Healthy Recipes: Entertaining

In this section of the site, you can find all of the Skinny Chef recipes for entertaining occasions. Typically, there are several pages with recipes - so scroll down and use the paged navigation.... or search for the recipe by title:

 

Cinco de Mayo Menu

I’ll take any excuse to celebrate with food and friends, so I’ll enjoy Cinco de Mayo every year. The best (and healthiest) way to celebrate is to throw a potluck bash, simply let your guests choose one recipe from the menu to prepare. Plan to have one drink out at the beginning of your celebration or end your evening in your favorite local watering hole so you won’t be accused of being a home body!

Granny’s Holiday Baking Recipes & Easy Holiday Cookies

Granny is an extremely skilled baker who loved to spoil her family with home-made holiday treats. She would start baking three weeks before Christmas to be sure that we had plenty of holiday cookie varieties, teaching me a few of her insider baking tips and tricks along the way.

Sweet Tart Cranberry Sauce For Thanksgiving

There’s Cranberry sauce recipes galore – but how about this twist? In what I call ‘Not Your Usual Cranberry Sauce’, I’ve given my Granny’s recipe a whole makeover…

Turkey Gravy For Thanksgiving

Lump free gravy isn’t magic, it’s all in the technique as I show in this video. Instead of using flour to thicken, try making a slurry with cornstarch mixed with cold water and gradually whisk it into warm turkey stock

Perfect Lump-Free Mashed Potatoes

Smooth mashed potatoes are easy to make when you follow my latest How-To Video: Always mash the cook potatoes when they are still hot. Make sure the milk is warm, cooling down the potatoes can cause the starch to thicken and get lumpy.

How To Make Your Own Turkey Stock

Gravy and stuffing are integral part of every Thanksgiving meal – but did you know that your own Turkey stock is the best way to impart flavor with hardly any calories? In this video, I am going over the basic steps, plus share a few quick chefs’ tricks…

Roasted Butterflied Turkey

Millions of turkeys get cooked every year on Thanksgiving – the #1 question? How to keep your turkey juicy, and from drying out. You’ll find the answer in my complete Thanksgiving how-to video series…

How To Butterfly A Turkey

Get the professional scoop on how to butterfly, season, and roast a turkey so that it stays super juicy and tender. Plus, find out how to dial down calories while amping up flavor. It’s video #1 of my complete Thanksgiving How-To video series!