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Posts tagged “Thanksgiving”

Recipe: Delicata Squash and Gruyere Dip

Squash often makes an appearance as a side dish or a vegetarian main dish, but rarely as an appetizer. And yet its smooth texture and bright color make it a great friend of the hors d'oeuvre buffet....

Recipe: Sweet Potato and Sage Gratin

We have never understood why people add so much sugar to sweet potatoes. With the exception of desserts like sweet potato pie, it seems wholly unnecessary. This sweet dish is not for dieters; it wo...

Recipe: Roasted Sweet Potato Sticks with Rosemary

Sweet potatoes make a bright addition to the table in the dark winter, and this is a fast way to put them there, without much work at all. Sweet potatoes are chopped into thick sticks - don't even p...

Recipe: Creamy Cheesy Potatoes

This is an updated classic, and also my motivation for figuring out how to make cream of chicken soup from scratch. ...

Recipe: Cranberry Cake

I made this cranberry cake three times over Thanksgiving week because I just can't get enough of it. It's sweet with a golden crumb, soft and moist, and dense without being heavy, with juicy explosion...

Recipe: Acorn Squash and Roasted Garlic Strudel

Strudel is an easy and accommodating sort of pastry. If you start with premade phyllo dough and use ricotta as a foundation for your filling, a strudel can be adapted to all kinds of flavor experiment...

On Thankfulness and Grace

We cooks see things just a bit differently than everyone else. Sure, we measure time down to the nanosecond with Outlook calendars and PDAs like everyone else, but we're also counting the twelve or fo...

Time to tackle the turkey

To brine or not to brine is the question for some cooks, while others are just looking for a way through their first time hosting such a large event. There's just so many takes on how to cook the Than...

Recipe: Modern Ambrosia

The word ambrosia conjures up heavenly images of cloud-like deliciousness and swoony sweetness, which is why it always seems like something fun to make and eat, but the truth is, old-fashioned ambros...

Recipe: Cranberry Sauce with Frills

Cranberry Sauce with Frills makes 2 1/2 - 3 1/2 cups 12-oz bag fresh cranberries (about 3 cups) Up to 1 cup liquid (see note below) Up to 3/4 cup sugar or brown sugar (depending on your other ingredi...

Recipe: No-Frills Cranberry Sauce

No-Frills Cranberry Sauce makes about 2 1/2 cups 1 cup water 1/2 cup sugar 12-oz bag fresh cranberries (about 3 cups) Bring water and sugar to a boil, stirring with a wooden spoon until sugar is dis...