New Thanksgiving Classics

The menus are being planned, grocery lists made, details finalized — it’s nearly go time for Thanksgiving, a time for epic feasting and the one day of the year on which even the most reluctant home cooks wander into the kitchen.Are you ready?I’m here to help.

We have Thanksgiving recipes for just about every dish you could think of, but today I’m sharing recipes that have become the new classics of the genre: holiday dishes from Cooking that are simple but imbued with intelligence and spark, recipes that are beloved by our readers and indisputably delicious.The menuButtermilk-Brined Roast TurkeySamin Nosrat’s roast turkey is among the most popular and best we’ve ever published, a supersize riff on her justly famous buttermilk-brined roast chicken recipe.Her method calls for three ingredients and produces a turkey with golden brown skin and juicy meat.

She did a version for turkey breast, too.Cheesy Hasselback Potato GratinThis dish is a Thanksgiving powerhouse with a key innovation: Kenji López-Alt, who wrote the recipe, stands the potato slices up vertically, rather than laying them flat, for a singular presentation that also gives you crisp potato edges in every bite.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe....