Happiness is Thanksgiving Dinner
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations. ~ Oscar Wilde
So as my favorite eating holiday of the year approaches, I thought I would do a post on Thanksgiving Dinner because a good Thanksgiving Dinner is certainly a good day my friends. ~ Rev Kane
Traditional Turkey Dinners (we’ll get more ALT down below)
For those of you who want all your info in one post:
How to buy, thaw, stuff and cook a turkey from What’s Cooking America
To start:
Tips on buying a turkey from the LA Times
Another piece on what turkey to buy
For those of you considering heirloom birds a little info
Cooking tips and guides:
The simplest easiest way to make a good turkey
For the gourmet types among you, from Saveur – The Perfect Bird
The side dishes:
Fancy mashed potatoes with cream cheese
And for the fancy pants cooks, Duchess Potatoes
Three words, Green Bean Casserole
We have 83, yes 83 side dish and stuffing recipes from Southern Living
Dessert
From the Food Network, 50 classic dessert recipes
But my favorite, buy a Keebler Graham pie shell, a banana, instant chocolate pudding and some rainbow sprinkles. Take the shell, cut the banana into slices on the bottom of the shell, make the pudding and pour over it, shake the sprinkles on top, refrigerate – heaven.
Non-traditional Dinners
Calvin Trillin’s Alternative Thanksgiving Dinners http://busycooks.about.com/od/thanksgiving/a/Trillinthanksgi.htm
Three anti-turkey Thanksgiving dinners, sure it’s blasphemy but the recipes look great and one is vegetarian http://www.thedailymeal.com/three-anti-turkey-thanksgiving-menus
For our Vegan friends:
We have 44 Vegan recipes for Thanksgiving http://greatist.com/health/vegan-thanksgiving-recipes
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Thanks for the repost. ~ Rev Kane
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