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 thankfully!
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This year will be my first year hosting thanksgiving! Heres to hoping i don’t have any disasters
Disaster, no. Mishap, maybe.
My mom decided to be thrifty and cook the turkey in a disposable foil tray. As she was taking it out of the oven to put in on the counter to “rest”, the pan gave way… dripping turkey grease all over the tile floor. Needless to say, slippage occurred and she was skating across the floor and turkey was flying. Most of the turkey did manage to get up on the counter, but a wing and leg were lost.
Luckily she didn’t hurt herself either and a trip to the ER was not needed.
🙂 awww.. memories!
I made a wild rice dish that turned out rather dry and not much flavor, I added chicken and some cream of chicken soup and turned it into a casserole. It was delicious!
Love Butterball turkey! Gobble! Gobble!
Crossing our fingers, but no disasters yet!
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cranberry relish- it was disgusting, but it became a classic Thanksgiving story
Nothing major (yet) only burned the bottom of my rolls last Thanksgiving….that was an easy fix….just cut the bottoms off and we were good to go!! 😉
My in-laws were two hours late, the other guests became irritable, my MIL dropped my Lenox gravy boat, the kids complained about the food, but then we got in the car and went for a ride together and it was great! 🙂
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My one and only semi disaster was the first year my husband and I hosted thanksgiving. I was making turkey breasts and after already trying out the recipe and it being a success, my pyrex baking dish decides to explode the day of with our family there. It was super scary from what I’m told because it was so loud. Although I was standing right next to it, I thankfully didn’t get hurt (at least not physically, I felt so bad though that dinner was delayed!) I did go on to finish everything up and we had a great time.
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First Thanksgiving Dinner I cooked the Turkey didn’t thaw and I turned the stove on while the stuffing was sitting on it and burnt the finished stuffing.
I was once helping my mom with the turkey and she was handing it to me to put on the island and we had a bad hand-off and the whole thing just went splat on the floor!! 5 second rule anyone? 😉
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So far I have been lucky and haven’t had an issues, but I’m sure they will come once we start doing Thanksgiving at our own house!
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I haven’t had anything go too wrong!…so far! Thanks for the giveway!
There is never too much gravy that won’t fix many-a-dry turkey!!
Gobble, Gobble, no diasters!
I don’t have a good story. 🙂
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I’ve only hosted Thanksgiving twice, and (luckily…knock on wood) we’ve come out unscathed both times! 🙂
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I am thankful in saying that i have never had a thanksgiving disaster yet!
When I was growing up, we always had Thanksgiving at our house, Christmas with my aunt’s family. One Thanksgiving, my mom went “all out” (cooking was not her thing at all) and made a Yule log for dessert. She put it on the back porch to keep it cool until serving time. When she went to get it, all that was left were the pieces of plastic holly that she’d used for decoration. Our hound dog, Blue, had herself a little Turkey Day treat. To this day, that cake gets mentioned ’round the table by those of us old enough to remember….and she never made another one!
It’s not really a disaster, but it felt like one at the time. 🙂 Our first Thanksgiving after we were married I went and bought my turkey, brought it home and realized that the stuffing had been made and was frozen inside the turkey! I was horrified! I had been looking forward to making my favorite family recipe for stuffing. *sigh* Oh well! 🙂 This year is the first year I’ve hosted Thanksgiving for both sides of our family. It will be fun!
It wasn’t exactly a disater, but it was very interesting. One year my friend insisted on making her favorite mashed potatoes. 5lbs for four adults and one toddler! Well after they were strained my friend wanted to mash them in a bowl and use the broth we boiled them in to flavor them. Well 3 mixing bowls later we finally were able to get all of the potatoes mashed! It was a lot of fun and later on we experimented with making Parmesan potato cakes.
No disasters yet, but maybe this year… :X I’m going to try a cook a turkey for the first time. YIKES!!
Thankfully we have had no disasters so far….other than Mom having a few too many glasses of wine while cooking…but hey – That’s tradition….lol
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It wasn’t really cooking, but I had a pretty severe reaction to some antibiotics I took, 4 days before thanksgiving. I had hives even on my eyelids and in my throat. I also had 10 people planned on coming for dinner, all from out of town, and some from out of state. It was too late to cancel, so I cooked dinner anyway. It came out pretty good, but I couldn’t eat any of it.
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Haven’t had a disaster yet!