Delicious Homemade Thanksgiving Recipes - Spice Up Your Turkey Day with the Thanksgiving Cookoff!
There's nothing like a homecooked meal on Thanksgiving Day. The turkey, the stuffing, the gravy, biscuits, bread, veggies, sides, potatoes, desserts... there's something to please everyone at the dinner table. When it comes to surfing the web, there are a lot of choices for online recipes, but having a recipe that's been personally tested and doctored to the liking of the chef is something you just can't replace. Here on Squidoo, our talented chefs have come up with hundreds of delicious homemade Thanksgiving recipes, just some of which are featured on this page! Read on for some of these recipes, categorized by food type.
Homemade Thanksgiving Turkey Recipes
Delicious homemade Thanksgiving dishes!
When it comes to turkey, everyone has their own method of how to cook it up. Here, some of our talented Squid chefs show off their finest turkey recipes and cooking tips to make a more flavorful, juicy, tender bird this Thanksgiving!
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Your Complete Guide to Turkey Leftover Recipes
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Welcome to one of the best sources of leftover turkey recipes on the web. If you can't find a good turkey leftover recipe here, then I'm pretty sure you don't really want turkey. There are lots of different kinds of turkey recipes here, from soups to...
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Deep Frying Turkey Instructions ~ How to Deep Fry a Turkey
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Deep fry turkey is a great way to cook a turkey. Having deep frying turkey instructions is even more important. Frying a turkey can be fun and delicious, but it is also inherently dangerous. You are using a lot of very hot oil. If you do not use the...
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Turkey Sandwich: The Tastiest Treat Ever
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This is how to enjoy your leftover turkey from Thanksgiving, plus don't forget to make the real deal all year long. Bet you'd even like jazzing up your turkey with the rubs listed below! There are quite a few recipes here for making turkey san...
An Innovation in Turkey Eating: Turkey Fryers!
Make something completely different this year by going fried!
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Tasty, Homemade Thanksgiving Vegetable Sides
Thanksgiving vegetable sides make the feast!
When it comes to vegetables, there's no holiday of the year that brings together some of the best veggies of the year into one delicious meal like Thanksgiving. Butternut squash, sweet carrots, potatoes, and other root veggies all come into season during the autumn months. Hit your local farmstand for some fresh local produce and try out one of these recipes!-
Spinach Casserole
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I got this recipe from a friend in college. She brought it to a potluck and it was so good that we were all eating it out of the serving bowl and it was supposed to be a sit down dinner. I vary the ingredients a little from time to time, depending on...
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Making Mashed Potatoes
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One of the most popular ways to cook potatoes is to mash them. This lens offers information about types of potatoes, how to keep and store them, and lots of recipe variations for homestyle, low-fat and fancy mashed potatoes.
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Sweet Honey Carrots
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As much as I love cooking, it's often hard to find enough time to make meals which are healthy, simple and delicious at the same time. That was a reason why I was so lucky to get this recipe! This recipe was shared by one of my friends and as soon a...
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Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe
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Sweet Potato Casserole Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe that makes a perfect side dish for any meal, plus Thanksgiving Dinner is coming up soon, what are you going to fix this year? Sweet potatoes fresh from your garden will make a great casserole. Make...
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Butternut Squash Soup Recipe
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Enjoy the fresh bounty of your own garden or the harvest of your local farmers this fall. Now is the time of the year to enjoy all the delicious varieties of squash, apples, and pumpkins. One way to make use of squash, especially butternut squash, i...
Homemade Cranberry Sides for Your Thanksgiving Meal
No Thanksgiving dinner feast is complete without a cranberry dish!
Cranberries are grown all over the country today, but you can likely find some in your local grocery store during the autumn months. Especially during Thanksgiving season, you should be able to find fresh cranberries easily. They make all the difference in homemade recipes like cranberry muffins, cranberry chutney, and orange cranberry sauce. Make a little bit extra for those day after Thanksgiving leftover sandwiches (which in my opinion are even BETTER than the meal itself)!
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Homemade Cranberry Chutney Recipe
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Cranberry Chutney is a great recipe for Thanksgiving that will quickly replace the traditional canned cranberry sauce. With fresh ingredients like real cranberries, raisins and apples, along with aromatic spices like cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice, th...
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Cranberry Muffins
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Change up your cranberry muffins with orange peels, pecans, cinnamon, lemon, cream cheese or nuts. Photo(CC)stuspivack
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Best Homemade Cranberry Sauce
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Thanksgiving is coming up again and food is on everyone's mind. Most people worry about the turkey or stuffing or pumpkin pie. My favorite dish, though, is cranberry sauce. With so many great recipes that are easy a...
Tips for Thanksgiving
Lensmaster tips for a better Thanksgiving dinner!
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How to create the perfect Thanksgiving Dinner Menu
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Whether this is your first time cooking Thanksgiving dinner or your twentieth or even fiftieth time, I hope that you find this page useful. I have tried to gather recipes for every part of the meal. Making thanksgiving dinner should be lots of...
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Thanksgiving Recipe Ideas
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Both Canadian and US Thanksgiving are important holidays in the calendar, while celebrated for different reasons. Canadian Thanksgiving takes place on the second Monday of October and Canadians typically celebrate it during the full three-day weekend...
More Turkey Recipes Across the Web
The latest turkey recipes, from bloggers!
- Swedish Turkey Salad Recipe
- Swedish Turkey Salad Recipe, a classic dish from Britain.
- Recipe Review: Black Truffle Roast Turkey with White Wine Shallot ...
- I think she has the magic touch with roast turkeys and I want to try every recipe with her. Here's one that I love for a truly special occasion, Black Truffle Roast Turkey with White Wine Shallot Gravy. ...
- Andalusian Turkey Recipe
- Andalusian Turkey Recipe, a classic dish from France.
- Trinidadian Turkey Curry Recipe
- Trinidadian Turkey Curry Recipe, a classic dish from Trinidad.
Fill Up on More Seasonal Vegetables with These Recipes!
Enjoy the autumn harvest season with these veggie recipes!
These aren't just steamed veggies, on Thanksgiving, we go all out. Veggies become practically entire meals in themselves, as you can see by some of the classic (and very filling) recipes below, like stuffed cabbage, candied sweet potatoes, and roasted veggies!-
Mouthwatering roasted vegetables
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Just about any root vegetable can be roasted and while they are good with nearly any meal, in our house they are most popular with a Sunday Roast. There is something about a perfectly roasted potato or parsnip, or just about any other vegetable you...
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Candied Sweet Potatoes
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Candied sweet potatoes are a side dish consisting mainly of sweet potatoes prepared with brown sugar, maple syrup, molasses, or other sweet ingredients. Many also add marshmallows to theirs. Often served on Thanksgiving and/or Christmas, this s...
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Greenbean Casserole Recipe
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Greenbean Casserole Recipe Add this tasty Greenbean Casserole Recipe to your favorite meat dish and end up with a great meal that your family will love and enjoy! This green bean casserole recipe is sure to make their mouths water and keep them beggi...
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Make Friends With Rutabagas And Parsnips
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Usually when something is tasty it is loaded with salt, sugar and fat. But not this little guy. Here, in North America, we call it the rutabaga, but in Europe and Scandinavia, they named it "swedes". It doesn't matter what you call that vegetable, i...
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Stuffed Cabbage *
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One of my fondest food memories growing up is watching my grandmother make Stuffed Cabbage ... and then, of course, eating it! She had a "secret ingredient" that made her stuffed cabbage rolls the best I've ever had! I'l...
Homemade Potato Recipes for Thanksgiving
Try out something new with one of these homemade potato recipes!
Potato. It's one versatile starchy vegetable that you can make hundreds of different recipes with. There's the traditional Thanksgiving staple, mashed potatoes, but there's also soup, scalloped, cheesy potatoes, and other spudly recipes for Turkey Day.
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Scalloped Potatoes Recipe
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Scalloped Potatoes Recipe This scalloped potatoes recipe makes the perfect side dish at any Thanksgiving meal! Have a pot luck dinner to attend? Fix this quick and easy scalloped potatoes recipe and your party guests will think you are an amazing c...
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Potato Soup-The original yet yummy Recipe!!
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If you are like me than you love potatoes...cooked, baked, fried, just about any way you can cook a potato! They are just so yummy!! Here is a basic recipe for potato soup. You can add just about anything to this to spice it up a little, but if you w...
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Creamy Mashed Potato Soup, from Leftovers
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This Creamy Mashed Potato soup is not only very delicious but economical too. Do you need a good way to use up mashed potato leftovers? This is it! Very hearty and filling. This soup is especially nice for after holiday dinners like Thanksgiving and...
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The Best-Ever Creamy Scalloped Potatoes Recipe
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The Best-Ever Creamy Scalloped Potatoes Recipe is Umm, Umm, Good! These potatoes are exactly what I think of when I think of comfort food and they are soooo delicious. My sister-in-law quite likes them and she, believe it or not, does not like scallo...
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How To Make The Best Baked Potato With Yummy Toppings And Fillings!
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For the best baked potato, throw it in the oven and forget about it for an hour or so, then enjoy a wonderful, hot, fluffy, baked potato with a crispy skin! Serve the baked potato with a filling or topping to make a fantastic meal on its own, or pla...
Homemade Stuffing Recipes
Delicious, easy to make homemade stuffing recipes for Thanksgiving!
It's #2 in line after the bird... you can't have a Thanksgiving without plenty of stuffing. When it comes to stuffing, not all stuffing is created equal. You can make a more unique, flavorful stuffing to stuff inside of the bird, and serve on the side by trying out some of these delicious holiday recipes!
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Herbed Apple & Pear Stuffing
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This recipe is the perfect update on everyone's 2nd favorite part of Thanksgiving dinner, the stuffing! Spiced apple and fresh pear will give this dish a flavorful punch that will carry on through the turkey as well!
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Traditions - Best Turkey Stuffing
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One of my favorite meals to cook for my family is Thanksgiving! I love making the big meal - with lots of our families favorite recipes to go along with it. One of the recipes that can involve everyone is making the stuffing for the turkey. Ever sin...
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The Best Ever Thanksgiving Apple Sausage Stuffing
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I'm making this page about Thanksgiving Stuffing because, in essence, I like playing around with the traditional, but I hate the usual HUGE MESS in the KITCHEN. What make this the Best Ever is taste and more importantly... This is a ONE PAN rec...
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Sit Down to Your Turkey Feast in Style with Thanksgiving Tees!
One of a kind Thanksgiving shirts!
Gobble Gobble Women's Dark T-Shirt
Gobble gobble gobble -- a turkey pokes his around to see what's going on on this festive Thanksgiving womens t-shirt!
Give Thanks Women's Long Sleeve Dark T-Shirt
Give thanks with this cool Pilgrim themed long sleeve t-shirt!
My 1st Thanksgiving Infant Bodysuit
Dress the baby up in style with one of these cute Thanksgiving onesies! Available in several colors.
I Love Gravy Dark T-Shirt
Mmmm, gravy! In mass quantity, on potatoes, on turkey, on stuffing... gravy 4 eva!
Homemade Breads for Thanksgiving
Fresh bread - a must have for any Thanksgiving feast!
No Thanksgiving dinner is complete without some sort of biscuit, roll or bread! Try one of these delicious homemade breads this year and see the delight on the faces of many eaters.
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Zucchini Bread Recipe
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Zucchini Bread Recipe Have you just picked some fresh zucchini from your garden? Now you want to know how to turn that zucchini into a warm and tasty treat for the family to eat during supper? Try this Zucchini Bread Recipe that has a crunchy topping...
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Buttermilk Biscuits Recipe
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Buttermilk Biscuits Recipe Buttermilk Biscuits just like grandma used to make biscuits from scratch! This buttermilk biscuit recipe will turn out the most delicious biscuits you will ever taste! A super moist, and southern flavored fluffy buttermilk...
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How to Make Healthy Pumpkin Bread
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Quickbreads like pumpkin bread have long been staples for bakers. They are tasty, easy to make, and freeze well: you simply double the recipe and make a loaf for later. On this lens, you'll find a recipe for lightly-spiced pumpkin bread and substitu...
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Favorite Baking Powder Biscuit Recipe
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I love this recipe and so does my family. I have to triple it to make enough for my family of five! If we're lucky enough, there will be a few left over the next day, which I Iike to snack on cold, with butter spread on them. The trick to making your...
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Old Fashioned Homemade Bread from Grandma's Kitchen
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Everyone who remembers the enticing smell of fresh baked bread longs to experience the pleasure again. Combine that with the aroma of freshly brewed coffee, and your house will be filled with warm hospitality. You have an incredibly aromatic treat...
Awesome Turkey Recipes and Thanksgiving Sides
More recommended recipes to try this year!
Smoke a turkey, make turkey soup with the leftovers, find the perfect side dish, or prepare yourself for the ultimate post-Thanksgiving sandwich with these recommended recipes. Taste tested, lensmaster approved.-
Turkey Soup Recipe
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Soup is good food. I know when it comes to cooking a Turkey I will get more than one meal from it and we always use the leftover Turkey for a Yummy Soup. So I am going to share with you a simple recipe that we use to make a delicious easy soup that w...
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Thanksgiving Appetizers
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To All My Wonderful Friends and Family... This lens is dedicated to you and all that you bring to my life. I couldn't have as happy of a life without you in it...Enjoy and remember that Gratitude is a healing force... NOW... on to food, family and f...
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How to Smoke a Turkey
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Here you'll find the basics of turkey smoking. Call it Smoked Turkey 101 if you wish. The steps include choosing the right bird, prepping it, brining, seasoning and smoking. Detailed instructions can be found at Smoker-Cooking.com....
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Thanksgiving Turkey Recipes
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Cooking the perfect Thanksgiving turkey involves several specialist tools and techniques. This will give you an overview of how to use these tools, employ these cooking techniques and cook a fantastic turkey for Thanksgiving this year. Find out how...
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Looking For A Side Dish Recipe To Bring To Thanksgiving Dinner
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Most every Thanksgiving, my husband and I are guests at someone else's home, be it with family or friends or both. For the past few years, we've spent Thanksgiving day with the trustee of Lowell Observatory and his wife, who've always to...
Thanksgiving Recipes and Tips
Posts from the Thanksgiving blog for cooking, preparation, and fun!
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Some of Amazon's Best Selling Thanksgiving Cookbooks
Rejuvenate your Thanksgiving recipe collection with these cookbooks!
Thanksgiving Aprons - Festive Aprons for Turkey Day!
Wear something festive, just for the big Turkey Day meal!
Fun Thanksgiving Lenses on Squidoo
Tips, recipes, dinnerware, ideas and info about Thanksgiving!
Some of the most unique ideas for recipes, free printables, clip art, lapbooks, and information about Turkey day itself can be found right on this website. Take a look around the home page and see what's at the top right now for each category, or browse one of these other Thanksgiving lenses below!-
Make Me Laugh - Funny Thanksgiving Gifts Items
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Find funny, interesting and light hearted Thanksgiving gifts for the entire family. Each was selected as it made me laugh - out loud. I hope you enjoy them as well. I have included aprons, t-shirts, DVD's, recipe binders and other funny surprises...
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Thanksgiving Lapbook
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Take a break from your regular homeschool curriculum and have a Thanksgiving unit study! History, culture, and food all come together in this topic! Create a lapbook to record what you learn. This page will direct you to great books to read and free...
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A RocketMoms Thanksgiving Day Feast!
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Hello Friends! You're invited to celebrate Thanksgiving with a RocketMoms Thanksgiving Day Feast. So many of the RocketMoms have been so busy creating delicious and scrumptious recipes that it's been really hard to keep track of these fabulou...
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Vegetarian Thanksgiving
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Thanksgiving may seem like a challenging holiday for vegetarians, but it can be a fun adventure. This is an opportunity to enjoy a variety of great dishes, and at the same time, share the bounty of vegetarian food with your non-veggie friends a...
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The Official Squidoo Thanksgiving Cookoff (for Charity)
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From Nov 2 to Nov 25th 2009, Squidoo donated $1000 to charity every day. With a $5000 grand prize, awarded by popular vote to Wildlife Forever on behalf of this lens, From the Garden Pumpkin Pie. Read the post here. Thanks for helping us give away so...
Is There Another Thanksgiving Recipe on Squidoo That Deserves to Be Featured?
Add your link to your Thanksgiving recipe lens!
If you have something that deserves to be seen as a Thanksgiving recipe, add it to the list here! Can be a veggie, turkey tips, homemade gravy... just as long as it's a recipe!
Pumpkin Spice Coffee for Your Thanksgiving Holiday
When does Thanksgiving day begin? Well, that would more...1 point
Famous Pumpkin Pie for your Thanksgiving Dinner
Cook a pumpkin pie in you own oven for Thanksgivin more...1 point
Pumpkin Cheesecake Recipes
Not until the last decade have many cooks attempte more...1 point
Pumpkin Beer Recipes
Breweries all over the country have once again fil more...1 point
Homemade Turkey Soup Recipe
A Homemade Turkey soup recipe that makes good use more...1 point
Cheese Salsa Crustless Quiche
Would you like to simplify things in the kitchen o more...0 points
Thanksgiving Wreaths
Make your home a little bit more festive with these unique Thanksgiving wreaths!
Wreaths are a great way to welcome people into your home during the holiday season, and Thanksgiving is no exception! Browse Ebay's huge selection of Thanksgiving wreaths and holiday wreaths, new, handmade, and vintage, all shipped right to your door!
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Have a Favorite Thanksgiving Recipe to Share?
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving recipe!
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- Wylldeire Wylldeire Nov 25, 2009 @ 4:22 pm
- This page is making me so hungry :D I shoulda waited till after dinner to come see. Beautiful lens. 5 stars and Happy Thanksgiving! Gobble-gobble!
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- KonaGirl KonaGirl Nov 16, 2009 @ 11:45 am
- Wow! I am so impressed. You make the most beautiful lenses. Everyone I have seen so far are just awesome! Thank you again for an enjoyable visit.
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- eccles1 eccles1 Nov 9, 2009 @ 3:23 pm
- I love the thanksgiving dinner and the colors of fall
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- Light-in-me Light-in-me Nov 7, 2009 @ 1:32 pm
- Very nice, beautiful and a wealth of wonderful recipes!
Thanks for sharing..
Robin :)
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- SoyCandleLover-Maker SoyCandleLover-Maker Nov 6, 2009 @ 12:30 pm
- Great foodie lens for the holidays! Thanks so much for including my stuffing lens. 5 stars, Fav and lensrolled. :D
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- CoolFoto CoolFoto Nov 4, 2009 @ 8:34 am
- Looks like you have the recipes covered. This lens shows a lot of thought and care. Congrats!
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- TheWhistler TheWhistler Nov 3, 2009 @ 11:39 pm
- Very colourful lens packed with information. Thank you.
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- lakeerieartists lakeerieartists Nov 3, 2009 @ 9:37 pm
- Yum. I need to check out these great recipes.
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- Ramkitten Ramkitten Nov 3, 2009 @ 8:49 pm
- Nice, Kiwi! What a great collection. I see lots of lenses I've not visited yet. And thank you for including one of mine as well. I'll lensroll and feature this one there.
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- mbgphoto mbgphoto Nov 3, 2009 @ 8:34 pm
- Very nicely done. This is a great collection of Thanksgiving recipes. 5* and blessed.
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