Thanksgiving is one of the best Holidays of the year isn’t it? Talk about the best food ever!! Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, rolls, green bean casserole….the list goes on and on. I am drooling even thinking about it!
The nice folks from Butterball are offering 10 lucky Picky Palate readers a free Thanksgiving Turkey (in the form of a $15 Coupon). How fun is that? See bottom of post to enter.
If there are a few things I’ve learned over the years it has been the following things:
1. Test out the recipes you are preparing for Thanksgiving in ADVANCE! No need for any added stress if a recipe doesn’t turn out how you expected 🙂
2. Have family help bring food to dinner. The host absolutely should not have to prepare the entire meal him/herself.
3. Prepare what you can the night before to save yourself some time in the kitchen. I try to do all of my desserts the night before 🙂
4. Have a clean up party with your guests! Don’t be left with a gigantic mess all by your lonesome 🙂
5. Most importantly enjoy every moment!
Here are some of my favorite Picky Palate Thanksgiving Recipes tried and true! Hope y’all enjoy!
The Best Stuffing Ever! Sourdough Cornbread and Sausage Stuffing
Cheesy Bacon Green Bean Casserole Pot Pie
Cinnamon Roll Pumpkin Vanilla Sheet Cake
Remember that the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line lady is also available to answer your Thanksgiving meal questions, share ways to save or to gobble up any turkey-day cooking myths. Their number is 1-800-BUTTERBALL.
Here’s How To Enter to win one of 10 Free Turkeys:
1. Tell us in a comment…..“Have you had any Thanksgiving Disasters that you’ve turned into something fun?” Let’s hear those Turkey Day stories!
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3. Contest ends Friday November 11, 8am PST, Winners chosen by Random.org and will be notified by email. Coupons provided by Butterball.
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My only disaster is being uncomfortably full after eating too much for lunch and then again for dinner. All of the food is always so delicious that I don’t know when to stop myself. It’s one of the few times during the year that I really indulge!
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My worst Thanksgiving was when I tried to do a smoked turkey on our outdoor grill. It was so cold the coals wouldn’t light. I was so upset I cried! DH felt sorry for me and so he made Thanksgiving dinner for me.
The first year I cooked a turkey, I left the bag of giblets inside the turkey and didn’t find it til midways through the cooking process. I finished cooking them on the stovetop and made giblet gravy. Shhh!!!
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The only disaster I have had was making choc chip pecan pie. I try to make it in advance & put it back in the oven to heat up the next day. Let’s just say it was a choc mess from the too many choc chips I put it. Everyone laughed about it & my crazy family members ate it all up.
not really any disasters, but i did buy a turkey once thinking it was the whole thing, and when i pulled it out it was missing its legs and wings.
I’ve had 2 disasters, one was in Colorado, was frying the turkey for out meal, long story short, altitude and temps make a major difference when deep frying a turkey! 2nd again with the fried turkey, I had let friends borrow the fryer and pot didn’t realize they had not cleaned the inside of the pot, filled the pot with the oil and immediately noticed spots on the ground, long story short, there were tiny holes all in the bottom of the pot that I didn’t see when I cleaned it. Luckily friends had just finished frying their bird and came to our rescue! This year brand new fryer and 2 birds being prepared, one fried, one roasted!!!!
One Thanksgiving I decided to make a zucchini corn spoon bread that turned out just awful! So I quickly turned it into a cornbread dressing that was fantastic.
A couple bad incidents – one time I spilled the corn all over the table…so no corn that Thanksgiving 🙂 One year my mom did pour hot turkey grease on her straight from the oven – that did not turn out well but I remember we did end up enjoying the turkey later after we got mom fixed up!
We haven’t really had any major turkey disasters in our house! Thank goodness! I think the biggest problem we’ve encountered has been dry turkey, but you just add an extra helping of gravy for moisture and it comes out just fine!
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I haven’t done Thanksgiving myself yet to have any disasters, but I did make your stuffing last year and it was fabulous! When I was young my mom’s cousin peeled the potatoes the night before but didn’t put them in water, so we had grey mashed potatoes the next day… technically not that “fun,” but we still laugh about it so “funny” at least?
Coping with the loss of power was one near disaster (and actually that may have been Christmas rather than Thanksgiving). It is so memorable because my grandmother has a wood stove – so we just moved forward cooking with that hot stove!
Nope, I’m happy to report that I have not had any Turkey disasters at any Thanksgiving Day feast. Yet…
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No disasters yet..knock on wood!
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“Have you had any Thanksgiving Disasters that you’ve turned into something fun?” = The first year my husband and i were together we assumed that restaurants in the very small town we were living in would be open. Wrong. We ended up getting sandwiches from a gas station called the Scotchman. Like 7-11 but worse. We laugh about it to this day.
That happened to us too one year on Christmas day! So funny. We are actually in a big town, and still couldn’t find anything open anywhere. We drove around and around, but no luck!
No disasters yet, thankfully! : )
I haven’t had a disaster yet, but my mother-in-law did have a turkey disaster many years ago and it’s still talked about. She cooked the turkey with the giblets still in the plastic bag in the cavity…the poor bird was totally inedible so it was a pizza Thanksgiving that year!
we had a smat of food poisoning one year. the older folks ended up in the hospital. the younger/caretaker folks made the best of it in the ER waiting room. I sure hope we dont see this disaster again.
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Thankfully I haven’t had any disasters yet…I’m sure it’ll happen eventually!
I’m cooking 3 turkey’s this year {so far, that I know of} for different functions. I could really use this coupon!!!
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I am glad to say I haven’t had any disasters yet!