Tom is taking up a fair amount of space in the fridge. He is the biggest turkey I’ve ever seen, and my brother informs me we are cooking him on Thursday. I wonder if we really should get started today. How long does it take to cook a 21-pound turkey?
I don’t have years of experience [...]
Entries from November 2008
November 25, 2008
Big Tom…
November 22, 2008
Rosemary Scented Cranberry Sauce…
Not that there’s anything wrong with cranberry sauce in a can (it will grace our Thanksgiving table as it always has), but sometimes you want something a little more fancy. I normally make an orange infused cranberry sauce but this year, I’m taking inspiration from the garden.
This rosemary scented cranberry sauce is tart and lemony, [...]
November 21, 2008
Zagat Zingers…
Everyone needs a laugh now and then — especially in these grim, gloomy times. If you sign up, Zagat sends a weekly email out with restaurant openings and other news. If you scroll to the bottom of the email, they post a quote called “Outtake of the Week” gleaned, I’m sure from the Zagat surveys.
Some [...]
November 18, 2008
Salsa Bliss…
It’s no secret that Mexican food is my favorite cuisine. I like gourmet Mex, Tex-Mex, and everything in between. I even tend to judge a Mexican restaurant first on it’s salsa offerings.
El Chubasco in Park City, Utah gets high marks for it’s salsa bar. Sitting smack dab in the middle of the dining room of [...]
November 14, 2008
Pumpkin Eater
Who knew that a raw pumpkin could be so appealing? I returned home from an evening meeting earlier this week, only to discover that my darling little grasshopper slayer decided that she needed a piece of pumpkin, sans pie.
Chloe was perched on top of “her” chair when we returned and when she saw me turn [...]
November 10, 2008
Thanksgiving on 200 calories…
Did I catch your attention? An article in last weekend’s USA Weekend insert in my newspaper caught my attention with ” A Lighter Thanksgiving: only 682 total calories.”
This just after I sent a text message to my brother about a luscious sounding pasta, cauliflower and cheese gratin recipe I’d seen in Bon Appetit magazine, that [...]
November 5, 2008
A Bouquet of Tea?
No doubt about it. Tea is a hot trend right now. Of course, since tea has been brewed for thousands of years, calling it a trend may seem silly. But take a look at the tea shelf in any grocery store these days, and you’ll see what I mean.
There is a tea for virtually every [...]
November 4, 2008
Monkfish Liver Lover…
I had heard that monkfish liver was the “foie gras of the sea.” If you don’t like foie gras, you can just stop reading now, because you’ll have no appreciation for what I’m about to tell you.
We’re in Hawaii, me for a culinary conference, him for his usual business. Carrie and Jay live here. She [...]
November 4, 2008
I Could’va Had a Soup!
Last weekend, there was a coupon in my Sunday paper for a new soup from Campbell’s under their V8 brand. I drink V8 juice (finally switch to the low sodium version, which was painful, but I have a little trick…I douse it with a sprinkling of cayenne powder).
But I digress… this post is about the [...]
