Our own editor-at-large and Top Chef: Just Desserts judge Dannielle Kyrillos shares her mom Patti’s tried-and-true recipe for pumpkin pudding — or, as we affectionately call it, pumpkin fluff. The best part: It’s inexpensive (no fancy ingredients) and really easy.

Watch the pumpkin fluff cooking demo.

We asked Chicago’s Moto pastry chef Ben Roche to whip up a special pre-Thanksgiving recipe just for us. Here’s hoping his pumpkin pie pancakes tide you over.

Get the seasonal pancake and syrup recipe.

Thanksgiving 2009 was the last time you mixed pumpkin pie and vodka. It was also the last time you pulled your skirt over your head while shouting at your sister, “At least I don’t have Mom’s thighs!” There’s a safer way to blend your two favorites: the Pumpkin Shake.

Follow this recipe for an ideal libation.

Sophie Conran devised this special pumpkin, goat’s cheese, and sage pie recipe for DailyCandy readers. It’s scarily easy to make and perfect for spooky suppers.

Get the savory pie recipe.

We don’t know how Elizabeth Falkner does it. Between her role as a recurring judge on Top Chef: Just Desserts and revamping the dessert program at Epic Roasthouse, she found time to reopen Citizen Cake in San Fran’s Pac Heights. Even her holiday-apropos pumpkin cupcakes — served as dessert, snack, or decadent breakfast — are multitaskers.

Be a star like Elizabeth Falkner with this pumpkin cupcake recipe.

Spice things up with a cinchy, delicioso pork recipe, courtesy of our friend and cookbook author Carolynn Carreño.

Add this pork tinga recipe to tacos and quesadillas, too.

This recipe comes from Aunt Minnie. Diabetic though she was, the lady liked some sugar. She’d whip up a batch, eat only two pieces, and give the rest to her husband, Sol. As he was a tad mentally unstable, the recipe is named in his honor.

Feed the entire nuthouse with this recipe.

At our Thanksgiving dinner, anything goes. So for a riff on a traditional dish, we sought out Chicago food blogger Lottie + Doof (a.k.a. Tim Mazurek). He serves this mac ’n’ cheese in place of mashed potatoes at his Turkey Day table. It’s got spice, bite, and crunch — just the way we like it.

Everyone will ask for seconds (and thirds) when you serve this special mac ’n’ cheese dish.

Leftovers? Not after they try Gordon Ramsay’s turkey brochettes.

Fire up the oven and get this turkey recipe started.

You stole as many leftovers as your new holiday handbag could hold. (That’ll teach ’em to seat you at the kiddie table again.) Now here’s what to do with your take.

Get the recipe for leftover stuffing sliders.

We won’t lie: Artichokes are intimidating. Forget about how to cook them; how do you even eat them? To help answer both questions, senior features editor Jeralyn Gerba offers her big Italian family’s treasured stuffed artichokes recipe.

Get the easy artichoke recipe.

Workout guru Tracy Anderson makes health food that we actually want to eat — like a perfect-for-fall quinoa porridge with apple compote. It’s listed as a breakfast in her new book, Tracy Anderson’s 30-Day Method, but we might eat it as a hearty afternoon snack.

Whip up a tasty (and healthy) dish of quinoa porridge with apple compote.

Mom’s pumpkin bread is the best thing to come out of her oven since, well, you.

Bake a little loaf with this recipe.

So you know how to stuff the bird, whip the spuds, and empty cranberry from a can. (Congratulations.) Before you reach for the frozen pumpkin pie, give Betty a try in this recipe from San Francisco restaurant owner Perry Butler.

Sweetness! Check out the apple dessert recipe here.

Sisters pass down the most wonderful things. Tips on sneaking out. Worn-in jeans. The easiest recipes. Celebrate sisterhood with DailyCandy sis Shannon Byers-White’s pumpkin pie dip.

Steal her holiday dip recipe.

When it comes to making desserts, Betty Crocker is your crutch. Score real brownie points with this recipe from Seattle’s Pomegranate Bistro chef/owner and catering extraordinaire Lisa Dupar.

Make a batch of homemade caramel corn.

There’s nothing scary about Pumpkin Witches from New York’s Fat Witch Bakery.

Bake a pan of pumpkin bars.

Before your nose freezes off, gather the butternut squash and the stock pot for Philly’s Firecreek chef Carlo deMarco’s secret bisque recipe.

Cook a pot of this fall soup.

New York chef Tom Birchard, owner of 55-year-old Ukrainian eatery Veselka, shares a pierogi recipe from his Veselka Cookbook. You’ve got the whole day; may as well be ambitious in the kitchen.

Tuck into real comfort food with this pierogi recipe.

Cold weather is our favorite excuse to eat in. Miami chef Dewey LoSasso helps us plan our evening with his recipe for polenta-and-basil-crusted yellowtail snapper with pumpkin-toasted garlic sauce.

Cook his fall snapper recipe tonight.

You’re officially an apple, complete with muffin top and belly roll. On the upside, you still have some love for the pear. So treat yourself and others to a simple, Asian-inspired dessert.

Uncork the pinot noir for this wine-poached pear recipe.

Here’s a recipe for your next party from San Francisco’s cocktail wizards The Bon Vivants, otherwise known as Scott Baird and Josh Harris.

Get the party started with this punchy cocktail recipe.

We’ll be the first to tell you our market editor Aja Mangum’s mac ’n’ cheese could be a dieter’s downfall. But for years, Mangum’s family’s been whipping it up for naysayers, who’ve all promptly asked for seconds with their tails between their legs.

Try out this special mac ’n’ cheese recipe.

We asked MSNBC news correspondent Norah O’Donnell and her husband, chef Geoff Tracy, to whip up a fall recipe for us — in their spare time. Here’s what they came up with.

Try their pumpkin muffin recipe.

Boston chef Jeremy Sewall once whipped up this vegetable hash for his own family feast — then added it to his restaurant’s menu.

Make vegetable hash for your family with his easy recipe.

We’d like to make a toast. But first, we need to fill our glass with Chicago pastry chef Craig Harzewski’s special soda (made just for us). The simple recipe’s sure to please.

Take this grape soda recipe to your next shindig.

Treat yourself to some homemade pumpkin soup. Tom Collins, head chef at London’s Bistrotheque, created a recipe for DailyCandy that’s delicious, cheap, and easy to make.

Get the Brit’s recipe for pumpkin soup.

Serve the bird with plum and cranberry chutney from British preserve-maker Kitchen Garden, and then ask what everyone is thankful for. We’re pretty sure they’ll say your cooking skills.

Cook the cranberry chutney now, and it’ll keep until dinner’s served.

One cannot live on caramels and toffee, petits fours and coffee crunch cake, nor citrus bark and seasonal preserves alone. Even if you’re confection queen Valerie Gordon, who stuffs her winter larder with obscene amounts of cheese, charcuterie, fresh bread, truffles, and — whenever possible — caviar. Here’s her favorite late-morning holiday meal, which, in her own words, is “perfect as a prelude to a feast or as an epilogue the day after.”

Chow down on this egg-cellent recipe.

Since cookie exchanges and office parties are on the horizon, we want an easy-to-make baked good. Voilà: the brookie, an ingenious cross between a brownie and a cookie that’s twice as tempting.

Make your own batch of brookies tonight with this recipe.

Years of mucked-up side dishes (crunchy corn souffle) and culinary flops (Who could forget the zucchini and chocolate chip stuffing?) have earned you the onerous nickname “Thanksgiving Disaster.” Erase years of kitchen catastrophes with this sweet twist on a holiday classic, courtesy of Harold Dieterle, chef and co-owner of New York’s Perilla and the recently opened Kin Shop.

Get the recipe for roasted purple yams here.

Send Thanksgiving off in style with these mini donut holes, courtesy of Flex Mussels pastry chef and Top Chef: Just Desserts fave, Zac Young.

Fry up a dozen spiced pumpkin donut holes with this recipe.