The Ultimate Guide to Thanksgiving
The best recipes, tips, and expert advice from our Test Kitchen
RecipesCandied Purple Sweet Potatoes
Slowly roasting purple sweet potatoes in a sticky-sweet mixture of brown sugar and spices gives them a glossy sheen that’s as stunning as it is flavorful.
RecipesGarlic Mashed Potatoes
A good garlic mashed potato recipe can upstage even the flashiest of mains. Adding just a few cloves of garlic turns what could be a simple side dish into something with undeniable charm.
RecipesGreen Bean Salad
Crisp-tender green beans meet a punchy Parmesan dressing in this easy, make-ahead fresh green bean salad that’s perfect for dinner parties or holidays.
RecipesSweet Potato Rolls
Sweet potatoes lend a soft orange glow and beguiling sweetness to this tray of dinner rolls with its shiny top coat of melted butter.
RecipesSweet-and-Spicy Squash With Scallion Oil
Roasted squash loses its bland reputation and turns glossy and fragrant thanks to a gingery miso-glaze and a quick scallion oil.
RecipesMaple Bacon Cabbage Wedges
Roasted cabbage wedges get cloaked in a salty-sweet glaze of maple syrup and Dijon mustard before getting topped with crunchy bacon.
Luxe Mushroom Bourguignon
In this mushroom bourguignon, a vegetarian take on a French classic, earthy fungi braise in a wine-rich umami broth with pearl onions and tender carrots.
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DrinksThis Thanksgiving, Skip the Cocktail and Pour Vermouth Instead
It’s low-effort, low-proof, and built for a meal teeming with side dishes
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Thanksgiving Advice from Our (Test) Kitchen to Yours
CookingHow Long to Cook a Turkey for Maximum Thanksgiving Accolades
Everything you need to know about turkey roasting times, plus tips to optimize the outcome.
Recipes37 Leftover Turkey Recipes Because Your Holiday Surplus Won’t Use Up Itself
Steamy pot pies, silky rice porridge, and more than one post-Thanksgiving sandwich, which, yes, you do need a recipe for.
CookingMake-Ahead Stuffing Means One Less Thing to Worry About on Thanksgiving
Free up oven space and thank yourself later.
CookingWhat’s the Best Potato for Mashing? Well, That Depends
Start with superb spuds and the rest is, pardon our pun, gravy.
CookingDo Not Use a Potato Masher to Mash Potatoes
For the smoothest spuds, the only tool we trust is a ricer.
CookingWhat Are the Best Apples for Apple Pie?
Save yourself from a mushy mess with our top orchard and grocery-store picks for making apple pie.
CultureWine Calculator: How Many Bottles of Wine Does Your Dinner Party Need?
We’ve done the math—there’s a chart and everything.
CookingHow to Cook Ham, the Handsome, Glazed Centerpiece on My Holiday Table
At my party, it’s all about the pork.
CookingThe Best Stuffing Mix for Your Thanksgiving Table
We tried seven boxed stuffings, including Stove Top and Pepperidge Farm, to find one worthy of your holiday meal.
Turkey and Mains
Cooking37 Turkey Recipes for Every Thanksgiving Vibe
Our best recipes for the meal’s main attraction.
RecipesClassic Brined and Roasted Turkey
This roasted turkey recipe stays moist thanks to a genius simple brine.
RecipesDry-Brined Turkey With Tangy Honey Glaze
Our never-fail turkey is excellent in every way that other turkeys often fall short. Period.
RecipesSmoked Turkey With Spicy BBQ Rub
Ditch the overcrowded oven and turn to your trusty grill—no smoker required.
RecipesExpertly Spiced and Glazed Roast Turkey
The absolute inarguably best way to cook a well-seasoned, juicy turkey is to break it down into parts, dry-brine it, and roast it on a wire rack in a baking sheet.
RecipesSpice-Crusted Ham With Brown Sugar Glaze
A show-stopping, relatively hands-off main built for a dinner party or holiday meal.
RecipesCarrot Wellington
This vegetarian main highlights roasted carrots two ways: glazed as the center of the Wellington, and blended to form the tender filling.
RecipesCheesy Roasted Cabbage Wedges
Are these rich, hefty wedges a luscious side or meatless main? The answer is yes.
Stuffing, Potatoes, and Other Sides
Cooking89 Thanksgiving Side Dishes That’ll Outshine the Turkey
Like brown-butter gochujang brussels sprouts, green beans in herby tahini, and cornbread-cheddar biscuits.
RecipesSimple-Is-Best Stuffing
More than 10 years after its publication, this Thanksgiving classic keeps them coming back for more.
Cooking27 Stuffing Recipes That Make Thanksgiving Thanksgiving
Whether you call it stuffing or dressing, your holiday lineup isn’t complete without this signature side.
RecipesPotatoes au Gratin
Whatever you call it (au gratin potatoes, potato gratin, that cheesy potato thing), this classic dish never disappoints.
RecipesParker House Rolls
With a top coat of melted butter and a sprinkling of sea salt, these yeast rolls are trophy-worthy.
RecipesBA’s Best Buttermilk Biscuits
Quartering and stacking the dough creates lots of flaky layers that beg to be pulled apart and slathered with softened butter.
RecipesBA’s Best Mac and Cheese
This homemade mac and cheese is our Platonic ideal: It is deeply cheesy and creamy and has a crunchy crust. Plus, it doubles easily for a crowd.
Vegetable Sides and Salads
Recipes53 Thanksgiving Vegetables So Tasty You’ll Stop Calling It Turkey Day
Brussels sprouts. Green beans. Winter squash. All our favorite Thanksgiving vegetables in one delicious place.
RecipesBest-Ever Green Bean Casserole
Go high-low this year with fresh green beans and mushrooms, Parmesan béchamel, and plenty of store-bought fried onions.
RecipesCheesy Corn Pudding
Boxed cornbread mix becomes its very best self thanks to cheddar cheese, sour cream, and lots of chives.
RecipesThe Easiest Glazed Carrots
Carrots need not be boring. These are sweet and sticky, with a hint of orange and ginger.
RecipesRoasted Delicata Squash With Crispy Onions
Top caramelized delicata squash with juicy pomegranate seeds and spiced crispy onions for an easy holiday-worthy side.
Cooking31 Fresh and Crunchy Salads for Thanksgiving
Like kale with a pecan vinaigrette, radicchio with mustard-slicked croutons, and a black-garlic Caesar.
Pies, Cakes, and Other Desserts
Recipes59 Thanksgiving Dessert Recipes We Couldn’t Be More Thankful For
These desserts go way beyond your average pie. (But don’t worry, there’s plenty of pie too.)
Cooking31 Thanksgiving Pies You’ll Want Again for Breakfast
Cream, fruit, golden-brown pastry…you’d be having that in the morning anyway, right?
RecipesBest-Ever Pumpkin Pie
Silky filling, flaky crust, a whisper of spice: This is pumpkin pie done right.
RecipesBest-Ever Apple Pie
Claire Saffitz’s cardamom- and cider-spiked apple pie will rival any bakery version.
RecipesBA’s Best Pecan Pie
No booze, no chocolate, no hard-to-find ingredients in this rendition of the classic pecan pie.
RecipesChocolate Pecan Pie
All the gooey goodness that chocolate pecan pie lovers crave, but with a cocoa crust, bittersweet morsels baked right into the custard, and fluffy chocolate cream.
Recipes25 Gluten-Free Thanksgiving Desserts We Can't Get Enough Of
There's a decadent world of cakes, ice creams, and cookies beyond your average pie.
Cooking24 Thanksgiving Cookies Just as Festive as Pie
Like caramel apple cookies and pumpkin-spiced chocolate chip cookies.
RecipesFall Fruit Galette
This fill-in-the-blank, easy-going galette is here for your crisp fall apples or pears.
Cocktails, Wine, and Appetizers
Recipes53 Thanksgiving Appetizers That Are Tastier Than Turkey
Don’t let your Thanksgiving appetizers be an afterthought. Choose any one of these recipes and cocktail hour will be the most delicious part of the whole meal.
RecipesJammy Brie Galette
This Brie galette is party food at its finest—and easiest! A 5-ingredient sweet-salty appetizer that takes just five minutes to prep.
RecipesCreamy Giardiniera Dip
Four simple ingredients, one party-ready dip that takes mere minutes to blitz together.
RecipesBA’s Best Shrimp Cocktail
Shrimp cocktail is all about the shrimp: big, fat, perfectly cooked gorgeous shrimp. Here’s how to do it.
Recipes41 Thanksgiving Cocktails That’ll Really Shake Things Up
From hot toddies to big-batch punch, these festive drinks will get you in the holiday spirit.
RecipesWhiskey Sour
Bright lemon juice, warming bourbon, and simple syrup combine for this easy, refreshing classic.
RecipesMulled Wine
This heady mulled wine recipe is perfect for the holiday season—or any time you’re looking for something fragrant and cozy.
RecipesCranberry-Maple Mule
This big-batch cocktail made with ginger beer, cranberry juice, fresh lime, and a spiced maple simple syrup makes the perfect low-alcohol holiday drink.
Cooking29 Mocktails Worthy of a Second Round
Pomegranate spritzers, chile-cucumber agua frescas, blood orange shrubs, and more drinks with zero alcohol, but a lot of spirit.
