Serious Eats - seriouseats.com

Cook's Illustrated's Slow-Roasted Turkey with Gravy

- serves 10 to 12 - Note: Instead of drumsticks and thighs, you may use 2 whole leg quarters, 1 1/2 to 2 pounds each. The recipe will also work with turkey breast alone; in step 2, reduce the butter...

Continue reading »

2 Comments | Posted by The Serious Eats Team, November 19, 2008 at 1:05 PM
Tagged: Cook's Illustrated, fall recipes, gravy, holiday entrees, holidays, roasting, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving turkeys, turkeys

Rack of Lamb

- serves 2 - Adapted from Entertaining by Martha Stewart. Stewart says to butter the baking pan with unsalted butter, but this led to horrible, horrible smoking in my oven. I’m not sure what the point of butter in the...

Continue reading »

Post a Comment | Posted by Robin Bellinger, May 21, 2008 at 2:15 PM
Tagged: Entertaining, holiday entrees, holidays, lamb, mains, Martha Stewart, Thanksgiving turkey alternatives

Classic Cookbooks: An Impressive Pork Loin Dinner from Marcella Hazan

When I read the comments on my first post about Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking. I realized that I had underestimated the delicacy of the thumbnail biographer’s task. As an educated, experienced woman who brings home the bacon (okay, a...

Continue reading »

9 Comments | Posted by Robin Bellinger, January 31, 2008 at 1:45 PM
Tagged: classic cookbooks, Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking, holiday entrees, holidays, Marcella Hazan, pork, sorbet, Swiss chard

Ham in Coca-Cola

At Ed’s request, here is the insanely simple procedure for making Ham in Coca Cola. This is my version of Nigella Lawson's version of some anonymous southern genius’ recipe. I’ve always wanted to make it with a few bottles of...

Continue reading »

2 Comments | Posted by SaraBir, May 23, 2006 at 5:11 PM
Tagged: ham, holiday entrees, holidays, Thanksgiving turkey alternatives