Recipes for Thanksgiving Houseguests

By Food & Wine
Updated May 18, 2017
From a cheesy bacon-and-egg breakfast bake to an easy baked pasta dish, here are recipes for Thanksgiving houseguests.
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Turkey and Swiss Bread Pudding

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Bread pudding is one of the best vehicles for using up leftovers.

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Curly-Endive Salad with Bacon and Poached Eggs

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We find egg yolk cascading over curly leaves of endive to be a truly delectable sight. In fact, we wouldn't consider it unreasonable to serve two poached eggs per person rather than one. If they aren't your thing, though, substitute wedges of hard-cooked egg.

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Apple Crumb Coffee Cakes

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Make-Ahead Tip: The crumb cakes can be made 1 day ahead, in advance of arriving guests. Store in an airtight container.

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Walnut-Cranberry Turkey Salad

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The dressing for this light, delicious turkey salad is made with low-fat mayonnaise, yogurt and chopped herbs.

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Raspberry-Swirl Sweet Rolls

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In the winter, Individually Quick Frozen (IQF) fruit, is often a superior alternative to fresh fruit shipped to the US. IQF raspberries are terrific in these soft, puffy yeast rolls—a fun twist on a cinnamon bun. You can also try other frozen fruit, like blackberries, strawberries, blueberries or chopped sweet cherries.

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Cornmeal Pancakes with Maple-Cranberry Butter

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Because cast iron heats so evenly, F&W’s Melissa Rubel Jacobson uses it for pancakes.

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Turkey Sandwiches with Cranberry-Apricot Relish

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This tangy, sweet relish can accompany roast pork, chicken or turkey served on their own or as sandwiches.

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Bacon, Tomato and Cheddar Breakfast Bake with Eggs

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This breakfast bake topped with runny eggs by F&W’s Grace Parisi develops a terrific texture as it cooks slowly in a glass dish (which makes it easy to see when the bottom is perfectly browned). As one F&W editor remarked on tasting it, “I worship the crisp bottom and the chewy, moist bread.”

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Soy-Braised Turkey with Turkey Rice

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To add flavor to leftover dark turkey meat, David Chang simmers it in a deeply savory combination of brown sugar and soy sauce. Cooking jasmine rice with rendered turkey fat adds a wonderful richness. The topping—pickled shallot rings—adds a pretty pink color and piquancy.

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Macaroni-and-Beef Casserole

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This hearty cumin-scented casserole has an irresistible cheesy-crisp topping.

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Cranberry Streusel Cake

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Cranberries usually appear on the holiday table as a condiment, but here they flavor a delicious cake, topped with a crumbly, buttery oat streusel.

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Buttermilk Ham and Cheese Biscuits

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Chef Lee Hefter gets so caught up in cooking Thanksgiving dinner that he hardly has time to eat it. He has a turkey-and-stuffing sandwich on these biscuits while he’s cleaning up.

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