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Cooked Cranberry Orange Sauce & Orange Zest Garnish in White BowlHere's a little secret: I don't actually like Thanksgiving very much.  I have childhood memories of the expectations (whether real or perceived) of a full blown Thanksgiving feast stressing out my mom.  So now my go-to recipes for Thanksgiving are easy, a bit unconventional, and stress free.

Roasted Brussels Sprouts halves on a brown plate with cooked bacon. Side view. Close up.

Crispy Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Pancetta

Verticle Bowl of Corn Chowder w/ Sweet Potatoes, Bacon, Cilantro, and Avocado Garnish. Close up.

Sweet Potato Corn Chowder

4 cooked and stuffed chicken breast tied together on a bed of cooked sliced carrots with a green onion garnish. White plate. Vertical view.

Chicken Stuffed with Pistachio Parsley Pesto

Spicy Red/Brown Chicken Drumsticks On A White Plate surrounded by celery and with with a white blue cheese dipping sauce in a bowl

Oven Baked Buffalo Chicken Drumsticks

Wood bowl of pimento cheese with 3 crackers and a small spoon hanging out. Crackers on plate in background and one with pimento cheese on it.

Easy Homemade Pimento Cheese

Apple, Celery, Raisin & Walnut Salad In A Brown Dish With a Spoon

Simple Apple, Celery, and Walnut Salad

Close up ofcooked jalapeno poppers filled with a brown orange crust and a chopped cilantro garnish. Top view, close up.

Cream Cheese Stuffed Jalapeño Poppers

Braised & Seared Beef Bone In Short Ribs with BBQ Sauce In A Yellow Shallow Round Baking Dish

Easy Oven Baked BBQ Beef Short Ribs

Small Potatoes, Shrimp, Sliced Andouille Sausage, Corn cooked and laid out on craft brown paper. Close up.

Easy Low Country Boil

Side view. Slice of brown cake on white plate with fork with out of focus cake in background.

Easy German Chocolate Hazelnut Torte

Close up of wood bowl of green salad with raisins, crushed almonds, and red pepper flakes. Fork on the side.

Kale and Almond Salad with Lemon Dressing

Seared and thinly sliced pork tenderloin. Top view on a white plate with a sprig of rosemary in the background.

Balsamic Rosemary Pork Tenderloin

Two shallow white bowls filled with chopped lettuce, sliced cucumbers, sliced radishes, , cherry tomato quarters and blue cheese and pecan crumbles. Two forks, two knives, and two white napkins on the side. Close up.

Chopped Romaine Lettuce And Chickpea Salad

Top down view of barbeque beef back ribs cut into individual ribs. Ribs laying on live edge wood cutting board with a chef's knife and white napkin in the background. Close up.

Easy Oven Baked Beef Back Ribs

Cooked Pickled Shrimp with thin sliced onions In a blue bowl with a spoon sticking out. 2 wood bowls with small forks on the side. close up.

Lowcountry Quick Pickled Shrimp

Small blue bowl of off white hummus with a mint garnish. Spoon inserted into hummus.

Simple and Easy Homemade Hummus

Tan bowl of sliced black olives with walnuts and chopped figs mounded in bowl with a spoon and garnished with parsley. side view.

Kalamata Olive and Fig Tapenade

Stainless steel deep skillet filled with white beans and diced tomatoes with a lightly pulsed pesto of kale and almonds.

Cannellini Beans with Kale Pesto

Little Cornichon pickles wrapped with Arugula and rolled up in salami with colorful toothpicks holding them together. Ten of them on a wood plate.

Easy Salami Appetizer with Pickles

Cooked Chicken Thigh and Leg with A Brown Dry Rub On A white plate with a green salad and red tomato salad.

Dry Rubbed Oven Baked Chicken Thighs and Drumsticks

Seared and browned caramelized sliced zucchini rounds on a white plate with red pepper flakes lightly garnished. Top view crop to a rectangle.

Simple Pan Fried Zucchini Rounds

Corn, Edamame, & Red pepper Succotash with red peppers with a fork in a brown bowl. close up.

Easy Corn and Edamame Succotash

Oval white bowl of corn salad w/ quartered cherry tomatoes, jalapeños, red onions, and cilantro. Side view.

Easy Frozen Corn and Tomato Salad

Top down view of a white plate with chopped greens with quartered figs and pine nuts and goat cheese. Fork on the side of plant and pine nuts on the side.

Kale Salad with Fig, Goat Cheese, Pine Nuts

Cooked Green Beans & Fresh Cherry Tomatoes on a long white rectangle plate.

Fresh Green Beans and Cherry Tomatoes

Top View Corn & Lima Bean Succotash with diced Zucchini In A brown Bowl with a Wood Spoon

Butter Bean (Lima Bean) and Corn Succotash

White bowl of crispy shiitake mushrooms with 4 sprigs of rosemary in it and a purple napkin on the side. Side View.

Pan Fried Shiitake Mushrooms Recipe with Black Pepper

White plate of romaine lettuce, chunked beets and chopped pecans with a white dressing and orange zest garnish. Wine glass filled with water in the back. Outside table.

Roasted Beet and Romaine Salad with Pecans

2 Pieces of Herbed Pork Tenderloin seared In A Cast Iron Skillet

Cast Iron Herbed Pork Tenderloin

3 Parmesan Crisps with specks of thyme on a Wood Cutting Board

Easy Parmesan Crisps (Frico)

2 white plates with salad with a grilled chicken breast on top with blueberry chutney on top of chicken. Whole Cherry Tomatoes on plates.

Chicken with Blueberry Chutney

Roast Salmon with Buttery Leeks On Top In a Stainless Steel Pan - Eat Simple Food

Roast Salmon with Buttery Leeks

Top down view of white oval bowl filled with cooked mushrooms with pistachios and chopped basil. Close up.

Sautéed Mushrooms with Pistachios and Basil

Diced and roasted Kabocha Squash with Peppers and leeks on a big white plate with a wood spoon. side view.

Kabocha Squash Breakfast Hash

Small white bowl of creamy asparagus soup with asparagus tip garnish sticking out the top. Silver spoon in bowl. side view.

Asparagus And Leek Soup

8 Quail Nestled Into And Cooked In A Cast Iron Skillet

Easy Pan Fried Quail

White bowl with black rim of red tomato bisque soup on a wood rectangle plate. Grilled cheese sandwich cut in half diagonally on the side.

Easy Tomato Bisque Soup

Side view of a small bowl of rice pudding with cinnamon sprinkles, whipped cream, and 5 blueberries.

Simple and Creamy Rice Pudding

Five poached pink shrimp on a little tan plate with a wedged lemon. Poached shrimp in a blue bowl on the side and also layed over some cups in the background. Lemon wedges in the background.

Simple and Easy Poached Shrimp

Roasted Beef Brisket Sliced on A Wood Cutting Board With Horseradish in a White Bowl with A Fork

Simple Oven Cooked Beef Brisket

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