fluffy blender rolls. Oh my goodness. We will never go back! So easy and so good! Thank you so much for all of your wonderful recipes. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
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Stacy — Reply
Pretty much everything I make for Thanksgiving comes from you! It’s all sooooo delicious. This year I’m not hosting, but I couldn’t decide which side I love the most, so I’m making 3 to take for dinner with my in-laws. My husband is so happy, too, because he LOVES all of your recipes. Thank you for sharing!
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Chelsea — Reply
Shout-out to you for your article on BYU Today. I love how it starts with chickens, donkeys, and pigs! I come for your recipes but I stay longer for the pig videos!
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Carol — Reply
Wow! You have some delicious looking recipes to try! This year we will be doing a turkey breast from R&R BBQ, made from scratch: pumpkin pie, sourdough sage stuffing, and mashed potatoes. I have no energy for more this year.
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Janay — Reply
We’re having my husbands family over here for Thanksgiving. We cook the Turkey and then try to divide out other responsibilities, but this year I keep wanting to be in charge of everything so I can try all your recipes. I selfishly assigned myself dessert so I can make all the treats that have been calling my name from your site — hahaha!!
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Becky — Reply
We are hosting and only immediate family due to covid. Menu is roast turkey, ham, fresh cranberry sauce, twice baked potatoes, cheesy potatoes ( I LOVE both versions of potatoes!), stuffing (I do not like the stuff and hubby likes stovetop GAG so he’s in charge of that), dinner rolls (hubby is very picky about these and only likes one store-bought brand which I will not touch yuck LOL), a fresh salad which I haven’t decided on yet, and homemade apple pie. Sorry Mel, I do not use any of your recipes for this dinner…I just love reading the recipes and seeing the comments!
Happy Thanksgiving – I am thankful for you and your blog. It’s my GO-TO to find a recipe for anything. Yesterday I made your New England clam chowder for the first time. My picky (again!) hubby loved it which is nothing short of a miracle! LOL
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Kristi — Reply
We had Thanksgiving a month ago. We did a turkey, roasted in a paper bag, stuffing, cranberry sauce (jellied from a can ♀️), mashed potatoes and gravy, candied yams, peas, pumpkin pie. All family recipes!
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Ellen Slack — Reply
I am hosting our annual family thanksgiving with aunts and uncles and cousins and grandparents from both side of our family. We cook a lot of family recipes but your chocolate chip pie and apple cranberry pie have become favorites! One year my daughter got so deeply offended when she saw her aunt eat the last bite of chocolate chip pie that I now have to make a few extra pies just to keep a fight from breaking out. I hope your family has a sweet day!
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Rebecca — Reply
Hey! Helping host a 60 person family reunion and have a question? How would you suggest doing the rolls/bread for the event? Make dough into rolls and freeze, then cook day of, make dough and refrigerate until day of, cook rolls fully then warm somehow? Make loaves? Up for suggestions!! Thanks!
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Mel — Reply
Hey Rebecca, for that size of group, I’d definitely make, bake, cool and freeze. And then warm for the dinner.
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Rebecca — Reply
Thank you so much!! Very helpful, as always, Mel!!
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Tammy — Reply
I think Thanksgiving Day is the only time I don’t follow your recipes. Oh wait – I do make your Roasted Chicken with ice cream salt – delicious!! It’s only the four of us – so I make a chicken instead of turkey (and secretly like the less gamey chicken over turkey!). I make my late mother’s dressing (not stuffing!) and her famous rolls (which is the only recipe I will never share). I also make green bean casserole without an recipe and my late father’s pumpkin pie. Wishing you and your family a wonderful Thanksgiving!!
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Sandy — Reply
My sister and her husband are the best cooks in our family, and they know it So they volunteered/said they’d only come if they got to cook it all! We all graciously agreed to that! I know she’s using several of your recipes. One of my favorites is the pumpkin white chocolate mousse cheesecake!
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Mel — Reply
How amazing is that?? Enjoy not having to cook!!
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Abigail — Reply
Your pumpkin cinnamon rolls have become our family breakfast tradition on Thanksgiving since you posted them! I’ll also be using a handful of your other recipes for our dinner.
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Mel — Reply
That’s a great idea for Thanksgiving morning!
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Kat B — Reply
Your Thanksgiving menu planner saved me last year when we did Thanksgiving by ourselves at home. It was so handy and just perfect for organizing! Many years ago I tried making the turkey for the first time and failed miserably. I avoided it at all cost until fate put a free turkey in my lap just a few years ago. I used your “No-Fail” recipe with the greased brown paper bag (only using parchment paper instead of the bag), and baked the world’s most delicious turkey! I no longer fear turkey duty! I’ve made it several times and it is always perfection. Thank you!
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Mel — Reply
Oh that’s awesome, Kat! I’m so proud of you! Once you conquer turkey, you can make anything! 🙂
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Jill F — Reply
We had “fakesgiving” last weekend since my son is a pilot and works on Thanksgiving and it’s cheaper for the other siblings to fly everyone home. As usual, it was a repeat of “Mel’s greatest hits”. Slow cooker turkey w/ no fuss gravy, parmesean cream corn, amazing instant pot potatoes, chocolate mousse cheesecake pie, and peanut butter cup cheesecake were all on the menu. Your recipes never disappoint! Thank you for sharing your talent for easy, delicious food with us.
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Mel — Reply
I’m actually kind of jealous you’re done with the big meal!! Glad it went well and glad your family could be together.
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Elita@BusyNeedle — Reply
Will celebrate it with friends this Saturday. In Europe, it’s not a thing (obviously) so there’s no holiday time off. We usually do the weekend before or after. I’ll be making my staple caramel walnut tart and I think I have to try to make your pumpkin rosemary rolls. They look divine!!
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Mel — Reply
That caramel tart sounds divine, Elita! I hope you have an enjoyable holiday whenever you end up celebrating!
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Misti — Reply
I’m headed to my sister’s house this year. Not too far to drive and she has the biggest yard for kids to run around if the weather is nice. I get to make grandma’s rolls and the mashed potatoes.
I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
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Mel — Reply
Oh, that sounds dreamy, Misti! I love it when the weather holds and the kids can run around outside, too. My boys are already planning their epic turkey bowl game the morning of Thanksgiving.
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Elizabeth K. — Reply
Your parmesan cream corn has become a holiday staple in our house! Can’t wait to make it again this Thanksgiving.
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Mel — Reply
It’s a staple here, too!
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Alison — Reply
I think I’m making Life Changing Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes and a pumpkin cheesecake. I may have to make a pumpkin pie for the purists in the family.
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Mel — Reply
I think I’ll end up with a pumpkin pie, too, just for the few in the group who ask for it (it never gets eaten all the way, though!). I might go with the crustless pumpkin cupcakes, on second thought.
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Sarah — Reply
Thanks Mel! I love your recipes! We are hosting my brother’s family this year. Should be fun! And so much better than last year when we (and most people in the world) were alone. You didn’t say what you are doing??
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Mel — Reply
I agree about this hopefully being a more fulfilling year for holidays than last year in terms of spending it with friends and family! Thanks for asking about what we’re doing. We’re staying home and hosting two of Brian’s sisters and their families and my sister and her family. Will be loud and fun!
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Sarah — Reply
Sounds fun! I actually tested positive for COVID yesterday so we will be alone after all. I can’t taste anything and I’m feeling pretty bummed about Thanksgiving now. 🙁 Trying to count my blessings and look for things to be grateful for.
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