Favorite Paula Deen Recipes

Paula Deen, star of the Food Network's "Paula's Home Cooking," is known for her hearty Southern cooking and contagious laugh. If your looking for free Paula Deen recipes, this page contains all the information, tips and links that you need in order to find real Paula Deen recipes and cook your own delicious meals everyday and during the holidays.

Smithfield.com is offering a free download of Paula Deen's "Holiday Hosting Guide." The guide includes tips for organizing holiday parties, features great recipes and tons of other holiday tips and advice for entertaining. The PDF file can be downloaded at Smithfield.com/Paula.

In the past years, Paula Deen has mentioned her top Thanksgiving favorites during appearances on television programs (as well as her own). Here is a compilation of Paula's favorite recipes for Thanksgiving:

Good Old Country Stuffing and Giblet Gravy

Paula Deen's Fancy Green Beans

In 2008, Paula recommended serving Cornish hens instead of a Turkey on Thanksgiving. (Apparently it's her husband's favorite) Paula Deen's Honey Game Hens

Another alternative to Turkey is Paula Deen's Cola-Blasted Ham. She cooked this on the "Today Show" recently along with "Mrs. Hoggle's Stuffed Cranberry Sauce." These Paula Deen Thanksgiving recipes can be found on the MSNBC website.

Peaula Deen's cookbook "The Lady and Sons Just Desserts" includes a to-die-for recipe for pecan pie. It's called Douglas's Dark Rum Pecan Pie. It only calls for 7 ingredients (sugar, butter, Karo syrup, eggs, pecan halves, a pie shell and rum).

Another from the same book, (great for kids) is the Banana Split Brownie Pizza. This is an easy one as it uses a package of Duncan Hines pre-made brownie mix, cream cheese and fruit.

These can be found in the CBS "The Early Show" article titled "Paula Deen's Heavenly Desserts."