Category: Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Recap: Part 1 – The Menu
I don’t have a million photos of our meal from Thanksgiving this year, but will be posting a few periodically throughout the week. To tell the truth, there wasn’t a perfectly planned table to fawn over and the menu wasn’t as intricate as it has been in previous years. But I found that modifying our [...]
Getting to the Stuffing . . .
As promised, here is the recipe for Apple Bacon Corn Bread stuffing . . . everyone raved about this on Thanksgiving. I know it seems like a lot of ingredients but the prep goes very quickly and it comes together easily. Apple Bacon Corn Bread Stuffing 1 recipe corn bread such as my lavender corn [...]
Thanksgiving food porn, and anti-porn
I’ve written bits and pieces about Thanksgiving at my Cucina Bella, but here’s an inside look at the good and bad . . . This was my table. See the centerpiece? It was born of necessity . . . I wanted something fancy and didn’t have time to actually get all the things necessary for [...]
1:15 a.m., Thanksgiving Day
It’s 1:15 a.m., Thanksgiving Day. After a delayed start, due to my need to reseason all my cast-iron pans (and I use the term “need” very loosely), the glazed carrots, cranberry apple chutney, roasted parsnips and honey maple glaze are ready. I also made (to my own detriment) walnut turtles — oops, the walnuts were [...]
Thanksgiving Menu
I have a confession to make . . . my Thanksgiving menu is still unfinished. I have some finalization to do yet. I know, I know – it’s getting a bit late for that. But c’est la vie. It will get done. Here’s what I have so far: Hor D’ourves Blue Beef Bites Antipasti platter [...]
Shhh….it’s coming!
Suddenly it hit me this morning on the way to work . . . Thanksgiving is coming! Soon! Really, really soon! Normally, I have my menu all finalized by now. Granted, after having cooked Thanksgiving dinner for the past few years, there are some staples that will automatically make the cut. My maple glazed turkey [...]
