Thanksgiving

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10 Metro Phoenix Desserts to Pre-Order for Thanksgiving

Turkey, stuffing, countless side dishes, dinner rolls -- you have enough on your plate to make for Thanksgiving. By ordering dessert from an expert baker, you free up some time to relax on the holiday, are ensured that the final course won't leave a bad taste in anyone's mouth, and save yourself fro ... More >>

Chow Bella's Thanksgiving Dining Guide Pt. 2: Where to Reserve a Table in Metro Phoenix

Turkey Day is only a week away. If you or your family have yet to begin making plans, it might be better to skip the homemade feast and book a table at a local restaurant. You'll be thankful for plenty of things by dining out on Thanksgiving: your clean kitchen, not having to tell your relatives the ... More >>

Don't Want To Spend Thanksgiving Day in the Kitchen? Where to Buy Ready-Made Dishes for Turkey Day

Don't you love Thanksgiving? It's a nationally sanctioned food marathon, and we're all encouraged to be athletes. No silly talk of calories, carbs or the evils of sugar on this one guilt-free day. Of course, for the person(s) preparing this misty watercolor rendition of a Norman Rockwell painting, ... More >>

AndyTalk: Easier Than Pie - Pear and Ginger Cookie Crumble for Thanksgiving

You need pie on Thanksgiving - or at least something shaped like a pie.

Chow Bella's Thanksgiving Dining Guide: Where to Dine Out in Metro Phoenix (Make Your Reservations Now!)

Now that it's November and the election is over, one thing is on every American's mind: Thanksgiving. This year it's fairly early -- Thursday, November 22 -- so it'll sneak up before you know it. If thinking about two weeks of planning, stocking up, and preparing to cook for a large group leaves you ... More >>

Chrysa Robertson Sells Heritage Turkeys For Thanksgiving and Talks Turkey at November 18 Cooking Class

If your Thanksgiving turkey was a turkey last year, stop blaming your cooking skills and consider the source: you're probably buying a commercial bird, bred for rapid growth and big breasts (insert juvenile, mammary-related joke here), not taste or texture. See also: Thanksgiving Classics We Hat ... More >>

Roasted Turkey and Stuffing Sandwich: Like Thanksgiving Between Two Slices of Bread

As holidays go, I love Thanksgiving. There are no gifts, no decorations, and unlike those Sunday holidays (thank you not, Easter), I get a day off from work. And like a lot of folks, I enjoy Thanksgiving food. So much, in fact, I find it a shame that it only happens once a year. And then I found ... More >>

Misfit Thanksgiving: Four New Times Writers Recall Their Most Memorable Turkey Days

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Casablanca Lounge's Orphan Thanksgiving and Last Minute Sides in Today's Eater's Digest

​ Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives?Orphan ThanksgivingSo you work in the restaurant or bar industry which means you're working yet another Thanksgiving. Bummernuts. All hope of a turkey dinner may not be lost dear industry professional -- this ... More >>

Good and Bad Moods for the Spirit of Thanksgiving

ohdeeoh.com​There are a lot of right ways and wrong ways to celebrate Thanksgiving. Right ways include spending quality time with your family; wrong ways include making out with your first cousin because you only see him once a year. Here at Up On The Sun, we advocate all feelings of inner warmth ... More >>

Our List of the Top Six Thankgiving Lists: Turkey-Flavored Doritos, Clogged Toilets and The Kids Table

​We love lists but let's face it -- nothing is going to top last year's Thanksgiving Cake. Nothing. So this Thanksgiving we decided not to put together our own list of ridiculousness but instead take a look at of our favorite Thanksgiving lists from this year and a couple from years past. So here ... More >>

Chef Freddie Bistoie Celebrates the Harvest Festival at the Heard

​Does the idea of Thanksgiving get your politically correct panties all in a bunch? Good news, you can still enjoy gorging yourself on Mother Nature's autumn bounty without having to sell your soul to the controversial Hallmark holiday. Instead, celebrate the season by letting Chef Freddie Bisto ... More >>

Giuseppe's on 28th Hosts Thanksgiving for 100 of the Area's Homeless

Visiting a shelter to feed the homeless on Thanksgiving Day has always been a way to help those in need, but for Richard Bock, owner of Giuseppe's on 28th, this year, he's bringing the needy to him. Between noon and 3 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, St. Mary's Food Bank will transport 100 seniors, low-in ... More >>

My Fantasy Thanksgiving

This year we're giving thanks to some of our favorite writers for sharing tales of Thanksgiving woes -- and joys. Today, here's my story of a true Thanksgiving escape. For more great Turkey Day tales, go here. For most adults, running away from family commitments and responsibilities, especially on ... More >>

Nine Greasy, Gravy-Filled Thanksgiving Parties in Phoenix

​The average Thanksgiving dinner typically lasts around 90 minutes or so (give or take a few hours for the usual family psychodrama), which leaves you more than 90 hours worth of time to fill over the holiday weekend. How are you gonna spend it? Watching maudlin movies, football, or holiday spec ... More >>

Elements' Thanksgiving Day Dinner and HuffPost's T-Day Challenge in Today's Eater's Digest

​ Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives? Thanksgiving with a View If you still haven't bought that Thanksgiving Day turkey and you didn't see a single tempting restaurant in our 2011 Thanksgiving Dining Guide, maybe you should check out B ... More >>

Eric Schaefer's Phlegm-y Thanksgiving and His Turkey Recipe

Luster Kaboom​This year we're giving thanks to some of our favorite writers for sharing tales of Thanksgiving woes -- and joys. Today our typically acerbic friend Eric Schaefer shares a heart-warming story of friendship. Really. My favorite Thanksgiving memory doesn't involv ... More >>

Second Annual Harvest Feast and Sprinkle Cake in Today's Eater's Digest

​ Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives? Harvest Feast (Not Fest)Looking for something different to do this Thanksgiving? How about an "edible gallery" and "modern Native culinary exploration" with chef Freddie J. Bitsoie and The Heard Museum. The M ... More >>

Eight Bands to Bring to the Thanksgiving Table

One of our favorite Thanksgiving pics, Hannah and Her Sisters ​In less than a week, we'll all be around the table, eating the things that will undoubtedly lead to a full-on food pregnancy with the people we love (or despise) the most. Lucky for you, you get to bring the real goods. While thos ... More >>

Thanksgiving Dining Guide 2011

​ It's Turkey Time! Time to dirty up every dish in the house after making countless trips to the grocery store for forgotten cans of cranberry sauce or your third box of butter. A day to slave away in a warm kitchen while the rest of your family enjoys a beautiful sunny 75 degree perfect day ... More >>

Luci's and Slade Grove Host a Pie Making Class and Spicy Oven Fries in Today's Eater's Digest

zoomyummy.com​ Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives? D.I.Y. Pie Our 2nd Annual Pie Social may be over and done with, but with Thanksgiving just a week away it's still pie season.   And you just happen to be in luck. ... More >>

To Friends and Foes of the Feathered Bastard

Think it's time for a change...Because of the impending holiday and some minor complications with my recent surgery, Feathered Bastard will go semi-dark until after Thanksgiving. Please look for regular blogging to begin again November 28, though I may blog before then if there's an item that's ... More >>

AndyTalk: How to Pull Off a Great Thanksgiving

Andy Broder​ If you're hosting Thanksgiving I can't give you a formula to guarantee a perfect meal. I can, however, share the method to the madness of my own Thanksgiving preparations. I start by taking a moment to focus on the meaning of the holiday. The Pilgrims and Indians broke bread at th ... More >>

Laurie Notaro's Dairy-Free, Gluten-Free, Wine-Free, Fun-Free, Vegan Thanksgiving

Luster Kaboom​This year we're giving thanks to some of our favorite writers for sharing tales of Thanksgiving woes -- and joys. Today Laurie Notaro -- a Phoenician transplanted to Eugene, Oregon who frequently threatens to move home -- explains why she's got Thanksgiving PTSD. Last year w ... More >>

Where To Get Your Cranberry Fix

​Cranberry is good for more the just a string of garland on your Christmas tree and it is a holiday treat long after Thanksgiving. During this Christmas week cranberry is popping up on menus all around the Valley. Find out where to get your cranberry fix after the jump.

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What Are You Doing Here?

We're glad you showed up. We just weren't expecting an audience on the old blog today. Not sure if you heard, but it's Thanksgiving. We're sort of on holiday as it were. Still, Chow Bella is not known for turning away an audience. For you loyal followers who took time out of your requisite fam ... More >>

El Chorro's Night Before Thanksgiving and Puffy Pears in Today's Eater's Digest

www.sprinklebakes.comPretty Pears! ​ Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives?Blackout WednesdayIt's Thanksgiving Eve, also know as Blackout Wednesday, the night before Thanksgiving when you get together with friends to ensure that you are nice and hun ... More >>

Brewed For Battle: Thanksgiving Picks

Beer! Making holidays with family bearable everywhere.​There are a select few times that even the most hardened warriors lay down their weapons and forgo the rigors of battle to enjoy a little time off. So is it for our "Brewed For Battle" regulars. We've skipped the normal beer throw down thi ... More >>

A Thanksgiving Dinner Fowl: Cornish Pasty Company vs. All Wrapped Up

Remember that scene in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory where disgusting gum-chewing champion Violet Beauregarde gets her choppers on a piece of gum that tastes like a roast beef dinner, complete with tomato soup and blueberry pie? According to the Institute of Food Research,&nbs ... More >>

Punk Rockers, Porn Stars, Born Losers, and Other Thanksgiving Weekend Cheap Thrills

Porn star Priya Rai will be in attendance at Club Silver tonight.​Unless you happen to be some hermit living by yourself in a Hoarders house, chances are good that you'll be hanging out with your friends and family sometime during the next few days. But instead of sipping and supping with dear Au ... More >>

Dining Out for Thanksgiving Part 3 in Today's Eater's Digest

dvs​Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives?Thanksgiving Out Part 3Today is the last day of our three day Thanksgiving dinner round up. We know we left out a gravy boat load of restaurants,  and we apologize to anyone we might have left out. Hope ... More >>

5 Things You Should Never Do to a Thanksgiving Turkey

heypaul​Take a good look at the picture above. Yep, that's what you are going to be stuffing your face full of, come Thanksgiving. When you buy your turkey frozen from the closest grocery store for pennies a pound it's hard to remember that the beast thawing in your fridge was once a living, ... More >>

Dining Out for Thanksgiving Part 2 in Today's Eater's Digest

annies-eats.com​Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives?Thanksgiving Out Part 2With so many places offering you a seat at their thanksgiving table, we needed to devote three days of ED to dining out for Thanksgiving just to cover half of it. Read on f ... More >>

Dining out For Thanksgiving Part 1 in Today's Eater's Digest

www.simplebites.net​ Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives?Thanksgiving Out Part 1 Keep your kitchen clean and your sanity in tact this Thanksgiving by letting someone do the cooking, more importantly, let someone else do the cleaning.  Several ... More >>

Thanksgiving Classics We Hate

​It's almost Thanksgiving. Tell the truth. Are you dreaming of crisp-skinned, juicy turkey, creamy mashed potatoes and moist, spicy pumpkin pie?How about oily, gummy, sticky candied sweet potatoes with tacky mini-marshmallows -- or a sphere of cranberry gunk? Yeah, that's what we thought.&nbs ... More >>

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Fried Chicken Gizzards: Lo-Lo's Chicken and Waffles

Erica O'Neil Backwoods platter of fried and smothered gizzards at LoLo's Chicken and Waffles. ​Despite what the supermarket aisles may lead you to believe, there's more to an animal than neatly wrapped styrofoam trays of meat. From tongue to tail, offal (pronounced awful) encompasses all th ... More >>

Cranberry-Cornmeal Quick Bread

​It's Monday Night Martha time again. We've just finished Thanksgiving and already we have a birthday party to throw for a six year old. With no desire to eat cupcakes right now - though we are making them for the kids - or to sample another piece of pumpkin pie, we spy this recipe for cr ... More >>

Five Ways to Make Thanksgiving Better With Beer

​Thanksgiving is a time for coming together with the ones you love: your friends, your parents, you in-laws, those family friends who are guaranteed to strike up an awkward conversation with you, your crazy uncle who just wants to tell you stories about "the war" (which he may never have parti ... More >>

Stuffing Showdown: Italian Family Recipe

​From now 'til Thanksgiving, we'll be sharing various stuffing recipes -- all tested and taste-tested first-hand by Chow Bella contributors. On Thanksgiving Day, our "celebrity judge," New Times food critic Michele Laudig, will weigh in with her favorite of the lot. Today's is the last installment ... More >>

Stuffing Showdown: Weight Watchers Stuffing with Sage and Chives

Jonathan McNamaraSometimes stuffing can be delicious and good for you.​From now 'til Thanksgiving, we'll be sharing various stuffing recipes -- all tested and taste-tested first-hand by Chow Bella contributors. On Thanksgiving Day, our "celebrity judge," New Times food critic Michele Laudig, will ... More >>

Arizona Department of Health Services is Saying Holiday Kisses Are a No-No

www.jollydevilla.com​If the Arizona Department of Health Services had its way, your Thanksgiving dinner would probably be more like visiting a relative in a county jail than a fun family meal. 

Let Us Do Thanksgiving For You

Ok, the title may be a little deceiving. We here at New Times will not be cooking your Thanksgiving feast for you. (Trust us, that's a good thing.) We are, however, ready to point you in the direction of some traditional -- and not so traditional -- Thanksgiving sit-down meals&nb ... More >>

Skip the Hassle, Pre-Order Your Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is a time for family, friends, giving thanks for all you have. And for slaving away at a hot stove for six hours -- basting and checking and basting and checking the turkey, peeling and mashing potatoes, cooking green beans, dicing onions and celery, stirring the gravy, e ... More >>

Talking Turkey in this Week's Meal Ticket

​Tired of the same boring traditional turkey dinner for Thanksgiving? Try something different this holiday. In this week's Meal Ticket dining newsletter, we've got the scoop on unusual holiday feasts, from a meat-free faux turkey dinner to the infamous "Turducken," a Cajun treat that's three m ... More >>

Free Holiday Cooking Classes at Williams-Sonoma

While taking pre-holiday cooking classes is an option, a lot of folks don't have the cash to throw down for them -- especially if you're the one saddled with the Turkey Day grocery bill. Good thing the seasonal food technique classes at Williams-Sonoma are FREE

Post-Turkey Papago

Libations and laziness