What’s more classic than a whole, roasted turkey for the holidays? The company perhaps most closely associated with these big birds provides many how-tos and recipes on its Butterball.com website – ...

In advance of Thanksgiving, Ronnie Killen will be smoking turkeys for early pickup at his locations in Pearland, the Heights, The Woodlands and Sienna. So what will he be doing on Thanksgiving Day?

Activist Toni Tipton-Martin is author of "The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks" (University of Texas Press), a work of cultural archaeology that explores African-American ...

Remove the giblet from the turkey’s cavity and set aside. Season the turkey inside and out with salt and pepper. Place the turkey in a roasting pan. Roast at 400 degrees for 30 minutes. Reduce the ...

Lauren Allen of the website Tastes Better From Scratch always had two turkeys at Thanksgiving dinner when she was growing up — one made by her mother and another by her grandmother. "They would both ...

Makes 3 to 4 cups or enough to serve 8 Giblet gravy used to grace many Thanksgiving tables (just ask your grandmother), but fell out of favor. It's coming back, mostly because nose-to-tail eating ...

Making a good gravy -- one that tastes of turkey essence and not flour and that lightly naps the food rather than smothering it -- is only a little more complicated than stirring together a white ...

Thanksgiving is all about the essentials. You’ve nailed down your favorite turkey recipe. You’ve figured out your must-have side dishes. And you’ve found the perfect cranberry sauce. But the dinner ...

Gravy is to the main course what icing is to dessert. It can hide a multitude of errors, and properly done, it makes whatever was already good even better. Turkey or dressing a tad dry? Gravy will ...

Silver gravy boat filled with brown gravy - Bhofack2/Getty Images Cooking a basic roasted turkey or whole chicken for the holidays presents several factors to consider. You first need to figure out ...

Thanksgiving is all about the essentials. You’ve nailed down your favorite turkey recipe. You’ve figured out your must-have side dishes. And you’ve found the perfect dessert. But the dinner won’t be ...