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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A few years ago my oven/range stopped working. Fortunately the warming in the oven part still worked but that was all. It was Thanksgiving and no oven or stove, just the warm part of it. I was thankful I still had my toaster oven and my microwave. I had to save my turkey for Christmas. Then I got the ham out and baked it in the toaster oven, then the sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, rolls ..one by one in my little toaster oven..Then I kept everything warm in the broken oven/range. Finally supper time..Everyone enjoyed it ..and we had a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner..I was so Thankful for my little toaster oven<3
Fortunately, no.
My sister dropped the pan of turkey drippings. It was like a grease flood. The dog thought he was in heaven.
No big disasters, our beagle swiped a drumstick off of the table one year, though. I guess she thought no one would notice!
I can’t remember any disasters. But, then I’ve never been in charge of the entire meal before. Just a side or two. Thanks for the giveaway!
Our beagle managed to get the plate with the turkey drumsticks off of the table as everyone was sitting down to eat. A race ensued to keep her from eating the sharp boned drumstick she had in her mouth.
It wasn’t really a disaster but my turkey was done before we even got to our snacks!!!
Most of our disasters involve burnt food. Such as rolls and an overcooked turkey. We scrape off the burnt and make the best of it. Hoping for better luck on the next holiday. Thanks for the giveaway!
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I don’t host Thanksgiving, so thankfully I haven’t had any disasters.
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My biggest disaster was forgetting to get the ingredients for stuffing. Luckily my mom was able to save the day.
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this is actually my first year cooking the turkey 🙂
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Cameras help any disaster turn into a laugh and memory.
*knocks on wood* So far I’ve not had any disasters and lets hope that continues!
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I blame my mom for this one! When I was learning to cook I wanted to make the whole meal for Thanksgiving. My mom gave me advice but one piece didn’t make sense to me. She explained how to safely thaw a turkey, but the directions on the turkey that I bought said “Do not thaw”. I told her that an she insisted that it had to be thawed. I listened to her and thawed it and we couldn’t eat it! Luckily I had a chicken that I cooked instead. We pretended it was turkey!
Burned rolls!
Only disaster was leaving the bag of giblets in and cooking it along with the turkey…luckily my husband carved the turkey before dinner so he snuck it out before it was seen:)
Dry turkey…the worst!
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No disasters yet!
I think the biggest disaster was cooking the bag o’ innards still in the turkey. Luckily, it was a paper bag & not a plastic one! It didn’t ruin the turkey, just embarrassing!
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We usually make a vanilla milkshake with eggnog and rum but once we didnt have all the ingredients and instead had some good coctkails 🙂
A few years ago my mom forgot to add sugar to the pumpkin pie.. We were all pretty shocked when we took our first bites! Luckily there are always plenty of other desserts like pecan pie, brownies, and cookies, but it is something we still tease my mom about and get a good laugh from every year!
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