Get ready for the Best Thanksgiving Salad

For me, Thanksgiving dinner usually isn’t complete without a salad, and I’ve made this same really good Thanksgiving green salad recipe year after year. 

This salad for Thanksgiving is a combination of sweet and savory flavors using seasonal ingredients, and it’s easy to prep a lot of it in advance. Simply toss it together right before dinner!

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Prosciutto Italian Sandwich

In my house, it’s rare that prosciutto makes it “into” anything other than straight into my daughter’s belly. It’s been one of her very favorite foods since she started eating solids!

I try to limit her consumption so she doesn’t overdo it on the salt and fat intake, but let’s face it: she’s onto something. Prosciutto is delicious.

So every once in awhile I’ll splurge and buy TWO packages – one for my daughter to eat, and the second to actually make something with, like prosciutto pinwheels or Easter salad.

Today, I’m sharing one of my favorite simple sandwiches. All you need is bread, prosciutto, pears and an easy homemade herby-cheesy mayo.

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When it comes to muffins, the classics come to mind right away: banana-nut muffins to use up overripe bananas (a frequent occurrence in my house), and my buttermilk blueberry muffins and blackberry muffins are always classics.

But I also like some more unique muffins, like my cranberry sauce muffins that use up extra cranberry sauce after Thanksgiving, and even Earl Grey muffins for a unique morning treat.

Likewise, most people don’t immediately think of muffins when they think of baking with pears. Pear crisps and crumbles are much more common.

But I’m here today to make the case that these ginger pear muffins should go into your baking repertoire, especially during this time of year when the best pears are in season.

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Just like almost every food blogger you might follow, I’m double checking my Thanksgiving recipes list this year and trying to figure out what I might be missing. If there’s something that I don’t have that you’d like to see, please, let me know. I love suggestions for what to publish next!

So far, I’ve figured out while I have a classic roasted turkey with maple bourbon glaze and a Cajun turkey, I don’t have a ham recipe (although I do already have a recipe for leftover ham and potato soup, oddly). I’ll be fixing that with a delicious new ham recipe published here in a few weeks.

I also realized I didn’t have a classic gravy, so I published my technique for how to make gravy from scratch.

And while I have a very popular Thanksgiving salad, Christmas salad and Easter salad recipes, I don’t yet have a Thanksgiving fruit salad recipe.

Thanksgiving fruit salad (and Christmas fruit salad) may or may not be something that has a spot on your holiday table, and that’s OK. I think it’s a nice addition to a meal for a large crowd (even a brunch buffet), especially if lots of kids are in attendance. Kids love fruit an absurd amount.

But this fall fruit salad is delicious for taste buds of all ages. The sweet fruit is balanced with a bright and delicious dressing. Serve it in your prettiest bowl.

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Is Pear Strudel Breakfast or Dessert?

This is kind of conversation Jeff and I have before falling asleep on Saturday nights:

Lori: “I think I’m going to get up early tomorrow and make a pear strudel. We can eat it for breakfast.”

Jeff: “Strudel? For breakfast? Isn’t that a dessert?”

Lori: “Uhhhh…what about Toaster Strudel? Remember those?”

Jeff: “Well, those had frosting.”

Lori: “So, frosting makes it a breakfast item rather than dessert?”

Jeff: “Yes.”

Lori: “OK, I’ll make you a little bit of frosting…”

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