Healthy Thanksgiving Recipes – Budget Meal Planning For November
Cooking Thanksgiving Turkey and Turkey Leftovers
The festive season brings with it both joys and stresses. And the place where the tensions are often most evident is in the kitchen! If you want to avoid being harassed over the holidays, a modicum of thinking ahead can avert potentially fraught situations. Planning your healthy Thanksgiving recipes is the first step. You’ve got the recipe for cooking Thanksgiving turkey…but what to do with the turkey leftovers? Turkey a la King is a great way of producing an entirely new meal with the previous day’s turkey. Turkey Burgers with Coriander, Soy and Pickled Ginger also ring the changes and give a slightly fusion twist to a traditional recipe.
Ground Beef Casserole Recipes and Simple Chicken Recipes
However, November is not ALL about Thanksgiving! We all have three weeks of meals to produce before then. This needn’t be a chore if you plan wisely. The trick is to try and get another meal out of a main meal. For example: Shepherd’s Pie Recipe on one night will easily make a reappearance as a glamorous Meat Pie Recipe, complete with light puff pastry. Oven Baked Whole Chicken as a main meal could become a delicious Chicken Pasta Bake with Pesto Sauce and Parmesan Crust. Your Best Grilled Salmon Recipe could then double as Fresh Salmon Croquettes. So, you can see, that with a little monthly meal planning, putting nutritious daily meals on the table needn’t be too onerous.
Fresh Pumpkin Recipes
Autumn Meal Planning wouldn’t be complete without an offering of Pumpkin Recipes. Of all pumpkins, Butternut Squash is my favorite for its intense, nutty flavor. Using vegetables that are bountiful at this time of year makes sense if you are trying to cook economically. So, what better than a Butternut Squash Soup Recipe with a Pumpkin Muffin? Butternut Squash Recipe with Coconut Milk and Cashew Nuts makes an ideal Thanksgiving side dish recipe and for a vegetarian optional main course, you could try Vegetarian Moussaka with Butternut Squash and Aubergines. Simply delicious.
Thanksgiving Dessert Recipes
Budget Meal Planning is not all around sensible main meals! What would Thanksgiving be without the best Pecan Pie recipe? Or you could try an easy Fresh Pumpkin Pie Recipe which is light and nutritious.
Thanksgiving Cookie Recipes
Homemade cookie recipes come into their own over Thanksgiving. There is nothing like making a batch of cookies as a gift – they are a symbol of your time and thought. Snickers Cookies are fun to make with the family and Greek Cookies not only look beautiful, they taste fabulous.
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By: Fiona Lesley
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Fiona Lesley has had over 20 years of experience cooking delicious meals for family and friends alike. A teacher by profession, she brings together her years of time and money-saving tips at Monthly Meal Planning
Categories: Thanksgiving Recipes Tags: Cooking Thanksgiving Turkey, Puff Pastry, Side Dish Recipe
The Great Annual Tradition – Cooking a Thanksgiving Turkey
Even though thanksgiving is an annual event, it is one that many people stress about each and every year. In theory, it should be easy to prepare for, but many people seen to get hit by last minute stress, and forgotten items of shopping, every single year.
The stress isn’t down to lack of cooking skills in most cases – but rather the stress of being in the spotlight, and making sure that the holiday is perfect, and the meal served up meets everyone’s expectations. With that thought on your mind, your work in the kitchen can easily get overshadowed.
So when you’re preparing for a thanksgiving meal, save yourself the stress – make a list a couple of weeks in advance, and go over it a few times to make sure you haven’t forgotten anything. The last thing you want is to realize at the last minute that there are some things you still need, but can’t get because the shops have closed for the holiday. Once you have everything you need to hand, cooking goes a lot more smoothly.
How to Cook a Thanksgiving Turkey
There are many experienced cooks who have been cooking thanksgiving turkey for many years. Knowing how to cook it is not a problem they would be facing unless perhaps they are experimenting with a new recipe or a new cooking technique. But for the “newbies” or anyone who has only been cooking thanksgiving turkey for a couple of years, getting advice and turkey cooking tips early on is the best thing to do. There are many different ways and techniques that can be used to cook a thanksgiving turkey, so you may want to turn to an elder in your family line to get some traditional tips that have proven to be effective over the years.
If you don’t have access to any family cooking gurus, the internet is a good place to search for some cooking knowledge. Look at a few different recipes and see what you think of them – read a few comments too so that you can get some idea of how the recipe turned out for others. You may find a few ideas and end up combining them to make your own thanksgiving turkey recipe. Give yourself plenty of time to read around, get some ideas, and buy the needed ingredients. The last thing you want is to fall in love with a recipe idea, but not have the time to get all of the ingredients before thanksgiving comes around.
And don’t forget that thanksgiving is a holiday for everyone! Don’t spend all day in the kitchen – have a good time with your friends and family too.
By: Darlyn Burkle
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