Thanksgiving

I hope you have a fantastic Thanksgiving planned and get to spend at least a little time with the people you love the most!  While there's a lot of important advice out there about food preparation, please be sure to remember to 'Twerk Your Turkey'.

Thanksgiving is on record as being America’s second-favorite holiday (Christmas wins first prize, of course), so it makes sense that Thanksgiving lore is a part of our shared cultural history and something we start learning early in our lives. But it turns out a lot of what we think we know about Turkey Day is wrong.

Realistically speaking, turkeys don't stand a chance this Thanksgiving. But that hasn't stopped these fowl-tempered (sorry) beasts from fighting back against their would-be devourers, us humans.

The holidays can bring out people's stranger sides, and Thanksgiving is no exception.

Thanksgiving time is near; and many people's minds are on pie, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and turkey. So...what's your turkey name? Now you can find out your turkey name with this handy little two-step turkey name generator. What is your middle initial...

Black Friday is fast becoming a term of the past.   Many stores have announced that they will be open Thanksgiving Day for shopping deals.   This doesn't sit right with me.  First off, this isn't the reason for the holiday season.   It shouldn't be about scrambling to get the best deals on material things.   The holidays should be about spending time with your family.

Happy Monday!  We're bloggin live about what happens this morning on the Breakfast Club.  So far, we've covered the rare tie with the Vikings / Packers game, and cheered about the Bulldogs Hockey win over the gophers yesterday! (6-2)

The tradition in my family has always been to roast our Thanksgiving turkey, then again, turkey deep fryers weren't around yet (insert "older than dirt joke" here).  I have traditionally stuck with that form of cooking a Thanksgiving turkey, but after tasting Ken's deep fried turkey and hearing so many more people choosing that mode of preparing their turkey, I'm beginning to change my m

Just in case you need another warning: deep-frying turkeys can be dangerous. And here's proof.

Ah, Thanksgiving. Every family’s tradition is different, but some things always ring true. There will always be a motley crew of folks coming together to celebrate and slip into a tryptophan-induced slumber. Here are the people who show up at Thanksgiving dinner...

Every year a FREE thanksgiving buffet is offered by Community Volunteers with assistance from staff and management from the College of St. Scholastica. Approximately 5,000 area persons in need are served a delicious turkey dinner with all the fixings, either at the DECC or by having a meal delivered to their home. Join our Community Family and let's celebrate Thanksgiving together.

Thanksgiving, which we've been celebrating in America for centuries now, is a time of family, food and, especially, tradition. Even so, many of the stories we take as gospel about this wonderful holiday—wonderful if you’re not endlessly bickering with your relatives, that is—aren’t true at all. Myth, legend and wishful thinking play into a lot of the misconceptions surrounding Turkey Day. Read Mor