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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
Simple Butter Herb Thanksgiving Turkey (scroll down to 2nd recipe)
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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Well the only “disaster” I’ve had is the the turkey took 2 hours longer than I thought it would but we just had to wait nothing was ruined!
I’ve only been cooking Thanksgiving dinner for three years, and haven’t had any major disasters yet. Nothing worse than burning the bread.
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Worst disaster was when my son spilled his glass of water over the platter of just carved turkey. It was really moist after that!
I am 24, so I haven’t been cooking thanksgiving dinner all that long. so no diasters to date. although i just remember doing half the dinner last year and it was intense work!
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I’ve never hosted Thanksgiving but we’ve had a few close calls with the Easter ham.
Our family tradition when I was growing up was to scrape the black bottoms off of the burnt dinner rolls. Without fail the rolls would be left in the oven as we all sat down to dinner. Someone would finally notice, grab them from the oven, and put them in a basket anyway. The tops were still good. We got so used to having the square bottom of a burnt roll next to our plate that the year they didn’t burn was the year we all laughed about it.
Thank goodness I havent had any disasters yet! Even tried to make cornbread dressing the first time as a college student and it turned out perfect!!
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Stuffing in the ‘self-basting’ turkey turned the stuffing into grayish, weird stuffing soup. But when you invite your husband’s single friends over for dinner, you learn they’ll eat ANYTHING as long as it tastes good.
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One year as a girl my mom was in charge of making all the pecan pies, and she forgot to put in the sugar! So we make a marie calendars run.
My biggest Thanksgiving disaster was when I was 10, and helping my mom cook dinner. She asked me to boil a bunch of eggs (for pea salad, and deviled eggs, and stuffing). I got a stock pot boiling, and then CRACKED ALMOST TWO DOZEN EGGS INTO THE WATER! My mother almost cried. Thankfully, it was early enough in the day that the stores were still open and she could get new eggs. That did not turn into something fun, except for the funny story we can tell every Thanksgiving.
No disasters yet!!
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I had the typical turkey isn’t done cooking when the rest of the meal is sitting there getting cold:)
I’m hoping my timing is better this year!
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No disasters yet! I’ve only orchestrated the feast once though…
I am not that creative. If I’ve had a disaster (thank goodness,not many)they just hit the trash.
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This year will be my first Tgiving in my own home, with my fiancee, so I’ll have to let you know!
I haven’t had a turkey disaster yet because I always spend Thanksgiving at my parents house. However, this year we will be cooking Thanksgiving and my fingers are crossed that I don’t have a disaster.
Burnt the turkey
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My Thanksgiving disaster was peeling potatoes over the sink and thinking I could send the peels down the garbage disposal. That was not pretty. But in the end it all worked out and we had a nice dinner!
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One year we cut into the turkey and it WAS NOT DONE!!! So we put it back into the oven, enjoyed the sides and conversation, and had turkey for our final course—quite a while later.
No huge disasters that I can remember but I know we’ve over-cooked more than our fair share, and we just try to salvage what we can and try to eat it anyway..:)
The pecan pie that the bottom crust is plastered to bottom of the pie dish..
One of my early turkey’s. Didn’t know what I was doing and followed TIME of cooking recipes. Well. When it was done it looked kind of pale so I turned on the broiler to get the color right. Well, as you can guess. It was pretty raw inside. The fun part was I didn’t run away crying in shame when everyone didn’t take seconds. Or in some cases firsts. But the good news was I had little leftovers of everything else.
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Never had any disasters. Thankful for that!
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When I was about 7, my grandparents were coming to our house and wanted to bring the turkey. When they arrived, the turkey was not in the back of the station wagon…. Apparently, my grandfather had set it on the roof of the car while opening the back and then got busy loading other things in and drove off with the turkey still on top. Ended up being a vegan Thanksgiving!
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I have only prepared one Thanksgiving meal so far. It went well and I’m hoping I can duplicate it this year!
One year we fried one turkey and roasted one turkey – my SIL was in charge of the roasted turkey and when my brother was carving it, it wasn’t cooked through – we ended up putting the half carved turkey into the hot oil left from the other turkey and it was fantastic…….love fried turkey but with the price of peanut oil now ($50/3 gallons) we won’t be frying a turkey this year : (
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One year I bought one of those betty crocker bake & fill pans. Big mistake. My plan was to bake a chocolate cake, fill it with chocolate mousse, and ice it with chocolate ganache. I baked it, filled it with mousse and was going to ice it in the morning. It totally fell apart. My husband called my mother-in-law and told her I wrecked the cake for dessert. Then inspiration hit. I chopped up the cake – mousse and all – and put it all into a 9 x 13 pan. Put a little more mousse on top and drizzled the ganache over top and delcared it to be “Ugly Cake”. There were almost no left-overs and everyone loved it. Ok, so not much of a disaster…but it almost was
No…thankfully everything has gone off without a disaster!