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 could have gone into the garbage can or the compost heap, but why? They make the perfect combination for jelly. [...]
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Waste Not Want Not – Getting the Most from Your Food: Apple Jelly with Thanksgiving Herbs or Spices
Posted in Apple, Herbs, Preserving, Thanksgiving, tagged Making jelly from apple scraps on November 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Cranberry Sorbet
Posted in Cranberries, Sorbet, Thanksgiving, tagged Cranberries, Sorbet on December 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 great fresh out of the ice cream maker but froze to a poor consistency. I think it’s partly in the [...]
Eternity: Two People and a _______, the Last Bite
Posted in Potatoes, Thanksgiving, tagged Croquettes, Thanksgiving on December 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 anything with them, there was a passel of left-behinds. A little of this and that and a [...]
Roasted Cipollini Onions
Posted in Onions, Thanksgiving, tagged Onions, Thanksgiving on December 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 be good anytime. The trick is in the peeling. As with tomatoes and peaches, a quick dip in [...]
Roasted Roots
Posted in Carrots, Sweet potato, Thanksgiving, Turnips and rutabagas, tagged Carrot, Sweet potato, Thanksgiving, Turnips and rutabagas on December 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 complexity. Here I have a medley of root vegetables from our CSA farm: sweet potatoes, rutabaga, turnip and carrots. Parsnips would be a good addition, [...]
Gluten-free Dairy-free Cornbread Stuffing for a Turkey
Posted in Cornbread, Gluten-free, Gluten-free dairy-free, Thanksgiving, tagged Cornbread, Gluten-free, Thanksgiving on December 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 based on cornbread. I had been researching gluten-free baking, so I knew cornbread would be a good option. I used the [...]
Something for Everyone: Thank Goodness, Thanksgiving
Posted in Gluten-free, Thanksgiving, tagged Thanksgiving on December 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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. We’ve shared our lives over many a meal, the meal being a means to bring us together as individuals and as [...]
