From roasting the holiday bird to warming dinner plates, the oven is the cook’s base of operations for the Thanksgiving meal. Even with a double oven and a microwave, roasting the turkey can tie up ...

Roasting is the most common way to cook a turkey, although deep-frying and smoking have also become popular in recent years. (Getty Images) With Thanksgiving here, there’s no better time to talk ...

Preliminaries: The day before, season the turkey generously with salt. Place in the refrigerator. Day of cooking: The next day, remove the bird to room temperature and let the chill come off of your ...

The ideal temperature inside the smoker is between 250° and 275°F. At that heat, fully cooking a turkey takes about 30 to 40 minutes per pound; the bird’s ready when the meat thermometer (an instant ...

We don’t typically think of a Thanksgiving meal without a turkey. However, there are those folks who, for one reason or another, decide that poultry would be foul and they opt for a Thanksgiving ham.

It doesn't get more Texan than cowboy campfire cooking, and what a heady Thanksgiving menu cowboy cuisine inspires. Think smoke and bacon. Dutch-oven potatoes. Simple foods that translate easily to ...

With Thanksgiving here, there’s no better time to talk turkey. From roasting to deep-frying, every family has their own way of preparing the annual Thanksgiving bird. Not surprisingly, some methods ...