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Cranberry sauce with champagne and currants sounds pretty tasty, that might be my next pick after the ravioli from yesterday...
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Pumpkin ravioli with brown butter and sage is probably the tastiest idea ever. All my favorite flavors, combined into love on a plate.
Some potluck etiquette questions...
The only time I don't put out something that a guest brings to a potluck is if it is a 100% match for something we already have. Example being someone brings a jar of a specific brand of salsa and a second person brings another jar of the exact same salsa. This happens more often when we have themed potlucks, particularly taco/fiesta parties. We often end up with two or three identical jars of salsa and more than a handful of chip varieties. We put out one bag of each style of chip or salsa and then open the next as the first is consumed.
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Cranberry relish and PA Dutch 'potato filling'?
@finewinedine: That looks just right! Thank you so much!
@PerkyMac: It definitely wasn't jellied cranberry sauce, it was looser than that when stirred but when in the bowl more jelly-like and transparent, hence my guess at jell-o. It was also fairly sweet, much more so than any store-bought that I've ever had.
Win a Free Organic D'Artagnan Turkey
Cranberry sauce with champagne and currants sounds pretty tasty, that might be my next pick after the ravioli from yesterday...
Win a Free Organic D'Artagnan Turkey
Pumpkin ravioli with brown butter and sage is probably the tastiest idea ever. All my favorite flavors, combined into love on a plate.
Some potluck etiquette questions...
The only time I don't put out something that a guest brings to a potluck is if it is a 100% match for something we already have. Example being someone brings a jar of a specific brand of salsa and a second person brings another jar of the exact same salsa. This happens more often when we have themed potlucks, particularly taco/fiesta parties. We often end up with two or three identical jars of salsa and more than a handful of chip varieties. We put out one bag of each style of chip or salsa and then open the next as the first is consumed.
Cook the Book: Eugenia Bone's 'Well-Preserved'
I can practically everything as it is, but new recipes, especially for proteins, are something I'm actively seeking right now. Moving away from sweet preserves and moving more into the range of things I'd normally buy at the grocery store.
TV Cooking vs. Real Cooking
This is something that I love about Jaques Pepin Fast Food My Way (and More Fast Food My Way). He'll stutter and forget words, and he'll burn himself, and he'll scorch his burgers (I also love how he says burger). Stuff gets messed up, and he says the wrong thing, and they just keep going. It's much more real.
Passover Q&A
A lot of KL'P foodstuffs is packed in extra packaging to protect against these sorts of things, and KL'P food kept unopened from the previous year is (generally) still KL'P this year. As with all things jewish, minhag may vary so AYL(O)R (ask your local (orthodox) rabbi).
Healthy & Delicious: Red Cabbage With Apples and Honey
Sounds like a variation of traditional German rotkohl. I love myself some tasty rotkohl, and every year I make and home-can a big batch of it. Yum.
Concern Over Food Safety and Recalls
I was just going to bring up HR 875 and the other current "food safety" bills in committee right now. Looks like dhorst beat me to it.
Personally I think a good part of the solution is to change the mentality of how we get and produce our food. Big factory farming and getting everything from a supermarket maybe isn't the best way.
Cook the Book: 'Almost Meatless'
Puttanesca has recently become one of my favorite pasta dishes, with or without the traditional anchovies.
Cook the Book: 'Almost Meatless'
Raw beet ravioli with raw butternut "spaghetti". Yum.
Potato-Broccoli-Cheddar Soup, Without a Lot of Milk?
@renzata thanks, that sounds very helpful. I totally didn't think of doing it fondue-like, but that makes sense!
Potato-Broccoli-Cheddar Soup, Without a Lot of Milk?
@thepictsie yes, serious. A lot of time when I've tried to make something like this without adding a TON of cream or milk, the cheese just sinks to the bottom and makes a big blob and doesn't distribute through the soup well. Hence my asking the question. Thanks for the condescending remark.
Chiquita Banana Lied: Way or No Way?
I have an easy solution- don't eat them at all! Personally, I find banana to be one of the few things in the world that are most foul and ruin everything they come near.
Chicken Liver Pate, hard boiled eggs or no?
I like to have minced boiled egg as a garnish, but not mixed in. That's me though.
Top 10 Improbable McDonald's Items from Around the World
Shwarma is available in some Israeli McD's as well.
How do YOU latke?
Mine are traditional- grated potatoes and grated onion, squeeze the daylights out of them, save the liquid, let set and strain off the water leaving the starch, mix, fry, eat.
I like them with both sour cream and applesauce, and sometimes horseradish-beet sauce.
Cook the Book: 'The Bon Appétit Fast Easy Fresh Cookbook'
bowties with herbs, capers, and tuna. it's fast and delicious, and pretty healthy too!
Should Picky Eaters Fake Allergies?
In my experience, a big part of why people lie saying it's an allergy rather than a dislike, is that restaurants will often not exclude an item otherwise.
More than once I've been in the situation of a friend asking if something has walnuts in it, being told that "no, well... I mean, it does, but they're chopped up really fine and you don't really taste them".
I don't care how well incorportated or finely chopped an ingredient is- if I ask for it without and your establishment/the item allows for omission, omit it. It shouldn't matter whether it's my violent dislike for bananas or my friends anaphylactic allergy to walnuts.
Leftover tacos reincarnate as...?
I've got chips, tortillas (flour and corn), salsa, cheeses, sour cream, guacamole, lettuce, cilantro, beans, rice, onion, lime, etc. Also pollo con verde, vegetarian taco "meat", and beef taco filling.
If it's a common taco filling or topping, I've got it.
Shallots! What do you do with them?
when a recipe calls for onion, I almost always sub in shallots.
Things that make you go AAAAAAARGH!
1. Have you ever eaten horseradish? Yes
2. If yes, what would you put it on? Fish, gefilte fish, pierogi, sausage, latkes, stuff like that. Oh, and cheese.
3. Where do you shop for special meal ingredients? My garden, farmers markets, ethnic markets, etc.
4. Would you order ingredients online? If so, which sites? Very rarely.
5. 1 to 10 scale, how adventurous are you at trying new foods? 9.5
6. How far have you driven to eat-out? not sure
7. How often do you prepare meals each week? at least twice a day
8. What colors come to mind associated with adventure? green
9. Do you consume artificial sweeteners? no
What would YOUR dream autumn cafe drink be?
For those who are wary of the sugar syrups- there are sweetener-free syrups which just impart flavor and no sweetening. There's also the good old fashioined method of flavoring coffee drinks- extracts and food grade flavor oils.
What are you canning this season?
Goodness, I'm a long way into my canning already. Let's see, so far we've got mulberry jam, strawberry jam, strawberry-balsamic sauce, mushroom ketchup, ramp jelly, herbed jelly, bread and butter pickles, dill spears, spiced peach compote, pickled cabbage, pickled beans, and beets. Still on the agenda are chili beans, tomato sauce, tomato paste, tomato juice, diced tomatoes, tomato soup, carrot soup, potato soup, cubed squash, and others I can't recall at the moment.
Favorite Mushroom?
Morels are by far my favorite. After that, chanterelles and black trumpets, and then pretty much everything else.
Win a Free Organic D'Artagnan Turkey
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Win a Free Organic D'Artagnan Turkey
james beard roast turkey
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cornbread & sausage stuffing
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Smoked-oyster sticky rice stuffing in lotus leaves sounds amazing.
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Pan Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Candied Pepitas and Cider Vinegar will definitely be on my menu. I'm always on the look-out for Brussels sprouts recipes, and this is different from everything I've tried!
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Delicious! I've only recently learned to love bread pudding, and this has all of the right elements: Pumpkin Brioche Bread Pudding.
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Today I'm craving pie so I'd have to go with the Ginger Custard Pumpkin pie. That just sounds so good.
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Corn Bread-Sausage Stuffing With Apples
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I like the classic menu with some of the healthy menu items mixed in - I'm a traditionalist but my daughter is a vegetarian and my husband watches his diet. The vegan diet was too far over the edge for my taste.
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Oooh pumpkin brioche bread pudding!
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The pumpkin ravioli sounds amazing to try if I don't win the turkey ;-)
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Spaghetti Squash with Ricotta, Sage, and Pine Nuts. Yum.
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The brussel sprouts wiht bacon
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cranberry sauce with champagne..l'll try anything that has champagne!
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The biscuits look really good too.
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I'm a big side dish fan... Oven Roasted Potato Wedges with Bacon Grease, right? Am I right?
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Ginger Custard Pumpkin Pie
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I'm thinking cranberries with champagne...but maybe use golden raisins rather than currants.
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all in one holiday cake!
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Maple Walnut cornbread? Yes, please!
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The Maple-Walnut cornbread looks amazing! I'm definitely going to try it.
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I am secretly in love with Mark Bittman + I have a lot to cook for and so will likely be giving his "Favourite Bread Stuffing" a try. Don't tell him, but I might have to slip in some chestnuts as I just don't think it's true stuffing without them!
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Pumpkin Cheesecake - we have been making this for years. Our Thanksgiving has developed into a major event that brings relatives great distances for the food and neighbors to see the annual lighting afire of the driveway when the oil overflows the deep fryer when the turkey is submerged
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i vote for the sausage cornbread
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I think I would like to try the Chipotle Meatballs. Sounds very yummy and not too much of a deviation from tradition.
Recent Posts
Cranberry relish and PA Dutch 'potato filling'?
Posted by EtherMaiden, November 21, 2009 at 1:30 PM
Potato-Broccoli-Cheddar Soup, Without a Lot of Milk?
Posted by EtherMaiden, January 24, 2009 at 5:26 PM
Romantic evening of wine and snacks in Pittsburgh, PA?
Posted by EtherMaiden, December 16, 2008 at 9:46 PM
Low-budget, rustic, Rosh Hashanah dinner?
Posted by EtherMaiden, September 28, 2008 at 10:01 PM
What would YOUR dream autumn cafe drink be?
Posted by EtherMaiden, August 13, 2008 at 8:00 PM
Light, fresh, tasty foods for rock stars?
Posted by EtherMaiden, August 1, 2008 at 9:13 PM
Best of the pressed- favourite olive oils?
Posted by EtherMaiden, February 20, 2008 at 10:32 AM
A challenging set of ingredients and an elegant meal for two
Posted by EtherMaiden, February 10, 2008 at 1:58 PM
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@finewinedine: That looks just right! Thank you so much!
@PerkyMac: It definitely wasn't jellied cranberry sauce, it was looser than that when stirred but when in the bowl more jelly-like and transparent, hence my guess at jell-o. It was also fairly sweet, much more so than any store-bought that I've ever had.