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Smoked Turkey Three Ways
Sage and Thyme Smoked Turkey comes out a beautiful mahogany brown. Have you made your plans for cooking the big bird? Let me tell you about the recipe I’m going to make this year, Sage and Thyme Smoked...
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Hooray for Leftovers
Turkey Sandwiches with Shallots, Cranberries, and Blue Cheese As much as I love the big Thanksgiving meal—the grill billowing smoke and wafting turkey deliciousness into the yard, the parade of pies...
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Thanksgiving Potluck: Cheese Toasts
photo by Megan McCrea This month, we’re cooking our way through Deborah Madison’s freshly revised New Vegetarian Cooking For Everyone. Editorial assistant Megan McCrea tackles this cheesy appetizer....
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Links We Love: Ultra-Stylish Thanksgiving
Here are some brilliant ways to make Thanksgiving as much a feast for the eyes as it is for…well, you know. Photo by Instagram user cindymindypindy, courtesy of CasaSugar.com Set an Instagram-worthy...
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How To Have a Happy Potluck
We’ve all been to at least one unhappy potluck. Here are our best tips, for both hosts and guests, toward a stress-free crowdsourced feast. FOR HOSTS Ask–then suggest. Start by asking your guests what...
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My Nightmare Thanksgiving Potluck
Green beans (left); Haricots verts (right). Are they really so different? It seemed like a great idea at the time. We were both barely out of college, my boyfriend and I, living in Houston in a rundown...
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Who Says Thanksgiving Traditions Have to Involve Food?
Or, at least, eating food. A group of us cyclists in San Francisco like to mark the holiday in a combined athletic/artistic way using a newish genre called Stravart. (It’s named for...
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Links we love: Set a stunning Thanksgiving table
Courtesy of Remodelista Aside from sharing it with loved ones, what makes the holiday meal even better? An eye-pleasing tablescape! Here are some of our favorite ideas for setting a happy holiday...
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Thanksgiving Comfort Food
The Cookbook Club Thanksgiving Feast, courtesy of Heartlandia. (Kimberley Navabpour/Sunset Publishing) As we approach our December office moves—to Oakland’s Jack London Square and to Sonoma’s...
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First timer’s guide to the perfect turkey
Several years ago, I co-hosted a Thanksgiving feast for a group of friends—a ragtag group of San Francisco transplants who for various reasons couldn’t make it home to celebrate with their families. My...
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Beer cheese spread from Heartlandia
(Caroline Hetzel / Sunset Publishing) Craving a taste of home, Editorial Fellow (and craft beer aficionado) Caroline Hetzel whipped up the Judy, the Sappingtons’ take on pimento cheese spread. Flipping...
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Brown butter, maple syrup, and orange glazed carrots from Heartlandia
Editorial Assistant Alexandra Deabler discovered a side dish so easy, beautiful, and delicious, she can’t help but make it again. Any good vegetarian will tell you: Thanksgiving is “all about the...
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4 ways to make sweet potatoes the star of your Thanksgiving
Twice-Baked Sweet Potatoes with Bacon and Goat Cheese (Photo by Erin Kunkel) Mashed potatoes and stuffing tend to get all the side-dish glory when it comes to Thanksgiving feasts, but when done well,...
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Brown butter autumn squash soup and soft buttery pretzels from Heartlandia
Glistening with butter and sprinkled with salt, a freshly baked soft pretzel awaits dunking in a kabocha squash soup. (Erika Ehmsen / Sunset Publishing Corp.) Having given up meat as a teenager,...
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Brined and smoked Thanksgiving turkey from Heartlandia
The seductive bird, as shown in the pages of Heartlandia. (John Valls) When Food Editor Margo True fell for the tantalizing turkey photo in Heartlandia, she was in for a world of trouble. Why this...
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Top 3 holiday hosting hacks
(Thomas J. Story/Sunset Publishing) I did an unofficial survey around the office and asked 10 people the same question: “What’s your favorite part of the holidays?” Nine of them gave some variation on...
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The secret to moist turkey leftovers
Toasted Turkey, Brie, and Apple Sandwich (Photo: Thomas J. Story/Sunset Publishing) Enjoying the leftovers from your turkey feast is inarguably one of the best things about Thanksgiving. No more...
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