Something for Everyone: Thank Goodness, Thanksgiving
We’ve always come together as a family around the table. Dinners whenever more than one is home, breakfasts on Sundays mostly, lunches on holidays or weekends when we find ourselves in the same place....
View ArticleGluten-free Dairy-free Cornbread Stuffing for a Turkey
The first year that we decided to be gluten-free and dairy-free for Thanksgiving, I gave up my longstanding tradition of making bread stuffing for the turkey and moved over to a more Southern approach...
View ArticleRoasted Roots
I love roasted vegetables. There’s something about the concentration of flavors that feels homey. And the contrast between the slightly crispy outside and the soft, creamy inside adds a little...
View ArticleRoasted Cipollini Onions
Cipollini onions are small, flat onions with a light golden color and a papery skin that’s hard to peel. I picked out a small bagful of equal size cuties to roast and serve at Thanksgiving, but they’d...
View ArticleEternity: Two People and a _______, the Last Bite
There’s an old joke that eternity can be defined as two people and a ham. Now I can attest to an alternative: two people and a turkey. With the brood departing after the holiday weekend and not taking...
View ArticleCranberry Sorbet
Sometimes I struggle with the proportions of sorbet ingredients to be able to achieve a smooth, almost creamy texture rather than a block of ice. I made a yummy cantaloupe sorbet this summer that was...
View ArticleWaste Not Want Not – Getting the Most from Your Food: Apple Jelly with...
After peeling and coring eight organically grown apples for a Thanksgiving pie and sprinkling the slices with the juice of a fresh lemon to keep them from browning, I had a pile of leftovers that...
View ArticleWaste Not Want Not: Restocking the Bird, Turkey Rice Soup
The bird was barely warm when we stripped it. After the Thanksgiving feast, we quickly removed the turkey meat to cool and refrigerate it and placed the carcass in a deep stockpot. After being...
View ArticleLittle Sweet and Sour Onions
I am always searching for something piquant to serve with Thanksgiving fare. Cranberry sauce fulfills part of this every year and this year, my discovery of boiled apple cider to glaze radishes and...
View ArticleGinger and Ginger-Vanilla Jelly
This is the feistiest preserve I’ve made in some time. Gingery heat with a lingering spiciness plus the aromatic allure of vanilla. And to think it all started with a pile of unseemly scraps. Peelings...
View ArticleCranberries Meet Sweet-Hot Chili Jam for Thanksgiving
Here’s the perfect holiday condiment. It works as well with goat cheese and crostini as it does with turkey and stuffing. Every year at the end of the fall season, I go to the farmers market and buy...
View ArticleCranberry Jam with Nuts and Ginger
The locavore in me leads to cranberries at this time of year. Scooped in bulk from cases in nearby farmers’ markets, they’re superior to the not quite ripe berries mass produced in New England and...
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