It's Thanksgiving, which means food bloggers are breaking out their best holiday recipes. The crowdsourced Food52 has menu ideas for Thanksgiving in 5 ingredients or fewer, 7 Thanksgiving salads to cut the heavy hitters, and Genius Recipes: Russ Parson's Dry-Brined Turkey. The Cooks Next Door has a giant stash of Thanksgiving sides recipes. Kalyn's Kitchen has her 10 favorite recipes including tasty looking stuffing muffins, and Gluten-Free Girl and the Chef has everything you need for a gluten-free Thanksgiving. If you're looking to create a feast for just a few people, Serious Eats has this grilling recipe for turkey breast with cranberry stuffing. For Thanksgiving with some spice, Dinners & Dreams collects Thanksgiving recipes with Middle Eastern flair (cranberry hummus, anyone?). And if you're still thinking about deep-frying a turkey this year, watch these William Shatner videos first so you don't inadvertently burn down the house (via Eat Like a Man).

Need some ideas for homemade Halloween baking and treats? Bloggers have you covered. Mudlark Tales has a simple and yummy recipe for savory witch fingers. Kyndall in the Kitchen has some crafty Halloween food items she collected on Pinterest (the mini hot-dog mummies look particularly tasty). KerryCooks rounds up her favorites like Battenburg (a ghoulish green punch), festive cookie bark and pumpkin spice cake. Picky Palate has tasty-looking monster eyeballs and fudgy graveyard brownies as well as a recipe for the hot-dog mummies. And Art of Being Perfect has some perfectly cute meringue ghosts - a great way to get the kids involved.