So you’re stuck at home this Thanksgiving and want to give your family the full holiday experience, just like at Grandma’s house, but you’re not exactly Rachael Ray or Paula Dean. Never fear! In 2012, all you need to create a Thanksgiving feast fit for the cover of Good Housekeeping are the proper ingredients, a little elbow grease and… your smartphone, of course! Just choose one of many available holiday cooking apps and you’ll soon be cooking a feast that gives Grandma a run for her money.

Cooking a bird is tougher than most people think, until they try it themselves, that is. That’s why the Chow Thanksgiving Dinner Coach app can be the cook’s best friend in the kitchen during the holidays. Not only does the free app provide a plethora of traditional Thanksgiving recipes, but it details the all-important prep and cook time in a calendar format.

Are you more of a visual learner? Perhaps the Thanksgiving Recipes HD app is more your style. Not only does it provide the necessary Thanksgiving recipes, but the $1.99 app also includes step-by-step video tutorials of all that is Thanksgiving. Before you know it, you’ll be mashing potatoes and roasting Toms with the best of them.

What Thanksgiving meal is complete without the perfect pie? But how many of us can bake a perfect pie? That’s where the Appetites’ Easy As Pie featuring Evan Kieiman app comes in. Like the previously described app, it offers step-by-step video instructions, but of 20 different pie recipes. For just $2.99 it’s a lot cheaper than running to the corner bakery, right?

Samantha Lile

Samantha Lile is a 2002 Missouri State University graduate of journalism and mass media. She has served as a reporter and editor for various newspapers throughout her journalism career. She made the leap into writing full-time after working for a major financial institution since 2000.

Because of her banking background, Samantha is knowledgeable in finance reporting, but is also strong in commentaries, personal profiles, youth studies, horticulture, history and entertainment-related works.

Samantha lives in Ozark, Mo. with her husband of nine years, four dogs and two cats.

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