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!
2. For extra entries, Follow Picky Palate on Twitter, RSS Feed and Like us on Facebook. Leave 3 separate comments for this.
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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Honestly, no… aside from burning some things (which doesn’t turn out nice), I’ve been pretty lucky!
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No disasters. . . yet. . .
No disasters that I can think of, just a lot of good memories!
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My worst disaster was corn of all things. I had found a recipe that was a copycat of Green giant’s buttered corn. I had everything else ready and then at the end made the corn. It said to add a little cornstarch to thicken it but when I added it these corn boiled over on the stove and would not thicken. I kept adding more and more until I finally realized I adding baking soda and not cornstarch!!!!!! The corn was disgusting but we all had a great laugh!
Last Thanksgiving…turkey farm prepared turkey = dry as a bone! We filled up on sides and then tried again the following Sunday! Easier is not always better…
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My first disaster was last year. Tried out a Pumpkin Dump cake. I think that’s what it was called. Anyway, it was undercooked, or the recipe amounts were off, and it was like pumpkin mush. So I mushed it all up and made an ice cream topping out of it. Yum! It was like pumpkin pie ice cream, and the disaster didn’t go to waste. 🙂
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I made turkey last year and made my husband soo sick! I felt so bad and there wasn’t anything good that came of it.
No true disasters, except for the circuit breaker kept getting flipped while trying to use to many appliances cooking dinner, so it kept interrupting all the cooking and baking, and had to leave out some dishes.
So far, so good. No disaster yet, but should I have one to have more fun?
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We came into the kitchen one year to find the cat “straddling” the turkey and choosing down…ewww!
no disasters just yet….but I am still young!
I remember I baked my first turkey with the giblet bag inside!…oops
When I was little, I greased and floured the pan for no bake cookies.
No real disasters just a turkey that took longer than anticipated. Like two hours longer…everything was ready except the turkey.
Ugh!
I luckily have not had a Thanksgiving Day disaster yet.
So Thankful every thanksgiving meal has been disaster free. Last year we even had a tofurkey for our vegan friend and it turned out well.
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i wanted to make butter the one and only time i hosted my mom for thanksgiving – thought my three year old would love the idea but she didn’t and i ended up shaking by myself for 10 minutes. she did love the butter when we served it with the bread!
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Surprisingly, I haven’t had any Thanksgiving disasters. Thank heavens!
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No disasters for me either; my husband and I usually only do breasts instead of an entire bird, so perhaps thinking small is the reason we’ve been so lucky. 🙂
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First turkey left the plastic bag of inners in the bird. We just laugh about it now…