After Thanksgiving, what will you do with all the leftovers? These recipes will help! From entrees to desserts, here’s how to repurpose Thanksgiving leftovers. Hope you had a wonderful, happy and delicious Thanksgiving yesterday! Ours was just perfect — filled with family, ridiculous amounts of food and our favorite traditions. Our table was overflowing with…
Baked Vegetables with Chickpeas and Garam Masala
Meaty chickpeas, loads of vegetables, fragrant garam masala … this dish is delicious served with rice. Read on for the Baked Vegetables with Chickpeas and Garam Masala recipe. “Put something on,” has become the call to play music in our house. A record player, far more compact than the one of my childhood, sits in my dining…
How to Make Pumpkin Puree
Pies and breads and bars, oh my! What makes pumpkin dishes even better? Homemade pumpkin puree! Here’s how to make pumpkin puree for all your holiday baking needs. You might ask: Why would you possibly want to make pumpkin puree from scratch when it’s so readily available in a can? To that, I say: Why would…
Cranberry Coffee Cake
Use leftover cranberry sauce to make this tender, sweet-tart breakfast masterpiece. This recipe for Cranberry Coffee Cake is delightful. After Thanksgiving, the leftovers loom. We devour plates of reheated foods, make sandwiches, craft turkey enchiladas and so much more. But despite all the leftovers we eat, it seems we never can quite finish all the…
Cranberry Bread with Buttermilk
With a lightly sweetened crumb, this Cranberry Bread with Buttermilk yields a tender loaf dotted with tart cranberries. It’s perfect sliced for breakfast or snacks. Halloween is gone. Election day has passed. Now we’re well into November and … it’s cranberry season! But cranberry sauce isn’t the only way to enjoy fresh cranberries. Tart, firm…
How to Prepare Perfect Fluffy Quinoa
Perfectly prepared quinoa isn’t bitter or mushy. It’s delicate but firm, a lovely base for a meal. Here’s how to prepare perfect fluffy quinoa. You have to rinse raw quinoa. Ever since the first time I made quinoa, that instruction has stood out in my head. It’s essential. It rinses the bitterness from the quinoa….
Homemade Cranberry Sauce with Apples and Cinnamon
Tart cranberries are mellowed in this homemade whole berry cranberry sauce featuring apples and cinnamon, which lend a warm flavor. Delightful with your holiday turkey. The giant bag of cranberries at the warehouse club we belong to caught my eye. “That’s a lot of cranberries,” my daughter Paige, who’s 10, said as I plunked it…
Pickled Red Cabbage
When I saw the heads of red cabbage at the farmers market recently, images of pickled red cabbage danced in my head. It’s been eons since I’ve had pickled cabbage and I do so love making pickled veggies. (Those dilly beans!) This recipe isn’t the sweet variety of pickled cabbage (like you’d find jarred in…
How to Prepare Delicata Squash | Roasted Delicata Squash
Caramelized and tender, this recipe for Easy Delicata Squash is a lovely way to enjoy this hard squash. Whenever I encounter a vegetable or fruit I haven’t seen before at the farmers market, I ask the farmers how they like to eat it. Doing so has netted me so much good information. That’s how I…
How to Prepare and Serve Spaghetti Squash
Spaghetti squash, a winter squash, can be served in place of pasta or rice in dishes. Here’s how to prepare and serve spaghetti squash. Like many families, most of our groceries came from the grocery store when I was a child in the 1980s and 1990s. Farmers markets weren’t a thing in my area, so…