What to Serve on Your Thanksgiving Banquet Table

In our last article, we described how to create a Thanksgiving-sized banquet table out of your existing furniture and a sheet of plywood. The question now arises: What are you going to put on that table?

Most families have traditional recipes handed down from their ancestors (or at least from the grandparents). It can be hard to break these traditions, so we'll just offer one of our favorites, plus a few tips on preparing the center of attention for most of us, the turkey.

Turkey First

There are two reasons for buying a great big turkey: feeding lots of guests and having leftovers. If you're only feeding a few people, or you don't have a big freezer to store the leftovers, buy a smaller turkey. They're a lot easier to deal with.

If you do buy a huge turkey, make sure it will fit in your roasting pan and your oven. We know of one case where the turkey just fit into both pan and oven, but left so little room that everything else had to be cooked a day ahead. Then, while the turkey was cooking, the little pan overflowed with drippings. Luckily, the drippings didn't run down into the flame and start a fire. They simply ran out of the oven and halfway across the kitchen floor!

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