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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I was adding black pepper to a green bean casserole and the top fell off dumping tons of pepper into it. I dug as much of it as I could out and even added a potato. Well, it was horrible! I’m no longer allowed to make green bean casserole! We still laugh about it every year.
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I have been pretty lucky so far and haven’t had any disasters. Hopefully this year will be the same! 🙂
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Thanksgiving was almost a bust this year because I almost wasn’t able to spend it with family which is what it is all about for me. Luckily I get to now 🙂
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I’ve had a couple of cooking disasters that I didn’t try to save. Last year though, I was rushing around a little too much and slipped and fell down the basement stairs landing on the side of my face. So, I spent Thanksgiving dinner looking like a bloodied Rudolph…a little too early for the Christmas decorations, I think? This year, I’m planning ahead and I ain’t rushen around! 🙂
I haven’t personally had any disasters but I was at a Thanksgiving celebration about 15 yrs ago that did. The turkey was not done when it should have been so the edges of it were cut off and microwaved while the rest continued to cook.
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Do I dare say it…there has yet to be a disaster. I will knock on wood now – I am hosting this year:)
A horrible runny pumpkin pie once! Just awful. Haha
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I haven’t really had many disasters, although one year my oven burned out on me a day before I was going to make a small Thanksgiving dinner, and I had to use my sister’s tiny oven (she lived in a small apartment and didn’t have a full-size oven) and then take the food back to my house. It was interesting. 🙂
No disasters, yet But I have only been doing Thanksgiving for 20 years
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Had everything ready for dinner, and couldn’t find out why turkey still wasn’t done. Come to find out my oven gave out and was only about @ 200degrees when I checked it. Had to bring turkey to another house to finish cooking it
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I’ve never done my own Thanksgiving. One thing I’m thankful for is my grandparents are still around so we still have Thanksgiving at their house every year, but everyone brings things so my grandparents don’t have to do any cooking. I haven’t had any real disasters, but every year, I make a pea salad to take. One year, I asked my dad to pick up a few cans of peas for me while he was at the store. When I went to make my pea salad, I realized he had gotten the peas with pearl onions and mushrooms in it. I was not thrilled and thought it was going to be a disaster, but it turned out really good and so now that’s what I use every year to make my pea salad and everyone loves it!!
No disasters yet, thank goodness!
My Thanksgiving disaster didn’t actually include a Turkey, but one year, my little brother shook up a bottle of soda and it exploded all over the kitchen right before we served dinner. What a nightmare!
no disasters – I pretty much stick to our “traditional” fare, so there are no surprises. There was the year that my sister in law made some bourbon balls and when making them she forgot that she had already put the bourbon in, so she put in more. Not sure you would consider that a “disaster”!
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No…thankfully everything has gone off without a disaster!
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 🙂
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