Do you have those recipes that you always have for the Holidays? I love traditions but I love trying some new things as well.

Here are a couple of our favorites.

Cranberry Salad

1-16 oz can WHOLE cranberry sauce
1-20 oz can crushed pineapple
1-11 oz can mandarin oranges
1 pkg cherry jell-o
1/2 Cup chopped pecans
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Drain the pineapple juice and place in a saucepan. Pour the cherry jell-o into the pineapple juice, cook about 2 minutes until it is dissolved. Now add the whole cranberry sauce to the heated mixture and dissolve that. Stir in the pineapple, oranges and chopped pecans. Pour into an 8×8 dish or a pretty bowl and chill.

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Cranberry, Apple, Sausage Stuffing

1 box of chicken stuffing

3/4 Tbsp Butter

3/4 Cup water

1 Gala Apple, cored, sliced and chopped

1 Cup of Craisins

1 stalk of celery, chopped

1/2 of a large onion, chopped

1 pkg of mild sausage (breakfast style)

1 tsp parsley

1 tsp sage

1/2 Cup pecans, chopped

Cook and drain the sausage and then set aside. In a frying pan put your butter, apple, craisins, celery, and onion and saute’ til soft and a little golden. Add in the water, seasonings and pecans and continue cooking a couple more minutes. Add in the box/bag of stuffing and cook for 5 minutes.

Spread the mixture out onto a jelly roll pan and cook at 350 degrees for 15 minutes.

I will also make my mother-in-laws famous homemade rolls, an old family recipe–Cocnut Pie.  It is similar to a pecan pie but with coconut–one of our favs.