
Wishing you, family and friends a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!
This month's Cook It Quick newsletter features some of the questions we get asked most at Thanksgiving.
For additional Thanksgiving information, visit Thanksgiving Food Preparation and Food Safety Tips for tips on:
- How to prepare a turkey
- Carving a turkey
- How to make turkey gravy
- Stuffing
- Cooking turkey in an oven bag
- Using a roaster oven, deep-fryer, etc. as alternate ways to prepare a turkey
P.S. Ingredient counts don't include water, salt, pepper and cooking oil.
Cook It Quick's Goal

Our goal is to make you "hungry for healthy food" by offering tips and delicious, quick-to-prepare, inexpensive recipes.
Preparing these recipes and using the tips will help you increase consumption of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and low-fat dairy products. At the same time, you will reduce sodium, solid fats, and calories. Food safety tips are included.
Feel free to use/adapt Cook It Quick material when an article is written entirely by me for your own articles, blogs, handouts, etc. An example credit line is: Authored by or Adapted from Alice Henneman, MS, RDN, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension, Cook It Quick web materials.
Recipe
Pumpkin Ice Cream Pie [5 -6 ingredients]
Recipe
4 Soups Made with Leftover Turkey
Recipe
Perfect Thanksgiving Mashed Potatoes (United States Potato Board)
Recipe
How to Roast Meats Other than Turkey, including Wild Game (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture)
Recipe
Recipes for Turning Turkey Leftovers into Planned-Overs
Tip
Foods that Do Not Freeze Well (National Center for Home Food Preservation)
Food Tip
Let's Talk Turkey: Tips from Purchasing to Roasting Your Turkey
Food Tip
How to Cook a Turkey the Day before Serving It
Food Tip
Poultry: Basting, Brining, and Marinating (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture)
Food Safety
If you have questions about how to handle turkey or other meats on Thanksgiving day, call the toll-free U.S. Department of Agriculture Meat & Poultry Hotline between 8 am to 2 pm, Eastern Time at 1-888-674-6854
Food Safety
How to Travel Safely with Food to Gatherings of Family & Friends