What’s for Thanksgiving dinner? Food Network and Cooking Channel have a few ideas
It’s the weekend before Thanksgiving – do you know what your Thursday dinner will be?
If not, Food Network and Cooking Channel have a few ideas guaranteed to give that Turkey Day feast that added zip to impress your dinner guests.
It begins Sunday, Nov. 19, on Food, with the “Valerie’s Home Cooking” episode titled “Gravy and Gratitude,” in which host Valerie Bertinelli puts a few twists on classic Thanksgiving dishes, resulting in turkey roulade with cranberry citrus stuffing and pan gravy, root vegetable gratin, succotash salad and a cream cheese log with sweet and spicy cranberry relish. And for dessert, she prepares a pumpkin love cake.
Monday, Nov. 20, on Food, “Pioneer Woman” Ree Drummond shares “Thanksgiving Shortcuts” that include a turkey made ahead of time, spiked cranberry sauce and chocolate marshmallow pumpkin pie. Then later that day in “One-Stop Thanksgiving,” she shows how to prepare a broccoli wild rice casserole and a pumpkin gingersnap cheesecake with salted caramel sauce. Yum!
Also Monday, it’s a “Tribute to Turkey” on Food’s “The Kitchen,” which includes dishes such as ranch turkey, turkey in pieces and deep-fried turkey, chestnut stuffing and an espresso martini. Followed by a good nap.
Over on Cooking Channel that same day, a pair of “Good Eats” episodes find host Alton Brown walking viewers through the steps involved with deep-frying a turkey, then preparing what he calls the perfect stuffing. Get ready to be wowed.
For a more conventional take on the holiday meal, tune it to Food on Tuesday, Nov. 21, for “Trisha’s Southern Kitchen,” in which host Trisha Yearwood prepares roasted turkey with cranberryorange relish; and Cooking on Wednesday, Nov. 22, as hosts Bobby and Jamie Deen prepare a large Thanksgiving dinner in the special “Deen Brothers Thanksgiving.” Get your tryptophan buzz on.
Also on Wednesday on Food’s “Farmhouse Rules,” an episode titled “A Nancy Fuller Thanksgiving” finds the host hard at work on a menu that includes rolled turkey breast with nutty fruit stuffing and a Thanksgiving succotash, finishing it off with a pumpkin and apple pie. In case one or the other isn’t enough.
And if you’re already looking ahead to what you’re going to do with Turkey Day leftovers, the Tuesday episode of Food’s “Pioneer Woman” offers up a few novel ideas such as a leftover Thanksgiving panini, a turkey tetrazzini casserole and pumpkin smoothies. And Alton Brown shares a few tips of his own on a Thursday, Nov. 23, episode of “Good Eats” appropriately titled “The Remains of the Bird.”
Of course, both cablenets have plenty of Thanksgiving-related content on their digital platforms, FoodNetwork.com and CookingChannelTV.com, with all manner of ideas for turkey, stuffing, side dishes, desserts, leftovers, cocktails and entertaining.
So now you have no excuse. Get in the kitchen and get cooking!