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This is the 2nd post in a 3 week Thanksgiving series. Last Friday, sensational sides were featured. After years of making the same turkey and cream gravy recipes, aren't you ready to be a little adventurous? Being a creative cook, recipes really bore me. What I do instead, and welcome you to do the same, is to find 3 or 4 recipes that sound good. Then I fuse what I think are the "best of" all the ingredients into my own turkey. So here's a roundup of unique recipes and terrific tools that are anything but ordinary!
Pomegranate and Molasses Glazed Turkey
A picture perfect platter of turkey! Pomegranate makes everything better during the holidays!
Heather has taken a turkey breast, barbecued it, and added the most delicious sauce. The addition of the smokey turkey, spicy pepper and sweet blackberries just sounds over the top to me!
Heather Christo
American Maple Carving Board with Handles
A beautiful board "designed and crafted in Boston by Boston HandyWorks, a program which assists men and women who have been homeless and are working to rebuild their lives."
Food52
Heather Christo
A beautiful board "designed and crafted in Boston by Boston HandyWorks, a program which assists men and women who have been homeless and are working to rebuild their lives."
Food52
Beer Can Turkey
Why stop at Beer Can Chicken? It is good to know that roasting or Grilling a turkey vertically helps keep the breast moist. This recipes produces the best looking mahogany colored turkey!
Serious Eats
Fishs Eddy Gilded Serving Platter
Inspired by place settings of old hotels, West Elm collaborated with NYC'S iconic home store, Fishs Eddy, to create this stylish serving platter. I think it will mix with many dinnerware patterns. It's on sale at
West Elm
Bacon Wrapped Turkey
Several years ago I tried a bacon wrapped turkey, and though it tasted good, it certainly didn't look like this! In fact, the turkey skin itself didn't brown very well. Here's a great video that shows you how to do it.
Huffington Post
Langholm Carving Set
If carving at the table, you need this set! It is presented in a wonderful wooden box. Lovely!
Anthropologie
Mario Batali’s Stuffed Turkey
Have your butcher help you with the de-boning and butterflying. I have stuffed many a turkey breast with great success. They make a very good looking dish. This one is stuffed with so many good things!
Parade's Community Table
Pumpkin Glazed Turkey Legs
I would have to be pretty darn hungry to eat the dark meat of turkey or any fowl. That being said, this recipe does tempt!
Bakeaholic Mama
Bouchon Bistro Roast Turkey
Now this is different! The turkey has been cut into pieces to maximize flavor and texture. The presentation is just genius!
Saveur
Dual Sensing Probe Thermometer
This terrific thermometer is so cool, it's hot! It measures both the temperature of the oven and the temperature of the food being cooked. Genius!
Food52
Soy Sauce and Honey Glazed Turkey
This turkey is marinated and basted with soy, sesame, honey and ginger, giving it superb flavor and a beautiful mahogany color.
Food and Wine
Cider Glazed Turkey
A buttery cider glaze sounds more interesting than your typical flour gravy. A glaze also always gives your bird the best coloring. Yum!
Epicurious
Roast Turkey With Madeira Truffle Butter
This recipe had me at Truffle! With that one single ingredient, let alone the wine, this recipe instantly elevates a turkey. I know that rubbing the butter under the skin works, as this is how I do my own bird.
Saveur
Black Truffle Paste
If you are making the above Turkey recipe from Saveur, and can't get your hands on a black truffle, this paste will do. Use in your antipasto, sauces, pasta, risotto, vegetables, and to finish meats. Have you ever had truffle mashed potatoes? To die for!
Dean & Deluca
Roast Citrus Turkey
Orange, lemons, fresh sage and brown sugar. How could this not be delicious?
Williams-Sonoma
Flavor Injector
Play doctor with your turkey. I have always wanted one of these. Save 20% with Code: FRIENDS Only at...
Williams-Sonoma
Green Chile Butternut Squash and Turkey Enchiladas with Crispy Sage
And this is what you do with the leftover turkey!
Half Baked Harvest
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Inspired by place settings of old hotels, West Elm collaborated with NYC'S iconic home store, Fishs Eddy, to create this stylish serving platter. I think it will mix with many dinnerware patterns. It's on sale at
West Elm
Several years ago I tried a bacon wrapped turkey, and though it tasted good, it certainly didn't look like this! In fact, the turkey skin itself didn't brown very well. Here's a great video that shows you how to do it.
Huffington Post
If carving at the table, you need this set! It is presented in a wonderful wooden box. Lovely!
Anthropologie
Have your butcher help you with the de-boning and butterflying. I have stuffed many a turkey breast with great success. They make a very good looking dish. This one is stuffed with so many good things!
Parade's Community Table
I would have to be pretty darn hungry to eat the dark meat of turkey or any fowl. That being said, this recipe does tempt!
Bakeaholic Mama
Now this is different! The turkey has been cut into pieces to maximize flavor and texture. The presentation is just genius!
Saveur
This terrific thermometer is so cool, it's hot! It measures both the temperature of the oven and the temperature of the food being cooked. Genius!
Food52
This turkey is marinated and basted with soy, sesame, honey and ginger, giving it superb flavor and a beautiful mahogany color.
Food and Wine
A buttery cider glaze sounds more interesting than your typical flour gravy. A glaze also always gives your bird the best coloring. Yum!
Epicurious
This recipe had me at Truffle! With that one single ingredient, let alone the wine, this recipe instantly elevates a turkey. I know that rubbing the butter under the skin works, as this is how I do my own bird.
Saveur
If you are making the above Turkey recipe from Saveur, and can't get your hands on a black truffle, this paste will do. Use in your antipasto, sauces, pasta, risotto, vegetables, and to finish meats. Have you ever had truffle mashed potatoes? To die for!
Dean & Deluca
Orange, lemons, fresh sage and brown sugar. How could this not be delicious?
Williams-Sonoma
Play doctor with your turkey. I have always wanted one of these. Save 20% with Code: FRIENDS Only at...
Williams-Sonoma
Bourbon Glazed Turkey
A Southern spin on the traditional recipe. It's rubbed with chili, garlic, onion, and mustard butter, then basted continually with a bourbon, apple cider, and brown sugar. I think this recipe must be tried. Family?
And this is what you do with the leftover turkey!
Half Baked Harvest
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