Thanksgiving

Ditch the overcrowded oven and turn to your trusty grill—no smoker required.

This easy recipe for sweet potato pecan pie uses a frozen deep-dish pie shell and a food processor to make the mashed sweet potato pie filling.

Our never-fail turkey is excellent in every way that other turkeys often fall short. Period.

This recipe makes a bright condiment for your Thanksgiving or Christmas table, but it's also a delicious, zesty topping for a breakfast of steel-cut oats.

A show-stopping, relatively hands-off main built for a dinner party or holiday meal.

Ten years in, this classic stuffing recipe (or dressing, if you prefer) remains one of our favorite Thanksgiving sides.

Cranberry sauce, mustard, leftover sliced turkey, a few pieces of bacon (never hurt!), and three pieces of bread make this sandwich a post-holiday slam dunk.

There are many (many!) Thanksgiving turkey recipes out there. But this roast spatchcock turkey recipe with its aniseed and orange dry brine is, as former BA test kitchen director Carla Lalli Music put it, “for people who want a turkey that actually tastes good, and not a turkey that just looks good.” (Watch her make this recipe.)

These deeply caramelized, tender, flavorful sprouts get coated in a simple, sweet-savory sauce and couldn’t be easier to throw together.

A sleeper hit from Bon Appetit’s 1974 Thanksgiving menu, this mincemeat pie recipe is deeply fruity and loaded with warm spices.

Stacking and flattening the dough creates lots and lots of flaky layers that beg to be pulled apart and slathered with softened butter. 

These creamy, glossy mashed potatoes can be made up to two days before the big night without losing their velvety texture.

A bright and tangy salad featuring attention-grabbing radicchio that adds drama and balance to any holiday meal.

This recipe produces shatteringly crisp tempura each and every time.

This green bean stir-fry is a punchy holiday side dish, featuring a crunchy hazelnut-sage topping and a lush brown butter vinaigrette.

Enjoy the best of both worlds with this savory mash-up that plays well as a side on the holiday table—or as the star that it is.

Adorn simply roasted brussels sprouts with a soy caramel sauce that is salty, sweet, and wonderfully easy to pull off at home.

Canned pears, a simple almond cream, and store-bought puff pastry make this pear galette recipe feel sophisticated but entirely doable.

Free up space in your oven on Thanksgiving for other heavy hitters by assembling and baking this stuffing the day before.

Skip the turkey and slather Cornish game hens with a fiery, tangy chile marinade inspired by Goan recheado masala.