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A number of recipes may be prepared for Thanksgiving, including spiced pumpkin-seed flatbread, grill-roasted brined turkey and anaheim chile salsa verde. These dishes may also be served with red or white wine, preferably Pine Ridge Winery's Chenin Blanc Viognier 97.

Recipes for a Thanksgiving Day menu that serves six is comprised of grilled quail with wilted cabbage slaw, pheasant pie, herbed spatzle, pumpkin bread pudding with cranberry caramel sauce and walnuts are presented. Recommended wines are also listed.

Recipes for a Thanksgiving day menu that serves eight are presented. The appetizers are spiced cheese straws and dill-pickled vegetables. A roast turkey with five trimmings and gravy, lobster lovage stew and three desserts are also on the menu.

Two traditional Thanksgiving meals are presented. The recipes featured include curried squash soup with frizzled leeks, balsamic-glazed beets, root vegetable puree, whipped chipotle sweet potatoes, and grilled turkey with cranberry gravy. Companion wines are also recommended.

A complete Thanksgiving day dinner that is low in calories and fat is presented. The recipes include rosemary stuffing; apricot mustard sauce; sweet-and-sour red cabbage and fennel; and roasted potatoes, shallots, and kale with caramelized garlic dressing.

The American Thanksgiving meal can be enhanced by the addition of dishes that use traditional holiday foods in innovative ways. Recipes are presented for such delights as sweet potato soup with pecans; potato, chestnut, and celery root puree; and diced carrots and turnips.

Dressings and stuffings are always popular accompaniments to the traditional Thanksgiving roast turkey. Recipes are provided for a variety of stuffings, including mashed potato and sauteed apple; cornbread, sausage, and scallion; and oyster, ham, and rye bread.

Homemade baked goods are a genuine source of comfort in the winter holiday season. Recipes are provided for such heartwarming delights as Parker House rolls, angel biscuits, dried-cranberry muffins, and buttermilk biscuits.

Leftovers from Thanksgiving dinner can be creatively turned into other main dishes that are low in fat and calories. Recipes for broiled portobello mushrooms with zucchini-scallion topping and turkey, potato, and roasted garlic ravioli with sun-dried tomato sauce are given.

Thanksgiving is one of the US's more tradition-bound holidays, and the food associated with the holiday reflects this tradition. Most people prefer a large roast turkey with a predictable stuffing. Recipes for holiday side dishes are provided.

A menu and recipes for a celebratory seasonal meal are suggested. The recipes for salmon consomme, herbed rib roast and cranberry cognac trifle are shown.

Four relish dishes and one applesauce recipe are presented. They are: cranberry and pickled beet relish; pickled carrot, fennel, and red pepper relish; spicy butternut squash and orange relish; pink applesauce with horseradish; and spice pear and shallot relish.