Thanksgiving is only a mere week away.  Are you in charge of the turkey this year?  Or in charge of the tofurkey?  My migratory family will be migrating throughout the States, but I’ve decided to stay in Lincoln this year. I will be tackling the ornery and slippery tofurkey with my little family of two.  I’m debating on making sweet potato pie, a mix of collard and mustard greens (greens are hard to come by here in Lincoln.  Not sure why), candying some yams, saucing some cranberries, and corning some bread.

Of course, if I were to cook a real bird, I wouldn’t know the first step.  I don’t know the first step in cooking a tofu bird (would that be contracted to tird?) either, so I thought that I’d do some hunting on the blogosphere for ways with cold, whitish food to prepare for next Thursday.  What I found was good, if sometimes disturbing and sometimes creative.  First up is a post (with pics and links) of "manly" ways to make turkey from the blog Mental Floss. Not only does the post suggest a bacon wrapped turkey, but they offer a turducken (that’s turkey stuffed with duck stuffed with chicken).

The San Francisco Chronicle has an annual Turkey Training Camp. Blogger Chef Ben of Cooking with the Single Guy attended this year’s camp and took detailed notes, excellent pictures, and wrote a wonderful post on the experience.  You won’t only learn some tips on preparing the bird, but on preparing the whole darn feast!

Cooking for Two has a turkey for two recipe.  It involves bacon and a crock pot.  But for a traditional turkey roast, visit Serious Eats‘ post How To Roast a Turkey.

Before moving on to the non-bird–or the tird–here are some related turkey post: A quick post on turkey facts; a call for Thanksgiving mishaps; general advice on preparation; and a post entitled "Turducken (Churkendoose; Chuckey; Churkey; Qua-duc-ant; Osturducken)."

Now for the tofu!  You can go out a buy a prepared tofurkey, or you can make one from scratch.  Either way, it’s quite possible to have a fully vegetarian–if not vegan–Thanksgiving Holiday.  For instance, do you want gravy but don’t how to go about it without pan drippings?  Try this golden onion gravy.  Or maybe you don’t even want to relate to the bird at all and want to eat something that is shamelessly vegetarian.  Try this recipe for tofu stuffed with brown rice and mushrooms (I may try this one myself).  The whole meal can be vegetarian, and the blog Happy Vegetable has a delectable Thanksgiving menu. There’s also a picture of an extremely cute bunny noshing some strawberries on this post.

Since Thanksgiving is next week Thursday, I’ll post Linking in Lincoln on Wednesday, November 21st.  It’ll be a very sweet post.

Enjoy the rest of your week.