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***Comments are now closed and the winners have been chosen using Random.org. I’ll be contacting them via email.

Here are your random numbers:

272 56 85
Timestamp: 2013-10-30 13:04:06 UTC

272 – De Anne
56 – Becky
85 – Marissa

Listen. At second glance I realize that title is deceiving. Sadly, I am not giving away the Pioneer Woman today. Although how awesome would that giveaway be? Someone to live in your house who is constantly trying new recipes and cooking new delicious things? I think they might have that in heaven.

But, almost as good, I’m giving away three copies of Ree Drummond’s gorgeous new cookbook, The Pioneer Woman Cooks: A Year of Holidays.

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I received an early copy about a week ago and I have already looked through it so many times that it looks like I’ve had it for years. Of course I have yet to actually cook any of the recipes and we ordered pizza from Papa John’s last night, but that’s beside the point. I’ve been busy.

However, I already have big plans for Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas after looking at all the recipes, including a Bagel and Cream Cheese Baked French Toast recipe that might change my life. And there’s a grilled corn dip that I am absolutely making for the Aggie game this weekend.

And in addition to all the recipes, her cover photo has inspired me to mix purple and turquoise from here on out because GORGEOUS.

Anyway, I love it so much that I wanted to share it with you. It officially releases today and is available at Barnes and Noble online and in their actual stores and on Amazon and probably some other places, too.

But like I said earlier before I began to ramble, I’m giving away three copies today. All you have to do for a chance to win is leave a comment telling me about your favorite holiday food. I will not judge you if it’s a starch.

I’ll leave comments open until 7:00 a.m. on Wednesday, October 30th and then choose the three winners through random.org. No duplicate comments please. They’ll be deleted and make my life hard.

Good luck and happy cooking!

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  5. The cranberry jelly that looks like the can.

    Oh, and Ree`s bacon wrapped club crackers. I only allow myself to make them on holidays.

  6. My mom makes the most wonderful pecan tassies… Never thought of those as my favorite but they were the first thing in my mind when I thought of what to comment!

    Your blog always makes me laugh – thank you for that. Sometimes the days are LONG LONG and I always perk up when I see a post of yours show up in my reader… 🙂

  8. Potato candy. My mother made them every year just for Christmas.
    When my kids were younger, I made it for them and now I’m making it for
    my grandchildren 🙂

  9. My favorite holiday food is my mom’s stuffing with italian sausage. It is amazing and I eat it alone as a mean for days after thanksgiving. It is not Thanksgiving without it!

  11. Thanksgiving: turkey, sausage stuffing, mashed potatoes slathered in gravy ( I guess that’s more than one) ????
    Christmas: Heath brickle bars

  20. My grandmother would make kugelis for Christmas brunch. A Lithuanian potato casserole, loaded with cream and bacon fat.

  21. If I’m being honest? Bourbon slush. Quite tasty and just enough to take the edge off and make everyone feel warm and festive. Not enough to get everyone blitzed. I find that if you’re going to have a house full of relatives for a few days, it’s best to sand down the edges a bit. Plus, when they all float off to sleep I can shovel sweet potato soufflé into my mouth in peace!

  22. Halloween = any and all of the CHOCOLATE candy from my kids stash 😉

    Thanksgiving = My mom’s broccoli cheese casserole

    Christmas = candy cane cookies 🙂

    Thank you for hosting this giveaway!!

  24. Without a doubt for Thanksgiving its mashed potatoes and gravy and for Christmas it would have to be my great grandmothers lefsa, which is a Swedish treat:)

  25. Oooh … I like hashbrown casserole with ham at Easter. Which is a totally different time of year, but you said starch, and that’s where my mind went. I love my mom’s cornbread dressing at Thanksgiving. Christmas – we always get Hickory Farms sausage, cheese and crackers to snack on. Yum.

  26. My mom’s Christmas Morning Waffles. Fluffy Belgian waffles with cream cheese, whipped cream and sliced strawberries.

  30. Breakfast egg, sausage and cheese casserole that my mom still makes for breakfast on Christmas Day! When we were kids out grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles would all come over that morning for a HUGE breakfast. Now that we all have kids we do our breakfast tradition one Sunday before church during the Christmas season. It combines my favorite things: family and breakfast!

  36. Oh, I love me some Pioneer Woman!! I follow all her blogs and if I get up on time I watch her precious show on Saturday mornings. I just recently printed a recipe for Pumpkin Pecan Bread with Streusel Topping. Doesn’t that sound delish!!

  42. I love stuffing. Any kind. But I always fall back to making the one my mom made when I was growing up, with sausage, sage, mushrooms and crusty bread.

  43. Do I have to pick just one? Well, it would have to be turkey dressing made the way my grandma did. I’m very particular about my dressing!

  45. Dressing (but really only if I make it).

    And I will say that the reader who commented “bourbon slush” certainly got my attention. Although sometimes,that’s how I would describe the holidays….ha!

  46. We have thisconcoction that my family has been eating my whole life that really seals the deal for me at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Both of my parents claim that their mothers are the source, but it doesn’t really matter (although secretly I know it came from my Nana and not my Granny). Anywho, it is fresh cranberries chopped in a food processor mixed with a splash of orange juice, some sugar, and chopped pecans. You do this part a day ahead and then let it’s it in the fridge overnight. Right before it’s time to eat,!you mix in a container of cool whip. I know it sounds weird, like one of those strange jello molds that your crazy aunt makes and no one eats, but a bite of it with your turkey or on a yeast roll is just heaven to me. I do wonder if PW included this fine culinary example in her cookbook.

  48. Paula Deen’s cinnamon rolls which I have made better by the addition of more butter. Yes. You read right. More butter. We call them Krista’s Once-A-Year Cinnamon Rolls because you’d have a heart attack if you are them more than once a year.

    On the savory side, my mom makes a killer turkey for Thanksgiving we call her drunk turkey because it’s brined before cooking in a mix of Jim Beam, water, sugar, and salt. It. Is. Perfection.

  50. SEES Candy!! I only eat it at Christmas & look forward to that white box of pure happiness all year long 🙂 GREAT giveaway Melanie!

  51. My favorite Holiday foods are for Thanksgiving the turkey and dressing, of course. For Christmas we do low country boil with shrimp, sausage, crab legs, potatoes, corn and for dessert I must have pecan pie!

  55. Oyster dressing for a starch and boiled custard for dessert. This Christmas will be the first time we’ve been back home in nearly 2 years and I am already counting down the days until Christmas dinner!

  58. Definitely my grandma’s stuffing. My aunt has taken over the past few years and it’s still wonderful, but there was something about when my grandma made it.

  61. Favorite holiday food, stuffing on Thanksgiving. I would be happy with just a plate full of stuffing and nothing else!

  62. Stuffing at Thanksgiving is my favorite. It’s one of those things I only eat at the holidays because I have very little self control!

  63. Any food with cheese in its title is my favorite holiday food – especially the Cheese Straws and the Cheese Rice Crispy appetizers.

  66. Hands down, my Gma’s dressing is my favorite holiday food! But I do love my father in law’s fried turkey!! Yum!!

  75. My mom’s wild rice with teeny bits of sausage and cream of mushroom soup. Best made with Uncle Ben’s long grain and wild rice boxed mix leaving out the seasoning packet, or most of it anyway… Baked in layers, it stops my clock every time I smell it in her crock pot.

  76. My grandmother’s recipe for corn casserole. It’s easy to make and I have to double it for my family. It’s creamed corn, eggs some flour and then you set the pan in another pan of water to sort of boil and bake in the oven at the same time. It sounds weird but it’s amazing and has been around for literally decades!

  81. Favorite holiday food Apple pie. Pumpkin pie, coconut cream pie, any pie really.

    I love the smell of a Thanksgiving turkey cooking too. I like it all really, except for turnips. I do not like turnips.

  84. My favorite Thanksgiving food is homemade cranberry sauce – I make a smooth version and a chunky so everyone’s happy! I also love cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning, with plenty of frosting 🙂

  85. It’s got to be the dressing. I don’t know why we only fix it twice a year, but it is worth the wait.

  91. Beef tenderloin is my favorite, although my family would go for the trimmings and desserts. I love Ree’s Cranberry Pie, too!

  94. Turkey, Stuffing, and gravy.

    I mostly use PWs recipes these days. I live in the bush and so it’s nice to see recipes using whole ingredients.

  106. Pecan Pie. And as of yesterday, pecan pie Pringles. Yes, there is such a thing, and yes, they are FANTASTIC!

  109. Definitely baked macaroni at thanksgiving and Christmas. I married into a big fat Greek family 🙂 and this is my mother in laws specialty!!! So yummy!

  113. Sour cream cookies – my Grandma’s recipe. “kind of” like sugar cookies, but so much better and they make excellent cutout cookies.

  118. Hands down….cornbread dressing…no contest!!
    I’d LOVE the book. Thanks for the giveaway!

  119. Anything chocolate and turkey and dressing (it’s not “stuffing” in Tennessee, it’s dressing) with loads of gravy.

  123. My favorite holiday food would have to be pie! Any kind! It seems that pie isn’t an everyday dessert like cake or cookies, and it only appears on our holiday table which makes it extra special to me.

  124. Roast turkey, stuffing, & Ocean Spray jelled cranberry sauce. Oh, & of course Pumpkin Pie! Thank you.

  125. Sausage, egg, and cheese casserole on Christmas morning with my Mom’s cinnamon roll ring! Yummy!!

  126. My mom’s plain chocolate fudge and my mom’s (really her mom’s) dressing…cold, straight outta the fridge!

  128. Chicken and Dumplings (dumplins as I say). Give or take the chicken. Fresh creamed corn is close second. Or homemade rolls. Seriously, who needs a fried turkey or fresh ham when you can have all the sides?

  132. Dressing/stuffing at Thanksgiving.
    Pickled Red Beet Eggs at Easter.
    Bacon (turkey) wrapped water chestnuts in a yummy sweet sauce at Christmas.
    And, pies, any type of bread, and Special K Bars at any holiday! ‘Slurp’

  133. oh, I would have to say cinnamon rolls – we have them on Christmas morning. sometimes it’s ones from the can or sometimes it’s the Pioneer Woman’s recipe. Gotta have them though!
    thanks!

  134. Thanksgiving: mashed potatoes — the more butter, the better
    Christmas: breakfast casserole and my mom’s cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning

  137. Chocolate chip pie! We eat it every Christmas Eve. Would love to own a Pioneer woman cookbook 🙂

  138. Mom’s homemade rolls are the best. I’ve tried to make them but they’re just not quite as good. I do make a really good mint cookie though!

  140. Everything about Thanksgiving dinner- turkey, corn, sauerkraut, mashed potatoes, cornbread stuffing, etc

  143. My favorite holiday food would have to be turkey, I never fix a whole turkey any other time of the year and once October starts my cravings do too!!!!

  147. I love broccoli casserole more than life itself. Oh how I hope she has a recipe for a good one!

  149. Hmm… it’s 7:00am and now all I want is Holiday Food!!!

    Thanksgiving is not complete without BOTH Turkey and Dressing and My mom’s Homemade Pumpkin Pie (I’m such a traditionalist.)
    For Christmas– it’s definitely PW’s Cinnamon Rolls. Yes, they are to die for, but I LOVE the tradition of making them with my little helpers.

  150. My dad’s stuffing, made the day before and stuck in the basement to keep cool, sneaking down with forks to sample.

  151. Well, it’s got to be gravy…all the gravy. I’m also looking forward to turkey and dressing! Nothing else will even sound good today.

  152. My favorite holiday food–well, there are many, and I make them all, so I’d have to say that it’s the wine. We don’t normally indulge in wine that much, and having a glass to hand while I’m cooking all day feels quite elegant 🙂

  154. My momma’s authentic New Orleans Oyster dressing. It looks scary & inedible but it’s absolutely delicious. And every time it’s our year to spend Thanksgiving with the in-laws, I insist on making it — even though only my husband and I will eat it. Would it kill my MIL to have a taste??? 🙂

  158. My mom’s cornbread dressing with just the right amount of sage. No one can make it quite like she does! 🙂

  165. I love, love, love dressing…with just touch of cranberry sauce mixed with each bite. Good grief, I can’t wait for some holiday food! Thank you for the giveaway — I love the Pioneer Woman almost as much as I love that dressing.

  178. Scottish dark chocolate & orange zest shortbread. You can find it in Oprah’s archives. Best dessert ever and so easy.

  179. Hands down it has to be my mom’s dressing. She has been trying to teach us the recipe for years and every time my sister and I attempt it…we bomb. No one’s dressing ik like momma’s 🙂

  185. I make a chocolate trifle every Christmas for our dessert course. It is rich, decadent and worth every calorie!

  189. Mashed potatoes with gravy….I don’t mess with them any other time except a holiday….that’s sad isn’t it?…..and I now use the recipe from PW’s first cookbook for my potatoes….flawless!!!!

  190. Blueberry Jello Salad! It could easily be made and enjoyed all year long, except for the part where I’m lazy.

  197. I am 36 years old, have been married for 13 years and I have never owned a cookbook! This would be a great one to start out with!
    I have a collection of recipes that I have written down in a little book that I use and of course, I have recipe boards on Pinterest, but NEVER. An actual cookbook.

  206. Well, I’m a little disappointed that the giveaway doesn’t actually include PW live and in person, but her cookbook will be awesome too. 🙂
    I married into a family that makes cheese potatoes for every holiday. They’re completely unhealthy, but SO delicious!

  207. A squash and zucchini casserole with cheddar cheese and ritz crackers that my mom only makes at Christmas.. Yum!

  208. Grandma always made mincemeat pie with a top crust made from cut out turkey or star shapes. Unbelievably rich, but a holiday staple while she entertained.

  211. I make homemade monkey bread for Eater and Christmas morning. But I love my friends pumpkin roll. She’s making one for me because I can’t do it!

  213. Cake TRUFFLES!
    Cake TRUFFLES!
    😉
    :0
    Cannot make them but love eating them! I’m so pitiful of a cook maybe a good cookbook could improve my skills – for the sake of my children PICK ME :):)

  223. Turkey, mashed potatoes, dressing, gravy …in one big pile. I have yet to cook a receipe from the previous two cookbooks but have them just to look at the pictures and dream that one day I’ll be motivated to cook!

  242. Peanut Butter Balls are by far my favorite holiday treat. My sister-in-law has made them for years, but only at Christmas. They are so yummy that it is difficult to stop at eating only a few!

  250. I am 70, and from the time of my earliest memory of Christmas my family always baked a fresh ham…and it was as big of one that could be brought..I was rubbed down with salt, pepper and brown sugar…orange slices was put on top and held in place with tooth picks…It was put in the oven and would cook for hours and the smell would flow into the rest of the house….an hour or so before it was done..(oh yes, when it was checked if it was getting close to being done, small slices was cut off and given to us kids…now this was the crispy top with the brown sugar…and some time a orange slice cut up in wee pieces to go with the sliver of ham…oh yum…) The sweet potatoes was put around the ham….now way back then when sweet potatoes would bake they would weep a sticky goodness that they do not do today…and when everything would be cooked and ready, the ham sliced, and the sweet potatoes peeled and mashed with big ole globs of butter…and the scraped corn, fresh pole beans…massive dish of dressing that was loaded with chicken, and the gravy made from the boiled down chicken stock…hot biscuits, and every type of pie you could imagine, pumpkin of course, pecan, lemon, chocolate, and cakes with cook frosting…A pray was then given up for our bountiful love, family, and food….reflection of the year gone by and each family member, by name was asked that God be with them and keep them safe in the coming year….Soooo I can not say which or what was the one thing that was my favorite food….since it was a feeling that was achieved, with the love, honor, and cherished blessing that was given us all, and the shared food that still is being done the way it was when it started being a tradition…

  251. Lefse – a good old Norwegian tradition that I grew up with but sadly no one in Georgia makes it.

  252. I love cranberries in any way I can get them. But they don’t taste the same in the summer. It has to be cold for a cranberry. Thanks!

  253. Mashed potatoes w/gravy, stuffing and creamed veg. casserole.

    Must take extra walks during the holidays but worth it!!

  257. I love all sorts of Christmas cookies…ginger bread is my favorite!
    Thanks for the great giveaway!

  261. Eden Cafe’s Sweet Potato Casserole.. Divine! My sis finally got it from the owner after asking for it 3 years in a row..

  262. So hard to pick just one, but, I will say that homemade pecan pie is a favorite of mine at Christmas. 🙂

  266. My favorite thing to make this time of year, with fall/halloween/thanksgiving is pumpkin cream cheese dip. It’s just so good. You eat it with either some type of graham or ginger snaps. So delightful.

  270. Turkey! And those squares with peanut butter & chocolate melted together with colourful marshmallows mixed in.

  274. I look forward to Christmas and Easter hams for months. My love is mainly about the juice. I’m with Caroline – just give me a thermos of meat juice and I’ll be happy.

  277. This year I’m really looking forward to the turkey! My mom cooks it overnight and when we walk in the house it smells soooo good. Thanks for doing the giveaway!

  281. My favorite holiday food is candied sweet potatoes. It’s a superfood! With marshmallows and butter! Can’t get any better

  287. I just adore this woman and would love to have this cookbook. Our favorite Christmas recipe is Sausage stuffing!

  289. My favorite Thanksgiving dish would have to be my grandmother’s cornbread dressing (stuffing). 🙂

  292. I think my favorite would have to the Prime Rib that my mom makes for Christmas Eve. It’s so good, and we NEVER learn our lesson to take it easy on all the fun appetizers before hand!!

  295. I love pioneer woman! We live in Switzerland and have such a time getting English books- what a treat it would be. as for food… Pioneer woman’s Cinnamon rolls are tops!

  296. Oh, it’s so hard to pick just one favorite food! It might be my aunt’s famous veggie bars. I think my husband ate half the pan last Christmas!

  297. Sweet potato casserole for both Thanksgiving and Christmas, always! And cranberry-nut bread, yummy. I’d love the cookbook!

  299. I wasn’t aware that there were any other foods besides starches at Thanksgiving????
    Love me a leftover turkey sandwich on a leftover dinner roll – if there are any left!

  301. Pillsbury orange glazed cinnamon rolls are the Christmas morning tradition in my family; this is the first year I won’t be with my parents on Christmas Day and I have a feeling I’m going to really, really crave those cinnamon rolls.

  302. I love the leftovers! Nothing beats a turkey sandwich with cranberry sauce and dressing. Wahed down with a big glass of apple cider.

  306. Thanks for this awesome giveaway Melanie!!! My favorite holiday recipe has to be my husband’s Grandma’s sugar cookies- this is my first year to keep the tradition going! 🙂

  311. My mother in-law’s cherry pecan jello salad. She has been gone now for 11 years, but she had shared the recipe with me. Now, I carry on the tradition. It just doesn’t feel like the holidays without it!

  312. Honestly, my favorite is having a turkey sandwich on Thanksgiving night. Our dinner is at 2pm every year and about 8pm, I get to toast up some homemade white bread, mix together some mayo and cranberry sauce to spread on the toast and top it with slices of turkey….perfect dinner after a long day!

  313. What’s not my favorite holiday food? So hard to choose just one but it would be a cheese ball I make every year with an assortment of crackers and some delicious Christmas punch. So good!

  320. Stuffing. I try not to eat bread all year, so that I can stuff my face with stuffing/dressing at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Nom.
    Love PW

  325. I just made some last week, so I guess it’s not a holiday food, but I love pumpkin bread … or cranberry bread … or even banana bread.

  332. Thanksgiving-cornbread dressing-NOT STUFFING.
    Christmas Eve-tamales! A couple of years ago we had a little tamale mishap that involved 12 dozen tamales to go bad. Our kids said “CHRISTMAS IS RUINED!” It was epic.

  338. Cornbread dressing, squash casserole, pumpkin roll, cinnamon rolls, cranberry-orange bread, sausage-cheese biscuits, cookies and more cookies!

  340. I love all the holiday foods – but I mostly love the baking my daughter and I do in the weeks leading up to Christmas! Sugar cookies – yum. ANd maybe the lame ole green bean casserole – no one in my home likes it. AT ALL. So around the holidays I”m bound to find it on a table somewhere!!!

  343. For Thanksgiving, my husband smokes a turkey wrapped in approximately 3 pounds of bacon. 3 pounds of bacon…around a turkey. Need I say more?

  344. My momma makes two things every year that are a must – dressing (not to be confused with chicken and dressing – no chicken in momma’s dressing) and coconut dream cake. She only makes the cake at Christmas and it was always a treat to wake up Christmas morning and there was this great big, white cake! It is the best!

  348. The sides – gimme all the sides and keep the turkey/ham whatever to yourself. Unless you are going to put some ham and cheese on a Hawaiian roll with that Worcestershire/poppy seed/butter glaze because sweet mother of mercy that is a life changer. Seriously, if you haven’t had those, google that sucker up, head to sams and get the big pack of Hawaiian rolls (trust me you need 24 – the 12 sold in the grocery store is for sissies) and you can all thank me later. Or shoot me for gaining 5 lbs whatevs.

  350. Anything pumpkin-y or cinnamon-y or minty…it’s just that time of year when that stuff tastes soo good.

  354. Such a difficult choice….and aren’t most of our favorite holiday foods carbs? I think I am going with stuffing….and pumpkin pie, as I just can’t decide. If asked tomorrow, I will probably have a different answer!

  355. Pies–Sometimes I wish we could skip the main part so we can just skip ahead and indulge in the pies. Apple is my favorite.

  356. My family begins Christmas morning with a breakfast casserole – a recipe perfected by my mother and sister – now tradition!

  357. I love dressing at Thanksgiving. You may keep the turkey, but give me plenty of dressing. Oh yeah, with some gravy, too, please.

  361. Gram’s mashed sweet potatoes! I think it’s the Southern Comfort that makes them so insanely wonderfully necessary.

  365. Okay. Is it cool if I say ALL of Thanksgiving dinner? You really can’t separate the turkey from the dressing from the mashed potatoes from the gravy. Yum.

  366. Butter. I mean it makes everything better. And gravy. It’s all about the gravy. Maybe I should put butter in the gravy. Or wait, maybe that is taking things too far.

  372. Pecan pie made with peach brandy, green bean bundles, homemade rolls, rum cake, sugar cookies, and the list goes on!

  379. I love homemade Christmas sugar cookies with frosting. We have a decorating contest with our family – so fun and yummy, too!

  381. I love anything cranberry-ish, but only around Thanksgiving!

    On Christmas morning, we have to have Monkey Bread! (My kids always say, “No monkeys were harmed in the making of this bread…”

  383. Thanksgiving would be stuffing! Christmas would definitely have to be mashed potatoes now that in on charge of making them. I use PW recipe, of course!! So excited for this giveaway! It would be perfect to have since my new little family is hosting Christmas dinner this year! Thanks 🙂

  385. I love, love, love the sausage and cornbread dressing I make at Thanksgiving every year. Who needs turkey?

  386. The creamed corn that my mom makes for holidays is what keeps me going all year. One year, my brother snuck off with the creamed corn and binge ate it without sharing. It took a lot of me to forgive him for that one, the holiday just wasn’t the same.

  387. My Grandma’s “church cookies.” They’re a delicious, soft sugar cookie which Amish kids (no, I’m not Amish but Grandma was when she was young :)) are sometimes given as a snack during the long Sunday services. Grandma passed away in 2008, but our family still makes them every Christmas – we grandkids are wild about them!

  393. I love my grandmother’s coconut cream pie. I’m attempting it myself for the first time this year!

  400. Stuffing for Thanksgiving, and Shrimp Macaroni Salad that my mother in law makes for Christmas. It’s fantastic!

  403. Ok, I have two favorite holiday foods from two different grandmothers. My mother’s mother made the BEST cornbread dressing, and now it’s up to me to carry on the tradition. I love cornbread dressing. LOVE IT. I start fantasizing about it by the first of October. The other one is from my dad’s German grandmother – homemade marzipan. Let me just state that the marzipan you buy in the store tastes nothing like homemade, which is much sweeter. My mom used to make it at Christmas every year, in cute little shapes of fruit and little animals like mice, etc. I love to make it myself but don’t often have time. Hopefully this year!

  407. I love sweet potatoes! No marshmallow, but butter and brown sugar on sliced sweet potatoes, baked under the broiler until the outsides caramelize.

  410. PLEASE give Pioneer Woman away!!! The husband just had back surgery yesterday, so I need some help around this place. hahahaha.
    My fave holiday food is still and will always be Banana Salad. 🙂 🙂

  412. My favorite would have to be my mom’s cornbread dressing! I could eat an entire pan of that stuff!

  417. My aunt makes this amazing pumpkin/cream cheese roll. Oh my…it’s heaven on a plate!

  419. It has to the be the various vegetable casseroles that only hit the table during the holidays…WAY too many calories for every day consumption!

  425. Whole berry cranberry sauce. I know it’s one of those weird things, but it really shines with turkey and dressing, but not anytime else.

  427. I’ve been looking through all the answers and no one mentioned my very favorite. Green Bean Casserole with lots of slivered almonds added to it. Love it! Although mashed potatoes and gravy is a very close second. 😉

  429. Oh my gosh…let’s see…sweet potatoes with way to many melted marshmallows, fresh green beans wrapped in bacon, stuffing with a ton of gravy, pumpkin pie, gumbo with potato salad for Christmas day and homemade pizza’s for Christmas Eve, don’t judge. Oh and most importantly, GIG ‘EM!

  430. My favorite holiday dish is carrot soufflé. Nothing like a cup of sugar and butter to make carrots taste really good!

  432. At the risk of being completely pedestrian – stuffing. Even if it’s the most basic out-of-a-bag kind. I can’t get enough.

  438. I am addicted to Reindeer Chow (or some call it Puppy Chow) around Christmas. Best thing ever!!!

  440. Wow! The people come out for a give away! 🙂 Even though Ree’s book is already en route to my house, my favorite is sweet potato casserole with the praline topping!

  441. My favorite holiday food is homemade cornbread dressing. My grandma’s and my mother-in-law’s are the best!

  448. Dateballs-reminds me of a very close family friend who taught me as a little girl how to make them

  454. My favorite holiday food, and all time food, is dessert. I also really like my mom’s toffee she always made at Christmastime.

  455. I do a thing with roasted fennel and carrots that is truly divine. Oh, and of course the turkey.

  456. Sweet potato casserole and pecan pie. I only allow myself to eat both of these foods at Thanksgiving and Christmas.

  458. Pie! Any and all kinds of pie!…but my favorite is any fruit pie or nut pie! Holidays are when all restrictions are off! :o)

  462. Toffee! my grandmother’s recipe particularly. I have people asking for it as their Christmas present every year 🙂

  463. Everyone else can have my share of turkey & dressing. I’ll take the:

    white rice with giblet gravy
    my PopPop’s homemade biscuits
    canned cranberry sauce (Obviously, I’m in need of a good cookbook)

  466. I love all the holiday foods, but the one I’d probably say is my favorite is my dad’s rice pudding, because I don’t make it myself. 🙂

  473. From my Mom’s side of the family, chicken & dumplings with red gravy. From my Dad’s side, my grandma’s iced Christmas cookies.

  475. Favorite holiday food: it’s a tie between my grandmom’s fried chocolate pies (Sadly, she’s no longer with us but I dream they will be in Heaven for all of us one day) and my mother-in-law’s dressing. Out of this world. Two starches. Bam!

  478. Breakfast casserole has been a Christmas morning tradition in our house since my kids were itty bitty. Served with cinnamon rolls, fruit, and coffee (now that the kids are grown), it’s our breakfast of Christmas morning champions!!

  479. Sweet potato casserole. The kind with brown sugar and nuts on top, NOT marshmallows, because this is America. 🙂

  483. My mom makes a potato casserole that we simply call “Holiday Potatoes”. They are decadent – cream, butter, cheddar AND velveeta. Elastic pants are required.

  487. Mashed potatoes. It’s always mashed potatoes. I finally tried the Pioneer Woman’s mashed potatoes with cream cheese….and I think they changed my life 🙂

  493. I make a fabulous beef tenderloin (Roast Beast in our family) on Christmas Eve…always my favorite.

  496. My family’s decorated cut-out cookies. Not only do they bring tons of childhood memories back, they are the best cut-out cookies ever!

  498. I make my grandmothers sweet potato crunch every year :). It’s incredibly unhealthy….. But sure is good 🙂

  500. Christmas cookies – we make the same ones my mom did….and we only make them at christmas! So, it is something to look forward to!

  501. Oh my gosh – who can pick just one? Definitely turkey and dressing (not stuffing!) for Thanksgiving.

  502. My favorite holiday food are the Cheesy Mashed Potatoes I make every year – peeling 10 lbs. of potatoes to make enough for the gathered family members!!

  503. Beer bribed turkey
    PW Rosemary rolls
    Corn casserole
    Spinach dip
    Cranberries
    And now? I’m hungry!

  507. It used to be pumpkin pie until we all got food poisoning from it two years ago. So I’m going to go with cheesy potato casserole!

    Gig ’em!

  508. There are so many great holiday foods! I think I would pick my grandmother’s homemade rolls. They’re delicious and we only have them at Christmas and Thanksgiving.

  509. Sweet Potato casserole makes my Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners complete! Also, cookies. Pretty much any kind. And really they are my favorite everyday of the year.

  510. One of my fav holiday foods (because there are just too many to pick one. Or maybe because I’m always so indecisive.) is frosted sugar cookies. 🙂

  518. My brother’s cheesecake! I can’t wait until thanksgiving so that I can have a slice or three 🙂

  520. Ooooh this is a hard one! If I could only choose one it would have to be stuffing though apple pie is up there too, and corn casserole…

  521. My Grandma’s mashed potatoes… she’s in heaven but my aunt does a darn good imitation!
    I also wanted to thank you for making your contests easy to enter.. I’m not on Facebook or twitter so it’s nice to be able to enter your contests that don’t require you to use one of those!

  522. It’s a toss up between my Mom’s homemade cornbread stuffing and sweet potato casserole- you know, the really unhealthy version with lots of butter and pecans. 🙂 Yum!

  525. My favorite holiday food: my drunken cranberries.

    We won’t talk about the time that I made them and almost burned down my mother-in-law’s new kitchen because I went off memory (bad idea) and did a 1:1 ratio of spiced rum : sugar. EEK!

  533. My sister in law makes an amazing batch of homemade yeast rolls every year – they are my new favorite holiday treat!

  534. My favorite holiday food is homemade cranberry sauce! It’s so much better than the canned variety and easy to make too!

  537. My favorite holiday food is any side dish! Vegetable casserole, mac-n-cheese, sweet potato soufle, squash casserole, etc…. I could totally do without the turkey/ham!!!

  538. Hands down my Granny’s homemade turkey dressing. It’s bittersweet though, because she went to be with Jesus this May.
    I am gonna try to make it in her honor, but no way it tastes as good as hers did every year (made with Granny love)!

  539. All the sides. ALL OF THEM! And I told my husband and kids first thing this morning that PW’s cookbook comes out today and reminded them that my birthday was last week and in some countries they celebrate birthdays for the whole month (I totally made that up) and it’s not my fault that it came out after my birthday and would make a lovely post-birthday present. But just in case they don’t take me seriously, winning one would splendid!

  541. It is hard to pick just one. The two I make every year are squash casserole and sweet potato casserole with crumble topping.

  543. My favorite Thanksgiving food is the stuffing….no meat Just the good stuff! For Christmas, my favorite thing in the world is homemade Divinity. My grandmother and I would make this every year, and now my mom and I do. So. Good!

  549. My favorite Thanksgiving food – smoked turkey and homemade dressing. For Christmas, it’s sugar cookies; our family has a tradition of decorating them together.

  555. Its just not right to ever pick a favorite, food, cocktail or children…..however if I had to choose just one, it would be Honey Baked Ham from the Honey Baked Ham store, imposters do not suffice.

  558. My favorite holiday food has got to be my granny’s dressing! Or maybe her chicken ‘n dumplins. No, wait….it’s her red velvet cake! I love it all!

  560. My favorite holiday food is a toss up…so I must list them both. The first is dressing…cornbread based, hold the chicken. 🙂 The second is Bacon Cream Cheese Tarts that we have for Christmas brunch every year. It’s an old Southern Livng recipe that is tried and true. Always the hit at any party where I’m asked to bring an appetizer.

  562. Ahhh! I would love to win a copy! I’ve never have thru a giveaway but maybe it’s my lucky day:) some of my faves: my grandma’s lefsa (there’s norwegian in my family), I love pickled herring on crackers, I love chex mix while I watch white christmas, goodness, where do I stop? Russian tea balls are my fave cookie too:). Can u guess I’m from MN?

  564. Favorite holiday food is soda cracker crunch (candy I only make at Christmas because it is so easy to make & eat).

  567. These delicious little butter cookies shaped like poinsettias at Christmas and dressing at Thanksgiving are my favorite holiday foods. Thanks for the opportunity to win.

  569. Dressing at Thanksgiving, and every kind of cookie, cake, casserole or anything with red or green sprinkles at Christmas. We go big in December and repair the damage in January.

  573. hmmm….favorite holiday food? I think my grandma’s sweet potatoes baked with marshamllows and caramel sauce drizzled over the top. Only eat it on Thanksgiving Day, but it wouldn’t be the holidays with it!!

  574. Pea and cauliflower salad – my mom only makes it on Thanksgiving and I’m the only one that eats it but I still insist on it every year.

  575. It’s definitely hard to pick but I will have to say the stuffing!! It takes up way more plate space for me than the turkey! I really love your blog and look forward to reading it!

  580. My family rolls their eyes at me every year but I LOVE green bean casserole. The plain ol cream of mushroom soup-greenbeans-friedonions one. Yum.

  584. We go over my mommy and daddy house and have a wonderful dinner of turkey and all the trimmings the dessert chocolate cream pie and pumpkin pie with whip cream yum yum yum

  585. I love all of the traditional holiday foods. Turkey, ham, yams and marshmallows, mashed potatoes and gravy….and all of the pie! Thank you for the chance to win!

  586. Two things that I love at Thanksgiving and Christmas–Sweet Potato Casserole and Cranberry Relish. It wouldn’t be holiday dinner without them. Great give-away. Thanks for the chance to have this beautiful cookbook.

  588. French toast made with homemade cinnamon raisin bread (made by our friend Chuck 🙂 on Christmas morning!

  594. Definitely homemade cranberry relish and Tee’s corn pudding (if you’ve never had corn pudding you must make it this year – just good “Tee’s Corn Pudding” and you’ll find it. I think it was originally in a southern living magazine years ago. It’s amazing.

  595. My word this is making me hungry. Bring on the holidays! My favorite is Christmas Eve when my in-laws put out an appetizer spread for dinner. It’s spectacular. My mil makes this creamy shrimp dip (“Shrimp Dimp”) for crackers, chips, bread, whatever. SO GOOD. Favorite holiday food 🙂

  597. Ham – I love a slow cooked, smell it all morning long in the oven ham. Nothing better. Reminds me of childhood every time.

  600. Believe it or not, for Thanksgiving we eat STOVETOP stuffing!! Love it!!

    For Christmas, my favorite treat is a snowball cookie – I think they are also called Mexican Wedding cookies – pecan shortbread rolled into a ball, baked and then rolled in powdered sugar while warm.

  603. Pumpkin pie. I make mine with brandy (yum!). It’s a treat we only have once a year at Thanksgiving but my absolute favorite.

  604. Morning from Big D! Let’s see…Thanksgiving would have to be Pecan Pie, and Christmas is homemade cinnamon rolls for Christmas morning! Have a great day in San An-tone! 🙂

  606. Papa John’s for Thanksgiving isn’t appropriate?? My poor family. I’m more interested in the Ree Drummond giveaway but I guess a book is just a good. (And not as weird as having her show up and cook and my family loving her because, I mean, it’s THE Pioneer woman, and then I have to get jealous and die my hair red, which isn’t a good color for me…) Yep, just the book. I think that’s best.

  607. I like to take my nice fresh roll and pile up every element of Thanksgiving dinner on top! It’s called a mish-mosh-wich.

  609. I am most looking forward to my mom’s broccoli and cauliflower with cheese. It’s not that it’s the best dish on the table, but it’s the ONLY time of year that I would dare to eat processed cheese slices in any form.

  613. Turkey … I just LOVE turkey … Thanksgiving is really the only time I cook/bake an entire bird … and I love it!! 🙂
    Imagine my depression one Thanksgiving when my Iowan mother-in-law served us PORK ROAST for Thanksgiving. THAT was NOT Thanksgiving. 🙁 I still love my MIL though. 🙂

  615. My favorite would be homemade toffee, it is addictive, but in a sweet way! The smell of it caramelizing brings everyone to the kitchen, where family love is shared.

  619. Twice-baked potatoes is a long-standing tradition in our family. Doesn’t feel like Thanksgiving without them! Don’t have any Pioneer Woman cookbooks; love to start my collection with this one!

  620. My favorite holiday food are these amazing mashed potatoes my step-father makes, loaded with onions and butter and amazingness, then popped in the oven to bake right before we eat them. The best part though is our tradition of putting the potatoes on toast and eating it while we watch the Macy’s Day parade on Thanksgiving 🙂

  626. Pizza Bread…a holiday favorite around our house. Let frozen bread dough rise, roll out and layer with cheese and pepperoni. Loosely roll, tuck in the sides and bake. Delish! A favorite with the kiddos!

  629. It would have to be the peanut butter fudge, and homemade turtles, and the sausage dip and…………………………….Love the holidays!

  635. My most favorite part of Thanksgiving is when we get to my in-laws the night before and my mother-in-law is cooking up the onions and celery for the stuffing. OH.MY.WORD. My most favorite thing. Oh- and time with the family, of course…;)

  638. Favorite holiday food? Nee Nee’s (as in my grandmother, not the Real Housewife) rolls. I live for carbs.

  641. My mama’s cornbread dressing. She taught me how to make it, but even though I use the same extact ingredients it will never taste the same.

  642. Green Bean Casserole. I make my different than most and everyone looks forward to it every year.

  643. My favorite holiday food is the Yorkshire Pudding my mom makes every year. I have no clue how to make it myself, but I’ve heard it’s tricky. Makes me feel at home to see it at the table each year.

  645. Oh I have to pick one? I think my favorite Holiday food is Stuffing! But a close second is pumpkin pie…. Great giveaway, but I would take Ree in my kitchen cooking for me too!

  653. My mama’s chicken and dressing. Only get it once a year, usually at Thanksgiving. I can make it myself, but it always tastes better knowing my mama made it!

  657. Love me some Chicken and Dressing (grandma’s recipe of course) and love the Christmas candy (all kinds of it- well except maybe peppermint fudge)! Yum

  661. Thanksgiving – Dressing. Especially for lunch on Black Friday!
    Christmas – my Christmas ribeye roast. It marinates in the fridge aaaaalllllll day long, and then it cooks in the rotisserie. The smell is heavenly!

  662. Oh what I would give to have my Grannie’s stuffing at Thanksgiving again. I wished I would have spent more time in the kitchen with her before she passed away.

  665. Thanksgiving-sweet potato casserole
    Christmas-chocolate delight- yes, it’s a dessert and it’s the mac daddy!

  666. It’s a tie between my mama’s homemade sweet potato casserole (with a solid inch of crunchy brown sugar pecan topping), and plain ol’ stovetop stuffing. Yum.

  673. Mashed potatoes and gravy. Turkey. Gravy. Creamed corn. More gravy. Fudge. Apple pie. Pecan pie. Gravy. Ooh, holiday food!!!!!!!

  678. I love my grandmother’s ham! Other favorites include her creamed corn, slaw (with no onions), and my mom’s deviled eggs!! Yummm, now I might just take an early lunch- making myself hungry!

  680. It does not get any better than Grandma’s homemade noodles and Granny’s homemade chocolate pie!! My mouth is wettering just thinking about it!!

  681. I make a chocolate bourbon pecan pie that is amazing every Thanksgiving…but the sweet potato casserole with NO marshmallows but lots of coconut and pecans is also pretty divine. Clearly I am a health nut. This cookbook is definitely on my wish list!!

  685. Spiral sliced ham…lasts us for a good week, then ham & beans with the bone. And broccoli cheese casserole (that’s two, but you can’t have one without the other.)

  691. I’m a big fan of squash casserole. And for dessert it’s gotta be pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving and fudge at Christmas!

  692. My mom makes the BEST apple pie! I love to watch her roll out the dough and I can’t help myself…we eat the dough!

  693. I asked my husband because I can’t decide…………he said “Me, cuz I’m a fruitcake!”

    I can’t decided because any Christmas candy is hard to beat–caramels, fudge, homemade snickers.

    My son just asked me the other day if we would have lots of goodies on the front porch again this Christmas–that’s where I store them because I don’t have enough freezer space!

  699. So hard to pick a favorite but I think it would have to be butter toffee with dark chocolate. I make it every year for the holidays and it is always a favorite among family and friends. 🙂

  701. I have 2 favorites :
    . Sausage and cornbread stuffing
    . Pumpkin pie w/lots of whipped cream

    Thanks 🙂

  703. It would have to be Sweet Potato Casserole. It’s one of those that you serve as a side dish but should really be on the dessert table!

  704. Halloween – roasted pumpkin seeds
    Thanksgiving- roasted sour cream veggies
    Christmas- ting-a-lings , a cookie my grandmother makes

  707. So hard to narrow it down to one favorite! But I think the most obvious choice is my dad’s homemade cream caramels. I have great memories of the kitchen smells, watching him pour the gooey deliciousness into a pan and then slicing them, and of helping him wrap them in wax paper. And, of course, the eating! Thanks for the giveaway!

  712. Thanksgiving: My dad’s homemade stuffing…it’s amazing
    Christmas: All the casseroles! Breakfast, Hashbrown, and Green Bean Corn…YUM!

  713. Thanksgiving! My mom’s cranberry relish – had oranges, pecans, cranberries, and other yummy stuff. Can’t get enough of it when she makes it!

  717. My absolute favorite is cornbread dressing,,yum,, but my mother’in’laws potato salad is my next favorite.
    Thanks for the chance to win such a nice give-a-away. Have a good day!

  718. My favorite thing about the Holidays is the sweets! I always volunteer to bring something sweet 🙂

  719. It’s got to be the cornbread stuffing. And gravy. I even make a pan of it for my BFF because they eat at her m-i-l’s and mine is the very best.

  720. Sweet Potato PIe. It was hard to narrow it down to just one dish. I wanted to pick one for each holiday, but I can make this pie work for each holiday AND breakfast, lunch and dinner! Thanks fof the giveaway!

  726. I absolutely LOVE sausage balls! Is that weird? Anyway, they are my fav probably because my mom made them every year….now I make them and my kids love them too 🙂

  727. On Thanksgiving, it’s got to be stuffing. Hands down.

    For Christmas, I’m going with Buckeyes (Chocolate candy with peanut butter/confection sugar inside).

  731. First, let me say I love your blog. I never comment, which i know is so annoying to bloggers, but know that I never miss a post 🙂
    My favorite holiday food is…the hot drinks lol! Spiced cider, peppermint mochas, mulled wine…yum! And I’ve never tasted rum punch, which I sometimes read about in old english books, but I am determined to find a recipe and try it this winter!
    On a side note, I highly recommend the fictional book Talisman Ring by Georgette Heyer. It’s amazing. I’ve read it a hundred times at least 🙂 and the audible version is outstanding too.

  732. Love dressing and sweet potato casserole. No marshmellows!!! Only brown sugar and pecans for me 🙂

  738. My favorite Holiday food is fudge! I have good memories of being at my Grandma’s house for Christmas, and her delightful goodie-tray…where I’d have way too many pieces of delicious, creamy fudge. 🙂

  739. For Thanksgiving it has to be cornbread dressing. Christmas is all the homemade fudge, turtles, buckeyes, haystacks, etc. YUM!

  741. It is not Christmas at my parents house without Cherry Pudding. This is like an English pudding (not the typical American Jello pudding). And up until I started making it myself, I never even realized there were actual cherries in it! It is a delicious brown sugary and cherry, gooey cake with nuts on top. It is an old family recipe that has to be made every year. I remember a couple of years where it was missed and everyone complained so much mom whipped it up really quick so we could enjoy the holiday. It may not have been that bad, but we did get our cherry pudding in the end!

  742. By far the favorite holiday food is stuffing – I look forward to it all year. Not the box kind either, from scratch with sausage and water chestnuts stuffing, yum!

  743. My mom makes the world’s best buckeye balls (those not graduating from Ohio State call them peanut butter balls :))

  745. Christmas – Sausage Balls, Frosted Sugar Cookies, Steak on Christmas Eve
    Thanksgiving – Stuffing and Gravy!

  749. My favorite is english toffee that I have made for many, many years! It’s a great treat, and also a great gift to give!

  753. For Thanksgiving, all the traditionals: turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, pumpkin pie.
    For Christmas, prime rib!