Thanksgiving Recipes

Websites

Menu Planners

• 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 wonderful collection of themed menus from past years offers menus for large and small crowds, for Southern, Heartland, Georgian, Southwest, New England, New York, French and Mexican and more.
  • Thanksgiving on a Budget
    Their menu and money-saving tips will feed eight on $80 very, very well.
  • Search for Thanksgiving
    1798 recipes from Bon Appetit and Gourmet magazines.
• Fine Cooking: Ultimate Thanksgiving Survival Guide
  Check out the menus, recipes, downloads and videos from Taunton's Fine Cooking magazine.
  • How to Cook a Turkey: Essential Thanksgiving Guide
  • Thanksgiving Recipes
• Food and Wine: 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 with all the Trimmings
  Check out the menus. Recipes organized by Appetizers, Turkey, Gravy, Potatoes & Stuffing, Vegetables & Salads, Pies & Tarts and Meals from Leftovers.
• Martha Stewart: Thanksgiving Essentials
  Also 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
  Listen to 2 hours of question and answer from last year's Thanksgiving morning broadcast.
• 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

Turkey and Stuffing

• 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.
  • BC Turkey: Recipes
  • Butterball Online
  • Eat Turkey (National Turkey Federation)
  • Honeysuckle White
  • Manitoba Turkey Producers
  • Norbest
  • Ontario Turkey
• 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

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 here 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.
• Pecans: Texas Pecan Recipes
  Texas A&M has mounted several pecan recipe collections, including 33 pecan pie recipes from Marion Farr, Midland County, Texas Cooperative Extension.
• 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.
• 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".

Vegetarian Alternatives

• Epicurious: Vegetarian Thanksgiving Feast
  A Turkey-Free Turkey Day
  The Turkey-less Thanksgiving
  (Meat)less is More
  Vegetarian Thanksgiving Recipes
• 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.
• VegWeb: Vegan / Vegetarian Thanksgiving Recipes
  A broad variety of Thanksgiving appropriate recipes submitted by readers.
• In a Vegetarian Kitchen: Vegetarian Thanksgiving
  A website by vegetarian cookbook author Nava Atlas with recipes from her books. Includes main dishes like Three Sisters Stew (using the Native American's 3 sisters: squash, corn, and beans).