An easy and iconic excuse to smother leftover turkey with bacon and a bubbling hot cheese sauce. Maybe Thanksgiving should come more than once a year.

If you took a look at this stunning tart and thought, “I can’t possibly do that!” think again. We suspect you can.

The operative word in this turkey recipe is simple. Although that word doesn’t convey how crisp-skinned, monstrously moist, sigh-inducingly tender, and really quite quick this turkey also is.

We suspect you’ve been looking for a lovely, elegant, knock-their-socks-off vegetarian dish that just happens to be fancy schmancy enough for Thanksgiving, yes? Look no further.

The surest way we know to guarantee moist turkey? Brine it. Preferably with this boozy brandy-infused brine. (Hiccup.)

No, this isn’t quite the classic cooked-for-days cassoulet you’ll find in Gascony. This is cassoulet casserole. You’ll find no complaints here.

We can think of no more compelling reason to indulge in toast for breakfast than this sweetly tart marmalade.

This skull sugar cookie is swell for any celebration of the dead—Halloween, Day of the Dead, heck, even The Walking Dead.

This cherry tomato confit is sweet and easy and a lovely way of preserving summer. Here’s how to make it.

Pork dumplings with a filling that’s ethereally light and fluffy. You’ll never guess the secret ingredient.