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.
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Yes! I was going to make these cute tureky sugar cookies with candy corn as the turkey feathers. I didn’t realize until a couple of days before Thanksgiving that candy corn is all sold out by mid-November. So my plan B was to still make cookies and decorate them. The oven in my little apartment burnt half the cookies, and the ones that I could salvage just didn’t look so pretty. They tasted good, but I had this grand idea of brining this heaping plate full of beautiful homemade cookies a la Martha Stewart to the family meal. I still took the cookies but not many got eaten, so I considered this one a fail, but a win because I learned a good lesson!
We once had a turkey that just would not defrost! My mom and I were pulling out ice chunks and chipping the fat/skin off. We ended up eating pretty late that night…but we had plenty of side dishes to fill up on in the meantime!
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Thankfully I haven’t had a disaster yet – knock on wood!
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The only disaster I can recall happening on Thanksgiving was many, many years ago.
As a new housewife my disposable aluminum roasting pan sprang a leak…in the oven with the turkey half roasted!
The juices leaked in the oven and smoke pretty much filled my house!
I had to shut everything down and wait for things to cool off so i could clean it.
Needless to say, after the smoke cleared, our meal was really late.
And we were extremely thankful when we could finally eat!!!!
Last year my rolls flopped, but they were still edible. That just taught me to let someone who’s good at it make them!
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Grandparents missed their connecting plan one Thanksgiving when I was a kid.
So needless to say turkey dinner was put on hold and there was a lot of going back and forth to the airport checking on late arrival (it was way before internet options). The turkey was put on very low in the oven and should have been all dried out. Not only was it wonderful and juicy, it probably tasted better after all the extra waiting and having my grandparents finally get there safely. Oh, and the cat ate part of the pumpkin pie. We just scooped that part out and finished the rest of the pie. I’m sure many of you will be grossed out by that.
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I made rolls for the first Thanksgiving we celebrated with my husband’s family. They didn’t rise so we had hard little balls of cooked dough…they still tasted halfway decent though!
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My little sister decided to put ALL the marshmallows on the candied sweet potatoes. The inside of the oven looked like the stay-puff guy blew up in there!! But the house smelled like the perfect combination of turkey and sweet potatoes!! =D
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I’m not very good at turning disasters into fun ~ looking forward to learning from other comments.
No real disasters. Closest we’ve come is MIL insisting we have Thanksgiving at their place so I didn’t but a single thing. She calls a day or two before Thanksgiving to say they are going out of town. So I had to rush out and get stuff.
The only realy disaster I’ve had is trying to make gravy the way my Grandma makes it. Oh, and I injected a turkey one year to give it more flavor…and I couldn’t taste it.
Everyone forgot something. One person forgot rolls and others forgot potatoes!
I never had a disaster that became fun… but I did have a cranberry upside down cake that ended up completely raw in the middle and burned on the outside (still have no clue how that happened). Just made other desserts to make up for it 🙂
Oh, I remember one really BAD one…I was probably about 17 years old — that will be my excuse!! — I decided to make a pumpkin pie out of a real pumpkin instead of using canned puree and was following a recipe out of an old natural foods cookbook. I remember being pretty distracted by dealing with the pumpkin while making the pie. I took the pie over to my then boyfriend’s house as my contribution to the dinner. I was so proud of myself…and then my boyfriend’s father took the first bite out of his piece and made a funny face…it turned out I had forgotten to put in the milk in the pie filling. It was yucko!
I have managed to forget about the yams in the broiler “toasting” the marshmallows for several years in a row. Yes they burn and we do it again… after the laughing subsides. It has happened so often the kids think it is a tradition!
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something always seems to go wrong and we manage to just laugh at it
The main disaster I have had so far is my dressing did not turn out at all! We just didn’t eat it! But the rest of the meal was great!
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I have honestly never had a Thanksgiving disaster.