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Cook the Book: 'Good Eats: The Early Years'
when i was in japan, my boyfriend and me baked a turkey in a portable oven the size of a microwave
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
wild mushroom stuffing
Win a Free Organic D'Artagnan Turkey
Pecan Pie! Sounds great!
Cook the Book: 'How to Roast a Lamb'
lamb over rice with indian spices!
Win Tickets To A Pre-Thanksgiving Feast For A Great Cause This Monday
I'm thankful for my family who is always there for me.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
rice and beans with chicken
Cook the Book: Lex's Roast Chicken with Bacon and Spicy Coffee Rub
how did you make the rub?
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
serious eats, hands down
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cafe zaiya tempura onigiri
Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table
pasta with a cream marscarpone cheese sause!
Cook the Book: Pumpkin Baking
spiced pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese frosting and a pumpkin spiced latte on the side
Cook the Book: 'The Craft of Baking'
chocolate creme brulee!
Favorite Fall Foods?
Pumpkin spiced lattes
Butternut Squash Soup with fresh crab
and Apple Pie of course!!!
Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'
Japanese Ramen from Hokkaido!
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hands down, thomas keller
Win Tickets To Edible Manhattan's Seaport Birthday Party
Shake Shack of course!!!
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i kinda need that right now!
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Prosecco, love the bubbles!
Cook the Book: 'Zingerman's Guide to Better Bacon'
because it is perfect. salty, crispy, fatty, and delish!
New York City Wine and Food Festival: Ticket Giveaway, 'Breakfast of Champions'
poached eggs, home fries, bacon, and freshly sweezed lemon juice with agave
Cook the Book: 'Dishing Up Vermont'
NY! Pizza, Hot Dogs, Egg Creams, basically... everything
New York City Wine and Food Festival: Ticket Giveaway, 'Pairing Like A Pro'
a nice cabernet with a grilled rib eye / skirt steak / or hanger steak
Cook the Book: 'Good Eats: The Early Years'
We've had a lot of great meals over the years, which usually go off without a hitch, relatively speaking.....although one year I tried stuffed turkey breast, which I think disappointed at least a few people--no drumsticks. After over 25 years of marriage and holidays with my family and the inlaws, I've learned to not vary too much on the basic formula and just add one or two unusual dishes at most. This year my sister-in-law hosted and tried to leave mashed potatoes off the menu. She was overruled!
Cook the Book: 'Good Eats: The Early Years'
I have lots of favorite memories, with both sides of my family and all, but my favorite year was the one recently when I ordered a pre-fab turkey meal (I do add homemade sides, I can't fight with a turkey), we won a turkey in some contest and my mom's cousin smoked one for us. Yum! I'm a carnivore and it was good!
Cook the Book: 'Good Eats: The Early Years'
Don't really have a story...just love the opportunity to show off cooking a tasty bird. This year was apple-brined and smoked. Oh. My. Goodness.
Cook the Book: 'Good Eats: The Early Years'
My father bought a smoker when I was in high school. He smoked everything on it: potatoes, chicken, sausage and the like.
Nothing was that great. I was out of town for a couple of weeks, and my family invited my boyfriend over for dinner. I'm not entirely sure why, but nonetheless he accepted. That night, smoked potatoes were on the menu. They developed a rubber-like quality such that when my boyfriend attempted to spear one it shot across the table like a bouncy ball. We are no longer together.
Despite this smoker set-back, come Thanksgiving, my father decided to smoke the turkey. We set the smoker to a low temperature and put a thermometer in the bird itself. Lo and behold one hour later, the turkey read 180 degrees. (Note: I will not allow my bird to be cooked to this temperature now, but I have since gained greater authority in the kitchen.) The skin was nicely darkened. It didn't appear to be burned or overcooked, so we allowed it to rest whilst cooking the rest of the meal.
It was only when cutting into the turkey that the issue appeared. It was like the Griswald family turkey, complete with tufts of smoke. My father went back out to the smoker, befuddled that the bird could be "done" so quickly. He noticed that the temperature was at over 500 degrees. Apparently, he had neglected to open the valve at the top to allow smoke and heat to escape. We quite literally "flash smoked" a turkey.
Please, don't try this at home. It only ends in heartache.
Cook the Book: 'Good Eats: The Early Years'
This year, after cooking for 2 days in preparation for our family feast, my son "the chef"helped me out and made dessert at his restaurant and brought it home on Wednesday eve. He made a red pear tart with shortbread pastry TO DIE FOR, and the most perfect pumpkin pie that I have ever tasted in my life. I knew he was my favorite child, LOL! Our dinner was wonderful and our dessert was divine.
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
I have made my great grandmother's carrot and zucchini o-shaped loaf for my in-laws for the past three years. I surround the loaf with and put in the middle tons of roasted broccoli - definitely a crowd pleaser, as it goes fantastic with the turkey and mashed potatoes and all the other classic sides!
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
Mom's and Grandma's Stuffing!
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
Mashed potatos and gravy, just not Thanksgiving without this side.
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
Impossible to have just one, so the two would be cornbread dressing and Emmitt Smith's Sweet Potatoe Casserole.
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
I love sweet potatoes!
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
Cornbread stuffing with cranberry sauce! LOVE it!
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
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Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
My favorite is creamy mashed potatoes
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
sweet potatoes
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
Homemade stuffing with sausages.
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
My favorite side is homemade stuffing. Yummy!!
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
Stuffing, stuffing, stuffing. Love stuffing. Unless you count pie as a side.
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
My favorite "side" is the nut bread that my mother used to make for her entire married life. She found the recipe in a newspaper in 1948. It is chock-full of walnuts! Thanks!
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
stuffing and any kind of vegetable!
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
My favorite side is green bean casserole... geez will my boyfriends family have this? Eeek!
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
wild mushroom stuffing
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
the gravy, we make ours with lots of giblets and sliced hard boiled eggs
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
Mashed Potatoes is my favorite. garrettsambo@aol.com
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when i was in japan, my boyfriend and me baked a turkey in a portable oven the size of a microwave