A Guide to Thanksgiving with A Pretty Life in the Suburbs!
Come celebrate, decorate, bake and cook for Thanksgiving! Plan a menu, bake a pie, roast a turkey, or decorate your home and table…it’s all here for your inspiration! I hope you find this guide helpful.
Jo-Anna
The basics.
But first, let’s plan.
Let’s start this guide to Thanksgiving with everything you need to plan your holiday dinner. Includes recipe ideas, printable menus and grocery lists. As well as tips, tricks and make-ahead ideas.
How to Cook a Turkey
This Traditional Roast Turkey with Pan Gravy is the perfect main dish for your holiday dinner! This post includes recipe and roasting tips for different sizes of turkey.
The main dish, turkey.
Traditional, yummy and always a favourite. Here are our favourite turkey dinner recipes.
Turkey Cheat Sheet
Make THE most delicious turkey with tips from this Turkey Cheat Sheet! With tips for how much to serve, how to brine, how long to cook, roasting tips, recipe ideas and more.
Non-traditional Thanksgiving dinner recipes:
If you don’t want to roast a traditional turkey, no problem! Here are some different dinner options:
Just here for the sides.
So many sides to choose from, only so much room on the plate. You can find all my sides here.
Don’t forget the bread.
Perfect recipes for smothering with butter and gravy!
Most Popular Thanksgiving Recipe!
This Pumpkin Delight dessert is a delicious holiday alternative to pumpkin pie. It’s light, airy and full of delicious fall pumpkin pie flavour!
Thanksgiving desserts.
The best part, am I right? Save room for these desserts! You can find even more dessert recipe ideas here.
What to do with leftovers:
Don’t be discouraged by leftover turkey there are so many tasty recipes to make with it:
Let’s set the table.
Set a beautiful table with these simple and pretty table decor ideas! With different colours, textures, centrepieces, place settings and more! Hello Thanksgiving.
Set the mood
Don’t forget the dinner music! This music playlist provides over 2 hours of music with 40+ songs. Made up of classics and new songs, and quiet enough that it can easily play in the background during dinner!
I hope you found some inspiration here in my Guide to Thanksgiving! Have a delicious day!
