Thanksgiving recipes from the L.A. Times Test Kitchen

Why limit your guests to one slice of pie, when you can offer them an assortment of mini pies:

At first glance, it looks exactly like a traditional pie — but miniaturized. Same rich and buttery crust with that tell-tale flake, same flavorful filling. All scaled down, “Mini-Me”-style. It may even have the same artfully crimped edges, only they’re tiny. Delicate even.

Call them what you will — tiny pies, muffin-tin pies, cup-pies (à la the show “Pushing Daisies”) — they’re essentially pies baked in muffin tins. And you can bake batches at a time.

They take a little time but are fun to make. No worries, we include plenty of recipes!

And what do you do the morning after the Turkey-fest? Well, you could eat the leftovers straight out of the fridge.... Or you could check out Thomas Keller’s recipes for Thanksgiving leftovers — yes, even Thomas Keller thinks about leftovers — like his to-die-for Thanksgiving stuffing pain perdu. Oh, yeah.

This week’s recipes include:

• Mini pumpkin chiffon pies
• Mini double-crust apple pies
• Mini pecan pies
• Flaky pie crust
• Thai-style turkey soup
• Turkey casserole
• Griddled Thanksgiving stuffing ‘pain perdu’
• Flavor del Mar’s butternut squash soup

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