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Thanksgiving Recipes

Selected Books

For additional books browse the catalog under Thanksgiving Cookery and Cookery (Turkey).

Betty Crocker Complete Thanksgiving Cookbook Crocker, Betty
Betty Crocker Complete Thanksgiving Cookbook: All You Need to Cook a Foolproof Dinner
Thanksgiving can be the most challenging meal to prepare -- even for the most experienced cooks. Betty Crocker comes to the rescue with this complete do-it-yourself guide to making Thanksgiving delicious.
TX739.2.T45 C76 2003
(Williams-Sonoma) Thanksgiving Kidd, Kristine
Thanksgiving: Festive Recipes for the Holiday Table
Whether your tastes run to the traditional or more adventurous, this Thanksgiving can be the tastiest one ever with the help of this Williams-Sonoma cookbook. From first course to last, cooks will find everything they need for a delicious holiday gathering.
TX739.2.T45 K53 1997
How To Cook A Turkey: And All The Other Trimmings
Fans of Fine Cooking Magazine will want to pick up this recent book from Taunton.
TX750.5.T87 H69 2007
(Williams-Sonoma) Thanksgiving McLaughlin, Michael
(Williams-Sonoma) Thanksgiving
Williams-Sonoma Collection Thanksgiving offers easy-to-follow recipes in a vividly photographed, full-color format.
TX739.2.T45 M37 2001
Thanksgiving 101 Rodgers, Rick
Thanksgiving 101
A new edition of this Thanksgiving classic is out.
TX739.2.T45 R63 2007
Tried & True Thanksgiving & Christmas Tried & True Thanksgiving & Christmas: Top 200 Recipes
Featuring Homestyle Turkey--the Michigander Way, Hot Buttered Rum Batter, Rockin' Oysters Rockefeller, and Santa's Favorite Cake, this festive Tried & True volume includes those treasured dishes that families have shared for generations.
TX739.2.T45 T75 2002

DVDs

Martha's Classic Thanksgiving Martha's Classic Thanksgiving [DVD]
Instruction on Thanksgiving cooking and decorating. Includes three different ways to prepare a turkey.
Jacques Pepin's Thanksgiving Celebration Jacques Pepin's Thanksgiving Celebration [DVD]
French chef Jacques Pepin, assisted by his wife Gloria and his daughter Claudine, fixes a Thanksgiving dinner, which includes: salmon tartare with cucumber salad and salmon caviar; salmon gravlax, cured with cognac and served with cucumber, sweet onion, and rye bread; roasted turkey with apple cider glaze and bread and mushroom stuffing; brussels sprouts; gratin of butternut squash; a spicy cherry ginger chutney; chocolate-bourbon-prune cake; pears poached in citrus juice.

Websites

Menu Planners

Turkey and Stuffing

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
    http://www.virginiaapples.org/recipes/
    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
    http://www.bestapples.com/recipes/
    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
    http://www.verybestbaking.com/
    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.
  • Epicurious: Search for Thanksgiving
    1327 recipes from Bon Appetit and Gourmet magazines.
  • 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.
  • 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 Potatoes: Louisiana Sweet Potato Commission
    http://www.sweetpotato.org/
    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
    http://www.ncsweetpotatoes.com/
    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