Nobody cares that the Thanksgiving turkey is dry and the mashed potatoes are lumpy when you’ve got a gravy this rich and nuanced to pour over them.
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Julia Turshen’s Turkey + Ricotta Meatballs
Senior producer Robyn Doyon-Aitken personally vouches for these tasty meatballs. She and her young son made them together one Sunday for dinner. He loved crushing the tomatoes with his hands and the herby, fragrant meatballs were a hit.
Straight-Talk Turkey
No brining or babysitting is needed for this recipe — just a good bird, started from room temperature, cooked in a calibrated oven (meaning you know the exact inside temperature — ask at the hardware store for the $4 oven thermometer that hooks onto a rack) for the amount of time needed for your size […]
Chris’s Make-Ahead Turkey & Gravy
Chris Prosperi gives full credit for his Make Ahead Turkey recipe to the wondrous Ina Garten, who first gave us all the idea in her invaluable cookbook, Make It Ahead. What Chris does here is tell you how to make his fabulous gravy, then use it to warm your turkey ahead of the dinner, no […]
Skillet Parmesan Turkey Hash
He makes fried deviled eggs. Skillet steaks with chive butter. Trout drizzled with bacon cream sauce. And classy butter-fried oysters. Welcome to the fearless world of James Villas, author of Southern Fried. Jim has become a regular on The Food Schmooze®. (What can you do? He keeps writing books, 17 of them.) A transplanted Southerner, […]
Slow-Roasted Holiday Turkey
No roast desiccates more easily than a big-breasted turkey—it’s a multidimensional anatomy problem. Turkey breast meat is finished cooking 10°F/5°C lower than the leg meat, so it is nearly impossible to get them perfectly cooked simultaneously. Miraculously, at least in its simplicity, the problem disappears when you slow-roast. By setting the oven temperature between the […]
