Serve a traditional Southern Thanksgiving dinner that your guests will rave about all year. Everything from roast turkey to southern cornbread dressing to cranberry sauce and caramel cake!
Oven Roasted Turkey with Gravy
Our Thanksgiving dinner just wouldn’t be complete without the turkey! Here’s my simple method for cooking a beautifully moist Oven Roasted Turkey with golden, crispy skin and instructions for making the best pan gravy!
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Southern Cornbread Dressing
Try this recipe once, and your mouth will start to water every time you think of it! My family’s cherished Southern Cornbread Dressing recipe is wonderfully moist and seasoned with onions, celery, and sage. It puts stuffing to shame!
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Old Fashioned Copper Pennies
Old fashioned, vintage recipes are the very best in my book! One of my favorites from years gone by is this Old Fashioned Copper Pennies recipe. It’s a simple combination of marinated sweet and sour carrots, onions, and bell peppers that may be served as either a side dish or salad.
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Southern Style Green Beans
My low and slow method for cooking Old Fashioned Southern Style Green Beans with its beautiful, smoky ham hock broth for flavoring will take you straight to the country no matter where you live!
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Old Fashioned Southern Brown Rice
Called brown rice only because of the color of the finished dish, Southern Brown Rice is an easy side that goes well with a variety of entrees. It often shows up at potlucks and covered dish suppers throughout the South.
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Southern Pineapple Casserole
You’re going to love the combination of sharp cheddar and pineapple in my Southern Pineapple Casserole. It’s sweet, it’s savory, and it’s steeped in Southern tradition!
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Vintage Watergate Salad
Take a trip back in time with this old favorite Vintage Watergate Salad recipe! Just 5 little ingredients make up this nostalgic pistachio fluff that’s been a favorite of our family for decades.
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Angel Biscuits
These light, fluffy, melt-in-your-mouth Angel Biscuits are the perfect cross between a biscuit and a dinner roll. They take the best of both–buttermilk from biscuits and yeast from rolls–and produce an ethereal bread with lovely golden tops and meltingly tender interiors. These are my mama’s specialty, and they’re sure to become a cherished favorite at your table as well.
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4 Day Sour Cream Coconut Cake
Try my 4 Day Sour Cream Coconut Cake, a favorite among vintage cake mix recipes! Although you do have to be patient to get the reward, it’s so worth the wait!
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Pecan Cheesecake Pie
Pecan Pie. Cheesecake. Pecan pie and cheesecake together? Oh, my. Who could resist that? My Pecan Cheesecake Pie is the best of both worlds, with a creamy cheesecake filling on the bottom and a rich pecan pie filling on top.
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My Southern Table Cookbook
If you like these recipes, you’ll love my cookbook! It’s 348 pages filled with 246 recipes, each with a full-color photo. Visit Lana’s Cooking for more information.
I’m Lana Stuart, an award-winning cookbook author, food blogger, and lifelong cook raised deep in Southwest Georgia. I started Lana’s Cooking in 2009 to share the tried-and-true recipes I grew up with. Around here, the food is full of flavor, the traditions run deep, and there’s always room at the table.