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Monday, November 16, 2020

One-Hour Sheet Pan Thanksgiving Sides

Thanksgiving spread with stuffing, gravy, cranberries, squash, turkey brussels sprouts, and potatoes.

This recipe is sponsored by ALDI

Hi. Let me introduce you to the easiest way to make three Thanksgiving sides, with minimal hands-on work, in roughly one hour: THE SHEET PAN METHOD.

Here are the three delicious sides that you’ll get with this one hour of time:

Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes – creamy, tangy, rustic and full of roasty garlic flavor. I honestly have a hard time stopping with these.

Herbed Squash – delicate and earthy and deep, thanks to a heavy pinch of thyme and some roasted-caramelized onions. Beautiful.

Maple Mustard Brussels Sprouts – crispy, very thoroughly browned (the only way to eat a brussel sprout), textural with the toasted walnuts and dried cherries, and sweet and a little spicy from the mustard. Just… wow. Even my toddler loves these.

Mashed potatoes, brussels sprouts, and herbed squash in bowls.

This sounds like it will take you hours to make.

I PROMISE YOU IT WILL NOT.

A few sheet pans, a few pours and sprinkles = done.

As I’ve been playing with this, and eating a lot of Thanksgiving food in the process, I’ve been laser focused on the following goals:

saving time
saving money
saving kitchen / stove space
getting three ACTUALLY good Thanksgiving sides without feeling like you just spent the whole day doing a lot of hard work.

In 2020, when we’re gathering for Thanksgiving with like, maybe five people? and cooking mostly by ourselves? and all that work? Oh my gosh, let’s give ourselves a break. When it can taste this good with so little work, it’s just not necessary.

Here’s my proposition: You pick the Thanksgiving stars that you really want to put your time, energy and fancy tricks into this year. The turkey? The stuffing? The pie? It doesn’t need to be every single dish. You pick. Pick one, two, maybe three stars.

And then you let these three sheet pans take care of the rest.

Potatoes, brussels sprouts, and squash on sheet pans.

Here’s my other proposition: make your Thanksgiving haul at ALDI. You’ll save money, and you’ll find not only quality, fun, interesting ingredients but also many of them ORGANIC.

Ingredients from ALDI for Thanksgiving sides.

I bought everything for these three sheet pan recipes at ALDI for a fraction of the cost of my usual Thanksgiving grocery haul, but I would also like to recommend the following to round out the table:

Butterball turkey (That’s right, you heard it, ALDI sells butterball turkeys.)
Chef’s Cupboard Stuffing Mix (This boxed stuffing is… I just… I don’t know why it’s so good. I love it. I leave it totally as-is but maybe just broil at the end for some crunchiness.)
Sweet Harvest Whole Berry Cranberry Sauce (I like to add some orange juice and/or zest for a semi-homemade cranberry sauce.)
L’oven Fresh Hawaiian Sweet Rolls (Yes, you should make some fancy herb or honey butter to go with them.)
Cheese, olives, and every other dip and cracker for an appetizer situation.

All the yumminess. ALDI, WE LOVE YOU.

All the things that Thanksgiving is *usually* about feel especially up in the air this year. Like…

Traveling to see family and friends
Gathering with large groups
Sharing meals around warm, cozy, and close-together tables

But sharing a good meal with someone you love is not canceled. Let’s make it happen.

Whether you’re doing the normal thing this year or not (probably most of us some version of not), this one-hour sheet pan sides method, this complete brain-and-space-and-time-saver, is kind of my new favorite thing about Thanksgiving.

A note that the photos here show these sheet pan recipes DOUBLED. The original recipes written here are meant to serve a smaller group (thanks, 2020) but you can easily scale up as needed to serve more people or get more leftovers.

One-Hour Sheet Pan Thanksgiving Sides

Author: Lindsay
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 45 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour
Yield: 3-4 servings

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Description

All the Thanksgiving sides you need – made easy in one hour! Roasted garlic mashed potatoes, herbed squash, and maple mustard brussels sprouts. Perfect for a small gathering!

Ingredients

Roasted Herbed Squash:

1 butternut squash, peeled and diced, + olive oil and salt
1 teaspoon Simply Nature Organic Thyme Leaves
1 small onion, thinly sliced

Maple Mustard Brussels with Walnuts and Cherries:

1 package brussels sprouts, trimmed and cut + olive oil and salt
1/2 cup Southern Grove Walnuts
1/2 cup Southern Grove Dried Cherries
2 tablespoons Specially Selected 100% Pure Maple Syrup
2 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard

Creamy Garlic Mashed Potatoes:

1 1/2 pounds round potatoes + olive oil and salt
6 cloves garlic, + olive oil and wrapped in foil
1/4 cup Countryside Creamery Salted Butter
1/4 cup broth or milk
1/4 cup Friendly Farms Sour Cream
kosher salt to taste (I used about 1 teaspoon)

Optional extras to serve from ALDI:

Butterball Turkey
Chef’s Cupboard Stuffing Mix
Sweet Harvest Whole Berry Cranberry Sauce
L’oven Fresh Hawaiian Sweet Rolls

Instructions

Video

Roasting Everything: Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Place squash and potatoes + seasonings on a sheet pan or roasting pan. Place brussels sprouts + seasonings on a sheet pan or roasting pan, cut side down. Roast squash and potatoes for 15 minutes. Add brussels sprouts to the oven; roast both pans another 20-30 minutes. During the last 5-or-so minutes, add the walnuts and cherries to the brussels sprout pan to get them nice and toasty.
Roasted Herbed Squash: Season to taste – this one is pretty much ready to go out of the oven!
Maple Mustard Brussels: Toss roasted brussels with maple syrup, olive oil, and Dijon mustard. Season to taste.
Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes: Pull the peels off the potatoes if you want – I don’t mind them so I usually leave them on. Mash potatoes by hand or use a stand mixer to mash until they break down. Add in roasted garlic, butter, milk or broth, and sour cream. Season to taste.
Serve: Serve up your beautiful spread of roasted garlic mashed potatoes, herbed butternut squash, maple Dijon brussels sprouts with whatever else you love on Thanksgiving!

Category: Dinner
Method: Roast
Cuisine: American

Keywords: one hour thanksgiving, thanksgiving sides, small thanksgiving, sheet pan thanksgiving

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Thursday, November 12, 2020

Miracle No Knead Bread

There’s a reason we are calling this MIRACLE NO KNEAD BREAD.

This recipe was originally published in 2016, and to this day remains one of the most popular and top-rated recipes on the blog! It’s the perfect match for soup weather, and we just wanted to be sure you keep it in your cozy food arsenal this season. Enjoy!

Let me paint a picture for you. It starts with a golden and ragged-looking crusty loaf of piping hot white bread being roughly torn into chunks, steam escaping, crumbs flying everywhere across the table, and it ends with that swift swooping motion as its hot n’ chewy little self dives deep into the bowl of thick soup and delivers a bit of chewy carbs sopped with flavor to your hungry, happy mouth. Honestly. The pure bliss of this moment.

Welcome to fall, bread lovers.

I have some really good news for you today.

YOU ARE ABOUT TO MAKE BREAD LIKE A BOSS.

Watch how to make our No Knead Bread:

The Bread for Non-Bread Makers

You are going to serve this bread with your rocked-out homemade soups and the praise will come flowing from family and friends and neighbors alike, and people are not going to be able to stop. This is your moment for Martha-Stewart-level domestic greatness within the normalcy of a regular person life, and we are going to milk it.

Please scan your brain right now for these lurking thoughts: “I don’t make bread.” “Bread baking takes too long.” “Yeast-y recipes scare me.”

Friends, let the record show that I am in your club. I am on that team. I have less than zero percent patience for bread recipes and therefore I do not make bread, at all, ever, and I only have two teeny exceptions:

I make brioche from Artisan Bread in 5, like, three times per year, because it makes for perfect tea rings and homemade French toast bakes and cinnamon rolls and for the times that the baking diva within comes alive. Also it’s VERY EASY.
I make this Miracle No Knead Bread, inspired from my friends, fellow bloggers, and people of the internet, and I make it a minimum of 250 times every fall and winter because it is the opposite of fancy. Which is confusing because it FEELS fancy to pull a loaf of homemade bread out of the oven, especially when it is tucked into that rustic and beautiful Laura-Ingalls-Wilder-esque red Lodge Dutch Oven (affiliate link) that we swoon over every year when the leaves start turning, but seriously – I would, and do, on a regular basis, make this bread for weeknight dinners. We don’t call this Miracle No Knead Bread for nothin.

Variations on This Bread

Obviously we prefer this in its original, perfect form, but if you’re looking to make some changes, there are always OPTIONS.

How to make it gluten-free: We tried this flour (affiliate link) and the results were great. A hard crust formed on the outside and the inside was soft, airy, and a teeny bit spongy – close to the real thing. Some downsides: the bread didn’t rise as much as the regular version and, of course, it didn’t have quite the same flavor.
How to make it whole wheat: This is very similar to the original version. The texture of the dough was the same, it rose the same, and it looked the same coming out of the oven with its hard crust. The inside texture was denser with not as many air pockets. The flavor was a little bitter and texture was a bit gritty, but to be expected with whole wheat flour.
How to add some flavor: Use whatever herbs that sound delicious to you! Mix them in the beginning to avoid kneading later.
How to make it CHEESY: We’ve got a recipe for that! Check out our No Knead Cheese Bread.

It’s worth saying again that my motto for Pinch of Yum is RECIPES THAT REAL PEOPLE WOULD ACTUALLY MAKE. I pass all recipes that hit your eyeballs through this very practical and very important filter.

And this bread? This no knead bread that can be mixed all in one bowl with a wooden spoon in five minutes flat? This bread is on-brand. Nailed it. If you’ve never done this before, buckle up.

You’re so gonna love it in all its crispy, air-pocketed glory.

This Bread Was Made For Soup

Truly there is nothing better than swooping a piece of this piping hot bread into some cozy, creamy soup. Here are our favorites:

The Best Detox Crockpot Lentil Soup (healthy, creamy, YUM)
Simple Homemade Tomato Soup (maybe even with our No Knead CHEESE Bread?!)
Instant Pot Wild Rice Soup (our favorite pairing)
Instant Pot Minestrone Soup (like a hug in a bowl)
Basic + Awesome Broccoli Cheese Soup (cheese and bread, can’t go wrong)