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Ambrosia Salad

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Ambrosia Salad

By Rexanne
I always make Ambrosia salad with our Thanksgiving feast. It’s the perfect fresh, clean and cold side to compliment the heavy food and it adds wonderful color to your table.
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Course Side Dish
Cuisine American
Servings 12

Ingredients
  

Ingredients:

  • 4 large crisp apples
  • 4 large firm but ripe Bartlet pears
  • 4 large just-ripe bananas not too many brown spots
  • 2 cups fresh blueberries
  • 1 large can Mandarin Oranges drained of all juice
  • 1 large can of pineapple chunks drained of all juice
  • 1 small container of Cool Whip or 3 cups whipped heavy cream. more or less to taste

Instructions
 

Instructions:

  • Peel and cut apples and pears into bite-size pieces
  • Add blueberries
  • Drain Mandarin oranges and pineapple chunks and add to the fresh fruit.
  • Refrigerate until serving time, then add cut bananas (bite-size) and mix in cool whip to coat evenly. You can substitute the Cool Whip with whipped heavy cream. I find it easiest to use Cool Whip and let the nasty chemicals fall where they may.
  • Serve immediately.

Notes

*Recipe can be reduced by half to serve less people. Replace large cans with small cans of Mandarin oranges and pineapple and reduce Cool Whip by half.

Apple Sausage Stuffing

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Apple Sausage Stuffing

By Rexanne
This is an awesome stuffing for turkey, chicken or whatever you want to stuff. LOL – It’s also good all by itself.
It does take some time and effort but it’s way worth it. Enjoy!
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Course Side Dish
Cuisine American
Servings 4

Ingredients
  

Ingredients:

  • 1 lb Italian Sausage
  • 1 cup diced bacon
  • 1 large onion chopped
  • 1 cup celery chopped
  • ½ lb mushrooms sliced
  • 2 crisp apples cored & diced
  • 1 cup chopped fresh parsley
  • 1 tsp thyme
  • 1 lb. firm white French bread (cut into 1 inch cubes)
  • 2 cups chicken broth 1 14 oz. Can

Instructions
 

Preparation:

  • -Chop sausage into 1 inch pieces – brown (or brown & chop later)-Cook Bacon in another pan
  • -Remove sausage – sauté onions in same pan (with sausage grease). Add remaining ingredients plus sausage & bacon through to the herbs to pan after onions are cooked. Heat through (about 5 minutes).
  • -In large bowl, pour all you’ve cooked over diced bread
  • – add chicken broth, salt & pepper. Spoon into a buttered casserole dish or into cleaned bird.
  • -If cooking outside the bird, bake for an hour at 350 degrees.

Baked Yams

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Baked Yams

By Rexanne
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Course Side Dish
Cuisine American
Servings 6

Ingredients
  

Ingredients:

  • 4 to 6 large yams
  • half a stick of salted butter
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup maple syrup
  • half a bag of miniature marshmallows

Instructions
 

Preparation:

  • Partially boil yams in large pot (do not remove skin)
  • When yams are cooked through but not mushy remove from the stove, dump the hot water and cover yams with cold water and enough ice to cool them off (as much as you can fit in the pot is good).
  • When cool enough to handle, remove the skins (they should peel off easily) and slice yams into 1/2 inch thick pieces and layer them in a casserole dish. Between layers and again on top of the last layer, add dots of butter and sprinkle brown sugar. After the last layer has been dotted with butter and sprinkled with brown sugar, drizzle the maple syrup over all and top with marshmallows.
  • Bake in 350 degree oven for 30 to 45 minutes or until marshmallows are golden brown.

Rexanne’s Heart Attack Mashed Potatoes

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Rexanne’s Heart Attack Mashed Potatoes

By Rexanne
These are really delicious mashed potatoes and kids love them. I call them “Heart Attack” mashed potatoes because they are loaded with butter – the excess is what makes them outstanding. “Enough” butter is my secret to awesome mashed potatoes.
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Course Side Dish
Cuisine American
Servings 4

Ingredients
  

Ingredients:

  • 3 large potatoes - bakers, I suppose – the brown ones.
  • 1 stick yeah – a whole stick! salted butter, cut into 6 pieces
  • 2 TBS. sour cream
  • 2 tsp. salt

Instructions
 

Instructions:

  • Peel potatoes and cut into bite sized (or a little larger) chunks.
  • Add cut potatoes to a pot, cover with water and add 2 tsp. salt
  • Bring potatoes to a boil, reduce heat to medium high – cook for about 20 minutes or until potatoes are tender.
  • Drain potatoes well after cooking.
  • In a large bowl, add cooked and drained potatoes and the butter. Mix well with a hand mixer (can also be mashed with a potato masher)
  • Add sour cream and mix again until well blended. Serve hot.

Notes

If someone at the table is watching their cholesterol, weight, diet, fat intake or whatever, they’re not gonna be happy about these potatoes. Serve them a slice of whole grain bread instead of the mashed potatoes and let everyone else indulge.

French Green Beans

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French Green Beans

By Rexanne
For the record, I hate green beans, but I love French green beans, which are thinner and have a more delicate flavor. These are not the French sliced green beans in the frozen food section of your market although you could certainly adapt this recipe to use them. I find these whole French Green Beans at Trader Joe’s markets. If you can find them, great. Otherwise, you can make this recipe with regular old fat green beans.
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Servings 4

Ingredients
  

Ingredients:

  • 1 pound French Green Beans
  • 4 TBS. Salted Butter
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp. Beau Monde seasoning
  • 1 tsp Cayenne

Instructions
 

Preparation:

  • Cook green beans in a medium size pot with enough water to cover them and 1 tsp. salt. Good until tender but still a bit crunchy. You don’t want mushy green beans.
  • In a serving dish, combine butter (cut into small pieces), Beau Monde and Cayenne. Mix and serve hot.

Sliced Baked Red Potatoes

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Sliced Baked Red Potatoes

By Rexanne
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Course Side Dish
Cuisine American
Servings 4

Ingredients
  

  • 8 large red potatoes
  • 4 Tbsp. salted butter
  • Lawry’s Seasoned Salt

Instructions
 

  • Slice washed red potatoes in 1/4 inch slices. Layer potatoes in a large glass baking dish. On top of each layer of potatoes, dot with butter and sprinkle evenly with Lawry’s Seasoned Salt.
  • Bake in 350 degree oven for 45 minutes or until potatoes are cooked through and/or browned. Turn potatoes often to blend seasoning and brown evenly.

Notes

*This is one of my daughters’ favorite recipes. I typically make these with steak and a veggie for a well-rounded meal.