This homemade cranberry sauce is fresh cranberries simmered with sugar, orange juice and water until most of the berries burst. It cooks in one saucepan in about 15 minutes, and the orange keeps it bright instead of just sweet. It’s best made ahead. The sauce sets as it chills and keeps for a week in…
These garlic mashed potatoes start with Yukon Gold potatoes and a small pan of butter and milk with whole garlic cloves cooking in it. The cloves go soft and mild, then get mashed straight into the potatoes, so the garlic runs through the whole pot without the sharp bite of raw garlic. They take about…
This crockpot mac and cheese recipe puts dry pasta, milk and cheese straight into the slow cooker. There is no pot of water to boil and no colander to wash, and the result is a creamy, scoopable mac and cheese that holds well on a buffet. On Thanksgiving it is a real help: the oven…
Sweet potato casserole with a toasted marshmallow top is a Thanksgiving classic that can easily turn out too sweet. This version keeps the base creamy and lightly spiced, with a moderate amount of brown sugar, so the sweet potatoes still taste like sweet potatoes. It needs one pot, one baking dish and simple pantry ingredients,…
Green bean casserole made from scratch takes about 20 minutes more than the canned-soup version. The fresh green beans stay crisp-tender, and the mushroom sauce tastes of browned mushrooms, garlic and Parmesan instead of salt. You can assemble it the day before and bake it while the turkey rests, which frees up the oven when…