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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Hi Jenny! Hmm Thanksgiving disasters may include a cake recipe that went HORRIBLY wrong! eek!
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I wasn’t me but once at my sister’s house the turkey just would not get done. So we had dessert first! 🙂
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I have never had a disaster cause I have never had to cook thanksgiving dinner but I’m sure when it’s my turn there will be a disaster!!
I actually haven’t had any disasters, because I’ve never had to host Thanksgiving or cook for it! But this will be my first year hosting AND as a big bonus, it will be my first Thanksgiving meal with my soon-to-be hubby. Hopefully, the food will be delicious and disaster-free.
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we went to my aunts for thanksgiving when i was a kid. she had been cooking the turkey all day when she went to cut it at 6pm the turky was still raw inside! it was then she realized her oven did not work! thank god for mash potatoes and cranberry sauce because that was our dinner since we could not make anything else. to this day we still laugh about it.
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My husband and I were doing our first Thanksgiving by ourselves and were too scared to do a normal turkey, so we got this frozen Jennie-O turkey loaf thing. It was TERRIBLE. Gross to look at and gross to eat (and took forever to cook to!). Unfortunatley, our main dish couldn’t be saved that year, but we learned to never do that again! Since then, we got a little frozen fully cooked turkey from Sams. Still not as adventurous as doing the real thing (stuffing it, etc.) but it tasted delicious. This is our last year having Thanksgiving just the two of us, we’ll have our baby boy by this time next year, so one of these days, I’m going to break down and attemp the full blown turkey experience. 🙂
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The year my husband decided to fry a frozen turkey that was twice as big as the recommended size stands out in my mind as a Thanksgiving Disaster! Hot grease was exploding all over the place for a couple of hours. On second thought, this doesn’t qualify… There was NO way to salvage that disaster, and the cleanup was horrendous! LOL. But I can laugh, now. He hasn’t tried to fry a turkey since. We now use the massive turkey fryer (that he just HAD to have) to boil corn-on-the-cob at family get-togethers! haha! I don’t allow him near the peanut oil, anymore!
I have been very fortunate to not have had any disasters. The only thing that comes to mind that went wrong was an under cooked fried turkey. Our turkey was SO big that it didn’t cook all the way through, so we had to cut it into pieces and bake it to finish cooking it. Still came out yummy b/c we had already fried it ;O)
The only disasters I have encounter was planning to cook a traditional dinner with a large turkey at a cabin we rented. The oven was too small for the turkey, any side dishes. We had to chop the turkey to cook on baking sheets. Thankfully there was propane BBQ that we cooked the side dishes on in the freezing cold.
I personally haven’t had a disaster but when I was a kid we went to someone’s house for Thanksgiving. He decided to grill the turkey and the grill caught the siding of the house on fire. I don’t think we ended up eating turkey that Thanksgiving.
My mom retains all control over Thanksgiving dinners. I’m nearly 30 years old and have never hosted one. 🙂 I’m pretty sure there have been few, if any, disasters in her kitchen the day of, however. She’s a professional and she is amazing! A disaster wouldn’t dare mess with my mom on the big day! 😉
Spending most of my life in the beautiful Pacific Northwest we often would experience some sort of “stormy time” during Thanksgiving. Never the 20 feet of snow type in the colder climes, but rain and wind that would bring those huge Douglas fir trees down on powerlines. Often there would be power outages that would occur early on Thanksgiving Day. One year just as I was getting the bird all stuffed and ready to place into the oven, the lights went out! What to do? We had a Weber charcoal grill… I had never done a bird on a grill, though our good friends often did. So I summoned my courage and attempted the feat. The turkey did not turn out beautiful, but it did cook (after I removed the 50 pounds of stuffing I had just stuffed it with!) The turkey took forever to cook, had quite a bit of burned/dried meat on the outside, but our family did not care. We treated it as an Adventure. I made the stuffing into a thin sheet wrapped in foil and it cooked alongside the bird. We often joked about our Thanksgiving cookout in the storm. (Luckily, I had made the pies the night before, so turkey, stuffing and pie was our menu…not too bad, considering.) We had and do have so much to be thankful to God for!
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Thanksgiving has always been really great. No disasters yet! Knock on wood. Lol.
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No disasters yet…but it’s bound to happen sometime with almost 40 crazy family members in the house every year! 🙂
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We had a small disaster one year with the stuffing, it got placed on top of the stove and then the wrong burner was turned on…let’s just say that 9×13 glass dishes really are not supposed to be used on the burner…stove top came to the rescue that evening 🙂 although, homemade really is the way to go…Happy Thanksgiving.
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