How to Cook a Faster, Easier Thanksgiving Dinner
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🗓️ 19 November 2022
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But what if there was a much easier approach to Thanksgiving for cooks who don't have the time - or frankly, the patience? What if you could make Thanksgiving dinner in a few hours with one pot and one pan? No kidding!
Host Michel Martin speaks with Melissa Clark, a food writer for the New York Times. Clark shares a super easy Thanksgiving dinner recipe from her latest cookbook, Dinner in One: Exceptional and Easy One Pan Meals. And the cooking pros featured in our In A Pinch offer tips on pulling off a no-hassle holiday meal.
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| 0:00.0 | They're simply enough that I'm making Thanksgiving dinner for everyone. |
| 0:02.6 | You know, everyone wants a different kind of potato. |
| 0:04.7 | So I'm making different kinds of potatoes. |
| 0:06.9 | I'll do the turkey. |
| 0:08.0 | Actually, you do the cranberry sauce. |
| 0:09.8 | Cron, you do the stuffing, Hillary, you do the yams and the rolls. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm just curious, is anybody know anything about cooking? |
| 0:15.6 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:16.3 | No pressure, just like cooking a turkey, for example. |
| 0:19.2 | From friends to fresh prints to new girl, |
| 0:21.7 | the crazy Thanksgiving dinner, it's a sitcom staple. |
| 0:25.2 | But all joking aside, making Thanksgiving dinner is a lot of pressure. |
| 0:29.6 | And a lot of work on that brining, boiling, basting. |
| 0:34.6 | Thanksgiving can be the most daunting meal of the year, |
| 0:37.2 | even for an experienced cook. |
| 0:39.4 | We're supposed to get stressed about Thanksgiving. |
| 0:41.4 | It's part of our national identity. |
| 0:42.9 | Melissa Clark writes about food for the New York Times, |
| 0:45.6 | including the column, A Good Appetite. |
| 0:47.8 | And she's written more than 40 cookbooks and still... |
| 0:51.4 | Sometimes when I make something that doesn't come out the way I want it to come out, |
| 0:55.0 | sometimes I'll pretend that it tastes just fine, |
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