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Cranberry Chutney

Day After Thanksgiving Cranberry Chutney

We can’t help but think that all we want for Christmas is jar after jar of this sweet-tart cranberry condiment.

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Portuguese Roast Turkey with Two Stuffings

Portuguese Turkey with Two Stuffings

David tells the tale of the two drama-ridden dressings he grew up with at his family’s Portuguese Thanksgiving table.

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Brown Butter Winter Squash

Brown Butter Winter Squash

One taste and you’ll forget all about that butter and brown sugar trick your mom taught you long ago. Promise.

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Pasta Rags with Wild Mushrooms and Brussels Sprouts

Chestnut Pasta Rags with Wild Mushrooms and Brussels Sprouts

This eminently easy-to-assemble jumble of autumn veggies and pasta just sorta screams elegance, don’t you agree?

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Cranberry and Orange Relish

Cranberry and Orange Relish

Traditions just don’t come much simpler than this easy-peasy, make-ahead relish. Simmer cranberries, sugar, and orange until you hear a “Pop!” Then plop it in the fridge.

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Apple Cranberry Crisp

Apple Cranberry Crisp

How poetic that a recipe whose ingredients scream out for Thanksgiving would, in and of itself, be reason to give thanks.

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Baked Spinach Mornay

Baked Spinach Mornay

Sorta like potato gratin, except the nutty, cheesy white sauce swaddles leaves of spinach, not sliced spuds. Sure beats salad.

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Sweet Potato Pie

Sweet Potato Pie

Sugar and spice and everything nice—that’s what you’ll find in this magnificently spiced traditional southern pie.

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Olive Oil Mashed Potatoes

Olive Oil Mashed Potatoes

We swoon to recipes that give us the pretense of being healthful as we douse food in fruity olive oil. Thank you, Lidia Bastianich.

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Cranberry Buckle

Cranberry Buckle

We’ll take this sweetly tart mingling of muffin and coffee cake any time someone cares to plunk a slice down in front of us.

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Maple Pecan Pie

New York State Maple Pecan Pie

Distinct from other pecan pies in one notable way, this recipe draws on robust maple syrup to usurp cloying corn syrup. You’re welcome.

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Pureed Celery Root Soup with Caramelized Apples

Puréed Celery Root Soup with Caramelized Apples

Behold, an exquisitely simple, sophisticated soup with a subtle celery root flavor that’s certain to make you swoon.

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Basic Pan Gravy

Basic Pan Gravy

Great gravy doesn’t just happen by chance. It’s all in the technique. So even though making gravy is simple as can be, there’s a way to do it properly. We think this is it.

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Chocolate Pecan Pie

Chocolate Pecan Pie

Pecans. Chocolate. Bourbon. Dunno about you, but that’s sufficient to make us forget all about that other traditional Thanksgiving dessert. Pumpkin who?

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Caramel Pear Tarts

Caramel Pear Tarts

Nothing says sassy like swapping pears for apples in the classic French tarte tatin. What can we say? We like to live on the edge.

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Stilton and Walnut Crackers

Stilton and Walnut Crackers

Perhaps the simplest precursor to a dinner party ever. Just make the savory shortbread dough, freeze it, slice it, and bake it at the very last second. You’re welcome.

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Sugar Pumpkins

Pumpkin Quick Bread

Home cook and storybook savant T. Susan Chang explains how she eventually came around to baking this quick, fragrant, subtly sweet loaf from a gourd of fairy tale proportions.

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Thanksgiving Disaster Frozen Turkey

Thanksgiving Disaster 1: The Bird’s Still Frozen

Nothing can stop Thanksgiving dinner–not rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor a bird that’s still frozen solid a few hours before you intend to say grace.

The Thanksgiving Turkey is Too Big

Thanksgiving Disaster 2: The Bird’s Too Big for the Oven

You know the rule: one pound of turkey per guest. But when your back-of-the-envelope calculations say you need a behemoth, what to do? We have answers.

Thanksgiving Disaster Thermometer

Thanksgiving Disaster 3: The Bird’s Roasted—But Still Raw

The pop-up timer popped. The skin’s burnished. The drumstick jiggles. Yet when you commence carving, you still see a trickle of pink. Ohhhh $(%!

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