A Very Martha Thanksgiving

by Emily Matchar, Posted Nov 22nd 2008 @ 5:00PM

If you were feeling uninspired about Thanksgiving, Martha Stewart's got you covered. Check out her Ultimate Thanksgiving Menu, the kind of feast that would be best served at your country home in Connecticut in the company of your fellow Mayflower descendants. The menu starts with a roasted sweet potato soup with curried apples and moves on to roast turkey with herb butter, spicy cornbread stuffing, green beans with caramelized shallots, roasted vegetables, garlic mashed potatoes, baked artichoke hearts, cranberry-ginger jelly, and finishes with apple spice cake and pumpkin pie (Martha's pumpkin pie recipe is top notch, I can vouch).

Sound like too much work? Pare down the side-dishes to four by following Martha's Easy Thanksgiving Menu, also centered around the same roast turkey with herb butter. Or move away from Anglo-centricity with an Italian Flavors menu, which includes sausage stuffing and mashed squash with amaretti, and a pumpkin and ricotta crostata. There's also a Southern-Style feast (deep-fried turkey, hon), a Down Home Menu, a buffet and more, all here.

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Tags: fall, martha stewart, poultry, thanksgiving, turkey