Recipes

Best Thanksgiving Recipes

27 November 2013

Some people dream about the warming, fragrant aroma of the Thanksgiving Day kitchen all year long. Others look forward to menu planning and creating the shopping list more than anything. This is our starter menu of our favorite cookbook recipes, from dishing up Joy of Cooking‘s classic cranberry sauce to easy and delicious Sweet Fig and Gorgonzola Pizza (4 Ingredients Christmas) to offer incoming guests.

Appetizers
—Chloe’s Kitchen Recipe: Warm Spinach-Artichoke Dip

—Chloe’s Kitchen Recipe: Garlic Knots

—Paula Deen Recipe: Bubblin’ Brown Artichoke and Cream Cheese Dip

—Stocked Kitchen Recipe: Favorite Deviled Eggs

—4 Ingredients Christmas Recipe: Sweet Fig and Gorgonzola Pizza

—4 Ingredients Christmas Recipe: Ham and Egg Quiches

Sides
—Joy of Cooking Recipe: Pureed Cauliflower with Caramelized Shallots and Fried Sage

—Joy of Cooking Recipe: Caramelized Brussels Sprouts

—Clinton Kelly’s Scalloped Sweet Potatoes Recipe

—4 Ingredients Christmas Recipe: Sweet Squash Galette

—Joy of Cooking Recipe: Pressure Cooker Chicken Stock

—Rachael Ray Thanksgiving Recipe: Green Bean Casserole

—Paula Deen Recipe: Wilted Salad with Hot Bacon Dressing

—Paula Deen Recipe: Southern Brown Rice with Mushrooms

—Paula Deen Recipe: Buttery Buttermilk Mashed Potatoes

—Simple Food, Big Flavor Recipe, Chipotle-Garlic Mashed Potatoes

—Joy of Cooking Recipe: Bread Stuffing with Giblets

—Joy of Cooking Recipe: Cornbread Stuffing with Oysters/a>

—Joy of Cooking Recipe: Whole Berry Cranberry Sauce

—Joy of Cooking Recipe: Whole Cranberry Sauce with Dijon and Walnuts

Main Dishes
—Joy of Cooking Recipe: Turned Roast Turkey with Fresh Herbs

—Paula Deen Recipe: Baked Sugared Ham

—4 Ingredients Christmas Recipe: Roast Pork and Crispy Crackling

Desserts
—Joy of Cooking Recipe: Pumpkin-Maple Pie with Buckwheat Crust

—The Cake Boss Recipe: Cream Cheese Frosting

—Make the Bread, Buy the Butter Recipe: Pumpkin Pie

—Callie’s Biscuits Recipe: Mom’s Cinnamon Stickies

—Low-Calorie Holiday Desserts: Skinny Snickerdoodles, Chia Cranberry Apple Crisp

—The 17 Day Diet Recipe: Mexican Chocolate Pudding

—Chloe’s Vegan Dessert’s Recipe: Chewy Ginger Molasses Cookies

—Chloe’s Kitchen Recipe: Coconut Whipped Cream

—Chloe’s Kitchen Recipe: Mocha Almond Fudge Cake

Festive Beverages
Don’t forget the cocktails (or the hydration alongside them). Here are a variety of options to break away from the standard Beaujolais and beer.

—John Cusimano’s Warm Skater’s Toddy

—Skinny Holiday Cocktails: Light Eggnogg, Pomegranate Cocktail, Cranberry Sparkler

—The Self-Health Revolution Recipe: Chai-Spiked Pumpkin-Pie Green Smoothie

—4 Ingredients Christmas: Christmas Candy Martini

—America’s Most Wanted Desserts Recipes: The Bouchon Bakery’s Hot Chocolate

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More Thanksgiving Prep Tips
The food isn’t the only part of the big feast that requires attention to detail. A few of our favorite chefs and food experts share their ways to save time and money—while still awing dinner guests. And of course, we can’t live without essential shopping and planning tips from our friends at Joy of Cooking.

—How to Save Money on Wine and Booze

—Clinton Kelly’s Tip on How to Make a Store-Bought Pie Crust Look Homemade

—Super Foods for Your Holiday Table

—Thanksgiving Turkey Prep Tips from The Cake Boss

—Twists on Traditional Thanksgiving Dishes from Celeb Chef Aarón Sánchez

Joy of Cooking
by Irma S. Rombauer

Canning hopefuls will find plenty of guidance in this trove of culinary wisdom including chapters on canning, salting, smoking and drying; jellies and preserves; and pickles and relishes. There are also useful tables for processing times, boiling temperatures and moderating the levels of sugar in the preserving syrup.

This classic baking book is chock full of delightful dessert recipes that are perfect for the holidays, including Chocolate Layer Cake with Chocolate Fudge Frosting and Chocolate Dipped Bananas.

Seventy-five years ago, a St. Louis widow named Irma Rombauer took her life savings and self-published a book called The Joy of Cooking. Her daughter Marion tested recipes and made the illustrations, and they sold their mother-daughter project from Irma's apartment. Today, nine revisions later, the Joy of Cooking—selected by The New York Public Library as one of the 150 most important and influential books of the twentieth century—has taught tens of millions of people to cook, helped feed and delight millions beyond that, answered countless kitchen and food questions, and averted many a cooking crisis.

JOY remains the greatest teaching cookbook ever written. Reference material gives cooks the precise information they need for success. New illustrations focus on techniques, including everything from knife skills to splitting cake layers, setting a table, and making tamales.

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