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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attempting to make a lighter version of pumpkin pie….now i’ve learned to always test the recipes first!!
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I suppose on Thanksgiving my husband and I decided just to go to the chow hall on base. The night before him and his friends decided they wanted us to do Thanksgiving at our house. So, we went out and got a turkey. We tried everything to get it to thaw by morning. I was up most of the night working on getting it to thaw. In the morning it still had ice chunks on it, but I went for it anyways. I put it in the oven and cooked my half frozen turkey. It ended up taking forever, was my first turkey and everyone raved about it. They said it was the juiciest turkey they ever tasted. I was afraid it was juicy from not being fully cooked, thankfully no deaths or sicknesses were reported.
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The first year I tried my hand at baking a turkey, I used a heavy-duty aluminum pan (the throw-away type). No real problems but couldn’t set the turkey properly, for it kept leaning to one side. I invested in a nice roasting rack and pan set after that. Could be quite an interesting question for the Butterball hotline. “How do you make a turkey heel?” ;o)
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Knock on wood, no disasters as of yet 😉
It was the day of Thanksgiving last year, and our turkey was two hours into cooking. All of a sudden we heard a bang in our oven. We looked and saw that some fuse had exploded. We quickly had to bring the casserole, mashed potatoes, AND turkey over to my stepdad’s parents’ house, and did some serious transportation of food.
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Not exactly my disaster, but I was part of it! My older sister wanted to cook thanksgiving dinner for the family. It was her first home, the first time she cooked a turkey. When we arrived at 11 a.m. the turkey was in the oven at 250 degrees, icy to the touch, and holding the giblets in plastic inside. The rest of the family were going to arrive for lunch. I called my mom and asked that she pick up whatever she could from whatever was open for lunch. My sister was trying to cut pieces off the turkey with an electric knife, still insisting that it being a little pink was okay. I set her to work on the potatoes and prepared the turkey, getting it ready for dinner at 6:30 7:00 p.m. My mom arrived with fish and chips which we snacked on for lunch. Happy Thanksgiving?!!!
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Our biggest one-time flub was trying to BBQ the turkey on our charcoal barrel grill. It was so hard to regulate the heat & keep it at a consistent temperature. We finally had to take it off & just eat it – the outer parts! The inside was still uncooked after several hours! Yikes!
Recurrent crapiness – I CANNOT make gravy from scratch! I’ve tried every year & never end up with anything edible.
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Happy to report no disasters yet!
Haven’t had any major problems!! Hope it continues.
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No Thanksgiving disasters here and hoping to keep it that way. 😉
My little brother brought potato salad instead of mashed potatoes. Gravy on potato salad…uh, not so good!!
Overslept .. and no time to do anything.. to get dinner ready in time .. .. the family arrived and we all went out to eat .. LOL .. was a blast .. i only regret that there were no leftovers for the next week to munch off of …..
My brother-in-law was deep frying a turkey a few years back and it was taking forever…because it was still partially frozen, and one year I realized after baking my turkey that I had forgot to take the neck bones out of the cavity!
no holiday disasters yet thank goodness!!
One year at my Mom’s house, we lost power and ended up cooking the turkey on their old wood stove. It took 8 hours but turned out to be one of the memorable Thanksgivings we’ve ever had. 😉
Well, my family lives away from the family that celebrates Thanksgiving (the other half is Australian) so my Thanksgiving dinner consists of my mom, dad, sister, me, and there’s never been a Thanksgiving disaster (none that I remeber at least) except for this one time when I was little. Apparently I didn’t understand the concept of Thanksgiving and I thought we were getting a turkey as a pet…. Needless to say, I cried my little heart out when I found out the bird was dead. My parents say it was a sad Thanksgiving and we burried the carcas in the backyard after the meal.
I only just started cooking Thanksgiving dinner for my family last year, so no real disasters yet, but we will see…
My husband and I were torn between which family to visit on Thanksgiving! We went and had pie with both and then took a road trip to California!!! No traffic on Thanksgiving day, and great Black Friday shopping the next day! 🙂
I can only attribute the fact that I’ve never had a turkey day disaster to the fact that I’ve only ever cooked for our little family of four. (Nope, I’ve never cooked an actual entire turkey. And I’m 45!!!)
I havent yet either BUT this is my first Thanksgiving that I will be cooking. My fiance is working so we wont be able to go home for the holidays this year but I’ll looking forward to having an awesome 1st Thanksgiving dinner ready for him when he gets home!! Well at least I’m going to try 🙂
I had a disaster with stuffing one year that I turned into a great salad topper!
I haven’t hosted my own Thanksgiving, so thankfully no disasters.
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Surprisingly, I haven’t had a thanksgiving disaster. But I keep the menu pretty simple, though!