Sweetpotatoes and cranberries gone wild!

I posted about The Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Cookbook (Celebrity Kitchen, Inc. in cooperation with United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association, 1973) in the summer, as that's generally the height of fresh fruit and veggie season. However, the book also has plenty of recipes to celebrate harvest season, so here are a few Thanksgiving-appropriate recommendations.

If you live in the south, maybe it's kind of warm to want to make a big roast turkey? (I don't know-- I'm usually wishing I had more time to bake everything in sight to help heat up my apartment by late November!) Well, if you want a cool and easy Thanksgiving dinner, here's a combination the family is sure to remember for generations to come:

Fill a molded cranberry salad ring with a mound of turkey salad. Just buy some rolls from the bakery so everyone can make their own turkey salad mini-sandwiches and dinner is served! (And if you're lucky, the turkey salad can come from the deli. Holiday dinner has never been so chill.)

Bonus content: If you want your cranberry and turkey to be together in the same salad, rather than mounding one salad into the other, Community Favorites: Meat Magic (Favorite Recipes Press, 1965) offers this as an option:

If you want to go the more traditional route, though, you can stuff the cranberries into the turkey rather than plopping the turkey into the cranberries:

I love how the editors write "sweetpotato" as one word! They really love their sweetpotato stuffing, too. For those who are not so crazy about cranberries in the stuffing, there are a couple of alternatives. If you want a special stuffing for your turkey, try Sweetpotato Stuffing for Turkey.

If you really love sausage stuffing, then Sweetpotato-Sausage Stuffing might be more your speed.

And if you suspect the editors might not have been paying too much attention because this is the exact same recipe with two different titles, then congratulations! You are more observant than the editors, who put these "two" recipes on the exact same page, one atop the other. But hey, it's Thanksgiving! Interactions with family tend to go a lot better if nobody looks too closely or thinks too hard, so the editors must have been going with that mindset. (Nobody really wants to know what Uncle Bill meant by that comment, right?) So have another glass of wine and dig into those cranberries, sweetpotatoes, and whatever else isn't nailed down! (Well, except your relatives. I hope they are neither nailed down nor dug into!)