Beets are kind of a polarizing vegetable. When I was little, something about them didn’t agree with me. Perhaps it was because the color, in my eyes, made them resemble the fruits of my nightmares, rather than the veg of my dreams. But in the last few years I’ve really come around. And in fall and winter, when sometimes they seem like the only thing besides potatoes and squash at the farmers’ market, they are all the more comforting as part of a warm, healthful salad.
A month or so back, I had…
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OTHER ANTI-THANKSGIVING MAIN COURSES: Asian Baked Tofu; Chard & Chickpea Toasts; Vegetarian Tortilla Soup; Southeast Asian Shrimp Paella; Chicken Tikka Masala
I once wrote a post here where I compared leftovers to clothes on the sale rack. Of course I then went on to explain how to turn the bits and pieces in assorted tupperware from lame-o mark-downs to haute couture.
All that may apply 363 days of the year. But on the Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving’s big giant American feast, leftovers take center stage. I think they…
Garlic Soup with Turkey • Squash and Sweet Potato Pancakes • Baked Eggs on a Bed of Stuffing • Pumpkin Pecan Chocolate Chip Bread
Last year, we started our own little BGSK Thanksgiving tradition by giving back to you, and the community, with some tasty treats from Baking For Good. This year, we’re taking our philanthropic sweet tooth to the next level and giving away a whole host of charitable prizes (most of them chocolate-y).
Thanksgiving is also our site’s anniversary, so we also want to thank you, our readers, for sticking with us for the last 3 years (!!). The 2010-2011 year has been a very eventful one for us: since last T-Day, we’ve introduced our book to…
Q: What’s the most obvious thing to do with your Thanksgiving leftovers come Friday?
You might say, “make a Gobbler.”
Gobblers, if you don’t know, are Thanksgiving dinner on a sandwich. You take bread, and you load it up with turkey, cranberry sauce, and stuffing, praying that this version of yesterday’s meal, physically different but metaphysically the same, somehow takes you on a transcendent eating adventure. Now Gobblers are charming and delicious, but they’re not going to get you there. They are the wrong approach.
So what’s good?
A: Make a Turkey Reuben.
The key to enjoying your leftovers to the…
We’re entering pie territory here. It’s fall heading into winter, and we can’t be alone in having our thoughts turn to pumpkin, pecan, or pumpkin-pecan pie.
But for some (or so we’ve heard), making pie crust is one of the most daunting of kitchen tasks. The butter at the right temperature! Some liquid-but not too much! Rolling out the dough!
Roasted Butternut Squash Crostini with Thyme Creme Fraiche • Alex’s Roast Chicken with Roasted Potatoes • Pumpkin Leek Stuffing with Turkey Sausage • Spinach with Bacon Bits • Mom’s Famous Apple Pie
Presentation is everything, especially at Thanksgiving. It’s one thing to pile some lentils in a bowl when you’re eating by yourself in front of the TV, but when you’re serving the most important meal of the year, for god’s sake, it better look at least half as good as it tastes.
Now as you can see from the picture above, I go up to my mom’s for Thanksgiving, and she lives in a house with a not-small kitchen and an actual dining room with a big table. We take our time setting things up; I like to…
Our friends over at The Cooking Channel asked us to share some of our favorite Thanksgiving treats in an inspiration board. Check out our colorful and turkey-filled photo collage, as well as the highlights from our family tables, here.
Beet Salad with Crispy Leeks and Bacon