If you are looking for some tasty, but easy recipe ideas for Toikey Day, look no further than the November 2008 issue of Everyday Food magazine. It is on sale now, at most newsstands and supermarket checkouts. For the past several years now, this magazine has brought healthy, delicious cooking into the homes of millions of busy people. All recipes have easy, step-by-step instructions, and contain ingredients that are easy to find at the supermarket. There is also a companion TV series on PBS, check your local listings to see if and when it airs in your area.
This year’s menu from Everyday Food is a simple, Southern style one. You can see all of the recipes on the web, right HERE. On the website, as well as in the magazine, there is a handy-dandy prep schedule, to help you stay on track with your holiday preparations. The only thing it leaves out is to be sure you have proper home theater lighting in place in your living/TV room, for all of the football and/or movie watching that will take place after dinner, when you’re passed out on the couch.
The brown sugar/mustard glazed turkey sounds yummie, and I will be making that this year. I will also make the bourbon gravy and the pecan cornbread dressing. I have to draw the line at the sweet potato casserole, though…I just can’t eat any of those concoctions that are loaded with marshmallows. But I know some people like it, so if you do, make it. I think I will just make regular mashed potatoes instead.
In the past, I have sworn by Alton Brown’s Good Eats Roast Turkey. The brining and cooking method here is probably unbeatable. So what I might do is use AB’s brine and roasting method, and add the Everyday Food glaze, after the oven temp gets turned down and the foil “turkey triangle” is removed. I just like the idea of the glaze, and it should work just fine with AB’s method.
Stay tuned for more Toikey Day stuph! 
