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Thanksgiving Pep Talk

It's one week away, in case you had forgotten. I want to step back a bit and give you a chance to take a deep breath. I assume that many of you are cooking some part of the Thanksgiving meal: you're ...

Stress-less Dinner Tip: Set the Table the Night Before

Here's a tip from our own experience in throwing many dinner parties and holiday meals. If you are able to, set the table the night before! Here's why we like to do it. ...

What Should I Make for a Thanksgiving Brunch?
Good Questions

Q: My Mom and I want to prepare a Thanksgiving brunch for family that will be around in the morning for the holiday, but not at the traditional dinnertime. Does anyone have any tasty recipe ideas f...

Libby's Warns of Canned Pumpkin Shortage for Holiday

Uh-oh! Have you heard? Libby's, that ubiquitous Nestlé brand of canned pumpkin puree, so essential to Thanksgiving bakers, has announced that due to rainy weather and late harvests, there may b...

Roundup: Everything You Need for Thanksgiving Dinner
Thanksgiving 2009

OK, this is it — our giant Thanksgiving roundup, with all our tips, hints, recipes, good ideas, and other Thanksgiving-related help. Our cheerfully audacious title might be slightly overstated, ...

Holiday Baking: Bake-and-Give Pans

We love bringing quick breads and pound cakes to holiday gatherings, but struggle with ways to make them look pretty when we present them to our hosts. The folks at King Arthur Flour are way ahead of ...

Thanksgiving Wines: Simple, On Budget, and American

Thanksgiving is just around the corner, again. Many have struggled through 2009 this year with little to celebrate. Thanksgiving is about celebrating what is really important: being together with fami...

Cooking for a Crowd: How To Cook a Stress-Free Feast

Thanksgiving brings out dinner party anxiety in the best of us, but it's really just a heightened version of the more common dinner parties we all throw throughout the year. So how does one plan a Tha...

Rethinking Tradition: Making Thanksgiving Your Own

The moment inevitably arrives when the torch gets passed and hosting the Thanksgiving feast shifts from being someone else's honor (and possible burden!) to become our own. When this moment comes, the...

Thanksgiving Dinner 2009: What Are Your Plans?

We've been talking a lot about Thanksgiving, but now it's your turn to talk. What are your plans for Thanksgiving dinner this year? Are you hosting? Visiting? Cooking? Taking a break? If you're cookin...

Non-Alcoholic (Yet Special!) Sips for the Holidays

Thanksgiving and the holiday season call for special sips at parties and dinners. But not everyone drinks alcohol, and it's a little sad to think of drinking water or apple juice with your turkey. Nev...

Tip: How to Cook the Sweetest Sweet Potatoes

Getting the sweetest sweet potatoes isn't about picking out the ripest or most promising potatoes in the bunch. Nope! Rather, a little culinary magic trick will transform your toughest tubers into del...

Thanksgiving Sides: 5 Alternatives to Creamed Pearl Onions

Last week, we gave you alternatives to traditional Thanksgiving sides like sweet potatoes, green beans, and cranberries. Here's another: pearl onions. If your only encounters with pearl onions have ...

On Ordering a Turkey Online

Recently I got to thinking about the kind of odd notion of a mail-order turkey and decided to walk myself through the process from beginning to end. I chose a new offering of young turkeys — y...

Thanksgiving for Every-vore: One Recipe Two Ways
Guest Post from Ivy Manning of Ivy's Feast

Thanksgiving is a great time for those of us who love to cook. That is, until one of your guests announces he's a vegetarian or vegan. Suddenly the best laid plans have a wrench thrown into them. Shou...

The Adaptable Feast by Ivy Manning
Book Review 2009

This time of year sees perhaps more mixed dining than any other time of year — and by mixed, of course, we mean vegetarian-vegan-gluten-free-with-omnivore dining. Thanksgiving and holiday partie...

Break with Tradition: 6 Unconventional Thanksgiving Pies

Feel like shaking things up this year? Here are six decidedly non-traditional pies that would nonetheless look perfectly at home on your Thanksgiving table!...

Do These Float Your Boat? Stylish Gravy Boats

A gravy boat isn't a necessity, but it is quite useful for Thanksgiving (and you could use it to serve chocolate sauce or drizzle cream on desserts other times of the year). We've rounded up some of...

Reader Tip: Add Beet to Poached Pears for Color

Look at these spectacular ruby-hued poached pears. Gorgeous! We love poached fruit, and, inspired by David Lebovitz, we've been planning on poaching a couple pounds of pears this weekend. Well, reader...

What Should I Cook for a Smaller Thanksgiving Dinner?
Good Questions

Q: For the first year ever, my small family is not going to visit extended relatives for Thanksgiving. I've never made a turkey, and I think a whole turkey is going to be too big for two adults, one c...

Setting the Table: Showcasing Special Family Dishes

Bringing out Great-Grandma's serving platter or using the special candle holders a favorite relative gave you years ago sends a clear signal that festive and delicious things are about to happen! And ...

Thanksgiving Sides: 5 Alternatives to Cranberry Relish

This was a tough one, because, frankly, we're not sure we'd give up our favorite cranberry relish recipe. But if you want something fruity, tart, and sweet that's not made of cranberries, we've got ...

Just as Good! Lighter Mac and Cheese Casserole
Recipe Review

Want to slip at least one light(er) side dish onto your Thanksgiving table? Give this one a try! Every bite is so gooey and perfectly chewy that we doubt anyone will even notice the lack of heavy crea...

Cranberry and Chocolate: Decadent Thanksgiving Desserts
Woman's Day

After a heavy meal like a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, often all the dessert we want is a tiny sliver of pumpkin pie. Decadent is not a word that comes to mind, right after that epic meal. But we ...

Thanksgiving Sides: 5 Alternatives to Green Bean Casserole

Yesterday we gave you some non-marshmallow ideas for sweet potatoes. Now we're tackling another old-fashioned dish that frequently shows up at Thanksgiving: the green bean casserole. We've modernize...

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