Thanksgiving Dinner 2021: A Traditional-Style Feast for Six. A how-to for a homemade feast, from turkey to pie.
Entertaining
Suitable for guests, special occasions, or for bringing to a dinner party or potluck. Some posts that are tagged this way are obviously designed for serving guests. Other posts may be tagged this way to signify that this is a special, high-quality, interesting dish that you’d be proud to serve a guest. Posts that contain entire menus are tagged in a subcategory of Entertaining called “all in one.” Search for it in the category drop down on the right hand side of any page.
Thanksgiving Turkey with Stuffing and Gravy
This is an all-in-one set of recipes for Thanksgiving Turkey with Stuffing and Gravy
Oven-Poached Garlic with Thyme
Oven-Poached Garlic with Thyme is a modification of an easy Martha Stewart recipe that produces caramelized garlic cloves and an infused oil.
A “Perfect” Chocolate Chip Cookie
A “perfect” chocolate chip cookie? Maybe. I’m not sure such a thing exists, does it? But is this great cookie? Definitely.
Olive and Rosemary Waffles with Manchego Sauce and Smoked Salmon
Waffles in a cheese sauce? Oh yeah! Olive and Rosemary Waffles with Manchego Sauce and Smoked Salmon. Rehats well enough to serve leftovers to guests!
Egg and Mushroom Rolls
Egg and Mushroom Rolls with olives and sun-dried tomatoes: quick, flexible, easy, delicious comfort food wrapped in a tortilla.
Catalan Beef Stew
Catalan Beef Stew: meat stewed in wine, orange peel, and Spanish olives. A beautiful recipe. Reheats well. Unusually delicious.
Blackberry-Saskatoon Hand Pies: Pop-Tarts, Perfected
The sour-cream-and-butter dough for these homemade Blackberry-Saskatoon Hand Pies is somewhere in between pie crust and pastry. A touch of glaze makes them perfectly sweet. They’re sort of like Pop-Tarts, except we left out the thiamine mononitrate, the palm oil (with TBHQ for freshness!), the dextrose, the high fructose corn syrup … you get the picture.
Birthday Party Menu for a Dozen Adults
You know how, after a sitcom has been on a few seasons, you have one of those episodes that’s nothing other than a series of flashbacks to previous episodes and you feel like thank god you get this stuff free, because you feel like you totally got cheated, but at the same time, you’re like, oh, that episode!