Thanksgiving Menu

Happy Thanksgiving! Alright, it’s technically tomorrow, but if you aren’t feeling it yet, you need to go to your local grocery store and pick up some Nestle Toll House Pumpkin Spice cookie dough. If my wedding dress doesn’t fit come December, I am 100% blaming these morsels of deliciousness. These cookies (or just the dough, no judgment) are sure to get you in the spirit!

This year, Spencer and I will be hosting Thanksgiving for both of our immediate families, which will no doubt be a very exciting, nerve-wracking, and stressful occasion for us! Luckily the registry items have already starting arriving at our door, so we have many more pots, pans, and casserole dishes than we did a month ago. I’ve already starting planning out when to prepare what in which container, and my only hope is that it all gets finished before tomorrow afternoon. Or really the morning. Being completely honest, I plan to watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and the National Dog Show tomorrow, mashed potatoes be damned.

Here is my Thanksgiving menu, complete with links to the great recipes that I’ve found throughout the Internet!

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Tyler Hope’s Menu for (What Will Hopefully Be) a Fantastic Thanksgiving Meal

Alton Brown’s Butterflied, dry brined roasted turkey

Gravy

My dad’s cloverleaf rolls

Martha Stewart’s Herbed mashed potatoes

Mashed rutabaga
(the best of the root vegetables; give it a try!)

My grandmother’s sweet potato casserole

My mom’s cranberry salad

My father-in-law’s dressing

Rachael Ray’s Brussels sprouts with bacon

Alton Brown’s best ever green bean casserole

My mother-in-law’s macaroni and cheese

Pumpkin pie

Blueberry cake

And, of course, those yummy pumpkin spice cookies!

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What are you planning to serve for the largest food holiday of the year? Does your family make any must-have dishes? I know mine does!