This is fantastic--and delicious looking!!
- 11/10/2012   9:29:59 PM

The soups, the tarts, and the gravy look really good to me. - 11/13/2010   5:19:33 AM

My fave is fruit salad! I'm not cooking this year, but I favorited this to my "food" folder. :) - 11/11/2010   11:24:12 PM

Chef Meg, these recipes are awesome! I have printed several of them for the future. Happy Thanksgiving! - 11/11/2010   2:14:04 PM

Will probably try the gravy, stuffing, and the pumpkin pie. I haven't yet been disappointed by a Chef Meg recipe. :) - 11/11/2010   8:42:02 AM

Mini apple tarts sound delish! Mmmmm...yummy...can't wait to try 'em! - 11/10/2010   8:30:14 PM

What am I overlooking?
In that 500 calorie menu, on which food do you put the gravy? - 11/10/2010   7:58:29 PM

We have already had our thanksgiving...but these recipes look great. My favourite is the turkey and stuffing, do love pumpkin pie. from Canada! - 11/10/2010   12:48:01 PM

These look fantastic! Can't wait to try these recipes out on the family - 11/10/2010   10:08:14 AM

Looks good. we go out to eat and I don't cook anything. That way there aren't leftovers. - 11/10/2010   1:45:52 AM

The gravy - 11/9/2010   11:01:06 PM

yummm!!! - 11/9/2010   8:57:36 PM

I'm definitely trying some of these recipes, especially the tarts & the stuffing! - 11/9/2010   5:08:12 PM

Wow-- a ton of pumpkin, squash, and sweet potato-based things. Too bad I hate all three!

We have a great light Thanksgiving menu from Cooking Light that we use every year (though the apple tarts above looked tasty). It has a lot of low-carb choices, too, which is important to me.

Our turkey is glorious, and simple: Put apple butter up under the skin and then salt and pepper the outside of the bird. Fill the cavity with big chunks of Granny Smith apple and white onion (about 1 large of each). Then Weberize the sucker in a charcoal grill. Fabulous!

You can also make a great apple-cider gravy with this recipe by collecting the drippings in a pan, skimming off the fat, and then heating and adding a little apple cider and some corn starch. - 11/9/2010   4:29:49 PM

The root vegetables and the pecan tarts sound great! Actually, all of the tarts sound great, and I might try the turkey also. - 11/9/2010   4:16:20 PM

I am responsible for the pies (my son's school does a pie fundraiser) but I will definitely be bringing the pecan tartlets instead of the pecan pie.
The apple cide gravy sounds good too. - 11/9/2010   2:31:33 PM

If I get to cook this year it'll for sure be the turkey and the mashed potatoes. I always eat a light breakfast adn lunch so I don't have to worry so much about the calories. Then I sample a little bit of everything, but no real big portions. I get to feel like I pigged out but the calories stay in check. - 11/9/2010   2:02:03 PM

I'm planning to try the pumpkin dip. Yum! - 11/9/2010   1:41:43 PM

I think I'm gonna try the stuffing. My sister will be making the traditional family stuffing so I'll bring something different to spice things up. - 11/9/2010   12:47:53 PM

The whole wheat couscous works for me. I would do the roasted root vegetables, but a family member is allergic to some types of vinegar, so I'll have to make that for myself. : ) - 11/9/2010   12:04:49 PM

I am going to try the gravey. - 11/9/2010   11:17:45 AM

They all sound great! I am making a healthy sweet potato salad this year. - 11/9/2010   11:10:55 AM

I'm going to do a test run on the pumpkin pie this weekend as I'm in charge of pie at Thanksgiving. Looking forward to it. - 11/9/2010   11:06:46 AM

Does anyone have any recipes that I can fix my son who is an vegetrain. I'm running out of ideas. Please email me @ teric@theheritagecompany.com Thank you. - 11/9/2010   10:43:59 AM

I'll do the roasted veggies! Thanks! - 11/9/2010   10:31:31 AM

Thank you for the great ideas...I will be using them for sure. - 11/9/2010   10:06:09 AM

I am definitely having the roasted veggies again! Very good. My family will even eat some of the veggies they wouldn't normally touch alone. - 11/9/2010   9:58:06 AM

Are ANY of these low in carbs? There are still a lot of people out here who are using low carb for weight loss yet the vast majority of recipes still have over 25 grams of carbs per serving. I guess we won't be trying any of these "great"recipes for Thanksgiving-well, maybe the turkey. - 11/9/2010   9:46:03 AM

The apple cider gravy seems intriguing. - 11/9/2010   9:23:08 AM

This sounds so good!!!!! - 11/9/2010   9:21:49 AM

The pumpkin dip sounds like a good alternative!! Looking forward to trying it! - 11/9/2010   9:09:54 AM

I am sorry to say that not one of my family members would eat any of these items, except for the turkey. - 11/9/2010   9:07:32 AM

you didnt figure in the dip or the tarts as part of your calories. Are they 0? LOL - 11/9/2010   9:05:01 AM

I'm anxious to try the soups....I love soup especially this time of year. - 11/9/2010   9:04:01 AM

Those pecan tarts sound great, and will be easy to transport on the drive to the family! - 11/9/2010   8:47:29 AM

I passed on the pumpkin dip to my mom....we have different people bringing different things. I think that I might make a version of the herb roasted turkey. I might use a cooking bag though...and add more citrus in the middle of the cavity....lime, lemon, and orange. I also am thinking about the roasted root vegetables with balsamic vinegar. The recipes look so amazing! Thank you so much for sharing. - 11/9/2010   7:53:17 AM

I love sweet potatoes and look for any excuse to eat them! What a powerhouse veggie, too. - 11/9/2010   7:52:17 AM

I think I will try the pumpkin dip, or any of the pumpkin receipes and the sweet potatoes to. Might even try the apple cider gravy. - 11/9/2010   7:50:49 AM

Sigh - two of my least favorite foods are being pushed so extremely - sweet potatoes & pumpkin..,....YECK! I'm getting depressed just thinking about them (and I really don't need any more depression)!

- 11/9/2010   7:21:17 AM

Sounds delish!!! I think I'll try the sweet potato tarts and the apple cider gravy. Yumm-O!!
- 11/9/2010   6:42:31 AM

Great, I am starving now! - 11/9/2010   6:39:56 AM

I will definitely be trying the pumpkin dip. Thanks for incorporating some protein into this! As a Personal Trainer, I find a BIG challenge in getting WW's point counters to pay attention to getting their protein in. Protein makes you feel FULL, people! ;-) - 11/9/2010   5:38:59 AM

I added these recipes in my "2make-winter" public cookbooks - and here are my thoughts, as a long time veg Thanksgiving hater ('power to the poultry' -though I do appreciate the attitude of gratitude and celebration of the harvest that is the root of this holiday):

the PUMPKIN DIP sounds *really* interesting, and if it's good, it could be amazing (and 'free' protein! yay!); the ROASTED ROOT VEGGIES...these are my "classic" veg Thanksgiving go-to entree for over a decade, though I put in more herbs- parsley, sage, rosemary and sometimes thyme, if there's time-of course potatoes, carrots, sweet yammy potatoes, parsnips, turnips were a bit of a revelation, but ...I love to mix it up and try new veggies, like rutabagas which turned out to be SO GOOD!...who knew? and I've tried kohlrabi in it=okay, and daikon or regular radishes, and horseradishes give it a *spark*; I have yet to try salsify or scorzonera or skirret...adventures await! :) and I definitely throw in some alliums, sometimes cooking those in a separate pan if I don't have room-garlic, onions, walla wallas, and shallots, occasionally leeks, and in another separate pan eggplants until they almost melt, that I might with a bit of cheese or marinara, depending, and I often included squash, until a vegan friend started bringing *her* Thanksgiving specialty...Sweet Pie Pumpkin stuffed with beans, corn, and wild rice: mmm...

Back to the other recipes-even though I, unlike Meg, HATE making mini-tarts (though they are fun to eat, and easy portion control...just lots of fuss and too much crust, anything that is a lo-cal version of pecan desert is worth a try. Along with the seedy pumpkin pie (I love! pepitas, having lived in the SW for a decade I came to appreciate them) and sometimes I would make stuffed (maybe dipped, like chile rellenos, sometimes not) squash blossom saute flowers, or stuffed zuchini boats; the soup recipes in the blog were a bit 'standard' for me, but I'm a BIG souphead, so there aren't many veg soups I haven't tried. I guess I'm a bit of a foodie, she says, finally ending her "comment"...I will have to re-blog this later, lol! - 11/9/2010   2:39:17 AM

That's so cool I want to try some of these!! so exciting - 11/8/2010   11:52:03 PM

I will try the roasted root vegetables and the pumpkin seed pie! Yum! - 11/8/2010   11:42:29 PM

This is awesome!! - 11/8/2010   10:46:37 PM

Sorry, Chef Meg, but none of your dishes will be on my Thanksgiving table. We have a fairly set menu. We already have our experimental dish of the year picked. Maybe next year. - 11/8/2010   9:40:09 PM

I found a couple of things I want to try this year. Thanks!! - 11/8/2010   8:14:43 PM

Awesome!! Thanks for all this info. - 11/8/2010   7:45:11 PM

These ideas look fabulous ! Can't wait to try them out ! - 11/8/2010   6:54:17 PM