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Jonathan Waxman's  step-by-step guide to the compleat Thanksgiving dinner -- turkey and stuffing and all the sides -- in just two hours. Now, that's pilgrims' progress. | 
 
              
 
				
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| Many things in life can be done in a couple of hours. Cooking Thanksgiving dinner isn't one of them -- or so we thought until Washington Park chef Jonathan Waxman generously divulged the foolproof 120-minute technique he developed on a dare seventeen years ago and has been perfecting ever since. The avatar of California-casual cooking keeps things predictably simple with a fourteen-ingredient shopping list, and in his opinion, bigger is decidedly not better: "No one in New York has a huge kitchen," he says. "No one wants a huge turkey." The twelve-pounder his recipe calls for cooks in under an hour and a half. Which still leaves plenty of time to whip up oyster-and-apple stuffing, rich giblet gravy, crunchy Brussels sprouts and bacon, earthy roasted-carrot-and-endive salad, and homemade cranberry sauce, not to mention two kinds of potatoes, and spaghetti squash. Okay, so it doesn't include dessert. Isn't that what guests are for?  | 
 
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Buffet-style Thanksgiving  
  Serves 6 to 10.  
 
Roast turkey and gravy  
Oyster-apple stuffing 
Brussels sprouts with bacon 
Sweet potatoes 
Spaghetti squash 
Mashed potatoes 
Cranberry sauce 
Roasted-carrot-and-endive salad | 
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The Wines  
   Roero Arneis, Bruno Giacosa; 2001 ($21.95) 
Chinon, Les Roches Cachées; 2000 ($9.95) 
  
Available at Sherry-Lehmann  
679 Madison Avenue, near 61st Street 
212-838-7500)  | 
 
              
 
                
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