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Thanksgiving and Christmas Feasts!

Our family has always valued our time together at Thanksgiving and Christmas. The lunch-time meal (which we always call "dinner" for some reason) is a HUGE part of our celebration. Every year, little things or new traditions are added to our holiday celebrations; but,the meal VERY RARELY changes. It was a really big deal when we added the squash casserole about 10 years ago! One of the main reasons I started this little recipe collection was so that this particular meal created and orchestrated every year by my mother, Linda Fayard, can continue on forever!

The women of our family gather the day before the meal to prepare and refrigerate it all. This is not a sexist thing :) I am all about some girl power but this has just become a wonderful family tradition for us girls to get together and prepare the family meal and spend time together. The boys are welcome to join but so far none of them have showed up! We do make them cut the turkey and do all this dishes so it works itself out!

Most of the recipes for the sides and deserts are all individually here in this blog - just click on the name and it will open the recipe.  Have fun and enjoy!



The Menu

Oven Roasted Whole Turkey
Gravy (Turkey drippings mixed with jar gravy)
Cornbread Dressing & Cranberry Sauce
Squash Casserole
Sweet Potato Casserole
Green Bean Casserole
Broccoli and Rice Casserole
Watergate Salad
Seven Layer Salad
Uncle Ben's Wild Rice
Bake & Serve Rolls (With squeeze butter on top)
Nestle Chocolate Chip Cookies
Millionaire Pie
Pumpkin Pie (Thanksgiving only)
Cherry Cheesecake (no bake box mix with canned cherry on top)


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