I need to make the best turkey you've ever tasted this Thanksgiving. My pride is at stake here, people. Help me!
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posted by showbiz_liz
on Oct 19, 2012 -
46 answers
Gluten-free Thanksgiving. My youngest sister was diagnosed with Celiac disease at the beginning of this year. She will be coming home for Thanksgiving and I'd like to make some gluten-free dishes for our family pot-luck style dinner. The interweb is chock-full of gluten-free recipes, but I don't know which ones are good and which are just meh. Please share your favorite gluten-free Thanksgiving-y recipes!
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posted by netsirk
on Nov 21, 2011 -
29 answers
I'm embarrassed to use up a question on this Can I Eat This-filter, but...
So I have some bags of cranberries in the freezer... that have been there since last year.
Can I use them in making cranberry sauce without courting death or intestinal discomfort?
posted by canine epigram
on Nov 19, 2011 -
19 answers
I'm participating in a Thanksgiving potluck this weekend. I've been assigned a corn based dish - possibly a casserole of some sort. I'm not a good cook, but can manage simple things. Does anyone have any favorite corn based recipes that are more involved than heating up frozen or canned veggies?
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posted by codacorolla
on Nov 16, 2011 -
31 answers
"American Thanksgiving" in Melbourne, Australia -- for a few Americans and a bunch of new Aussie friends who have never celebrated, but want to help with the cooking. How should I use the next few days to prepare?
A few of the difficulties: I've never hosted Thanksgiving before, in ANY country. I'm not sure how to best coordinate the pot-luck aspect -- trying to shape a decent team-effort menu would be wise. I'm not even sure where the best place is to buy a turkey.
Bonus points for menu suggestions that add Aussie flair to the American holiday (let's put kangaroo in SOMETHING), or that go over-the-top American (who says we can't have turkey AND bacon cheeseburgers?).
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posted by adamk
on Nov 21, 2010 -
27 answers
How can I best approximate a real Thanksgiving turkey— with chicken, a gas burner, and toaster oven? What other kinds of traditional fare can I make, given the limited ingredients available where I live? Help me have a real Thanksgiving far from home!
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posted by bookish
on Nov 24, 2009 -
21 answers
What can I make using a can of jellied cranberry sauce that not only doesn't involve a turkey, but doesn't involve an oven or (most) cheese?
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posted by acidic
on Nov 3, 2009 -
17 answers
I'm making Thanksgiving dinner with my American friend for her German host family. We want to share a little of our American "Thanksgiving culture" with them. My family in Maine always gets Indian carryout. What to do?
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posted by comfortinsound
on Nov 23, 2008 -
12 answers
Ultimate Thanksgiving music set: Help me find as many food-referential jazz, blues, jump-blues, swing, and generally dance-y songs as possible.
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posted by the luke parker fiasco
on Nov 6, 2008 -
24 answers
How much weight could a healthy adult gain in one indulgent weekend of overeating?
posted by roger ackroyd
on Feb 21, 2008 -
20 answers
Tried and true vegetarian side dish recipes for Thanksgiving please! We will be hosting omnivores, vegetarians, and all-but-beef-eaters for Thanksgiving. I'm looking for things that have the greatest potential for enjoyment by all. Since Thanksgiving is tomorrow, I don't have time to try out the recipe. Also, I don't want random vegetarian side dishes--it must be Thanksgiving/fall themed.
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posted by jujube
on Nov 21, 2007 -
43 answers
Please recommend a delicious, decadent, primarily chocolate dessert that I can make for Thanksgiving. Some constraints inside.
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posted by peep
on Nov 14, 2007 -
36 answers
It's almost that time of year again. Please share your favorite THANKSGIVING DESSERT AND SIDE DISH RECIPES. I am sick of making the same things every year. I have 15-20 guests, same group every year.
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posted by Lylo
on Sep 23, 2007 -
33 answers
I could have sworn that I read something by Jeffrey Steingarten in which he encourages his readers to cook a turkey roast made of turkey breast, herbs, and possibly other meats tied together with twine, instead of fussing with a full sized bird. It's not in
The Man Who Ate Everything, however. Does anyone remember this?
Or, could someone recommend an easy to make, impressive main dish for our Christmas dinner?
posted by craniac
on Dec 8, 2006 -
13 answers
We’ll be interstate with my family for Festivus, and so we thought we’d start a new tradition and hold Thanksgiving with my wife’s family as an almost-end-of-year get-together. (stuffing inside…)
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posted by obiwanwasabi
on Nov 25, 2004 -
4 answers
TurkeyFilter: Last night I tested this year's turkey recipe, and it was a failure. I usually make a maple syrup/butter/broth reduction and use that and cheesecloth to make a wonderful bird - 4 years running. This year, though, I have to make a kosher bird as the meal will be held at a kosher family member's residence. The olive oil-based recipe I tried left the skin dry and soggy at the same time - not an easy feat - and the bird was OK but not special. We've deep-fried before to great results, and I assume peanut oil is kosher; should I adjust for another type of non-butter fat (would margarine work? olive oil certainly didn't) or just bite the bullet and deep-fry?
posted by luriete
on Nov 22, 2004 -
28 answers
Somewhere I saw advertised a metal rod that you stick into the cavity of a turkey to conduct heat into the stuffing to eliminate the bird/stuffing safe temperature conflict. Google fails me. Anyone know about this? Does it work? Where can I get one before Thursday?
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posted by bondcliff
on Nov 22, 2004 -
12 answers
