"Duel of the Dishes" winners

The "Duel of the Dishes" survey and sweepstakes has ended. More than 2,000 voted for your favorite dishes and some of you won gift checks for turkeys from Butterball. Here's a partial list of winners:

Gina Willing, Hawaii
Sharon Scott, Montana
Colleen Bromagem, Oregon
Rodney R. Francisco, Texas
Andrea Brooks, Oregon
Michael Griffith, South Carolina
David Radtke, Illinois
Roy Cornwell, Virginia

HOW TO CARVE A TURKEY

Grasp drumstick. Place knife between thigh and body; cut through skin to joint. Remove leg by pulling out and back, using point of knife to disjoint it. Separate thigh and drumstick and joint.

Insert fork in upper wing to steady turkey. Wing may be disjointed from body, if desired. Make a long cut above wing joint through to body frame.

Slice straight down with even stroke beginning halfway up breast. When knife reaches the cut above wing bone, slice will fall free.

Continue to slice white meat, starting cut at a higher point each time.

Two’s company – even on Thanksgiving

Without extended family this year for Thanksgiving? Make a simple but elegant Thanksgiving dinner for two with easy recipes for turkey breast with a chutney sauce, apricot stuffing, green beans with pine nuts and sweet potatoes with orange.

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Basics and nothing but the traditional Thanksgiving basics

You can jazz it up, go trendy with gourmet side dishes and grilled, fried or otherwise frilly turkeys, but for Thanksgiving dinner, tradition often rules the day. Here are the basics for putting a traditional feast on the table.

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Talkin' trash turkey: Bird baked in the can gets raves

Sure, you can labor like the rest of America on Thanksgiving. You can baste and brush, fret and check, peek anxiously through the oven door. Mom may frown and Uncle Joe may raise an eyebrow, but one bite of a turkey cooked outside in a trash can will convince them that the holiday bird can be cooked inside the can with moist, succulent results after only 90 minutes.

Thanksgiving Doctor troubleshoots common problems

Who do you call when your Thanksgiving meal is ailing? The Thanksgiving Doctor, of course. We enlisted chef Maggie Green as our doctor and asked readers to tell us about their chronic holiday food afflictions. We chose three cases and then followed "Dr." Green as she made house calls to heal her patients' Thanksgiving woes.