​Let’s step away from tradition for a second and instead having regular, boring old mashed potatoes for the holidays let’s eat mashed sweet potatoes!
BY KE’ANNA DODDS

​Every year our menu always ends up the same no matter how hard we try to deviate. We typically end up eating yams or sweet potatoes. But this year I like the idea of make this process go by just a little bit faster. No more baking, or making the sweet syrupy concoction, or the marshmallows (now wait marshmallows are pretty great – I may need to work those in somewhere). Anyways, this dish can be overwhelmingly time consuming for something that appears to be all so simple. 
So how about we just throw everything in one pot and mash it all together and call it a day. No one will ever know that we didn’t plan it from the start.

​This dish is so tasty with its hint of spice, vinegar, and umami flavors you won’t even miss making it the old way.
BY KE’ANNA DODDS

​For me personally collard greens are just one of those dishes you can’t live without on a holiday plate. It sits right next to the dressing, mac and cheese, yams or sweet potatoes, and main protein of choice. Seeing as how I am technically a flexitarian (which means 50% of the time I’m vegan and the other 50% of the time I’m not) that protein of choice would be a nice piece of turkey.
But with this dish I would typically add in some kind of meat to add a lot of flavor to the pot liquor (aka the juice!). But the way I have transformed this dish into not depending on its meaty counterparts I feel like I’ve made my vegan community proud.

​Ooey gooey melt-in-your-mouth-goodness sent from the heavens is the definition of a good Mac & Cheese; and this recipe is no different.
BY KE’ANNA DODDS

​Mac and cheese is one of those dishes that you need to apply with a resume, ten years of experience, 3 references and a letter of recommendation in order to be considered to bring to the holiday table. I kid I kid, maybe. But over here we take this special cheese and noodles dish seriously.
There needs to be the right amount moisture, creaminess, crispiness from the cheese baked on top, and noodle to cheese ratio, and of course that cheese pull needs to be there. I mean if I can’t take a picture or slow-mo video of this moment then why I am there.

​This creamy Southern holiday classic doesn’t need gravy and for me can be a meal all on its own.
BY KE’ANNA DODDS

​Now some people love mac and cheese, or mashed potatoes, or the roasted vegetables for the holidays; but my absolute favorite dish has always been cornbread dressing. Every year we’ve tried to change our holiday menu, but I always need my dressing and then the menu goes back to usual. 
Creating the perfect recipe that resembles my childhood adorned dish is not an easy one by any means. But I do think with this one I did pretty great job. It’s not dry, it still has that creamy texture, and is the perfect base if you are the type to like to add extra fixins’ (i.e. mushrooms, roasted vegetables, etc.)