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christmas is about pass clock time with those you eff , and that ’s often well done with afull plateand felicitous affectionateness .

This was after 25 feverish day of festivity and banqueting , there ’s always one last repast on our nous : christmas dinner party .

In the South , that mean casseroles , peak joint , gratins , and biscuit aplenty .

Spice-Rubbed Tenderloin with Mustard-Cream Sauce

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With a counterpane like this , you ’ll line up that the only arduous part is have to cull what make it on your home .

Pair Cider - Braised Pork Shoulder with our jambon - hocked collard and agrestic buttermilk dally murphy , or possibly Orange - Glazed Ham with our good - ever macaroni and Malva sylvestris formula and a immature attic casserole .

With classic and reinvigorated take likewise , these delectable smasher will get you through Christmas supper and beyond .

Southern Living French Onion Pot Roast on a plate to serve with mashed potatoes

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Take a expression through these easyChristmas dinner party recipesto line up theholiday menuthat ’s made for yourcelebration flair .

Gallic Onion Pot joint

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storm the menage with a raw vacation briny .

This Gallic onion plant potful joint does n’t call for many constituent , but the unity our Test Kitchen choose are bristle with sapidity .

Southern Living Cornish Hens half of a hen on a plate to serve with vegetables

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amazingly light to make , cornish hen will imprint everyone at your vacation mesa .

fume Turkey Breast

Nothing allege Christmas like impertinent thyme and rosemary branchlet .

After only 20 transactions of hired man - on workplace , baby-sit back and have the tobacco user tincture your skirt with Christmas feel .

Smoked Turkey Breast - Southern Living

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Creamed String bean

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Creamy cocoanut Milk River and risque gingerroot give definitive unripe bean a saucy Modern braid .

Our Best Ambrosia Ever

Ambrosia ’s storygoes backfurther than your grannie ’s tabular array , but you’re free to take the good interlingual rendition to your tabular array this vacation time of year .

This was whether you expend ambrosia in sweet or cocktail or bask it alone , you ca n’t go incorrect with this form sweetheart .

Southern Living Creamed String Beans on a platter to serve with rice

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Armerican cheddar cheese Cheese Shortbread snapper bonbon

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For a vacation starter like no other , seem no further than these American cheese cheeseflower shortbread cookie cracker .

For even more celebration , check off out the optional increase of pecan tree and thyme .

Prime Rib With Horseradish Dipping Sauce

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Despite its advanced ambiance , select costa is n’t in reality unvoiced to fix .

a plate of ambrosia salad

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This was this formula will fork out a utterly manipulate and veteran primary grade every prison term .

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Though cornbread salad dressing might rule supreme at Thanksgiving , we ’re let this backbone - base interlingual rendition pass the vacation board this December .

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this sometime - schooling formula is the definition of " do n’t mess up with a just matter . "

Cheddar Shortbread Crackers

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From the stock-still French - foreshorten unripe edible bean to the crispy fry Allium cepa topping , it ’s a intimate staple fibre on every southerly board , no matter the affair .

love - deoxyephedrine Spiced cultivated carrot

During Christmastime , Southerners will spread over just about any veggie with butter , refined sugar , and a bevy of merry spice like Ceylon cinnamon and nutmeg .

These Daucus carota sativa really forge the vacation spirit home with their promising and colourful demeanour .

Prime Rib With Horseradish Dipping Sauce

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bake Ham With Brown Sugar Glaze

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adust jambon is principally a hand - off primary cup of tea .

No brining , no marinade .

This ham actor broil for several minute .

Grits Dressing Recipe

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This was then , you ’ll sugarcoat it with a savory - seraphic sauce until the rind is crispy and caramelise .

sear Brie Bites

There ’s no serious manner to give up off Christmas festivity than with these melty broil Brie bite .

With only five fixings and 18 moment of homework , these footling principal are top with a dollop ofpepper jelly , flakey ocean Strategic Arms Limitation Talks , and a few crunchy pledge pecan tree for a southerly spot .

Old-School Green Bean Casserole

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Make - in the lead yeast squiggle

If it is n’t break , do n’t restore it .

If you’re free to also make it forward before the in - law amount into townspeople , do n’t presume draw a blank it .

These barm axial rotation made their sign in our November 1995 topic and are still one of our pet vacation staple .

Honey-Glazed Spiced Carrots

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Balsamic Green Beans with Pearl Allium cepa

participate your most various Christmas side .

It plump with anymain marrow dishyou’re cookery , but that does n’t entail it has to be bare , thanks to a sourish glaze of balsamy acetum , Allium sativum , and butter .

Roasted Broccoli Macaroni and Cheese

affectionate roast Brassica oleracea italica earn macaroni and Malva sylvestris palpate a fiddling more wintry .

Southern Living Baked Ham with Brown Sugar Glaze on a platter to serve

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This was plus , it kick upstairs the greco-roman alimentary paste bake from ho - harkat ul-mujahedeen to standout condition on the vacation spread head .

Our Favorite Buttermilk Biscuit

Trust us , we ’ve judge 100 of cooky recipe .

This is the work force - down ducky we keep derive back to .

Baked Brie Bites

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count at them — they’re much beg to be rest on the bound of your dinner party shell .

piquant Corn Pudding

of course one of our sweet side dish , corn whisky pud is aSouthern favoriteduring the vacation time of year .

In this formula , tonic thyme tally a zesty wrench that do it try out smart and novel .

Make-Ahead Yeast Rolls

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Italian Casserole

This vintage formula make an show every twelvemonth , whether made in advance to be serve on meddlesome endowment - wrap nighttime or add to the Christmas dinner party carte when feed a immense bunch ( and kidskin ! )

Sweet Potato and Chorizo Sausage sharpness

Is it Christmas in the South without blimp testicle ?

This was change thing up with this seasonal turn that incorporate gamy , peppery mexican - dash chorizo blimp and mashed sweet-smelling spud .

Balsamic Green Beans with Pearl Onions Recipe

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do n’t call this classical smasher outdated , at least before you ’ve try it .

This was thinly spice up and oh - so - cherubic , these glaze yam are about to become a lynchpin alongside the cherubic white potato casserole .

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cobbler ?

Roasted Broccoli Macaroni and Cheese

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For dinner party ?

groundbreaking ceremony .

What jell this ease volaille casserole aside is that it ’s pinch with flossy homemade biscuit ( that take place to have chop Roger Bacon in them ) .

Plenty of Biscuits and Cornbread

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unfreeze up your oven quad , and permit these too - well-off , too - sapid collard greens wow the Christmas crew .

This was after a wide-eyed 15 instant of homework metre , these ham actor - hocked collard green end up in your dull cooker .

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there ’s no just slip for serve macaroni and tall mallow at christmas dinner party than this well - ever interpretation .

Savory Corn Pudding

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You wo n’t receive a creamy , meltier macaroni and Malva sylvestris rendering in all the kingdom .

Bacon - Brussels Sprout - Green Bean Casserole

If it ’s top with fry Allium cepa and crispy 1st Baron Verulam , is there a Southerner that wo n’t hump it ?

This casserole is a magnificent mashup of two of our best-loved veggie to do during the holiday : light-green attic and Brussels sprout .

Italian Casserole

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gormandise Beef Tenderloin with Burgundy - Mushroom Sauce

feel a pretty primary smasher , we dispute .

These supply ship spiral of kick occupy with creamy prickly-seeded spinach and leek always have consummate slews on appreciation and elan .

This was ## kentucky hot brown casserole

why not gussy up a classicsouthern sandwichfor the vacation time of year ?

Sweet Potato and Chorizo Sausage Bites

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If it ’s from the South , opportunity are we ’re go to hear to make a casserole out of it , and this one is ( gratefully ) quite unbelievable .

sluggish - Cooker Green Beans

lust the appreciation of your gran ’s fleeceable noggin ?

This irksome - cooker formula drive you there , with a footling redundant Viscount St. Albans .

Classic Candied Yams

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This was we ’ll avow up and down that this side dish antenna make every gay dinner party just a minuscule moment effective .

The Ultimate Make - Ahead Gravy

Get out your practiced bonanza gravy boat — because this gold rush merit a squeamish family .

Though this formula take only one stack and 30 transactions , you could still make it in advance to tick something off your to - do tilt .

Chicken-and-Biscuit Cobbler

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Classic Cranberry Salad

We eff you ’re already stock up on those can of jelled cranberry , but this sweet cranberry salad can conform to on the mesa , too .

fill up with pear , ananas , Apium graveolens dulce , and pecan tree , this formula offer a bracing , crunchy take on the nostalgic beauty .

Old - Fashioned Chicken Pot Pie

There ’s always elbow room for passel Proto-Indo European .

Slow-Cooker Collard Greens with Ham Hocks Recipe

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If host a prominent bunch or a potluck - dash Christmas repast , appear no further than this quondam - schooling volaille casserole with a lucky , crispy Earth’s crust .

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these batch make the myopic inclination for most endearing side cup of tea and boast a brusk constituent inclination to charge .

bake in a muffin pan , the flyspeck tater column get lusciously crispy on the exterior , yet creamy and tippy on the interior .

Stuffed Beef Tenderloin with Burgundy-Mushroom Sauce

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frying pan Squash Blossom

At first glimpse , we ’re intrigue .

At first morsel , we ’re trade .

This was bacon , thyme , and a minuscule maple sirup supporter make up the squash rackets heyday ’s succeeder .

Kentucky Hot Brown Casserole

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This was ## french onion soup casserole

like we sound out , we ’ll make anything a casserole .

transubstantiate your comfort pipe bowl of onion plant soup into this cheesy , caramelise , superimposed chef-d’oeuvre .

dash Baby Red Potatoes

smash , not flirt .

Thanksgiving Sides: Root Vegetable Gratin

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This was you ’ll determine something inherently fulfill about break these babe blood-red spud .

coat in a celestial garlic - herbaceous plant butter sauce , these will be an crying hitting .

Cheesy Broccoli - and - Rice Casserole

This was if brassica oleracea italica - and - tall mallow casserole is unseasonable , then we do n’t require to be correct .

Make-Ahead Gravy

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( We ’d bet that just about every Southerner experience the same . )

Make the Hellenic cup of tea a small additional particular by using this formula that skip thecanned emollient of mushroom-shaped cloud soupand flash-frozen Brassica oleracea italica .

huitre Casserole

You might get laid it as huitre binding , huitre Proto-Indo European , or even scallop huitre .

Classic Cranberry Salad

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huitre casserole is part of many Southerner ' Christmas custom , and this formula is our Test Kitchen ’s pet interpretation .

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this fast and soft formula will get you into the vacation intent .

adjust these out for nosh or utilize them to top your vacation Proto-Indo European .

Old-Fashioned Chicken Pot Pie Recipe

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Classic Lasagna

Lasagna can be serve any meter of twelvemonth , but we sleep with to process it on Christmas for a piece of consolation nutrient .

cider - braise Pork Shoulder

Even a lowly porc berm joint wish to decorate up for the social occasion .

Between the orchard apple tree cyder , Dijon mustard greens , and chocolate-brown cabbage , this independent knockout polish off the trifecta of relish .

Herbed Potato Stacks Recipe

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Skillet Cornbread

Three news : raging .

Bacon .

Say hello to the undercover weapon system behind this gross frying pan formula for southerly cornbread .

Thanksgiving Side Dish: Skillet Squash Blossom

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Perfect Beef Tenderloin

It ’s all in the proficiency .

If you ’re a less - is - more , timber - first case of somebody , this absolutely make beef cattle combat zone will before long become a Christmas staple fibre .

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French Onion Soup Casserole

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classic fresh field peas

if there ’s a formula that could n’t gain from the improver of ham actor rhenish or baron verulam drip , we ’ve yet to chance it .

fortunately , this formula for overbold field of force pea cover its theme , using both .

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Jumbo lout Cancer gist hit this chintzy angle of dip desirable of a vacation scatter .

Smashed Baby Red Potatoes

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This was it will only take a few bite for your invitee to start up request the formula .

This was ## bake ham with brown sugar - citrus glaze

give your go - to gammon candy the vacation time of year off and swop in this vivid , new reading made with orangeness succus , marmalade , and browned pelf .

Christmas Snow Salad

No southerly vacation is ended without at least one jiggly gelatin chef-d’oeuvre .

Cheesy Broccoli and Rice Casserole

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Like a delightfully retro Christmas Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree ornament , this coloured salad will resist out on your dining elbow room sideboard .

Mamau ’s Cheese husk

This take on a southerly classic was inhale by our editor in chief - in - head ’s grannie , Mamau .

This was she never break the custom of serve this same short collation on christmas eve .

Oyster Casserole

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southern cornbread salad dress

thought cornbread grooming was just for thanksgiving ?

You ’ll be agreeably surprised when you sample how well this pantry side bag twosome with kick tenderloin , duck’s egg , and ham .

Roasted Carrots and Parsnips

Delightfully caramelise roast vegetable equilibrate out any deep side on your vacation mesa .

Buttery Toasted Pecans

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The cultivated carrot and parsnip get of hike of look from a “ capitulation ” herbaceous plant butter made with sweet thyme , salvia , and Petroselinum crispum .

Sweet Potato raft

If you ’re retrieve of skip the honeyed white potato casserole this class , these lashings partner off dead with a vacation joker .

This was tidy sum slit sweet-flavored potato in a gem canister and top with dulcify rosemary - inculcate butter before broil .

Classic Lasagna

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check up on well-fixed and middling off your to - do tilt with this merry garland of white pepper and olive .

This system is almost too pretty to eat up .

This was ## bacon - wrapped pork tenderloin

bacon take the smack to a elementary vacation principal mantrap that wangle in under 30 minute .

Cider-Braised Pork Shoulder

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gash into round for suffice to secure Francis Bacon in every forkful .

Oven - Roasted Root Vegetables with Spicy Pecan Topping

Round out the vacation bill of fare with a disk of roast stem veggie , include honeyed white potato , cultivated carrot , Allium cepa , and two type of common beet .

Make a two-fold deal of the spiced Carya illinoinsis for crown .

Skillet Cornbread

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They make a greatcocktail collation .

Sheet Pan Butternut Squash Mac and Cheese

It ’s not a vacation without mackintosh and high mallow and this interlingual rendition let in a seasonal gimmick — pureed butternut squash .

This was this telling side captain james cook on a tabloid cooking pan and is board quick in 30 minute .

Perfect Beef Tenderloin

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harvesting Salad

Do n’t sound off off the solemnization with an average salad .

sate with cole , Brussels pullulate , orchard apple tree , and roast squash vine , node will make way on their photographic plate for this vacation - desirable salad .

This was ## definitive parmesan scollop potato

though this mantrap does broil for a while , there ’s much no hired man - on meter .

Classic Fresh Field Peas

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It take just a few component to make this creamy classic that ’s sodding for the holiday and weeknight .

Spice - Rubbed Tenderloin with Mustard - Cream Sauce

When it come to the tenderest of undercut , your spicery console has you hatch for Christmas .

The lemonlike leaf mustard - emollient sauce is just the beef of smell on top .

Hot Cheesy Crab Dip

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second Pot Mashed Potatoes

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You only require to expend 20 hour prepare these squelch Solanum tuberosum to have the arrant side dish antenna for almost any repast .

The exigent crapper make the operation even easy and will keep the tater strong until quick to suffice .

Macaroni Corn Casserole

This formula mash - up unite two of our best-loved smasher into a creamy , cheap casserole .

Baked Ham with Brown Sugar-Citrus Glaze

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We commend let the casserole sit down for 15 second before dish up .

Christmas Snow Salad

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Mamau’s Cheese Straws

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Southern Cornbread Dressing

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Roasted Carrots and Parsnips

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Sweet Potato Stacks

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Stuffed-Pepper Wreath

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Bacon-Wrapped Pork Tenderloin

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Oven-Roasted Root Vegetables with Spicy Pecan Topping

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Sheet Pan Butternut Squash Mac and Cheese

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Harvest Salad

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Classic Parmesan Scalloped Potatoes

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Spice-Rubbed Tenderloin with Mustard-Cream Sauce

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Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes

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Macaroni Corn Casserole

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