What are your fav Thanksgiving and Christmas recipes?

[emily_hope]

I'm planning ahead here because I know all the baking supplies will start going on sale soon. I think before the Thanksgiving holiday is the cheapest they are all year long. So, been looking through my recipe stash. We have a get together at work on Christmas Eve day and have requests to bring my Ranch Oyster Crackers and Drunken Cherries. I usually make a Fruit Salad and Whipped Sweet Potato Bake at Thanksgiving. At Christmas, I'm always asked to bring what we call Puppy Chow, not sure what the Chex cereal company calls the recipe. Just wondered what everyone else makes.

[TheRootedNomad]

I make three color cookies, soft Biscotti (they're actually shapes with iceing instead of the dunking kind), lemon logs, whatever other cookie reciepe floats my boat at the time, honey balls, pecan pie, carmel pie, lemon mirrange pie, fruitcake, bourbon balls, and sometimes zappels. On Thanksgiving I almost always do the turkey and several of the common side dishes. The Christmas season sometimes goes structly traditional Italian and sometimes it's more mixed with standard American if we know we're going to have a crowd of people who are unaccustommed to it. So it can be anything from stuffed clams, fried fish, baked fish, shrimp, linguini with clam sauce, fennel, salads, and so on, on Christmas Eve followed by lasagna, ravioli, roast beef, garclic green beans, stuffed artichokes, tons of salads, and so on, on Christmas day or it could be more mixed with some of the above and then the standard ham, baked mac-n-cheese, sweet potatoes kind of deal.

[Jamauk]

This year I am off the hook for hosting both Thanksgiving and Christmas ~ so I plan to focus on my baking and use that as gifts for teachers/mail carrier/friends, etc....

I always make my chocolate chip cookies, thumb print cookies, pepermint bark, white chocolate orange cookies.

I may make a few cheesecakes this year and try out some new cookie recipes.

On the years that I do host T-day or Christmas, we do traditional meals.