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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.
Cook the Book: 'How to Roast a Lamb'
I think it might be the lamb recipe I just made and ate... slow-cooked Moroccan lamb.
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
I had to look it up because, like many other above, I'm not familiar with the names, but Lucque olive are quite tasty.
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Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
As great as all of the homemade and gourmet sides my mother and I make are.. I go straight for the green beans with mushrooms and crispy onions that someone else brings and makes with grocery store pre-made ingredients. That said, I could eat mounds of my mother's cranberry sauce straight. Or on a brie sandwich the next day.
Win a Free Organic D'Artagnan Turkey
Delicious! I've only recently learned to love bread pudding, and this has all of the right elements: Pumpkin Brioche Bread Pudding.
Cook the Book: 'How to Roast a Lamb'
I think it might be the lamb recipe I just made and ate... slow-cooked Moroccan lamb.
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
I had to look it up because, like many other above, I'm not familiar with the names, but Lucque olive are quite tasty.
Serious Cocktails: Women and Whiskey
I love working my way through a bottle of scotch over several months, but currently loving my Rye Whiskey. So complex and so inexpensive. Drink it straight or with homemade bitters. Or in an old-fashioned.
As for scotches, past splurges have included Glenmorangie and Coal Isla, but Jon, Mark and Robbo make nice inexpensive blends that I find quite satisfying. Too bad I haven't been able to find any around here lately...
What a good trend, though!
Cook the Book: Pumpkin Baking
I'm torn between pumpkin ice cream and pumpkin ravioli (with brown butter and sage). Oh, and the afghan kaddo borawni. Make it pumpkin meal? Appetizer, main course and dessert!
Cook the Book: 'Bite-Size Desserts'
My, oh my. I love a composed dessert. So hard to pick just one. My current indulgence has been roasted figs with vanilla sugar, topped with mascarpone, balsamic vinegar and pistachios.
Cook the Book: '660 Curries' by Raghavan Iyer
My mom would make Indian food, as her parents were enamored with India and had traveled there frequently, but it never quite got it right. I think the first eye-opening meal I had was in London with my friend whose family came from the Kerala region. So fragrant.. so many more flavors than I was accustomed to tasting in the Indian restaurants I'd been in before.
Cook the Book: 'Canal House Cooking, Vol. 1'
A huge bowl of cherries, freshly washed and purchased at the market. (Or pick-your-own). Once I've grown weary of that (which takes a while), pies, pies and pies. And homemade ice cream.
Cook the Book: 'The Barcelona Cookbook'
Of course the time my mom kept insisting she wanted to go to, as we heard it, a topless bar stands out, but my favorite memory is, years later, preparing tapas for hours on end with my mother for a party. They were a huge hit, and delightfully varied.
Threadless T-Shirt Giveaway: A Piece of Cake
An old fashioned coconut cake with the frosting you make over a double broiler!
Cook the Book: 'L.A.'s Original Farmers Market Cookbook'
I've been going to the Sunday farmer's market under the overpass in Baltimore since I was a child. Back then, my favorite was a chocolate croissant from Rudy's Bakery. These days, I am enamored with this old lady who proudly declares that she had a stroke, and keeps her mind sharp by calculating totals as we add on more and more fruits and greens to our purchase. Her farm has great stuff!
Cook the Book: Eugenia Bone's 'Well-Preserved'
Though I haven't successfully grown them myself, I love pickling lemons and using them!
Last year's fruit crop wasn't so great, but I'm hoping for a good cherry and peach season. And to pickle some vegetables...
Cook the Book: 'Beyond the Great Wall'
My parents came to visit when I was living in Serbia. I met up with them in Vienna and we traveled to Slovenia then Croatia then Montenegro back to Serbia, watching the cultures blend into one another and the presence of cigarette smoke increase along the route. What seemed charming to them initially developed into less and less charming, culminating in a cramped van ride along the entire coast of Montenegro that would somehow manage to pack in more people each time it came to a stop. The busdriver refused to let us open the windows, yet he billowed cigarette smoke and loud music. Watching my parents take in the beauty of the country (including gnarled olive trees) from between folds of people was priceless.
Cook the Book: 'Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating'
He has convinced me that I can cook more, and simply. I enjoy cooking, but often think of it as a chore on a regular basis. Using his books and recipes, I've learned that focusing on one ingredient can be a satisfying and simple way to eat better daily.
Cook the Book: 'On the Line'
As nearly everyone else has said, simple is divine! (And ALWAYS fresh). But it depends on the seafood in question. I do so love shucked oysters, with a little lemon or without. Pan-seared scallops. Roasted whole fish. Fried fresh anchovies. But given the choice, I'd take steamed crabs, seasoned with Old Bay. There's something about the messy experience, finding every last bit of meat hidden away, that improves upon the experience of its cousin experience: a well-made (broiled) crab cake.
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
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
Mashed potatoes and gravy :)
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
My fav side is the wonderful tasting cranberry sauce
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
Cranberry sauce
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
I love the sweet potatoes topped with toasted marshmallows.
Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'
I love old fashioned dinner rolls!
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As great as all of the homemade and gourmet sides my mother and I make are.. I go straight for the green beans with mushrooms and crispy onions that someone else brings and makes with grocery store pre-made ingredients. That said, I could eat mounds of my mother's cranberry sauce straight. Or on a brie sandwich the next day.