This is the one-pan recipe to make your Thanksgiving easy

Melissa Clark's Sheet Pan Thanksgiving recipe is an easy-to-prepare meal for the holiday or throughout the year.

When it comes to Thanksgiving cooking, some think it’s difficult by design.

“I feel like we’re supposed to get stressed about Thanksgiving. It’s part of our national identity,” says Melissa Clark, the best-selling cookbook author and New York Times food columnist. “I mean, I love cooking large meals and I do love cooking Thanksgiving, [but] it does stress me out just a little bit.”

But if you’re feeling especially nervous about prepping a meal that day, and if if it’s your debut cooking the holiday dinner, Clark says her Sheet Pan Thanksgiving dinner is a simple way to go.