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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The first turkey I ever made (back in 2001) was raw on the inside. Nothing good came out of that. I refused to make another turkey for the next 6 years. I made one in 2008 & it turned out wonderful.
I honestly have never had any disasters! Sorry to disappoint!
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One year I over cooked the rolls and was so mad at myself. Instead of staying in my pity state, we took them outside and hit them with golf clubs and baseball bats. Granted we didn’t have any rolls with the meal, we still got a little exercise after dinner. 😛
I forgot to put the sugar in the pumpkin pie one year. That is one story I will never live down! We had a good laugh and no pumpkin pie that year. It was disgusting!
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No disasters at my house. 🙂
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Fotunately, my wonderful Mom hosts our Thanksgiving dinners, so I’m only responsible or bringing dessert. And I don’t have a good dessert disaster to share. But I’d love to be able to provide my sweet Mama with the turkey this year!
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I have ruined rolls more times that I can count!! I don’t usually turn them into anything fun…BUT I either remake them or take as it is and it usually is fine!!
YEP. Sweet potato gnocchi turned into sweet potato…..mash? YEAH, MASH.
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We were at the morning Thanksgiving church service, and my mom asked me if I had any problems getting the turkey in the oven this morning? I stopped and turned around and went straight home to take it out of the freezer! I had everything else under control for the day except the turkey!
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I haven’t ever done Thanksgiving on my own (wish me luck this year!) but a couple years back my mom made sweet potatoes with bananas from a recipe she had seen Tyler Florence make. It came out looking perfect! We all dug in looking forward to this beautiful dish and it was awful. It tasted horrible! We all dug in together and the looks on our faces was priceless. Mom said go ahead and spit it out, she wouldn’t be offended. We still tease about that!
Thankfully no major disasters yet! Cross my fingers that there are none to come either!
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I had been dating my boyfriend(now husband) for 3 months, and we decided I would spend Thanksgiving with his family that year. It was a great and fun Thanksgiving, but by that night we were all fighting for the 2 bathrooms in the house…it was terrible!! Most everyone got food poisoning. The only thing fun about it is that we can all look back and laugh about how terrible it was!
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No serious accidents for me yet, a couple narrowly avoided ones. I almost forgot to take out the giblets and neck with the first turkey I made.
Yes! One year I completely forgot to cook the turkey. We had chicken instead and the next weekend I invited everyone out for a smaller turkey dinner.