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 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!
Worst disaster was when my son spilled his glass of water over the platter of just carved turkey. It was really moist after that!
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I’ve only been cooking Thanksgiving dinner for three years, and haven’t had any major disasters yet. Nothing worse than burning the bread.
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!
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No real Thanksgiving food disasters at my house..there have been some family melt downs trying to get it all ready on time though! That is a challenge every year. We are getting better and better though!
Last year we had Thanksgiving at my parents and their oven wasn’t working so my mom cooked the turkey in the pressure cooker and the men of the family took the (cooked)ham outside with a blow torch and had so much fun carmelizing the outside. I brought the baked pies already baked. My SIL brought the sweet potatoes. It all worked out great and pressure-cooked turkey will always be on my menu. It was delicious. It brought us closer together as a family and is one of my favorite thanksgivings. 🙂
I have yet to prepare a Thanksgiving by myself, so no real disasters yet, there is always a fight over who does the dishes though (usually with the boys)
I haven’t had any Thanksgiving day disasters because I have never hosted Thanksgiving, but this year I am. We have just build a new home and my whole family will be coming to our house for Turkey day!
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No disasters to speak of [knock on wood]!
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I haven’t ever prepared Thanksgiving by myself, so no disasters yet! Hopefully I don’t have any this year!!
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My mom was cooking the turkey one year, and accidentally caught it on fire! Oops!
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I’ve never had a Thanksgiving Disaster, but I’ve never been in charge of cooking the bird. I’m normally in charge of making a pie or two and I can handle that.
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One time we somehow managed to burn the turkey. So we had all the sides and our centerpiece was a large cheese pizza. Most memorable Thanksgiving ever.
Fortunately, I have not had any T-giving Day disasters! The worst was when I didn’t watch the marshmallows on the sweet potato casserole close enough when I put them in the oven to broil. Still, burnt marshmallows are better than none!
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Two years ago we were supposed to have two families over. My da had bought a turkey and “won” one in a golf tournament. The morning of thanksgiving, both families bailed since they all came down with the flu and both turkeys were already in the oven. Let’s just say between 4 people, two turkeys lasted more than two months.
OH!!! This isnt a cooking disaster, but I just remembered that as everyone was showing up to eat a couple years back… My daughter took an entire tub of vaseline and wiped it ALL over herself and the kitchen and I had to scrub her and the kitchen down in a jiffy before everyone got there. ha! Totally forgot about that until just now.
No real disasters here… Just mmm… pie looking forward to it… Mmm…
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