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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I haven’t had any Thanksgiving disasters yet. I am sure it will happen in the future, though! Lol
The only disaster I can remember is walking into my sister’s kitchen one year (she was hosting our family thanksgiving dinner) and seeing a box of Stovetop Stuffing. Seriously???!! We have brought the stuffing every year since!
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I accidently used powdered sugar instead of flower in a pie crust!!!
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Thankfully no disasters yet!! Fingers crossed!
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I left my dressing in the refridgerator over night and it dried out terribly! I didn’t know what to do because thanksgiving without dressing is a no deal so I added warm water to the mix and it came out perfectly!
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I burned the marshmallows on the sweet potatoes. Unfortunately there is nothing fun about burned marshmallows…so far that’s been my only disaster.
The first turkey I made for Thanksgiving was a total disaster. I took it out of the oven and the breast caved in! Dry and over cooked!
The electrical power went out at my parents house where the turkey was cooking and where we were supposed to have guests and dinner. So with no lightts, heat or an oven – Plan B was my house, under construction getting a total remodel. We were with family and that’s all that mattered.
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Last year was my first time hosting Thanksgiving at my house or cooking any form of meat myself besides a chicken breast or hot dog! haha. We are newlyweds and did not have any serving pieces or silverware at the time, so my parents had to bring it all over. My dad told me to use his roasting pan for the turkey, it worked a little too great because our turkey was done an hour and a half before we were supposed to eat!!! We had to rush to get the sides done. All in all it wasn’t a disaster but definitely want to practice before next time.
I’ve never had a Turkey disaster, thankfully. For some reason my Turkey’s are always moist and delicious!
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No disasters yet, but one year at my parent’s house our cat tried to eat the leftover gravy in the kitchen while we were eating and stepped in one of the pies in the process. He was such a bad cat!
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No kitchen disasters yet, thankfully! We did do a Turkey Trot in the freezing rain last year, carrying a 6 year old. That seemed disastrous!
I have been very fortunate to not have had any disasters. The only thing that comes to mind was an under cooked fried turkey a few years ago. We had to cut it up and finish cooking it in the oven. But it was still delicious b/c it was fried ;O)
Brined a fresh, organic turkey in apple cider. When I removed it from the oven, it was totally black and charred. Yuck!
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I had the turkey all ready for the oven. Put it in and cooked it. I always do this the day before so I am not so rushed thank goodness I did because when I was taking the meat off the bones I noticed something inside the turkey. I had left the innards inside. It still tastied good and delicious.
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One year, my sister-in-law somehow managed to get a plastic lid inside my oven door. We had to take the door apart to get to the lid and managed to put it together again. Thanksgiving dinner saved!
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I did over cook the rolls, or something happened to them during the mixing/kneading/rising process, but the kids had fun using them as baseballs in the backyard! lol!
My mom has always been the planner, chef, and hostess of Thanksgiving and since I was a kid I’ve been her assistant. One year, when I was in college, my sister got into a car accident late afternoon on Thanksgiving day (thank goodness she was ok!) and my mom had to go and deal with that, so teenage me had to take over and be in charge of the whole thing! When the other guests arrived we actually had fun running around and trying to figure everything out and it luckily it ended up being delicious!