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Brussels sprouts with bacon. Free turkey please?

Pumkin pie brulee!

That pumpkin pie brulee is starting to sound good.....

Mashed potatoes and gravy.

Brussels sprouts with bacon!

The whole classic menu really appeals to me, but the brussel sprouts and bacon really stand out.

Other than Serious Eats, I'd have to say Simply Recipes or KA Flour's Baker's Banter. But I've just gotten some excellent recommendations here in the comments for new blogs to try--thanks, everyone!

I've tried, I've really tried to like whiskey. I could attribute my dislike to a youthful indiscretion, one night long long ago when I had several whiskies with one of my cousins. I still remember the glasses we used--my aunt and uncle had a set of highball glasses with the signs of the zodiac engraved in gold. All the rage back in the sixties and seventies. When I got home I promptly threw up, and my mother never let me forget it.

I must admit one of my sisters truly does enjoy whiskey. I can't say I know many other women who do! I wonder if it might be a generational thing. My husband certainly enjoys it, and I love the aroma, but to this day a taste of whiskey makes me gag.

I do think it's sad that Gourmet is folding, but I haven't enjoyed it much in recent years. Some articles have seemed almost agressively political, which is an odd thing for me to complain about, since I enjoy politics and generally agreed with the view presented in any case. I guess I just don't like mixing politics and cooking.

And in the past year or so it's been all pretty pictures and not many practical recipes. I do realize that travel and restaurant reviews have always been a major focus, but it's seemed so much less accessible than in the past. I still remember the first issue I ever bought. It was from sometime in 1978, and showed a beautiful tropical beach from the air with gorgeous turquoise water. That magazine I will miss--the one that introduced me to gourmet cooking.

I was going to say whatever edition of Betty Crocker was in print in 1980 when my husband (then boyfriend) gave it to me for Christmas, but I remember a book I bought a few years earlier when I was still in high school about cooking with herbs, although for the life of me I cannot remember what it was called.

Just gorgeous! I haven't heard about the tomato blight hitting us here in the upper Midwest, thank heavens. My own tomatoes are doing really well, if they are only just starting to ripen. I do feel bad for the folks in the NE.

But.....$1 an ear for organic sweet corn? Yikes!

Tough one.....but I'd have to say chickpea-pasta soup. Sauteed onions and garlic, broth, tomato sauce and seasonings, chickpeas, and in the last five minutes, you toss in 1/2 cup broken-up angel hair pasta. Some grated parmesan on top, and you've got the perfect meal for a winter weeknight.

My most memorable tapas experience happened sometime back in the early 1990's when my best friend and I spent a weekend shopping in Chicago. Tapas were all the rage and thought we'd hit Cafe Ba-ba-reeba on the north side of Chicago on our way home--we live in the Milwaukee area, so it was practically on the way--not. This was in the days before google maps (although certainly not before actual maps, ha ha), and we had no idea where we were going, and never found the place, although we did end up passing the infamous Cabrini Green public housing development. So....no tapas, but definitely memorable!