Thanksgiving
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Mashed Potatoes
Mashed potatoes are very forgiving, and with a good masher, hot potatoes and enough butter and salt, cooks can accommodate religionists of the fluffy style and partisans of the creamy and dense. Be openhanded with salt and butter but stingy with milk, which will flatten out the bright, earthy potato taste. You might also enjoy this video of the recipe that walks through a few variations. (And for everything you need to know to make perfect potatoes, visit our potato guide.)
Mushroom Chickpea Hazelnut Tart
Savory pies and tarts are go-to dishes at Thanksgiving. They can be made well in advance and they make a great main course for guests who are not eating turkey. We chose this recipe from Kathy Patalsky, a vegan blogger in Los Angeles, to represent the savory pie in our Vegetarian Thanksgiving series. We liked that it was easy (she suggests a pre-made crust) and the hazelnuts make it a great option for the winter holidays as well. “These flavors are rustic, filling, cozy and festive,” Ms. Patalsky wrote. “I adore pot pies and tarts for main dish entrees. You can easily slice them like pies and serve to guests in an elegant way."
Hearty Turkey Empanadas
Whether you're looking to give those traditional Thanksgiving recipes a face lift, or brainstorming new ways to make the most of all your leftovers, whip up these Hearty Turkey Empanadas this holiday season!
Festive Thanksgiving Torte
As a transplanted American living in Paris, Ann Schreifels had the task of hosting Thanksgiving, a holiday the locals didn't celebrate, in a city that is arguably the culinary capital of the world, to a guest list that included meat eaters and vegans. Her solution: Try to please everyone. "The result was accolades from around the table," says Ms. Schreifels. "And every time I serve it (and I mean every) someone asks for the recipe and says, 'I'm going to serve this to my family and see if they can tell it doesn't have meat in it.'"
Stuffing Muffins
Stuffing is a traditional Thanksgiving accompaniment to the turkey, but turning stuffing into muffins helps them hold their own on the holiday table -- with or without the bird. This recipe for stuffing muffins comes from reader Ilene Godofsky of Queens, who writes the Colorful Kitchen food blog. (Ms. Godofsky's vegan pumpkin double-chocolate brownies make the blog worth the visit!) We like this fresh take on stuffing, and the fact that you can serve these muffins on their own, or top with two of our other favorite side dishes -- mashed potatoes and gravy.
Shredded Brussels Sprouts w/ Bacon & Pine Nuts
This sweet and savory Shredded Brussel Sprouts recipe with Bacon and Pine Nuts will challenge even the most hardened brussels sprout skeptics at your table.
Stuffed Delicata Squash With Lentils and Cashew Raita
Delicata is a light yellow squash with green stripes and a creamy, rich texture. One of the best things about delicata is that it’s much easier to clean, cut and cook than butternut or other winter squash varieties. Hannah Kaminsky of Fairfield, Conn., creator of the My Sweet Vegan blog, was inspired by the tubelike shape of the delicata. “Each perfect yellow and green-striped edible tube becomes an ideal vessel for every sort of filling imaginable, no matter how you cut or cook it,” said Ms. Kaminsky.
Eggplant Walnut Ricotta Rolls With Fresh Greens and Basil Salad
If you're looking to wow your crowd this Thanksgiving, consider these festive eggplant rolls. Courtesy of reader Christine Vartanian Datian of Las Vegas, these decadent rolls of Japanese eggplant strips, ricotta and walnuts are colorful and tasty, with an added crunch. Ms. Datian said the dish is influenced by her Armenian heritage. Sometimes she substitutes almonds or pecans for the walnuts and sour cream for the ricotta, depending on her guests, but her preference is the combination of walnuts and ricotta, layered on the strips of Japanese eggplant. She serves it as both an appetizer and a main course, next to a fig and basil salad and with a variety of California red and white wines. She garnishes the dish with parsley and green onions to add more color. "It's very, very pretty," said Ms. Datian. "The ricotta and the walnuts with the crunch factor -- people like it, and children like it too."
Vegan Acorn Squash Burgers With Cranberries and Pecans
Bailey Rae, a Nashville-based vegan food blogger, created this fall-themed veggie burger with acorn squash, dried cranberries, toasted pecans and oats. You have to bake the squash and caramelize the onions, but once those steps are out of the way, it's an easy dish to put together.
Sweet Potato Skin Bake
For sweet potato skeptics, this bake is only slightly sweet—but rich and bubbly and crisp and everything you wanted from a potato skin that you've never gotten.
Chocolate Blackberry Crepe Cake
A simple, no-bake crepe cake that is sure to please!
Barbara Kafka's Basic Fowl Giblet Gravy
For Kafka's high-heat roast turkey recipe, go here. Adapted slightly from Roasting: A Simple Art (William Morrow, 1995)
Laurie Colwin's Rosemary Walnuts
For these tasty walnuts, use fresh rosemary. If you prefer it to be dried or keep it as Colwin intended. This recipe is adapted slightly from More Home Cooking.
Irish soda bread with flax seeds
This soda bread is very simple to realize, delicious and healthy. Enjoy!
Homemade Whole wheat bread
Make a delicious bread with few ingredients !
Grenailles potatoes
This Grenaille Potatoes recipe can accompany many dishes. It's extremely easy to make, with only potatoes, salt and oil as ingredients. Enjoy!
Barbara Kafka's Simple Roast Turkey
Barbara Kafka’s high heat Roast Turkey recipe ruffled feathers in the 1990s— until everyone realized it gives you crackly-skinned turkey in no time at all.
Mama Stamberg's Cranberry Relish
This cranberry horseradish relish recipe's infamy might come from the strange ingredients—raw onion, cranberries, and sour cream, frozen and partially-thawed.
Paal Payasam (3-Ingredient Rice Pudding)
There is a rather endearing practice common to almost all communities in India. At the first hint of anything positive and good in the horizon, any good news—a promotion at work, good grades in school, a college acceptance letter, news of a distant relative's pregnancy, the Indian cricket team scoring a win, doesn't matter what—30 minutes later there invariably will be a sweet dessert ready to share as a thanksgiving. In my house, it's a simple rice pudding known as paal payasam. Its a snap to make. Its not quite as thick as the English version, more like a thick soup.
Tackle Game Day Hunger with Fire Roasted Ribs
Football Sunday just isn't the same without a winning roster of hearty snacks and appetizers. And nothing says TOUCH DOWN like a rack of pork ribs! Win MVP status with this better-for-you version, baked to perfection with a dash of salt & pepper and a kick of Rojo's Fire Roasted Salsa. Pair it with an ice cold beer and you're in for a winning season!
Plum Apple Sauce
This sauce recipe is an equal combination of red-skinned apples and purple plums. The color is beautiful and is terrific with both pork and roasted chicken.
All-Purpose Biscuits
Homemade biscuits are what take us into the kitchen today to cook: fat, flaky mounds of quick bread, golden brown, with a significant crumb. Composed of flour, baking powder, fat and a liquid, then baked in a hot oven, they are an excellent sop for syrup, molasses or honey. They are marvelous layered with country ham or smothered in white sausage gravy, with eggs, with grits. They make a great Thanksgiving side. And if you've never made them before, you'll be delighted to know that biscuits are easy to make. Really.
Pea Nut-less Butter
This homemade pea butter is the perfect nut butter substitute for a person who is allergic to peanuts. It uses dry peas, oil, and syrup for texture and flavor.
Savory Stuffed Baked Apples
Apples contain soluble fiber, which helps decrease your risk for cardiovascular disease by lowering cholesterol. Try this Stuffed Apples Savory recipe today!