Top 10 Thanksgiving Recipes You're Cooking This Year That You Didn't Cook Last Year

I know you've been on tenterhooks waiting for the winners of the contest with the longest name of any contest -- the Third Annual Huffington Post Tell Us What You're Cooking for Thanksgiving This Year that You Didn't Cook Last Year Contest -- and here they are.

I myself am inspired by the sweet potato pudding recipe and just might have to try it.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone and thanks for all the great entries.

Roasted Chestnuts and Celery Root Soup

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[MikeLicht]

01:18 PM on 11/27/2009

Real American Guys just gotta deep-fry that turkey.

See:


http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/turkey-torching-tips-for-guys/

[SEQUOIABISON]

08:05 AM on 11/27/2009

Tofurkey with roasted potato's anyone? Gluttonous thoughtless craven lust for animal flesh is disgusting.

[seattle music]

02:43 PM on 11/28/2009

Try as I might, I know I'll never be as popular as you are at dinner parties.

LOL

[Wnde1drs]

08:26 PM on 11/26/2009

To make delicious and simple garlic mashed potatoes...smash 2 garlic cloves and drop it in the water with the boiling potatoes. It will turn to mush and flavor all the potatoes and it won't be raw. This gives the garlic a really creamy and buttery flavor. Delicious!

[SlurmsMcKenzie]

03:17 PM on 11/26/2009

I find the company more important than the food and the booze more important than either.

[maribelles]

10:12 AM on 11/26/2009

I tried the vegetarian/vegan route for over 25 years of my life and am glad to have educated myself about traditional diets in the spirit of Weston Price foundation and books such as "Nourishing Traditions". These westernized interpretations of world-wide traditional diets should perhaps be modified as to portions- very small portions of these foods will suffice, say, 2-3 oz meat. I feel 200% better, have energy and vigor. Coconut butter/oil will do well for vegetarians. We need saturated fats- read "Eat Fat Lose Fat " which is really a health building book.

I am doing a Honey Roast Duck, with Wild Rice/Bread stuffing to which grated fresh orange peel and a smallish amount of finely minced leek and one fresh minced sage leaf was added, along with home-made chicken stock to moisten it. That duck will roast with beet/parsnip/leeks/sweet potato- all local food- even our butter, cream and milk are from local farm shares. Towards the end of roasting I will up the oven heat, brush with tamari and more honey, and crisp the skin. Somebody is bringing a cranberry lemon bread, somebody is bringing a potato dish, we have wine and chai- that will do it!

[PhilipB]

10:22 PM on 11/26/2009

That sounds wonderful. I enjoyed reading about it. thank yo, and Happy Thanksgiving!

[carsonlara333]

01:28 PM on 12/22/2009

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[hglassberg]

01:31 AM on 11/25/2009

We were pretty upset at not winning this contest, especially as a low cholesteral (sic) recipe for apple pie did win. At least we spelled our recipe correctly. And what could possibly be original about apple pie? You practically have to step over them on the street during Thanksgiving. Oh well. Maybe our steak on steak dish was just too original. Next year, we plan to submit our secret recipe for Jihad Chicken but will probably just lose again.

Yours ever,

The Playdo Institute
Handel Glassberg, President

[brewce]

08:51 PM on 11/27/2009

dear meek the biologist
i am glad that you have found humility through vegetarianism and poverty.
i am still searching, not for humility but for meekness.
by being meek, i hope to inherit the earth, or at least part of it.
[i feel that i may have to share some with those who are even meeker than i am].

does vegetarianism help with meekness, do you suppose?

and what about this 'universal life force energy' -- what is that?
is it like red bull ?

i use only lower case letters because that is so much meeker, don't you agree?

ttfn brewce

[mickthebiologist]

10:02 PM on 11/24/2009

Perhaps this is the year to spoil tradition with reality? Such excessive recipes, such consumption, such poor nutritional quality.

There is no tradition so endearing as one focused around the unsolicited death of an animal. I realize there are many different illusions represented by those practicing this tradition. the biggest one is that this time of thankfulness is actually a ritual meant to bring awareness of the impending winter and its bitter toll, meant to instill in its participants the immediacy of frugality, of conservation, of consciousness of the transient nature of life.

I became a vegetarian on this 'holiday' in 1975. each year since, i have paid respect to both the sacrifice of the planet for granting this bounty to a largely ungrateful human population, and to universal life force energy, the source of all responsibility.

but now i, and about 100 million others, will enjoy a different sort of holiday. i have not worked in 8 months, i have sold most of what i once called belongings, the food stamps have run out, and soon i will leave to become a vagabond.

you have no idea of how thankful i finally feel. to be free of this bondage of thankfulness, which demanded that i kneel before the god of plenty, to once again renew my yearlong pledge of servitude, is finally a real chance to experience humility. finally, i get the meaning of the ritual.

[NYCannibal]

03:15 PM on 11/25/2009

I'm eating his portion.
Indeed, I love Dark Meat!
Will someone pass me the cornbread and the gravy?

[seattle music]

02:46 PM on 11/28/2009

Hey! Gitcherhandsoff my dark meat.

Yum!

[HidingintheDeepSouth]

09:06 PM on 11/25/2009

Mike the Biologist,
Although I can't become a vegetarian, I truly respect your choice to be one. (I tried to be one years ago and got very ill-I have weird anemia and Lupus) I do hope that it is humility and not depression you are feeling. I have lived in poverty the bulk of my adult life and know that devastating loss can lead to terrible depression. I wish you luck financially and wish I could invite you to my table, but my fortunes are not greatly better than yours. I do, for now, get food stamps and have found part time work that along with loans from friends have kept me from foreclosure. (To those who care about such things, I have a fixed rate, $441 mortgage for only 10 more years-I didn't live above my means) I do feel lucky and grateful for what I do have. I truly wish for you and all of us the means to hang on and eventually thrive.

[SamEllison]

09:47 PM on 11/24/2009

Happy Thanksgiving to ALL!
Thanks Nora and Jane too,
but as always, Thanksgiving is the one meal I don't cook.
I hide the good knives and hand the kitchen over to my loving wife.

I better leave it at that........

[RISwampyankee]

08:26 PM on 11/24/2009

I love the Sweet Potato Pudding recipe. Just one question. Does the corner liquor store take EBT? I'm thinkin' not.

[ChefLito]

05:25 PM on 11/24/2009

For the Caribbean Sweet Potato Pudding, that seems to be a lot of rum or bourbon - 1 and 1/2 cups! hope the mixture does not ignite inside the oven! :))

[MJinCanada]

02:33 PM on 11/25/2009

Well, my Christmas fruitcake didn't blow up, so it might be safe. :-)

[jefke]

04:28 PM on 11/24/2009

For the Brussels sprouts recipe-there's a major step missing, you need to simmer them in boiling salted water for 6 minutes or so before sautéing them. Otherwise you'll have raw centers and burned exteriors.

[camanokat]

05:14 PM on 11/24/2009

I like to slice mine, then they cook through.

[CDMelty]

06:18 PM on 11/24/2009

Six minutes in boiling water? Sounds excessive. I prefer to steam mine, to keep them from disintegrating into mush.

[sarac]

04:23 PM on 11/24/2009

I didn't cook at all last year, I was in the Southern Caribbean and didn't miss the turkey or the cold weather!

[JohnFred]

03:56 PM on 11/24/2009

Dang, 1.5 cups of booze is why I voted for that recipe. Alcohol all boils off. And the person upset about the tablespoon of sugar in the spaghetti sauce is one of those dried up little portion eaters whose only concern is living a long time. Worrying about a tablespoon of sugar will make your life seem very long. Congratulations!

[RobertStockham]

03:27 PM on 11/24/2009

I made some chocolate pecan pies....I hope they are good...

[clevelandchick]

03:02 PM on 11/24/2009

My husband and I don't really eat meat (just fish - mostly shellfish) all year. But since my mom passed, I'm the only cook left in the family, so it's at my house. My sister would serve Boston Market (or even Taco Bell) if it were at her house.

So I buy a locally raised free range organic heritage turkey. This year, I also bought some bacon from the same small farm. If I'm going to be an evil meat eater one day a year...well might aswell do it up. I found this recipe on Epicurious and it sounds amazing, so that's what I'm doing.

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Roast-Heritage-Turkey-with-Bacon-Herb-and-Cider-Gravy-350421

I do a different turkey style every Thanksgiving since I don't cook meat all year. Last year I brined the turkey in apple cider...it was very good. Got it off of Epicurious as well.

[seattle music]

02:49 PM on 11/28/2009

Just eat with appetite and gratitude.

You won't be evil, just well fed.