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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only thing I can think of is one year I tried speeding up cooking the turkey because a few relatives had a long drive home after dinner. so we all sit down to eat, turkey is on platter looking delicous, my husband cuts into it and it wasnt fully cooked! there we all sit with an undercooked bird! so the fast thinker that I am–get the turkey fryer, get the oil hot and wha-laa! within 20 mintues we are all sitting down to eat turkey & fixings!
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YAY! I’m not hosting Thanksgiving this year but I’m going to make all the traditional thanksgiving foods so that my hubby and I can eat leftovers! The biggest disaster actually happened to my grandmother when I was a child – the turkey had been in the oven for hours and she realized the oven was broken and wasn’t on! She cooked it at the neighbors house but my mom wouldn’t let us eat the turkey or stuffing in fear of food poisoning! Not ideal at all!
beet and cream cheese sandwiches…yeah, not too tasty
white castle slider stuffing!
None yet but I’m still young 🙂
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I haven’t had any Thanksgiving disasters, but each year my husband and I spend most of the day in the car traveling between our families. That is my favorite part of the day. I love the quiet time we get together on what is typically a crazy day.
I’m a classic over-planner. About 7 years ago we had my husband’s entire family out for Thanksgiving (about 35 of us) and I planned every last detail, too much food, too many recipes, asked my SIL to only bring a pie crust, not the filling (weird, I know). Well, 1/3 of the guests got the flu before the big day, so many had small appetites. I had planned to cook pretty much all the food, because most of them traveled from out of state. I was getting sick myself (but fighting it tooth and nail), ended up not making all the food I planned (but bought for). We had a lot of family we didn’t know very well, and they took it like champs, did all the dishes for me, and even gave me a nice gift for hosting. In the end, it worked out fine, but ever since then we have chosen to spend Thanksgiving with our church family, camping in the high desert, and we all bring just a couple items and share. Best turkey days ever!
yes last year the Turkey took 2 hrs longer too cook, so we had Thanksgiving without Turkey. The year before that with no dishwasher we clogged the sink..too many dishes, so instead of cleaning up we headed down to the beach! I think this year Im coming over to your place LOL J/K
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No real disasters …. thank god!!
I put toooooo much sage in the dressing and we could NOT eat it. Missed it so much. Now I keep a box of stuffing on hand..Live and learn.
These all look perfect! I have a perfect appetizer recipe up for you too 🙂 Come over and check it out!
The first time I brined a turkey and cooked it…..we made the gravy and it was soooooooooo salty, we could not eat it. UGH!! Well, gravy is a very important part of this day….so we opened packages of gravy mix and made that. BUT, not near as good or tasty. I now know to thoughly rinse the turkey after brining!!
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Don’t remember a Thanksgiving disaster in recent years and my memory fades on the distant past! Hope you’ll enter me anyways. We’re planning a big family gathering of 18-24 people of all ages. Love your turkey-day food photos!
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No disasters yet because this is my first year up to bat! Wish me luck 🙂
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No disasters that I can remember- my dad is in charge of the Thanksgiving cooking, he does a great job!!
Nothing yet since I dont normally cook for a lot of people….so I am probably gonna have a disaster this year since I am cooking for 10 people. YIKES (that’s alot for me)
no salt in the rolls last year! Fed them to the dog. 🙂 We had plenty of other food though!
I majorly overcooked the stuffing. It was so bad we tossed it out for the birds to eat and it sat there for weeks! They wouldn’t even eat it!
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I haven’t had any disasters since I’ve never hosted until this year! Since this will be my first I’m sure I’ll have a couple hiccups to write about!
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