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Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
I have to say that the canned black olives of my childhood will always have a special place in my heart.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Spagetti, my mom's style, in a casserole dish with cheese broiled on top.
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
Serious Eats, Smitten Kitchen and Pioneer Woman are the three food blogs I'm most excited to see pop up on my rss reader!
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Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
Does pie count as a side? No? Then my aunt's turkey gravy.
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
I have to say that the canned black olives of my childhood will always have a special place in my heart.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Spagetti, my mom's style, in a casserole dish with cheese broiled on top.
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
Serious Eats, Smitten Kitchen and Pioneer Woman are the three food blogs I'm most excited to see pop up on my rss reader!
Cook the Book: '660 Curries' by Raghavan Iyer
I was too young - I don't remember, I'm afraid. I grew up in a midwestern Canadian city with a moderately large Indian population, so it was always around. By 10, when most of my friends would have listed burgers or chicken fingers as their favourite food, mine was curry. When I was very good or for special meals, I was taken to Rajdoot. My parents even bought me the hat the servers wore, because I liked it all so much.
Cook the Book: 'Canal House Cooking, Vol. 1'
Salads. Salads made out of anything I have in the house. Not a recipe, I'm afraid, but in the heat it's about all I want to eat...
Egg in Toast: What Do You Call It?
I'm Canadian, and my mom, who's family's been in Canada for +160 years, calls it a Birmingham Egg. No one has any idea of why that's their name, but there it is.
Dinner Tonight: Salmon and Pea Tagliatelle
Are you supposed to drain the liquid from the peas first? Because I didn't, and got a bowl full of pasta and peas and fish and yogurt soup. The soup was tasty, but not a sauce that stuck to the pasta in any way. Tasted good at least!
Cook the Book: 'Tacos'
Piazza in Cuernavaca, about an hour outside of Mexico City. Sitting in the square with a roommate eating them, watching young courting couples, old people and kids chasing mylar balloons. The tacos were good - great, even - but it was the setting that made it perfect.
Cook the Book: 'Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating'
Less meat, certainly!
Cook the Book: 'Kneadlessly Simple'
A no-knead foccacia bread is my go to bread. Yum!
Snapshots from the UK: Walkers' Crazy-Flavored Crisps Competition
I got Pringles in "Spicy Guacamole" in Mexico that weren't bad, and some (forgotten brand) Port and Stilton chips in London last year. They were delicious.
Cook the Book: The Essence of Chocolate
A chocolate birthday cake from a bakery in Calgary called Decadent Deserts. It involved 2 pounds of Bernard Callebaut chocolate and not a lot else. BLISS.
Cook the Book: 'Baking Unplugged'
The local newspaper had a recipe for shortbread. That used a mix master. It ... wasn't good. Eventually, the cookies melted/melded into a gooey mass in their container. They didn't even taste good.
Cook the Book: 'Into the Vietnamese Kitchen'
To be happy. To simply let the tumultuous year that was 2008 slide away and just enjoy where I am now.
I figure that's just about as hard as my goal to stop eating junk food regularly. But just as beneficial, if not more...
Cook the Book: Jamie at Home
A good bowl of stew with some baking powder biscuits on the side. Mmmm.
Cook the Book: Martha Stewart's Hors d'Oeuvres Handbook
It was my 26th birthday. My closest friends were around my dining room table, the candles were lit, the food was on the table, I had just sucessfully roasted my first turkey. The scene was perfect, the food was fabulous, and it was all made better by my favourite people being there with me.
Cook the Book: 'The Bon Appétit Fast Easy Fresh Cookbook'
Pasta with frozen shrimp. Various different sauces, but with that as a starting point, you're good to go!
Cook the Book: 'How to Cook Everything, Revised Tenth Anniversary Edition'
His 101 lists in the NY Times are something I got back to regularly. I like the way he thinks and explains things.
Cook the Book: 'Simple Italian Snacks'
Something sweet - cookies or cupcakes or some such. And a bag of chips. What can I say? My friends want the sweets.
Cook the Book: 'Martha Stewart's Cooking School'
My favourite crazy thing that she did was on her show at least ten years ago - I would never make it but it cemented by love of Martha. She took tiny flowers and with a paintbrush coated them in egg white, and then dusted them with super fine sugar, for decoration. It was such an insane thing to do that I couldn't help but appreciate her.
I do use her snickerdoodle recipe, among others. Her comfort cooking book from the late 90s is still one I cook from. Crazy as she may be (and that's why I love her), she sure does know food!
Cook the Book: 'Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics'
Oven roasted califlower. With bread crumbs and garlic. Yum!
Cook the Book: Mussel Risotto
This was so, so good. Totally going in to the keeper recipe pile.
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
mashed potatoes with wasabi!
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
Has to be the stuffing! It's the only time of the year I make it. And ooooh so good the nest day- IF it makes it!
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
My favorite Thanksgiving side is cornbread-sausage stuffing. So rich, so good!
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
Stuffing! We love stuffing!
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
I love the fresh and fresh tasting cranberry and orange relish. Yum.
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
Simple mashed potatoes
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
Green bean casserole, it's not really special but we only have it twice a year. I guess that's what makes it special.
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
My favorite Thanksgiving side is stuffing with gravy.
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
Sausage and cornbread stuffing. Yum!
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
Fried Turkey, stuffing and gingersnap gravy in one bite. By far my favorite holiday as it is truly THE holiday for food lovers! I can't wait!!
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
Oyster stuffing. Tough part, finding enough people who aren't oyster-phobic...
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
Gotta go with roasted garlic mashed potatoes. I could eat it all.
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
green bean casserole, from scratch of course!
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
My moms - potatoes, summer savory and crushed crackers, also includes tons of butter and a few onions - I miss stuffing since it started killing people :(
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
I love homemade warm applesauce!! That and the apple pie are my favorite part of Thanksgiving. I don't like most of the other food including the turkeY!
Thanks for the giveaway!
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
This year it will be pumpkin ravioli with sage brown butter sauce.
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
Mashed potatoes and gravy....
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
Warm, fresh cornbread, straight from the oven
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
spaghetti squash with jalapeno cream. mmm...
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
Dinner rolls from Cook's Illustrated. I could just eat those and nothing else.
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
i love potatoes of any kind...so...creamy, garlic-y mashed potatoes.
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
Love it when the cranberry sauce creeps into the dressing and mashed potatoes...deeelish...hope I win :)
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
Pumpkin bread like only my mother can make!
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
Thanksgiving wouldn't feel right without a chunky, moist dressing (or stuffing, though I'm taking Alton's advice to heart and keeping it out of my turkey this year). But I've also a particular fondness for all the orange Thanksgiving sides -- caramelized yam, pumpkin purees, fleshy marrows. Those Squash Half Moons with Butter, Sesame, and Salt sound like heaven.
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Does pie count as a side? No? Then my aunt's turkey gravy.