Blake Shelton and His Family Take Thanksgiving Very Seriously

Blake Shelton and his stepsons Kingston, 15, Zuma, 13, and Apollo, 7, have a Thanksgiving tradition that consists of cooking up a turkey a la whatever recipe they decide upon–while mom Gwen Stefani works on the rest of the holiday meal.

“The first year, we made a hot Flamin’ Hot Cheetos turkey,” Shelton explained in a recent interview. “We crusted it in the Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. The next year Apollo, or maybe it was Zuma; I can’t remember. We ended up doing a Funyuns turkey, which actually tasted a lot like a regular turkey. I guess whatever they put in Funyuns, it’s the same stuff.”

Shelton and Stefani married this past July, and the couple doesn’t disappoint when it comes to homemade meals; they reportedly do a “test run” of a new dish a few days before the big meal.

“I married into an Italian family, and food is, they take that serious around here, and I do, too,” he said. “So it’s a bad, really bad combination.”

This year, Shelton’s family is planning on tackling pasta timpano, which the country star describes as the following: “Basically, there are all kinds of different pastas and sauces and layers in this like bread bubble,” Shelton explained. “Then you bake it, and you cut these slices, and it’s literally the most fattening worst thing you could probably ever eat. But it’s also the best thing you ever ate, too.”

If only we could all sit around the Stefani-Shelton table this Thanksgiving!

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