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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My first Thanksgiving after getting married, I decided to make rolls from scratch for a 40+ Thanksgiving menu. Not having worked with yeast much before, I did not know the time involved and was shaping bread well into the Thanksgiving day. 🙂 Luckily my new husband and I had fun laughing in the kitchen together, and it all worked itself out, even though the rolls were slightly doughy and crispy!
I once made a cheeseball that turned out to be the most disgusting thing ever. One of my cousins put some on a cracker, ate it and then made this face of disgust!!! Needless to say I never made that recipe again.
I don’t cook, I eat So No Disasters
Any disasters have usually been hidden by the time guests arrive!
One year, my grandparents power went out so we attempted to cook the turkey on the grill. Emphasis on the word “attempted”!!!
My husband and my’s first Thanksgiving, my turkey was done at 10 am. That was so not planned! So instead, we had Thanksgiving breakfast!
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My comments really boring but we have never had a thanksgiving disaster..
I made some homemade rolls for the first time the day before Thanksgiving and I accidentally left it out overnight on the stove uncovered. The next day it was hard as a rock! Instead of throwing it out I made some awesome bread pudding with it.
no disasters yet luckily.
Our fridge died the day before Thanksgiving. It was interesting preparing dinner from an ice chest. It kind of felt like camping for Thanksgiving. Dinner turned out great and we enjoyed being with family.
I made rolls one year for Thanksgiving and they were as hard as rocks. It was so terrible because my mother and sister-in-laws are all wonderful cooks. I decided to become a GREAT roll maker…..and didn’t give up. I have to say I make some incredible soft, light rolls now…….with a little practice …..you can do anything !!!
One year my husband got a 30lb turkey as a gift from his job. It barely fit in the oven – we ended up using 6 aluminum pans and the drippings kept overflowing the pan – eventually causing a small fire. Finally we were forced to cut the breast meat off and just cook that – it was still enough for 12 people!
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Had Thanksgiving one year and my stove stopped working.
! year, we tried to fry a turkey for all my husbands side of the family. Unfortunately, the turkey was not quite thawed………
We definitely had lots of leftovers!! : ) Just no turkey for Thanksgiving dinner.
A couple of years ago my 25 year old daughter who was single never cooked a turkey before was helping me and stuffed the turkey without taking out the neck heart, etc. She stuffed it and we put it in the oven and I was looking around for them to boil them for the gravy and I ask her where she put them and she ask me what I was talking about. Needless to say we had to pull the turkey out and take the stuffing out and get the neck,etc. I ask her when you were cleaning it out why didn’t you take it out and she said I did…but I thought it belonged in there so I put it back.
My first year hosting I accidentally left the bag of giblets in the turkey. Luckily the bag wasn’t plastic and it didn’t burn, no the turkey was still edible.
One year we forgot to thaw the turkey. Frantic about the house full of people, it ended up being microwaved. Not the best moment but definitely unforgettable.
The first time I was in charge of the turkey I couldn’t find the baggie of guts that you find in most turkeys. I even asked my mom and she couldn’t find it either. I needed it for the gravy…I was trying a new gravy recipe that called for the gizzards and neck. After I baked the turkey I found them! Everything turned out okay though. Whew!
A few years ago my mom made a pumpkin pie and forgot to add sugar to it. My 3 year old daughter was the only who would eat it.
I have not had a disaster yet but I have only been doing Thanksgiving for a few years now.
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when i first started really getting into cooking i invited my whole family over.. i was so excited i got up early put the turkey on..started all my side dishes.. it was almost time to chow down.. but before we could eat i noticed my turkey was on fire.. OMG!! the grease had dripped and my turkey was completely black.. so much for making a good first impression! haha
Moved into our new house during week of Thanksgiving…wanted to host Thanksgiving dinner but didn’t realize we were still on temporary electricity. Blew the light in our stove, turkey didn’t cook in time – it’s been 6 years now and we always have it at our brother’s house!
No disasters thus far (fingers-crossed for another good year!).
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A few years ago, our family sat down to eat Thanksgiving dinner. As my cousin’s husband was carving the turkey, he realized that it was still very undercooked. We didn’t let that get in our way. We stuck the turkey back in the oven and proceeded to stuff ourselves with all of the delicious sides.
The first year in our new/old house I was cooking for the in-laws. The night before when I was cooking pies my old electric oven died. After having a panic attack I remembered seeing an article on how to grill a turkey on a Weber grill. I did just that the next morning and ended up with a smoky, juicy 20 pounder everybody loved!
The only disaster I have had at Thanksgiving involved putting a pie outside to cool and discovering one of our bird dogs sampling what would have been dessert.
I didn’t bring my MIL a dinner for thanksgiving at the nursing home as she INSISTED not to that she wanted to eat with the residents. We show up and she asks where her dinner is…I nearly fainted. I ran home and whipped up a dinner like a nutcase…Returned and she was happy. She thought I would “surprise” her…well, the surprise was on me…from then on, I always brought food even when she insisted she didn’t want any.
Can’t remember any disasters ~thank goodness~.
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