Thanksgiving Dinner

Do you or your family make any special dishes for the holidays?

I always entertain at my house on Thanksgiving. My family loves all the traditional foods which were passed down from my mother and grandmother.

I make a sausage stuffing with apples that I put in the bird right before it goes in the oven.

I make creamed cauliflower and creamed onions. The cream sauce recipe is from my grandmother—mostly butter, flour, and milk with spices and white pepper.

Mashed potatoes are mashed potatoes. This year we are mashing red potatoes.

I make cranberry sauce from fresh cranberries.

I used to make the famous green bean casserole but decided a few years ago that fresh green beans lightly buttered with some pepper were fewer calories.

I bake sweet potatoes. Just plain. Not the sweet potato casserole I used to make with sugar and butter which was too many calories.

And a pumpkin and apple pie. I make a crumb crust apple pie.

My granddaughter did the leaves around the pie! She is so creative!