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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No disasters so far… There is always this year!!
Thankfully, I have a mom who insists on cooking the turkeys for our family – so I get the pleasure of just handling dessert! No disasters just yet, but maybe I should try some new recipes this year and see if I can’t make a disaster happen! 🙂
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The only “disaster” could be a dry turkey (yuck), so this year we are going to try brining! I can’t wait. My brother brined one last year and it was the yummiest thing that I have eaten in a long time!!
I brought a dish to pass – and it was TERRIBLE! It became the joke of the evening, but it turned into fun because I got a lot of good cooking tips from my grandmother 🙂 A great bonding experience!
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One year we had a turkey disaster where the turkey was frozen all the way through. Luckily we were able to get a pre-cooked turkey from a local deli and every year since we’ve had Turkey day catered 🙂
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Luckily no disasters yet!
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I haven’t had any thanksgiving disasters BUT I’ve had quite a few recipes not turn out when trying them out
One year, the oven broke and we had no idea until 2 hours into the turkey “cooking” thankfully, Marie Calendars was open!
No disasters thank goodness!
My only disaster was when my FIL wanted garlic mashed potatoes for something “different.” I figured it would be easy enough, but I had never used fresh garlic before. I didn’t know that I was supposed to roast the garlic first, so I put raw garlic into the potatoes… Big mistake! The potatoes were inedible, but we still laugh about it to this day (12 yrs later). I have since made them without incident!
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I made a cranberry, white chocolate, peacan pie one year. The white chips never melted and made the pie have a funny texture. Reheated the next day and it was good with ice cream
One year the cat jumped up on the counter and pulled the turkey to the floor just before everyone arrived. We scrambled to clean it up before anyone found out. I am still scarred from that year!
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I’m happy to say that I haven’t had any disasters yet – keeping my fingers crossed that this years goes well too!!
Turkey day disasters turned fun? I’ve definitely had some turkey day disasters…why just last Thanksgiving, I had a momentarily life changing experience. It happened so fast and really just…had an impact on the day. Let’s just say my car and a person riding their bike ran into each other. Ok yes, a biker hit my car. I know, right? I totally thought I ran them over, but as it turned out, it was their fault!! I thought in the car vs. bike equation car always loses. Anyway, that was hard to bounce back from. This year I’m not driving anywhere!
I made twice baked sweet potatoes that took an hour longer to cook than anticipated! They were done midway through our meal!
When I was 10 I made a couple pudding pies and had them on the counter before we were going to bring them to my Grandma’s. When I went to grab them they had cat paw prints in them, my cat had gotten into them. Needless to say we didn’t bring them that year.
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One Thanksgiving (when i had many guests) I baked a huge amount of rolls, last in the oven before we sat down to eat. I burned the bottoms …they were black. My daughter helped me slice the bottoms off of every one of them and we served them without bottoms …and to this day my kids ask, “Mom, are we having black bottomed rolls this year?”
One year I forgot to take the liners off of the pie crusts. I baked the pumpkin pies and then saw the liners peaking out. I scooped out the pie, removed the liners and patted the filling back in. Once covered with whipped cream you never even knew what had happened. 🙂
No disasters yet, but I’ve only hosted once! 🙂
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My husband bought a last minute ham but we didn’t have enough time to soak it (to get salt out) so we cooked it the next day. No one ate any, it was SSSOOOO salty. Sad! 🙁
Havent had any Turkey Day cooking disasters yet but ive only cooked 1 Thanksgivng meal alone. But id love a free turkey!
Once our garbage disposal decided to spit everything back up. I was too young to remember whether or not it turned into something fun at the time. I just remember my dad, grandpa and uncles trying to clean up the mess with a bunch of plungers. At least it’s funny looking back on it!
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