thanksgiving

A cousin to crumble and crisp and cobbler, a pandowdy is simply another spectacular fork-to-pie-hole delivery system for fruit, sugar, and spice buried beneath buttery biscuits.

• 20 M
• 1 H, 40 M
• 2

Elegant. Easy. Inexpensive. Just three of the many reasons you’re going to want to make this little keeper of a recipe over and over and over again.

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• 40 M
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Plonk this brown sugar glazed ham on your holiday table and then step back, listen to the gasped oohs and aahs, accept all manner of accolades, and then watch it disappear.

• 15 M
• 2 H, 30 M
• 32

Proof that you really can fry anything and make it vastly better. They make an easy, elegant hors d’oeuvres for any assemblage of folks who appreciate fine cuisine.

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• 5 M
• 15 M
• 0

Perhaps the simplest and most sophisticated dinner party precursor ever. Just make the savory shortbread dough, freeze, slice, and bake. You’re welcome.

• 15 M
• 1 H, 10 M
• 13

Whoever made up that silly rule about no white after Labor Day clearly has never stunned dinner guests with vegetables in shades of winter white and palest green.

• 10 M
• 10 M
• 2

All the juicy, tender perks of brining. None of the fuss of finding a container large enough to contain a turkey and cramming it in your already overstuffed fridge.

• 30 M
• 1 D, 4 H
• 2

This rum pecan pie is all grown up thanks to a little splash of rum in the sweet and crunchy pecan filling. Just like traditional pecan pie. Only better.

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• 20 M
• 1 H, 30 M
• 0

This simple glazed ham has got a sweet and spicy thing going on that’s simultaneously subtle and super impressive.

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• 25 M
• 3 H
• 4

Startlingly spectacular made-from-scratch cheese Danish that are going to forever change your notion of what a cheese Danish ought to be.

• 30 M
• 1 H
• 6

Unexpected, easy, eye-catching, and impressive as heck. That’s what we think of this lovely autumnal juxtaposition of tastes and textures that’s gonna upend the way you think about salads.

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• 30 M
• 1 H, 10 M
• 0

You’ll never look at green beans the same way again after experiencing these crisp yet tender specimens with an intensified green beaniness and some intriguing bling from almonds and spices.

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• 20 M
• 25 M
• 0

A turkey cranberry sandwich with stuffing and gravy and all that Thanksgiving goodness sounds sorta good right now, doesn’t it?

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• 20 M
• 20 M
• 0

Just about as traditional as tradition gets save for the slight plot twist of maple syrup.

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• 45 M
• 2 H, 10 M
• 2