Local Gourmet Take-Out Shop Takes the Worry Out of Your Thanksgiving Weekend Menus

Have you looked at the calendar and started to panic a little? Thanksgiving is now just a week away. Whether you're hosting the feast or going over the river and through the woods with a menu item assignment-relax. From soup to scones and everything in between Home Cooked will let you serve all the trimmings as if you made them at home.

Claire Philips is the owner of in the directly across Valley Road from the At a tasting for customers last Friday, Phillips and her staff offered samplings of some of the items that you can serve and claim as your own. You can buy the shop's delicacies in Home Cooked containers. But Phillips say the shop will be happy to pack items in your containers and nobody will ever have to know. Well, depending on how lumpy or sticky your gravy and stuffing came out last time you cooked, your friends and family may be suspcisious.

Phillips' secret recipes have been perfected and tweaked over the years. Caution: your "yes, of course I made it myself" charade could end when the inevitable "you have GOT to give me the recipe!" compliments start. Philips will put her creations in your dishes, but she won't share her recipe secrets.

At Friday's Home Cooked tasting the 'oohs and aahs' were as plentiful as the samples. Check out the photos to see some of the items on the shop's Thanksgiving menu.

Philips tells Patch "Thanksgiving is the busiest week of the year at Home Cooked." The most popular item on her Thanksgiving orders menu: gravy.

It's an extensive menu that includes everything but the turkey. You can find the menu on the Home Cooked website or click on the PDF.

The deadline for ordering is Friday at 6 p.m.

You can pick up your holiday orders on Tuesday, or Wednesday until 2 p.m.

Phillips says she and her staff wll try their best to accommodate orders placed after Friday, but demand is high so late orders depend on availability.