Festive Foods & Tips for the Holidays

How To Cook a Turkey the Day Before Serving It

Sometimes it may be easier to prepare your turkey the day before you plan to serve it. If you do, follow these guidelines.

Tips and recipe ideas

Reducing the Size of Recipes

For a handy chart on how to decrease recipe measurements by 1/2 or 1/3, plus more tips, check out the Cook It Quick web site.

How to Interpret Can Sizes

What to Do for a Can Size "2" Some favorite older holiday recipes call for sizes such as number 2 or number 303. Learn what these sizes mean.

Food Safety Storage Chart For Your Kitchen

Don't miss printing off this food storage chart (121KB pdf) to keep in your kitchen.

• Staying Trim for Turkey Day
• Turkey Anytime
• Holiday Warmer

Turkey/Poultry Info

• Turkey/Food Safety
• Leftover Turkey Recipes
• Cook it Quick - Healthy Meal Planning Ideas
• Foods for the Month Links
• More Turkey Recipes

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