Thanksgiving Recipes

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• Better Homes and Gardens: Thanksgiving Menus
  Includes recipes, menus, turkey and food safety tips.
• Bon Appetit: A Heritage Feast
  A menu made with traditional American foods and heirloom American ingredients.
• Eating Well: Healthy Thanksgiving Collection
  Browse through Eating Well's collection of healthier options for Thanksgiving menus.
• Epicurious: Complete Thanksgiving Guide
  Menus, recipes, cooking guides, everything you need for a Thanksgiving dinner and all its leftovers from Bon Appetit and Gourmet magazines.
  • Interactive Menu Planner
    Answer their questions and they'll come up with a customized menu for you.
  • Thanksgiving Recipes
    Alphabetical listing
  • Thanksgiving Menus
    This collection of themed menus from past years offers menus for large and small crowds, formal or casual, traditional or modern, american regional or global, quick & easy or healthy, and vegetarian.
  • Thanksgiving on a Budget
    Their menu and money-saving tips will feed eight on $80 very, very well.
  • Search for Thanksgiving
    1887 recipes from Bon Appetit and Gourmet magazines.
• Fine Cooking: Thanksgiving
  Check out the menus, recipes, downloads and videos from Taunton's Fine Cooking magazine.
  • Create Your Own Thanksgiving Menu
    Choose the starter, main dish, sides, and dessert and Fine Cooking will create a schedule and shopping list for you!
  • A Mostly Make-Ahead Thanksgiving
  • Ultimate Thanksgiving Survival Guide
  • Thanksgiving Recipes
• Food and Wine: Ultimate Thanksgiving Guide
  You can also search Food and Wine for "Thanksgiving" for more recipes.
• Food Network: Thanksgiving
  Recipes for appetizers, turkey, stuffings, sides and desserts. Also short entertaining videos on preparation.
• Land O' Lakes Thanksgiving Recipes
  Browse through recipes for turkey, appetizers, sides and desserts.
• Martha Stewart: Everything Thanksgiving
  Includes Thanskgiving recipes, crafts and decorations. Or go to their Index and click the arrows for dropdown menus.
• NPR: A Thanksgiving How-To
  "If you've ever cooked a Thanksgiving meal, what are your tips for getting things to turn out just right? Chris Kimball of America's Test Kitchen helps sort through the advice. And if you've had everything go wrong — utterly and horribly wrong — share your story here."
• The Splendid Table: Turkey Confidential
  The Splendid Table radio show provides Thanksgiving Triage on-air and online with a 2-hour live radio call-in, (starts on Thanksgiving at 11 a.m. ET). The website also offers Thanksgiving recipes.
• Williams-Sonoma: Thanksgiving - Homegrown Traditions
  Basic tips and a variety of menus.
• Yankee Magazine: Thanksgiving
  Here are some New England recipes to try, like Down East Turkey Stuffing, Maine Pecan Pie, Pilgrim's Thanksgiving Turkey, Indian Pudding, Corn and Cod Chowder, and Sugarplums.

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Turkey and Stuffing

• Bon Appetit; How to Make Perfect Gravy
  Step-by-step instructions for that very necessary side.
• LocalHarvest: Heritage Turkeys
  Prized for their rich flavor and beautiful plumage, Heritage Turkeys are the ancestors of the common Broad-breasted White industrial breed of turkey that comprises 99.99% of the supermarket turkeys sold today. If you want to take a stand for biodiversity, buy one of these.
• Commercial Turkey Producers
  These websites offer recipes for all types of turkey products, as well as handling and storage information. Minnesotat, Virginia and Kentucky are the three states that produce the most turkeys.
  • BC Turkey Farmers
  • Butterball Online
  • Eat Turkey (National Turkey Federation)
  • Honeysuckle White
  • Manitoba Turkey Producers
  • Ontario Turkey Recipes
  • Turkey Farmers of Canada: Recipes
• National Wild Turkey Federation: Gobble Up
  In this Thanksgiving Media Guide, the National Wild Turkey Federation tells you how to prepare and eat a wild turkey.
• Sustainable Table: Talking Turkey
  This website encourages the use of Heritage turkeys rather than the "Broadbreasted White" variety that are grown on factory farms and that have to be reproduced through artificial insemination because they can't reproduce on their own.
• Turducken (Chef Paul Prudhomme)
  I wouldn't have believed it myself: a turkey stuffed with a duck stuffed with a chicken, interspersed with andouille, oyster and cornbread stuffings... Obviously only for experienced cooks as Turducken takes about 8 hours to cook and serves 24-30!
• Turkey for the Holidays
  Tips on cooking turkey and recipes for side dishes and leftovers from the University of Illinois Extension Service.
• USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service: Let's Talk Turkey
  A Consumer Guide to Safely Roasting a Turkey

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Vegetarian Alternatives to Turkey

• Epicurious Vegetarian Thanksgiving Menus
  • Epicurious Search: "Vegetarian Thanksgiving"
  • Epicurious: Vegetarian Thanksgiving Feast
  • A Turkey-Free Turkey Day
  • The Turkey-less Thanksgiving
  • (Meat)less is More
• Gentle Thanksgiving
  Gentle Thanksgiving is an effort to encourage friends, family and neighbors to substitute gourmet vegetarian recipes and a variety of festive plant-based foods for the traditional turkey. For instance, Tofurkey.
• International Vegetarian Union: 64 Vegan Holiday Recipes
  These are recipes for the North American Thanksgiving or Christmas.
• Well's Vegetarian Thanksgiving 2011
  The New York Times Well blog goes vegetarian for Thanksgiving, taking the meaty bird off the table to make room for a spectacular array of vegetarian soups, sides, main courses, salads and desserts. Every day through November, they will add more recipes. And you can also view Well’s Vegetarian Thanksgiving 2010.
• Tofurkey
  The famous vegetarian turkey substitute. And how do you like your Tofurkey Roast and Gravy? Tofurky a la King? Tofurky Gumbo? Tofurky Wellington?
• VegKitchen with Nava Atlas: Vegan Thanksgiving Dinner
  Vegan recipes for soups and breads, seasonal salads, main dish options, vegan stuffings, side dishes and desserts.

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Sides like Pumpkin, Cranberries, & Yams

This section includes recipes for side dishes and desserts using typical fall produce, including squash, pecans, and apples.

• Apples: Virginia Apples
  Look here for Apple Salads, Side Dishes, and Desserts, including Golden Apples and Yams, Sweet Potatoes and Apples, Apple Pecan Crumb Pie, and Turkey Waldorf Salad.
• Apples: Washington State Apple Commission
  Check their recipe section for LOADS of apple recipes, including Apple Brandy Custard Tart, Apple Bread Pudding with Almonds and Dried Cherries, Apple Buttermilk Cake, Apple Rhubarb Crunch, Old Fashion Fried Apple Pie, and many versions of apple pie.
• Baking: Nestle's Very Best Baking
  Thanksgiving wouldn't be American without pumpkin! Check out this site for recipes for pies, cookies, cakes, sweet breads, ice cream, and more. You'll have to run a search for pumpkin in the recipe search box and then it will give you 131 recipes... This is the Nestle website that includes Libby's Pumpkin Pie and Pumpkin Roll and Nestle Toll House Cookies.
• Cranberries: Ocean Spray
  Try their Fresh Tex Mex Cranberry Salsa or their Cranberry Margarita Molded Salad. Includes their Classic Cranberry Nut Bread.
• Squash: Fine Cooking: The Sweet & Savory Sides of Winter Squash
  Learn to highlight the flavors of winter squash in gratins, pastas, salads, and pies.

• Sweet Potato Council of California: Recipes
  How about Sweetpotato and Apple Pie, Sweetpotato Pecan Pie, or Sweetpotato Walnut Cake?
• Sweet Potatoes: Louisiana Sweet Potato Commission
  Includes nutritional information and recipes for the "yam" (really a sweet potato) found in supermarkets in the fall. Offers recipes for Cranberry Yam Bread, Sweet Potato Biscuits, Baked Sweet Potato Fries, and many more.
• Sweet Potatoes: North Carolina Sweet Potato Commission
  What is marketed in the United States as "yams" are really a variety of Sweet Potato, grown in the South. Look here for recipes, including a "Chef Series".

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Pittsburgh Region

• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Pumpkins and their sister squashes can be cooked into dishes of every sort
  This October 30, 2008 article by Bob Batz Jr. includes a related article with recipes, including a recipe for "pumpkin gobs", pumpkin ravioli and pumpkin roll.
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Thanksgiving Wine: A good day for the red, white and bubbly
  Here's a selection of American wines for Thanksgiving that are affordable and that you just may be able to find in your local state liquor store! (11/11/2010).