Baldor Specialty Foods Introduces Line of Convenient Thanksgiving Dinner Meals – A Simple, Stress-free Way to Prepare a Great-Tasting Holiday Feast

This Thanksgiving, Baldor Specialty Foods is offering families a selection of pre-cooked and prepared Thanksgiving meals, which can be delivered to the home and reheated just in time for the annual holiday feast.

The company has curated several Thanksgiving meal options, prepared by some of NYC’s most renowned chefs and caterers, using only fresh, high quality ingredients. Choose from a traditional Thanksgiving dinner from Great Performances, with all the courses from a harvest salad to pumpkin pie, or a modest smoked turkey breast meal from Pig Beach that’s perfect for smaller gatherings. There’s even a special vegetarian-friendly meal that features a rich, quinoa-stuffed acorn squash with baby kale, melted leeks, and dried cherries from Relish Caterers. Whichever option you choose, Baldor Specialty Foods will help make your family (or Friendsgiving) gathering a terrific culinary success.

All ingredients in Baldor’s Thanksgiving Meals are pre-cooked – so preparation is as easy as reheating. Online ordering is simple and includes home-delivery managed by Baldor’s own professional fleet of delivery trucks and drivers.

“At Baldor, we wanted to make this year’s Thanksgiving simple and fun for families that will be hosting smaller, more intimate gatherings,” said T.J. Murphy, Baldor’s CEO. “By connecting our home delivery customers with some of New York City’s most talented caterers and restaurants, holiday preparation will be both stress-free and delicious.”

Baldor’s Thanksgiving Meals come in a variety of options to easily accommodate the different tastes and total size of the holiday gathering. Meal options include:

Great Performances Thanksgiving Meal: ($249.00, Serves 4) Includes brown sugar spice-brined and roasted turkey, featuring carved breast meat, a seasoned thigh roulade, and one whole braised drumstick. Sides include a traditional turkey gravy, citrus cranberry compote, brioche and turkey sausage stuffing, Yukon gold and celery root mash, glazed herbed carrots, a squash, beet, and pear salad. For dessert, pumpkin chiffon pie. All three side dishes are vegetarian or vegan, and gluten-free.

• Roast Turkey: Carved Breast, Thigh, and Whole Drumstick
• Brioche, Turkey Sausage, Sage, Sweet Onion and Celery Root Stuffing
• Cranberry and Citrus Zest Compote (1 pint)
• Turkey Gravy
• Mashed Yukon Gold Potato and Celery Root
• Orange and Spice Roasted Carrots, Toasted Pistachios, Farm Herbs
•  Autumn Harvest Salad: Roasted Delicata Squash, Red Beets and Pears Kale, Pumpkin Seeds, Goat Cheese, Shallot Vinaigrette
• 12”  Dessert Pumpkin Chiffon Pie, Graham Cracker Crumb Crust, and Whipped Cream

Relish Catering Turkey Dinner Meal ($200 to serve 4 or $365 to serve 8) An eight dish, two to three course (depending on how you choose to serve it) traditional Thanksgiving dinner with an all-natural, herbed turkey, flaky buttermilk biscuits, spiced cranberry sauce, a local greens salad tossed with poached pears, pecans, and cauliflower, preserved lemon Brussels sprouts, garnet yams laced with bourbon and sage, potato bread stuffing, and a sugar pumpkin-based pumpkin pie. Several items on this menu are gluten-free, vegetarian, and dairy-free. Available in two different sizes.

• House-made Flakey Buttermilk Biscuits (V)
• Fresh Spiced Cranberry Sauce, Orange, Star Anise, Cinnamon (GF, VE)
• Fossil Farms All-Natural Turkey, Rosemary, Thyme (GF) – 8 lb/12 lb (pre-cooked weight)
• Satur Farms Greens, Red Wine Poached Pears, Candied Pecans, Charred Cauliflower, Goat Cheese Crumbles (V, GF)
• Charred Brussels Sprouts, Preserved Lemon, Roasted Garlic (VE, GF)
• Organic Garnet Yams, Bourbon, Sage, Nutmeg (GF, V, D)
• Traditional Herb Stuffing, Potato Bread, Caramelized Shallot, Rosemary, Thyme (V)
• Pumpkin Pie, Organic Sugar Pumpkin, Cinnamon, Nutmeg  (V,D)

Relish Catering Veggie Thanksgiving Meal ($200 to serve 4 or $365 to serve 8) An eight dish, two to three course, with a  main dish of hearty quinoa-stuffed acorn squash featuring kale, melted leeks, and dried cherries. Also included are flaky buttermilk biscuits, spiced cranberry sauce, a local greens salad tossed with poached pears, pecans, and cauliflower, preserved lemon Brussels sprouts, garnet yams laced with bourbon and sage, potato bread stuffing, and a sugar pumpkin-based pumpkin pie. Several items are gluten-free and dairy-free.

• House-made Flakey Buttermilk Biscuits (V)
• Fresh Spiced Cranberry Sauce, Orange, Star Anise, Cinnamon (GF, VE)
• Quinoa Stuffed Acorn Squash, Baby Kale, Melted Leeks, Dried Cherries (VE, GF)
• Satur Farms Greens, Red Wine Poached Pears, Candied Pecans, Charred Cauliflower, Goat Cheese Crumbles (V, GF)
• Charred Brussels Sprouts, Preserved Lemon, Roasted Garlic (VE, GF)
• Organic Garnet Yams, Bourbon, Sage, Nutmeg (GF, V, D)
• Traditional Herb Stuffing, Potato Bread, Caramelized Shallot, Rosemary, Thyme (V)
• Pumpkin Pie, Organic Sugar Pumpkin, Cinnamon, Nutmeg  (V,D)

Hill Country Barbecue Thanksgiving Meal ($165 serves 4-6 people) Smoked turkey! Mac and cheese! Cornbread! Pumpkin Pie!  It’s everyone’s favorite food holiday, and it’s also a chance to reflect on what we’re all truly thankful for.  This year will be a challenge for many of us, so let Hill Country make things a little bit easier with this fully prepared smoked turkey breast dinner.

• 4.5 pounds smoked turkey breast
• pint of cranberry sauce
• quart of gravy
• 1/4 pan of stuffing
• 1/4 pan mac and cheese
• 1/4 pan collard greens
• corn bread loaf
• Pumpkin Pie

Pig Beach Turkey Breast Meal ($50.00) The perfect meal for a small crowd, which most of us will be having this year or rounding out the table for larger feasts. It includes a 2.5lb smoked, boneless turkey breast, one tart and creamy 8-inch Key Lime Pie, as well as six squares of cornbread, accompanied by whipped honey butter. Photo attached of this kit here.

• 8” Key Lime Pie
• Cornbread (6 pieces)
• 3lb Turkey Breast
• 4oz Honey Butter

Pig Beach Thanksgiving Bakery Meal ($32.50) This meal holds the same contents as the one listed above, just minus the turkey! It includes two baked goods to round out you dinner plan: One 8” Key Lime Pie and 6 squares of cornbread with a side of whipped butter.

• 8” Key Lime Pie
• Cornbread (6 pieces)
• 4oz Honey Butter

Customers are urged to place their orders early to secure a convenient home delivery time.

Since the pandemic struck, Baldor has pivoted a large portion of its business from serving its primary restaurant customers, to serving individuals and families throughout the Northeast using their fleet of trucks to offer home delivery service. As one of the largest wholesale importers and distributors of fresh produce and specialty foods in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions, Baldor has had the necessary infrastructure and resources to make home delivery easy and reliable.

To review all of these and other Baldor Restaurant Series offerings visit: https://www.baldorfood.com

About Baldor Specialty Foods

Baldor Specialty Foods is one of the largest distributors of premium fresh produce, specialty foods, dairy, meat and fish in Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. Beginning as Balducci’s fruit stand in Greenwich Village in 1946, Baldor maintains its original commitment to freshness, flavor, quality and service. Baldor Specialty Foods now services more than 13,000 food service, retail and corporate accounts from Portland, ME to Richmond, VA, and offers over 6,000 food items. The company’s mission is to deliver quality ingredients, innovative solutions and seamless experiences that ensure the success of its partners.

To learn more, go to www.baldorfood.com.