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!
2. For extra entries, Follow Picky Palate on Twitter, RSS Feed and Like us on Facebook. Leave 3 separate comments for this.
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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I have not yet had any Thanksgiving day disasters, thank goodness!
actually i haven’t had any thanksgiving day disasters. we are away from family and have to travel some distance to be with loved ones on the holiday so we are usually exempt from bringing food. sorry, no great stories here! boring! thanks for the chance to win! best, j
My 1st Thanksgiving as a newlywed and with no previous experience in cooking a turkey, I just plopped the defrosted bird on a roasting pan (gizzards still neatly packaged in the cavity), added a little seasoning and let it bake for the recommended time. Dry outside and definitely UNappealing on the inside. Since then I’ve come a long way and my family now looks forward to my Thanksgiving turkey.
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We once went to serve dinner and the turkey wasn’t cooked – we actually tried to stuff into the microwave.
Luckily I have been safe from any disasters, so far…!!
My gosh….my sister’s “SURPRISE” pie. She’s always been known to rebel against following recipes. Oh this might taste good in there, a pinch of that as well………and on and on. Every time she’ll come up with some new ingredient to add and never measure. Everyone knows that when you BAKE you MEASURE!!!!! Well, we ended up giving the surprise pie to some nosey neighbors 🙂 and just had ice cream that year.
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I had my husband bake a pistachio cake and it burned a little…we piled on a bunch of whipped cream topping!
Every single year, my mom almost ALWAYS forgets to cook the rolls. One year she even lost them!!! Thanks for the giveaway 🙂
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Once, the gravy exploded and burned me and got all over the kitchen. But, once I was cleaned up and cooled off, we just started over and laughed at it.
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No terrible disasters on Thanksgiving – now Christmas Eve is another story!
We invited the entire family over. For a couple of weeks everyone changed the time, location, etc. The Conn’s thought we were all meeting at my mother’s house. One by one, we all get there and voila no TURKEY!!!! My mom was under the impression that we were all bringing one dish. Basically, she had bread rolls galore. That Thanksgiving we ended up eating none other than PASTA because pretty much that was the only thing we had enough to go around. We did give thanks to the pasta gods 🙂
One year, my dad had gotten a new charcoal webber kettle grill and really wanted to test out the Thanksgiving turkey on the grill. Well, I live in New Hampshire where the weather can be semi-unpredictable. We hadn’t woken up early to throw the turkey in the oven per usual but when we did wake up there was at least 8 inches of snow on the ground. We all put our boots on and grilled the turkey anyhow! It was a lot of fun with all the snow but definitely unexpected!
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we’ve never really had any disasters!!
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Two years ago the turkey ended up on the floor – not so fun. The platter it was being served onto was bumped by another dish and it came crashing down. Luckily we were able to still get more off the actual turkey and all was saved, except for my platter and the floor that had a new gash in it…
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I have to say I have been lucky in the holiday disaster department, none yet for me (knock on wood). 🙂
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All these suggestions sound lovely. I haven’t had a disaster, but I know I’d be able to do something fun!
No mishaps here that I can remember. I do recall a certain group of men almost setting the deck on fire the first year we decided to fry a turkey. 🙂
I made a carrot cake (in the morning of turkey day). Not only did it start to fall apart because I rushed taking it out of the cake pans, but I didn’t have time to let it cool completely before putting on the cream cheese frosting-which ran very nicely thank you. But we ate all of it and it was so good no one cared what it looked like. Needless to say, I get my baking done in the days before Thanksgiving now.
I was in charge of making a few side dishes one year and forgot to make the stuffing. Luckily there was some left in the frozen section at the local grocery store.