Ask A Connecticut Chef: Healthy Thanksgiving Recipes

By Gillian Burdett
Traditional Thanksgiving dinner dishes aren’t always the healthiest. Fiber-rich, nutrition-loaded sweet potatoes become a dietary disaster once the cook adds lumps of butter, brown sugar and marshmallows. It’s fine to splurge a little over the holidays. The season is wrapped up in traditions of which food plays a big part. However, Thanksgiving comes between bowls of Halloween candy and platters of Christmas cookies. Re-thinking Thanksgiving dinner with an eye tow