Thanksgiving News

Get ready to beat the Thanksgiving bulge with a quick family oriented workout! Stacy Ryan from the Green Bay YMCA shows us how.

Waylon Appel is grateful -- grateful for things that have been given to him so that he in turn can give back to others.

Yesterday we had an employee potluck here at the Log Cabin, and it sort of got me in the holiday spirit.

President Barack Obama will have scant time to rest up from his eight-day Asia trip.

Taking aim at Wall Street and the U.S. central bank, an important House committee voted Thursday to assess fees on large financial firms to pay for the failure of their peers and to require a sweeping congressional audit of the secretive Federal Reserve.

In this Nov. 11, 2009 file photo, volunteer Jonathan Robertson sends a couple of boxes of donated food flying as he tries to lift an over-loaded box into a huge bin at the Cherry Street Food Bank, run by Northwest Harvest, near downtown Seattle.

Texas retail gasoline prices slipped 3 cents as travelers prepare for next week's Thanksgiving holiday.

Due to the cornucopia of dishes and competing flavors of the traditional Thanksgiving meal, there is no one wine that will be the perfect match with every dish.

Can you believe there's only one week 'til Thanksgiving? Hopefully you've got almost everything ready.

AAA says that despite the poor economy, more people will be traveling for the Thanksgiving holiday this year, though some means of travel will be used less frequently.

Theresa Hanners, executive director of The Caring Center in Lebanon, inspects a can of green beans donated Monday by the Lebanon Senior Center.

Sometimes, Thanksgiving takes a different turn. Perhaps you need to cook for fewer guests, or you don't have enough refrigerator room for a giant bird.

To avoid any risk of Thanksgiving dinner not being indulgent enough, we created this over-the-top turkey and gravy affectionately dubbed 'bacon bird.' The goal was an easy way to infuse a turkey with deep flavor, while also keeping it moist, and create richly savory pan drippings for gravy.

Deep-frying. Wood-smoking. Sous vide. The mind-numbing number of suggestions for mining flavor from the typically unforgiving Thanksgiving bird have proliferated in recent years.

Cooking that big Thanksgiving dinner may not cost you as much as you might think.

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Recipe for a Great Turkey:

• Roasting pan

• Stick of butter

• Can of cola

• 2 tablespoons hoisin sauce, or more if you like it sweeter

• Salt, pepper and garlic powder

• Turkey breast

• Small lemon

• Small onion

• Full hand of sage, thyme, chives, oregano and rosemary

This year, I plan to cook a traditional Thanksgiving feast for my family. But the menu will not include familiar favorites like mashed potatoes, ham, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. The ubiquitous Thanksgiving banquet has little in common with the original harvest feast that took place in the fall of 1621—including the date on which we celebrate.

Thanksgiving’s beginnings herald back to Plymouth, Massachusetts, when two groups gathered for a three-day harvest feast celebration that has since been referred to as “The First Thanksgiving.”

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