The Best of Thanksgiving: Recipes and Inspiration for a Festive Holiday Meal

by Williams Sonoma

“More than 80 recipes covering everything from drinks to desserts . . . [and] a special section helping you prepare delicious meals with your leftovers.”—Chicago Tribune, “Thanksgiving Cookbooks with Foolproof Recipes”   Create the most memorable and inspired feast with this solution-oriented book. In these pages, you’ll find over 80 recipes—from cocktails and appetizers, to main dishes, sides, stuffings, gravies, and desserts—including traditional and contemporary favorites. Discover tips for organizing the meal, working with turkey, choosing wine pairings, creating menus, and more in this complete guide to Thanksgiving.   Blend inspired new dishes with your most dearly held traditions using such recipes as Cream of Chestnut Soup, Maple-Bourbon Smash, Curry-Spiced Turkey, Oyster & Mushroom Stuffing, Pumpkin Cheesecake, Boozy Ice Cream, From-Scratch Green Bean Casserole, Baked Ham with Honey-Port Glaze, Vegetable Potpie, Candied Sweet Potatoes, Turkey Banh Mi, Cauliflower Steaks with Brown Butter, and more.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Reference

232 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 27, 2015

About the author

In 1947 Chuck Williams arrived in Sonoma, CA with the idea of building homes—first as a contractor, later as the owner of a hardware shop and finally as the founder of the first Williams-Sonoma store for cooks. Half a century later that small cookware shop has evolved into a multi-billion dollar retailing leader whose products encompass every room in the home.

Reviews

[SKP · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very nice book for a person like me who just likes to read through cookbooks and drool over the recipes. OR if you are someone who does a lot of high brow, fancy entertaining at Thanksgiving. At my house, 99.9% of the time it is just my husband and I and we usually throw something on the grill (rarely is it turkey) and make a side or two (also usually not anything traditional, and definitely not fancy). There were a lot of good recipes though, and I’m sure a lot of people would enjoy using this for their Thanksgiving inspirations.

[Kat · Rating 4 out of 5]

Neat Collection

Great collection of recipes. Everyone should be able to find something. They even have a vegetarian pot pie as a main dish if you're not wanting turkey for thanksgiving.

[Tamara · Rating 5 out of 5]

Recipe for gluten free turkey gravy and recipe for pumpkin cheesecake.

[Brittany · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brace yourselves: Thanksgiving is coming....(a week from now, actually)

On Thursday, November 23, everyone will come to the dinner table surrounded by friends and family and eat a great dinner, either at the grandparents' house or having a Friendsgiving, bringing the wine and the foods that you made at home, and not going shopping on Black Friday (even though I must admit the prices are really good on Black Friday, but I digress...) that starts on Thanksgiving, but thank god all stores will be closed when Thanksgiving arrives and then people can eat, be with their families, and have fun.

With The Best of Thanksgiving, Williams-Sonoma brings the forgotten (I say forgotten because it's becoming a forgotten holiday...like WTF y'all) holiday back with great dishes, pictures of food that'll make many foodie drool and make your stomach growl (mine did each time I looked at the recipes and the photos) and makes you want to make some (or all) of these dishes for Thanksgiving.

The cookbook is broken down into thirteen sections for you to read and devour over-from recipes for Boozy Ice Cream, Classic Roasted Turkey, Corn Bread Stuffing with Apple, Ham and Fennel, Mash Potatoes with Herb-Infused Cream and to top it all off, a Apple Crumb Pie. And with that turkey and stuffing you got your cranberry sause and your Turkey gravy complele with drinks (wine for grown folks, coke and kool-aid for the kids-mostly kool-aid) your Thanksgiving meal is complete. I even wrote down a couple recipes from this book and now I really wanna make them and try them one day, see if they're really good (or just one day buy the actual book) and also recreate the table settings in the book, including the cover because I would be there with a bunch of my friends or people dead or alive that I would have Thanksgiving with...like Vox Machina (the whole cast) and Daenerys Targaryen...also Tessa, Will and Jem...oh and I can't forget Magnus and Alec, and of course, Mr. Mayonnaise himself, Stephen Amell (because his twitter is hilarious and it makes me laugh so much) and some others (yep it'll be a big table).

[Aasinathena · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent collection of Thanksgiving recipes in one GREAT book !