Saturday, November 23, 2013

Last minute Thanksgiving recipes from the 'Queen of Quick and Easy'

Today is November 21, 2012, the day before Thanksgiving. While television and magazines show the perfect hostess calmly decorating her table with hand-twined raffia napkin rings, the truth is that most of us are flying around at the grocery store around 7:00 p.m. in a wild panic. While the occasional Martha Stewart does exist, most of us are not her. These last-minute Thanksgiving recipes may help you as you prepare for what should be a special, relaxed family day.

If you had a bird's eye view inside happy homes across the United States celebrating Thanksgiving, you would realize that most of these hostesses are just like you: a busy wife, mother, employee, church member, etc...They have learned how to minimize the effort and maximize the holiday memories.

These quick and easy recipes have been developed over 32 years of marriage and many years of stressing about perfect holidays that never happen. Benefit from mine and many other womens' on-the-job-training and skip right to the part where YOU learn to enjoy the holidays!

Quick and Easy Mashed Potatoes shares a secret I learned from a church cook who made mashed potatoes for a large group every week.

So Quick and Easy Fudge uses frosting in a can for fudge in minutes!

Cheese logs and cheese balls are always special. Here is an easy one using dried spices and some green onions.

Forget the salad dressing? Here are some ideas for quick and easy salad dressings from items in your refrigerator.

This almost instant Cherry Jell-O Jubilee recipe whips up in seconds! It looks so pretty, too!

Here is an amazing no-bake Jell-O pie. Be sure and bookmark this one!

For an interesting bread for your dinner, you can whip up cornbread in the bread machine. Delicious and different.

Instead of pumpkin pie, how about a quick and easy peach cobbler?

Copper Pennies carrot salad may be familiar from your Grandmothers house.

Here is a mock Hollandaise sauce to add quick and easy elegance and impress your Mother-in-Law. Dont tell her it was this easy.

How about a hearty soup course? Here is a quick and easy, almost instant, Corn Chowder recipe.

Deviled eggs without boiling eggs. Read my recipe and see my secret.

This is a quick and easy take on sweet potatoes. Peachy Sweet Potatoes are refreshingly different.

This recipe is my daughters favorite. It is pumpkin muffins with only a couple of ingredients. They are low fat, too.

Several delicious and quick cheese balls from my friend, Dava.

Peanut butter fudge, also from cake frosting. This is probably one of my most-requested recipes.

Heres a very easy pie crust recipe using Bisquick.

This would be my favorite recipe of all time, if I had to choose one. This is a cole slaw recipe that I finally garnered from a local Baptist Church. All the ladies used it. Here it is (with a few tweaks here and there!)

Hopefully, these ideas help you come up with some quick additions to your Thanksgiving table. Why not subscribe to the Knoxville Cooking Examiner for email updates so you wont miss a thing! Be sure and like Barbie Crafts on Facebook, too.



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