MetaFilter posts tagged with thanksgiving and cooking

The State of the Turkey Address

grouse — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:53:41 -0800

Happy Thanksgiving, MetaFilter! If you have friends from different parts of the U.S., you might have wondered why they consider certain dishes to be an essential part of a Thanksgiving feast, when you've never even thought of them as remotely Thanksgiving-related. Now you can see what dishes were popular searches on allrecipes.com in various states thanks to a series of infographics in the New York Times.

The Super Easy Way To Cook For Morons

The Devil Tesla — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:34:44 -0800

The Awl wants you to stop being a wuss and bake a pie crust. See also How To Barbecue A Turkey–The Super Easy Way For Morons and Fundamentalist Macaroni and Cheese. Or you can just cook a fucking steak.

Thanksbittman

dersins — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:50:32 -0800

Bittmanfilter: 101 Head Starts on the Day-- "The Minimalist" gives us a hundred and one Thanksgiving dishes that can be prepared in advance.

Mmmm... pecans...

math — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:28:16 -0800

A Pie-cosahedron and instructions on how to make it. Hint: start with lots of Karo syrup, some sheet metal, and plenty of time. That's not good enough? Try the fractal pie, baked in its own custom-made backyard oven! These both came from the wonderful site, instructables, which will reward you with many fun projects that you might even be able to do yourself.

Just in time for Thanksgiving

crunchland — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 13:02:52 -0800

Just in time for Thanksgiving ... from the people who make Cooks Illustrated and America's Test Kitchen, a free website full of advice for planning your harvest celebration.

Thanksgiving turkey flash animation

Carlos Quevedo — Thu, 28 Nov 2002 01:46:37 -0800

Bad Flash! A little respect, gentlemen, please! Er, it's not that I'm a vegetarian, but, just this once, I think I'll stick to the hors-d'oeuvre and the Wild Turkey on the rocks, thank you very much. But have a happy Thanksgiving all the same - and don't let this Flash animation or that NYT registration ruin your appetite!

ljc — Mon, 27 Nov 2000 11:06:11 -0800

Did you get enough to eat this Thanksgiving? If not maybe next year you should try a Turducken! Its a dinner inside a dinner. A chicken stuffed in a duck stuffed in a turkey! This guy loved his. Scarey yet strangely appealing.