Entries tagged with 'holidays'
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[Photograph: Lee Zalben] The creepiest, spookiest, most sugary day of the year has arrived! Break out the chocolate bars and don those devil horns: it's time for Halloween. If you still haven't decorated, check out our pumpkin-carving tips; if you're still lacking an outfit, create your own food-themed costume. And if you're still menu-planning? Get some inspiration from our recipes and guides below. Happy Halloween! Ghostly Goodies Creepy Meat Hands How to Make Ghostly Eggs Roasted Spicy Pumpkin Seeds Devilish Dinners Black Pepper-Crusted Sliced Steak with Crème Fraîche Sweet Potato Mash Black Sesame Seed and Sea Salt-Crusted Salmon with Wasabi-Lime Sauce Acorn Squash Soup with Brown Butter and Maple Yogurt Pumpkin Turkey Chili Trick-Or-Treats Serious Heat: Spicy Chocolate for...
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Halloween is serious business for kids. They want candy. Lots of candy. And with a few sleazy and not-so-sleazy tactics, they can get enough candy to last until next Halloween. Some simple tips include wearing a great costume and being an enthusiastic trick-or-treater; mildly more complicated is emptying your pail into a larger sack, changing costumes, and going back for seconds to the houses giving out the best candy. Watch the video after the jump....
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[Photograph: Robyn Lee] Today, October 1, is World Vegetarian Day to kick off Vegetarian Awareness Month. Here are some suggestions for how to raise awareness of vegetarianism throughout the month; if you're not vegetarian, you can try including more meatless meals this month. Check out our vegetarian column Seriously Meatless and other vegetarian recipes for ideas. Related Weekend Cook and Tell Round Up: The Temporary Vegetarian Snapshots from South Korea: Vegetarian Temple Food at Sanchon Menu: Vegan Thanksgiving Meatless in Saigon...
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[Image: G.O.D.] Mooncakes are the traditional pastries given out during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Chinese holiday that this year lands on October 3, aka the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar. Red Cook has a roundup of non-traditional mooncakes made for this popular holiday, such as coffee-flavored mooncakes from Starbucks, ice cream mooncakes from Häagen-Dazs, and...butt-shaped mooncakes? Hong Kong-based lifestyle goods store G.O.D. (stands for "Goods Of Desire") is behind this series of eight butt-shaped mooncakes for a different take on the word "moon." Related Grocery Ninja: Mooncakes and the Mid-Autumn Festival Weekend Excursion: Eat A Mooncake for Mid-Autumn Festival...
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[Photograph: Robyn Lee] I'm going to 'fess up here. I don't fast the way you're supposed to on Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of repentance that begins on Sunday night. Not that I don't have plenty to repent for—it's just that I've decided to repent while eating. But even though I don't fast I still look forward to a traditional (or even untraditional) Break Fast meal. On Monday night we were invited to break the fast with some good friends of ours who live in our apartment building. They'll have a fantastic platter of smoked fish, bagels, and cream cheese, which is the traditional break fast meal in my experience. But to kick it up a notch, Jewish-style, we're...
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[Photograph: Blake Royer] Pull out the lederhosen and kazoos for Oktoberfest, the beer-and-wurst-honoring German celebration that starts tomorrow and runs until October 4. Here are some menu-planning ideas, most of which involve some combination of: sausage, kraut, and beer. Baked Apples With Barley-Sausage Pilaf Potato Salad with Vinaigrette Beer Bread Turnip and Potato Gratin Honey-Glazed Turnips Wedges Red Cabbage With Apples and Honey Sausage Stuffed Peppers Mustard-Baked Chicken with a Pretzel Crust Pork Chops with Braised Fennel and Caramelized Onions Pork Chops with Mustard and Sour Cream Sauce Kielbasa with Pierogi and Sauerkraut Sauerkraut and Sausage Paprikash Apple Cobbler with Cheddar Biscuits Black Forest Chocolate Cookies...
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[Photograph: Arthur Schwartz] I don't know how, why, or when Jews started making brisket for holiday meals, but it's one ritualized aspect of the Jewish culinary tradition I wholeheartedly embrace. My friend Arthur Schwartz has written many, many wonderful cookbooks, including Jewish Home Cooking. Arthur set out in a wonderfully obsessive way to come up with the definitive, most seriously delicious potted brisket recipe. He experimented with cooking first cut and whole briskets, using liquid and not using liquid, and here's what he eventually came up with. Over on his website Food Maven, he shares all of the great and gory brisket experiment details. And what better way to top off a belly full of beef than with two...
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Apples and honey for a sweet new year. [Flickr: ForestForTrees] When we wanted to find some seriously delicious recipes for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, I immediately reached out to Joan Nathan, the queen (not named Esther) of Jewish cooking in this country. My wife and I have repeatedly cooked for both of our families from three of Joan's cookbooks: Jewish Cooking in America, Jewish Holiday Cookbook, and The New American Cooking. The finished dishes never fail to elicit oohs and ahhs, even from my brothers, who are certainly among the world's toughest lay food critics. Pay particular attention to Jim Cohen's Sephardic Brisket It will convince you that dried apricots and prunes are perfect complements to beef...
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Not sure what to make this weekend? We've got your back. From bacon salads to short ribs to shortcakes, it's time to salute summer foods before the butternut squash rolls in.
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"My grandfather has always said that if you have to buy zucchini, you must not have any friends."—padraigin on Metafilter Photograph from iLoveButter on Flickr What do you do with that truckload of zucchini you grew and have no use for? Foist it onto someone else! That's the point of Sneak Some Zucchini onto Your Neighbors' Porch Day, which takes place tomorrow, August 8. The creators of the holiday, Tom and Ruth Roy, share suggestions on how to get rid of excess zucchini at Wellcat. If you'd rather use your zucchini instead of give it away, here are some recipes to get you started: Farfalle with Zucchini and Gorgonzola Grilled Zucchini with Quinoa Stuffing Preserved Zucchini Pasta with Zucchini and...
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