We’ve been gearing up for Thanksgiving all week with amazing mashed potato recipes , the easiest cranberry sauce recipes , killer stuffing recipes , tips for how to make homemade pie , and a guide to best mail order pies in the country (…
We've given you some delicious turkey , mashed potato , stuffing , and cranberry sauce recipes, now let us help you finish up your planning with some easy Thanksgiving printables for gift tags, decor, even coloring pages and craft projec…
Stuffing is one of those Thanksgiving dishes that I’m always changing. One year cornbread, the next sourdough. Sometimes sausage, other times bacon. Every once in a while I make it in the bird, though mostly it's done in a separate pot. …
We love Thanksgiving, but we'll admit it can get the short end of the stick, sandwiched between the Halloween sugar-fest and the merry-and-bright excitement of the holidays. While one of the nice things about Thanksgiving is that it's ab…
I can never eat too many hot, yummy, heaping forkfuls of mashed potatoes. We're the kind of family that has both homemade stuffing (often more than one kind) and potatoes on the Thanksgiving table. If you're not running away from me in a…
As a professional home cook and recipe developer, I’m always game to change things up, even at a holiday meal. But, if you ask me, certain holiday dishes, like cranberry sauce at Thanksgiving are essential. You can play with them, but do…
We recently shared our essential tips for how to make a homemade pie , but have a feeling that some of you may skip out on the baking this Thanksgiving. No judgments here if you’d rather place an order and have your Thanksgiving pies del…
We might as well call the holiday season “pie season” if you ask me. That’s honestly what it is—or at least what it should be. Who’s with me? Even if you’re not (and we’ll settle this later), Thanksgiving and the winter holidays create t…
These 9 amazing fall salad recipes are enough to keep us from missing summer salads. For me, fall is all about stews, chili, roasts, and salads. Yes, salads! Roasted veggies are delicious, but roasted veggies tossed with greens and a del…
I know: the last thing you (still) want to think about right now is food. But whether or not you cooked on Thursday, you probably have a pile of Thanksgiving leftovers in your fridge and another plate of sliced turkey, mashed potatoes an…
May your day be filled with love, laughter, and lots of turkey and stuffing. Thank you for being the best readers ever. Happy Thanksgiving! -Kristen, Liz, and the Cool Mom Picks team [poster via Paper Wing Prints ]
This Thanksgiving, whether you're feeding dozens or just your immediate family, you just may need some last minute Thanksgiving meal help. We all know that getting Thanksgiving dinner onto the table can be a huge undertaking, especially …
Thanksgiving is tomorrow and everything is under control, right? If you just yelled at your screen, "NO!" then read on, mamas. I've got four cooking helplines that will provide you with answers to all of your Thanksgiving cooking questio…
There's something about Thanksgiving that brings out the sentimental side of our ordinarily feisty family . In part it's the memory of family who's no longer with us, in part it's seeing the next generation start to fill their seats--if …
With Hanukkah beginning in just a few days, we've rounded up some festive Hanukkah printables to decorate your home, including a few fun items to mark the once-in-a-lifetime merging of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving. Or Thanksgivukkah . But, …
Whether it's your first time making a Thanksgiving turkey or your fifth, I've found that there's always room for a little (or a lot!) of help. So, this year, I've put together a step-by-step Thankgiving turkey tutorial. Hope it helps. Pi…
I know I'm not the only parent who wonders how do you explain Thanksgiving to kids, beyond, "well, we eat turkey and stuffing and Uncle Fred always drinks too much of his special juice." (That's hyperbolic by the way; I don't have an Unc…
This year marks the first Thanksgivukkah--when the first day of Hanukkah falls on Thanksgiving day--since 1888. That pretty much requires amazing Thanksgivukkah hybrid dishes, considering the next one isn't going to happen for another 78…
I had a friend who always said "it's not a dinner party unless there are leftovers" and Thanksgiving is probably the most perfect example of this. So I think this is the most genius idea to get your leftovers home. Unless you want six po…
If you're as busy as I am -- and I'll bet good money that you are -- you're starting to feel the crush of the holiday season. Take a deep breath: everything will get done, and with a little planning you can have some fun, too. Even while…
Let's face it: Thanksgiving is for feasting. Dinner may be the main attraction, but this holiday is about grazing on deliciousness all day long. The food doesn't have to be fussy or labor-intensive either--save the hard work for your tur…
This year, we're going to have quite a few kids at the Thanksgiving table and so my oldest daughter came up with what I think is a great idea: A Thanksgiving holiday cookie contest. 1. Get Cookie Cuttters My daughter and her sister were …
With Halloween behind us and Thanksgiving--and Hanukkah!--right around the corner, it's time to start collecting culinary inspiration for your perfect holiday menu. There are, of course, tons of recipes online, but it's tricky to know wh…
Let me start out this review with a spoiler alert: although Free Birds is a buddy film and the buddies are dudes, the strongest and most intelligent character by far is a girl. And a turkey. And she has a lazy eye. And let me go on to sa…