Dispatches From Thanksgiving
Posted on November 28, 2008 - Filed Under Thanksgiving | 7 Comments
The Turkey
Centerpiece
Bread and Cheese
Read More..>>Thanksgiving Recap: Cranberry Apple Sauce
Posted on December 6, 2007 - Filed Under Thanksgiving, fruit | Leave a Comment
Over the years, I have experimented a lot with cranberry sauces. I’ve been looking for the right recipe that is different, but delightful. This is it.
This cranberry sauce is about as easy as it can get. The addition of apple adds a nice (and slightly sweet) twist that really takes the sauce to a different [...]
Thanksgiving Recap: Roasted Butternut Squash
Posted on December 3, 2007 - Filed Under Thanksgiving, vegetables | Leave a Comment
The first year that I made Thanksgiving dinner, my then-boyfriend (he’s since been upgraded to husband) requested butternut squash. Frankly, my family doesn’t (or at least didn’t until then) eat squash. Not at all. And I had never had it before, let alone cooked it. So I did what any good girlfriend would do – [...]
Read More..>>Thanksgiving Recap: Sharing the Kitchen
Posted on November 29, 2007 - Filed Under Thanksgiving | Leave a Comment
Okay, so I was supposed to give you the delicious recipe for roasted butternut squash and I still will — just later than I intended. It’s been a rough week. Regardless, I wanted to catch up on my Thanksgiving recap and tell you about something amazing that I did this year.
Wait for it . . [...]
Thanksgiving Recap: Part 1 – The Menu
Posted on November 26, 2007 - Filed Under Thanksgiving, turkey | Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Read More..>>Ideas for Thanksgiving Vegetable Side Dishes
Posted on November 19, 2007 - Filed Under Thanksgiving | 1 Comment
Vegetables are my favorite part of Thanksgiving. I am not talking boring steamed veggies and bland boiled ones — I am talking flavorful, punch-packing veggies. Why have a basic meal when you can have a breathtaking one?
And if you are like me, you have procrastinated making your Thanksgiving menu and are in crunch time. I’ll [...]
Getting to the Stuffing . . .
Posted on November 30, 2006 - Filed Under Thanksgiving, side dishes | Leave a Comment
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 ingrediants 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 bread2 [...]
Read More..>>Getting to the Stuffing . . .
Posted on November 30, 2006 - Filed Under Thanksgiving, side dishes | Leave a Comment
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 ingrediants 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 bread2 [...]
Read More..>>Thanksgiving food porn, and anti-porn
Posted on November 27, 2006 - Filed Under Just Photos, Thanksgiving | Leave a Comment
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 it. [...]
Read More..>>1:15 a.m., Thanksgiving Day
Posted on November 23, 2006 - Filed Under Thanksgiving | Leave a Comment
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 for [...]
