Roasted Cabbage Slaw with Hazelnuts & Lemon

Thanksgiving is a heavy meal. There’s a sea of carbs (which we love) and desserts (which we double love) to be traversed on The Big Day. But the salad is your place to play and get creative. Who cares about the salad on Thanksgiving, you may ask. If you do it right, it will be a highlight of the meal — a colorful respite between the mounds of mashed potatoes and stuffing.

From lighter side salads with arugula and fennel, to hearty salads with roasted cabbage slaw and hazelnuts, to wonderful grain salads with golden beets and barley, we have 18 fresh options to choose from for Thanksgiving dinner.

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People feel a lot of pressure when it comes to making Thanksgiving turkey. While some make it the same way year after year, others are tackling the big bird for the first time and even doing a practice run. How long does it take to defrost? How do you brine or dry-brine it? When do you put it in the oven?

Here’s a step-by-step guide that’ll help you figure out what to do with the turkey from the minute it gets home from the grocery store to the proud moment when you present it at Thanksgiving dinner.

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What’s going on your Thanksgiving dessert table this year? From coast to coast it seems there is always a requisite pumpkin pie (mine has fresh ginger and a graham cracker crust). Pecan and mince pies are also required in some gatherings. But after those staunch traditions come the corner desserts, the one or two wild cards squeezed in between pies for post-dessert nibbles, or to satisfy those who will just never love pumpkin pie. These are often the most interesting desserts on the holiday table — Aunt Sue’s bourbon balls, the Canadian cousins’ Nanaimo bars, Mom’s cranberry cake.

These fill-in desserts are some of my favorites on the holiday table, so that’s what we’re talking about today.

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