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From the Test Kitchen

Your Two-Week Timetable for Thanksgiving Dinner

November 8, 2012 | By Vanessa Rocchio | Comments (3)

Thanksgiving is not a spur-of-the-moment meal thrown together, especially if you’re having the whole family over. You need to plan out a menu, check your grocery list twice, and have a very specific timetable if you want to the get the turkey and the rolls out at the same temperature. Luckily, we’ve done the hardest part for you!

It’s Not Thanksgiving Without A Late-Night Run to Piggly-Wiggly

November 4, 2012 | By The Lee Brothers | Comments (9)

We asked some of our favorite scribes to riff on the part of their down-home Thanksgiving they simply couldn’t do without. Here’s what they said. (Stay tuned for more…) Thanksgiving Eve is the most underrated holiday of the year.

It’s Not Thanksgiving Without A Moment of Thanks

November 3, 2012 | By Anne Graham Lotz | Comments (9)

We asked some of our favorite scribes to riff on the part of their down-home Thanksgiving they simply couldn’t do without. Here’s what they said. (Stay tuned for more…) Over the years, our Thanksgiving has become like a family reunion.

From the Test Kitchen

Deep Fried Friday: Thanksgiving Dressing

November 2, 2012 | By Norman King | Comments (5)

Looking ahead to Thanksgiving, I’m plopping some dressing in the deep fryer to make a one-bite appetizer.

The Grumpy Gardener

How to Smoke A Delicious Turkey

November 25, 2011 | By Steve Bender | Comments (4)

After learning of our family’s plans to smoke a turkey for this Thanksgiving, literally thousands of you demanded that we show you how. So here’s how the Benders do it step-by-step. (Drama is already building. Can you feel it? Step 1. Day Before Thanksgiving. Kill turkey. Remove all extraneous appendages. Obviously, this turkey was a gobbler. Step 2. Place dead […]

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Grumpy Gives Thanks

November 19, 2011 | By Steve Bender | Comments (6)

Well, it’s Thanksgiving week, the time that calls upon each of us to reflect on the many blessings we have received in our lives and give credit where credit is due. So without further ado, here are just a few of the things that Grumpy was thankful for in 2011. Having the chance to be the first to write about […]

Happy Thanksgiving From Gaylord Opryland! (Tales From A Meal … )

November 25, 2010 | By Erin Shaw Street | Comments (0)

It doesn’t get more Southern than Cheerwine glazed Tennesse Ham.
Part of the meal served at Cascades, Gaylord Opryland. Other items included spiced pumpkin soup, lowcountry crabcakes, sweet potato casserole and of course, turkey (free range) …

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Have A Grumpy Thanksgiving

November 24, 2010 | By Steve Bender | Comments (13)

Lovely kudzu in bloom, the Soul of the South. “It is demonstrable,” said he, “that things cannot be otherwise than they are; for as things have been created for some end, they must necessarily be created for the best end. “ — Candide During this past week of Thanksgiving vacation, His Grumpiness has rediscovered one of his favorite books, the classic […]

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Autumn’s Leaves Are a Gardener’s Gold

November 17, 2010 | By Steve Bender | Comments (8)

There are three things Grumpy can count on happening every year in late November. + The Detroit Lions losing yet again in a traditional NFL contest on Thanksgiving that pits two sorry foes who don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of making the playoffs, but it’s cold outside so we watch anyway. + All of Judy’s family vying to see who […]

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Burn, Squirrel, Burn!

November 20, 2009 | By Steve Bender | Comments (27)

Feisty squirrels sizzle and pop after brainlessly scarfing down my red-hot bird seed. Hope reigns, America. No longer must we suffer the indignity and injustice of watching stinking squirrels slug down precious bird seed day-after-day while our little, winged tweeters starve. We have an answer — one that doesn’t require a greased pole, sliding pole, fall-away perches, […]

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