Episode 96: Trader Joe's Recipes for Thanksgiving and Beyond

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Trader Joe's

Arts, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Food

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

There's a big holiday meal on the horizon, and Trader Joe's is here to help with all your last-minute planning. In this episode, we're sharing three of our favorite (in this moment) recipes to help make your holiday feast a rousing success. A no-fuss appetizer that overdelivers on flavor. A different – and delicious! – twist on a holiday classic. And a meatless main dish that will make the non-meat-eaters at your table truly thankful they joined your gathering. You'll find all these recipes – and so many more, for every occasion – at traderjoes.com/recipes. [Links to the featured recipes below.]

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Blue Cheese Stuffed Dates

Garlicky Sweet Chili Green Beans

Risotto-Stuffed Delicata Squash

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0:00.0	Happy holidays, Matt.
0:01.6	And likewise to you, Tara, it's hard to believe Thanksgiving is here already.
0:06.1	Are you ready for the holiday rush?
0:07.8	I mean, if you mean for shopping and parties and travel and decorating and hosting and some school events, sending cards, year-end deadlines,
0:16.1	you left out cooking and baking?
0:18.3	Well, on purpose, because those are easy, thanks to the recipes at traderjoves.com.
0:23.1	Uh-huh.
0:23.5	Lucky for us, Kathleen is here to share three of her favorites.
0:27.3	Yes, I am.
0:28.2	Okay, but Kathleen, just three.
0:30.2	We don't have time for more.
0:31.6	You heard how busy I'm going to be.
0:33.5	Can I say it?
0:34.9	Sure.
0:35.4	Let's go inside Trader Joe's.
0:45.4	I'm Tara Miller, director of words and phrases and clauses.
0:48.8	And I'm Matt Sloan, the culture and innovation guy at Trader Joe's.
0:52.6	And I'm Kathleen.
0:53.5	I have a great job at Trader Joe's that includes testing and editing the recipes for our website.
0:57.9	Somebody's got to do it.
0:59.2	All right, so let's count down your top three personal favorite recipes for the holidays in 2025.
1:06.9	We'll start with number three.
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