What to Cook for Canadian Thanksgiving: 89 Delicious Recipes for Turkey, Stuffing, and More

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If you’re looking for the best Canadian Thanksgiving recipes for 2022, you’ve come to the right place. Whether you’re doing ham or turkey for two or six or focusing just on the sides, you’ll find inspiration below in our list of favorites, including the creamiest mashed potatoes, the most autumnal salads, easy stuffing recipes, and pies galore. Since the national holiday is coming up—it’s the second Monday in October—there’s no time like the present to choose a cornucopia of recipes for a long three-day weekend of feasting.
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Caramelized Honey Pumpkin Pie
Maybe you could skip all the other Canadian Thanksgiving recipes and just focus on dessert. We don't blame you, especially when you're talking about this pumpkin pie from Claire Saffitz, enhanced with browned butter and honey that's been cooked slightly to intensify its flavor. Pie doesn't get better than this.
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Butternut Squash Soup With Apples and Bacon
If you want to celebrate the bountiful harvest right, you're going to need some butternut squash. This easy soup is made without cream—the squash itself provides plenty of silky texture. Serve it as an appetizer before the parade of turkey and stuffing begins.
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Turkey for Two With Pan-Sauce Gravy
If your Thanksgiving crew is small this year, you might want to adjust some of your Thanksgiving traditions, especially when it comes to the big bird. Not looking for tons of leftovers after your turkey dinner? This moist and flavorful turkey breast is just the right amount to serve two with leftovers, or four for dinner. Follow with some butter tarts to complete the Thanksgiving feast.
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Simple Classic Stuffing
If your theme for Canadian Thanksgiving recipes this year is homey comfort, be sure to add this stuffing to your menu. Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme come together in a classic version that's easy to make. Your Thanksgiving weekend wouldn't be complete without it.
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Sweet Potato Casserole With Easy Candied Pecans
This maple-sweetened casserole has a brown sugar and pecan topping that bakes into a crunchy candylike crust. It's a Thanksgiving day classic.
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Pear Tart With Dulce de Leche Drizzle
Wrap up your Thanksgiving meal with this gorgeous tart from Epi contributor Judy Kim. An optional make-ahead dulce de leche drizzle lends an even more impressive look to each slice, but a store-bought version works well, too.
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The Simplest Roast Turkey
If you believe that leftovers are the point of Canadian Thanksgiving, this set-it-and-forget-it Thanksgiving recipe will have you covered. Got extra gravy? We've got ideas for using that, too.
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Paradise Apple
Looking for a Thanksgiving cocktail to sip while you watch the Canadian Football League? This fall beauty features tart Riesling, nutty figs, fresh apple cider, and bourbon.
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Miso-Butter Roast Chicken With Acorn Squash Panzanella
This Thanksgiving chicken comes with a crispy, craggy bread and squash salad which has all the buttery, herby flavor of classic stuffing. It's ideal for small groups (or anyone who doesn't love turkey).
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Our Favorite Mashed Potatoes
The creamiest mashed potatoes require a potato ricer or food mill. (For more Thanksgiving potato tips, head over here.)
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Confit Turkey With Chiles and Garlic
With the texture of duck confit, and extra-rich, deep flavor closer to pork carnitas than your average Thanksgiving bird, these turkey legs beg to fall apart with the push of a fork. We promise this turkey recipe will be a hit—and you'll wish you'd doubled it, because leftover tacos are a good thing, indeed.
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Cranberry Chess Pie
Chess pie is popular in the American South, though it's said to have originated in England, just like Martin Frobisher. This pie recipe leaves history behind, though: while some versions rely on tangy buttermilk to offset the rich custard, this dessert uses lemon juice and barely cooked cranberries instead.
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Torn Potatoes of Many Colors With Chile-Lime Butter
This year, let the potatoes be the prettiest part of your Thanksgiving spread. The best part is the make-ahead cilantro, lime, and chile compound butter.
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My Favorite Roast Turkey
This is one of our most popular turkey dinner recipes every year across the U.S. and Canada. You'll brine the turkey so it's evenly seasoned, then let it air-dry in the fridge for crispier skin.
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Squash and Radicchio Salad With Pecans
There's bright Asian pear, salty aged cheese, a dynamic pecan dressing, and hardy radicchio in this salad, but the squash is really what makes it feel Thanksgiving-appropriate.
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Sweet Potato Pie
This recipe from Toni Tipton-Martin’s Jubilee is a cross between sweet potato pudding and a classic custard pie, with an optional caramelized pecan topping for good measure.
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Pecan-Rye Pumpkin Pie
If it's a bit too much to bake two pies this year, consider this mashup, a whiskey-spiked pumpkin pie with the most delicious candied pecan topping.
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Shingled Sweet Potatoes With Harissa
Harissa lends both a spiciness and an earthiness to this savory sweet potato masterpiece.
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Why-Is-It-So-Good Gravy
This make-ahead gravy means less stress at the last minute. Instead of turkey drippings, the gravy’s deep flavor comes from roasted poultry bones and a sprinkle of MSG, which has an umami-to-the-max effect.
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Braised Chicken Legs With Grapes and Fennel
If this year's Canadian Thanksgiving is going to be a smaller group at the table, consider serving chicken instead of turkey or ham. This autumnal recipe pairs tender braised legs with sweet grapes and fennel, plus a touch of Calabrian chile for spice.
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Butternut Squash Vegducken
This stunner of an entrée is an entirely meatless take on turducken, with butternut squash, eggplant, and zucchini filling in for the usual suspects.
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Cheesy Baked Butternut Squash Polenta
Melty pockets of Fontina and sweet butternut squash make this Thanksgiving side dish super-comforting.
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3-Ingredient Thanksgiving Gravy
This simple gravy can be made in advance to avoid a last minute scramble before serving your Thanksgiving feast. Or use the rendered turkey fat and pan juices to make the gravy after roasting your bird for maximum flavor.
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3-Ingredient Sweet Potato Casserole With Maple Pecans
Maple syrup pumps up the flavor of puréed sweet potatoes and provides a sweet glaze for extra-peppery candied pecans in this classic Thanksgiving side.
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Coconut Creamed Greens
If your Canadian Thanksgiving menu doesn't feel complete without something green, can we recommend this flavorful side, which pairs the greens with cooling coconut milk, a hot chile, ginger, and turmeric.
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Slow-Cooked Green Beans With Harissa and Cumin
We love a raw green bean. But these slow-cooked green beans are silky-soft and caramelized, and that's a beautiful thing, indeed.
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Everything Good Cocktail
This make-ahead cocktail is designed to be paired with your favorite Thanksgiving pie recipes. Adding measured water along with the ingredients, then chilling the batched drink means you won’t need to shake it over ice at the last minute.
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Boudin Blanc–Stuffed Turkey Breasts with Chestnuts
A dairy-infused pork sausage stuffing infuses this turkey breast with richness and perfumes the meat with warm spices.
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Duchess Baked Potatoes
If you’ve ever asked if mashed potatoes can be cooked ahead, the answer is this recipe. The texture is like that of a twice-baked potato.
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Expertly Spiced and Glazed Roast Turkey
Starting hot creates good browning from the get-go, while a lower cruising temperature finishes the meat without drying it out. We promise you'll have a successful Thanksgiving bird if you use this recipe on the second Monday of October.
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Make-Ahead Mashed Potatoes
You can make and chill these mashed potatoes over the weekend, then serve them up on Monday.
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Green Bean Casserole With Walnut Bacon Crumble
Chanterelle mushrooms and a crunchy, sweet, and salty walnut-bacon topping make this harvest festival side dish a winner. Start your weekend with a foraging expedition if you're lucky enough to have a spot for chanterelles. (They've been known to pop up in British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec.)
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Brown Sugar–Mustard Glazed Ham
A long-time favorite of Epicurious reviewers, this impressive roast ham is glazed with apple cider and whole grain mustard. Leftover ham sandwiches are an important bonus.
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Classic Herb and Fennel Stuffing
Fennel adds a touch of sweetness to this excellent stuffing, which is moistened with white wine and flavored with a ton of fresh green herbs.
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Tonnato Eggs
Start your Thanksgiving Day with a luxurious snack. These deviled eggs have savory flavors inspired by creamy Italian tonnato sauce, and they're topped with crispy fried capers and salmon roe. They're great with a martini, if that's your Thanksgiving holiday style.
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Pumpkin Kolokithopita (Greek Phyllo Pastries)
These crispy phyllo pastries are stuffed with creamy pumpkin that's spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg. Serve them alongside a relish tray and the appetizer hour is covered.
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Baguette, Smoked Oyster, and Pancetta Stuffing
Smoked oysters and fresh sage boost the savory side of this Thanksgiving stuffing. Every year, our readers rate this recipe highly.
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Quick Thanksgiving Turkey With Lemon-Garlic Butter
What's the fastest way possible to roast a turkey for Thanksgiving? Skip the whole turkey: instead, roast bone-in breasts and legs. (If you don't want to butcher a turkey yourself, you can buy them in individual pieces or have your butcher break a whole bird down for you.) Once you put the pieces in the oven, the cook time is about 1 hour and 15 minutes. Even better news: they're so much faster and easier to carve and serve than a big bird would be.
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Our Favorite Stuffing With Cornbread and Sausage
Why not have it both ways? This stuffing starts with a mix of country bread and cornbread, for a balance of textures and flavors. There's fresh sage and breakfast sausage, too.
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Grill-Roasted Turkey
Grilling a turkey is one of the great dark arts of holiday cooking. It is an excellent choice for those who like to spend time outside, tending a fire and keeping away from family. It requires no skills beyond patience. The turkey ends up with a slightly more rustic flavor, smoky and rich. Two notes: First, use a brine to keep the bird moist, since opportunities for basting are hard to come by. Second, do not stuff the bird. Smoky turkey is excellent; smoky stuffing is not.
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Wild Rice Dressing
This savory wild rice dish is the ultimate gluten-free stuffing—basically a holiday-appropriate grain salad with lots of fresh herbs.
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Kale and Brussels Sprout Salad
This earthy salad brings together Tuscan kale and shredded raw brussels sprouts. Toasty almonds give it a holiday feeling.
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Ultra-Creamy Mashed Potatoes
Unpeeled potatoes absorb less moisture when boiled, and the ricer will catch the skins—great news for lazy cooks everywhere.
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Garlicky Sausage Stuffing
Italian sausage and a heap of Parmesan cheese lend signature flair to the easy Thanksgiving stuffing recipe.
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Butternut Squash Steaks With Brown Butter–Sage Sauce
Canadian Thanksgiving should be a special meal for everyone—whether they eat meat or not. Here, butternut squash gets the steakhouse butter-basting treatment, which turns it into a glorious main course.
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Butternut Squash Tarte Tatin
Prefer your squash in dessert form? This earthy-sweet tart is a showstopper.
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3-Ingredient Thanksgiving Stuffing
Cranberry-nut bread and sweet Italian sausage pack a surprising amount of flavor into this super-simple stuffing. The prep time is less than half an hour, and you can make the stuffing four hours ahead, leaving it at room temperature and rewarming before serving.
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Garlic-Aioli Roasted Turkey with Lemon-Parsley Pan Sauce
The secret to a gloriously glistening and super-moist turkey? Mayonnaise! We've spiked ours with creamy roasted garlic for a juicy, flavor-packed bird.
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Cranberry-Lime Pie
If you love Key lime pie, and you're hoping for a cranberry dessert, this snappy-crusted stunner is for you. Sugared cranberries with a bit of lime zest make it all feel especially seasonal.
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Skillet Stuffing With Italian Sausage and Wild Mushrooms
Stuffing for Canadian Thanksgiving in less than an hour? Believe it. Cooking and baking the stuffing in the same skillet not only saves time, it cuts down on dishes, too. And we're all plenty tired of doing dishes.
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Creamy Squash Risotto With Toasted Pepitas
Silky miso and a paprika-packed squash purée makes this dairy-free risotto hearty and satisfying. It's a worthy main dish for a vegan Thanksgiving, or a wonderful side for anyone who likes squash.
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Cheesy Sausage and Sage Stuffing
This holiday-worthy recipe was inspired by bread pudding and ended up somewhere between a strata, a gratin, and a traditional Thanksgiving stuffing.
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Roasted Brussels Sprouts With Pancetta and Garlic
Roasted Brussels sprouts are always pretty good, but the added pancetta here really makes a difference.
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Classic Pecan Pie
If you want to make truly great pecan pie, start with a recipe that is really loaded with nuts, has a little verve from orange zest, and isn't overly sweet—exactly like the one here.
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Roasted Brussels Sprouts With Warm Honey Glaze
These roasted Brussels sprouts get a fair amount of spice from the crushed red pepper flakes, which cuts through the acidity and sweetness of the glaze, but if you’re spice-averse, feel free to leave them out!
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Pumpkin Ginger Cheesecake Pie
Embrace the flavors of autumn with this luscious take on a classic. The pumpkin not only lends richness but also makes the pie a stunner, with mesmerizing swirls of orange. Ginger adds a subtle snap.
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Crisp Roast Duck
There's a strong argument for skipping a traditional Thanksgiving dinner and just cooking a really delicious meal. This roast duck is definitely part of that argument.
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Brussels Sprout Leaves with Chorizo and Toasted Almonds
Savory Spanish chorizo is what your Thanksgiving side dishes have been missing all this time. Wait until the last minute to pull this dish together, but have everything prepped and ready to go ahead of time.
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Roast Goose with Oranges and Madeira
If you really don't need a turkey, and you want to bump up the elegance factor of this year's Thanksgiving celebration, this recipe will walk you through the process of roasting a whole goose.
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Chipotle Cranberry Sauce
This relish has a smoky, savory quality, thanks to the chiles and garlic.
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If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It Stuffing
Everything that's good about stuffing in one bowl.
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Buttery Cayenne Pecans
Need something to snack on in the kitchen while you cook? The low oven temp and long bake time allow these nuts to take on rich flavor without burning.
- Jonathon Kambouris63/89
Cranberry-Orange Relish with Mint
This raw, tangy, refreshing relish cuts through the richness of all the classic Thanksgiving sides.
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Miso-Harissa Delicata Squash and Brussels Sprouts Salad
Toss roasted skin-on squash and Brussels sprouts with a perfectly salty and spicy miso-harissa dressing.
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Duck-Fat Turkey Breasts with Green Onion Puree
Searing a turkey breast on the stovetop crisps the skin beautifully, while basting with thyme- and garlic-scented duck fat enriches the lean meat.
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Crunchy Turnip, Apple, and Brussels Sprout Slaw
A crisp, fresh salad that'll brighten up the Thanksgiving table. The poppy seeds add welcome crunch.
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Cauliflower With Pumpkin Seeds, Brown Butter, and Lime
Earthy-sweet cauliflower makes a great Thanksgiving side, especially when tossed with crunchy pumpkin seeds and drizzled with nutty brown butter.
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Pumpkin-Caramel Tart with Toasted-Hazelnut Crust
A press-in crust, short bake time, and do-ahead option liberate you (and your oven) on Thanksgiving Day.
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Curried Pumpkin Soup
When pumpkin soup is this tasty, it's worth the stomach space on Canadian Thanksgiving. (You can also serve it in smaller bowls if you're worried about getting too full!)
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Braised Turkey Legs
The best dark meat doesn't come from a whole roasted bird. These deeply-flavored turkey thighs and drumsticks are perfect for a smaller gathering.
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Crunchy Stuffed Cremini Mushrooms
Bite-size and crispy, these mushrooms are always a crowd favorite. The star ingredient here is the nutritional yeast, a plant-based ingredient that has the power to add a savory, cheesy flavor to basically anything.
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Green Bean Casserole With Crispy Fried Onions
A mix of wild mushrooms lends an earthy touch to this creamy classic. The spiced fried onions really turn this into an impressive Thanksgiving side.
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Pecan-Cranberry Galette
This elegant little fall galette is studded with whiskey-soaked cranberries.
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Creamy Potato and Leek Gratin
Cutting leeks into large pieces gives them a presence equal to disks of potato, while cooking the vegetables separately before combining—the leeks are braised in butter, the spuds are simmered in milk and cream—preserves their distinct flavors.
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Cranberry-Cherry Compote
Dark sweet cherries and apple cider lend sweetness and depth to this bourbon-and-black-pepper-spiked cranberry sauce.
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Pumpkin Mascarpone Pie
Mascarpone lightens up the filling of this classic pumpkin pie.
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Holiday Ham with Riesling and Mustard
Smoked ham makes quite a Thanksgiving centerpiece, and this one wows with a glaze of mustard, honey, and sweet German riesling.
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Brown Butter Apple Tart
Brown butter makes everything better, especially this cookie-crusted tart. It's one of our favorite Canadian Thanksgiving recipes—though we'll make it again later in the fall, too.
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Maple-Roasted Delicata Squash
Roasting squash slices with olive oil and maple syrup enhances their sweetness while helping them turn a rich golden brown.
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Deep-Dish Maple-Bourbon Cream Pie
Maple syrup meets its match in bourbon and brown sugar in this delicious pie, which gets topped with whipped cream that has a bit of added tang from Greek yogurt.
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Butter-Roasted Turkey Breasts
Roasted in butter and herbs, these turkey breasts may be the best you've ever had. They make superlative sandwiches for the rest of the week, as well.
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Apple-Cranberry Crisp With Oatmeal-Cookie Crumble
What's easier than pie? Crisp. Tangy cranberries and sweet orange zest add a floral tartness to this apple version, which is topped with an almond-studded, oatmeal-cookie crumble.
- Photo by Elizabeth Coetzee, Food Styling by Tiffany Schleigh83/89
Gluten-Free Maple Pumpkin Pie
Grade B maple syrup is already flavorful, but it gets even bolder when cooked down. Here, the boiled syrup gets mixed with pumpkin, cinnamon, and ginger for a beautiful pie.
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Maple-Roasted Acorn Squash
Do not let fall pass you by without making this classic squash recipe from Ina Garten: sweet squash filled with a big puddle of melted butter and maple syrup.
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Larry the Turkey Cupcakes
If you've got kids at home who are looking for a project, these Thanksgiving place card cupcakes are ideal.
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Spiral Ham in the Slow Cooker
If your oven is already spoken for, consider this ham recipe, which takes advantage of the slow cooker.
- Gieves Anderson, food styling by Anna Hampton87/89
Quick-Roasted Turkey with Parsley-Caper Sauce
A flattened bird roasts much more quickly. We love it brightened up with a tangy caper and mustard sauce.
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Old-Fashioned Scalloped Potatoes
This scalloped potatoes recipe is a classic from Gourmet, simply made with softened onions, an easy roux, and thinly sliced potatoes.
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Roast Pumpkin With Dukkha and Pomegranate
This side is all about the crunchy topping. This is one of those Canadian Thanksgiving recipes that you might find yourself repeating over and over as fall continues.

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