“If I Had a Dollar” is a series that highlights one useful or entertaining app per week that costs less than $1. Skip your vending machine soda and try some new apps!

It’s the most fattening time of the year: Thanksgiving. If all goes well, then many Americans will be passed out in front of the television before 6pm on Thursday, stuffed to the point of incoherency with traditional holiday cuisine. But in order to actually get to that sweet food coma, someone actually has to make dinner, and that is where things get tricky.

For this week’s dollar, I wanted to find resources that would avoid the shame of a lackluster holiday dinner contribution while helping out in a pinch. While there are certainly no shortage of resources to help home cooks achieve their best in the kitchen, many are expensive and continue to require payment for access…