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Doritos for Thanksgiving

Hosted by Evan Kleiman Nov. 25, 2010 Food and Drink

Dietician Carol Meerschaert creates new Thanksgiving traditions by letting her kids design the holiday menu. The children choose foods they are thankful for.

Credits

Host:
Evan Kleiman

Producers:
Harriet Ells, Bob Carlson, Gillian Ferguson, Candace Moyer, Connie Alvarez, Laryl Garcia

Chinese BBQ Turkey

Eddie Lin visits Hop Woo in Chinatown for their Chinese barbecue turkey. Hop Woo 845 N. Broadway Blvd,. Los Angeles, CA 90012 (213) 617-3038

7 min, 21 sec

Turducken

CJ Jacobson is the chef at The Yard in Santa Monica (119 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA). He is making a Turducken at the restaurant. It's a chicken, stuffed into a duck,...

2 min, 41 sec

Chanterelle Stuffing

Evan Funke is the chef at Rustic Canyon Wine Bar in Santa Monica. He makes stuffing with chanterelle mushrooms. For the bread, he uses chanterelle mushrooms. A recipe is...

3 min, 34 sec

Kazi's Turkeys

Good Food producer Harriet Ells visits Kazi Pitelka, who raises heritage turkeys in her backyard farm in Altadena. See pictures of Kazi's birds here .

10 min, 53 sec

Cranberry Sauce Alternatives

Delilah Snell owns The Road Less Traveled , an eco store in Santa Ana. She is also a master preserver. If you're looking for a local alternative to cranberry...

5 min, 35 sec

Thanksgiving with Jonathan Gold

Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer and LA Weekly columnist Jonathan Gold has a solution for those of us who want to try out new versions of classic...

4 min, 51 sec

Doritos for Thanksgiving

Dietician Carol Meerschaert creates new Thanksgiving traditions by letting her kids design the holiday menu. The children choose foods they are thankful for.

9 min, 12 sec

Vegetarian Thanksgiving Dishes

Akasha Richmond is the chef/owner of Akasha in Culver City. She has lots of vegetarian and vegan options at her restaurant on Thanksgiving. A vegan pumpkin pie recipe...

3 min, 3 sec

Thanksgiving Etiquette

The best thing about Thanksgiving is the food, but along with that comes the friends and family that make this meal memorable, or something to be forgotten. Chow magazine...

9 min, 39 sec

Kajsa Alger's Thanksgiving

Kajsa Alger is the Executive Chef at Street (742 N. Highland Ave., Los Angeles). She adds an ethnic twist to various traditional Thanksgiving dishes, like...

3 min, 41 sec

Pumpkin Mezcal Cocktail

John Sedla r is the chef/owner of Rivera in Downtown L.A. and Playa, coming soon to Beverly Blvd. He makes a pumpkin infused mezcal that you can make at home. He adds...

5 min

Adopt-a-Turkey

Tricia Ritterbusch, of Farm Sanctuary , comes by to give us a fresh perspective on the holiday. Farm Sanctuary rescues turkeys and organizes a holiday dinner where the...

3 min, 50 sec

Turkey as a Side Dish

Diep Tran owns Good Girl Dinette in Highland Park. She and her Vietnamese family celebrate Thanksgiving, with some non traditional dishes. She also explains how...

4 min, 35 sec

NFL on Thanksgiving

Nick Harris is a punter for the Detroit Lions. They play the New England Patriots on Thanksgiving Day.

4 min, 32 sec

Brussels Sprouts

Randall Rosa is the chef at Sublime Food Lounge in Culver City's Arts District. He shares his recipe for Brussels Sprouts with Lardons, Cranberries and...

4 min, 5 sec

Wine Pairings for Thanksgiving

Stacie Hunt is a sommelier with Du Vin Wine and Spirits and Splash Productions. She here Thanksgiving wine suggestions here .

6 min, 56 sec

Valerie Gordon's Pumpkin Persimmon Bread Pudding

Valerie Gordon of Valerie Confections is making a pumpkin persimmon bread pudding as an alternative to pies.

2 min, 40 sec

Aida Mollenkamp's Side Dish

Aida Mollenkamp hosts Ask Aida on Food Network and foodcrafters on the Cooking Channel. She makes a vegetarian shepherd's pie for her family's...

1 min, 58 sec

Dorie's Pumpkin

Dorie Greenspan is best known for her cookbooks on baking. Her latest book is Around My French Table . In this week's sideDish, she shares a recipe for a stuffed...

5 min, 11 sec

Canadian Thanksgiving

Lindsay William-Ross is the editor of LAist and is from Canadian. Canadians celebrate about a month earlier than Americans. More about the holiday here .

2 min, 59 sec