What is your favorite Holiday meal?

Last night, I made a green bean casserole for Roger to take to a pot-luck dinner they are having at his work today. It smelled Sooo good. I almost made another separate one for us to eat. It made me think about how much I love Thanksgiving dinner and how I love to have this dinner year round. So I felt that I would post my Thanksgiving dinner recipes to share with you all. (My actual favorite holiday meal is the traditional Basque Breakfast that my mother makes but I'm not suppose to share that with anyone. It's a secret like the Bush's Baked Beans recipe- LOL!!! Thanksgiving is my second place holiday meal.)I like to do my turkey "The Michigan Way".

The Michigan Style Turkey

INGREDIENTS

1 (12 pound) whole turkey

6 tablespoons butter

4 cups warm water

3 tablespoons chicken broth

2 tablespoons dried parsley

2 tablespoons dried minced onion

2 tablespoons seasoning salt

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Rinse and wash turkey. Discard the giblets or you can add these to pan if these are anyone's favorites.

Place turkey in a Dutch oven or roasting pan. Separate the skin over the breast to make little pockets. Put 3 tablespoons of the butter on both sides between the skin and breast meat. This makes for very juicy breast meat.

Combine the water with the bouillon, and sprinkle in the parsley flakes and minced onion. Pour over the top of the turkey. Sprinkle seasoning salt over the turkey.

Cover with foil and bake in preheated oven for 4 to 5 hours. Or if you are a fan of the oven bags, that can be used as well, just doesn’t turn out as nice with this recipe. For the last 45 minutes or so, remove the foil

so the turkey will brown nicely.

My Green Bean Casserole
(This is a photo of the casserole that I made last night. I use the recipe from French's thats on the can of the fried onions but I do not use the pepper. )

Ingredients:
1 (10 3/4 oz.) can CAMPBELL'S® Cream of Mushroom Soup
3/4 cup milk
2 (9 oz. each) pkgs. frozen cut green beans, thawed*
1 can FRENCH'S® Original or Cheddar French Fried Onions

Directions: 1. MIX soup, milk and pepper in a 1 1/2 -qt. baking dish. Stir in beans and 2/3 cup French Fried Onions.
2. BAKE at 350°F for 30 min. or until hot.
3. STIR. Top with remaining 2/3 cup onions. Bake 5 min. until onions are golden.

Tip: You may substitute 2 cans (14 1/2 oz. each) cut green beans, drained or 4 cups fresh, cooked cut green beans.

Mashed Potatoes

INGREDIENTS

6 medium russet potatoes, peeled and cubed

1/2 cup warm milk

1/4 cup butter or margarine

3/4 teaspoon salt

Dash pepper

DIRECTIONS

Place potatoes in a saucepan and cover with water. Cover and bring to a boil; cook for 20-25 minutes or until very tender. Drain well. Add milk, butter, salt and pepper; mash until light and fluffy.

Pumpkin Pie

INGREDIENTS

1 cup white sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg

1/2 teaspoon ground ginger

1/2 teaspoon ground allspice

1/2 teaspoon ground cloves

1 1/2 cups pumpkin puree

1 2/3 cups evaporated milk

2 eggs

1 (9 inch) unbaked pie crust

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).

Combine the sugar, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, allspice, cloves, pumpkin puree, evaporated milk and eggs; blending until smooth. Pour batter into the prepared unbaked pie shell.

Bake at 425 degrees F (220 degrees C) for 15 minutes then lower oven temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Continue to bake for about another 40 minutes or until pie is firm.