Category Archives: Thanksgiving

Kasha Pilaf Varnishkes for Share Our Holiday Table

This post is part of Share Our Holiday Table, a seven-day, online progressive dinner series that we hope will encourage you to support and donate to Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry Campaign during this critical holiday period. I’m honored to be one of more than 50 bloggers who are participating. If you’ve been following [...]

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Coffee Chocolate Chip Mini Cheesecakes & Mini Nutella Cheesecakes

I recently began cooking and writing occasional mini-reviews for Cooks & Books & Recipes, an awesome website that focuses exclusively on reviews of the latest cookbooks, featuring a sample recipe from each one. Okay, I’ve done two, so far. But if you’re thinking of buying any of the new cookbooks coming out, be sure to [...]

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A Green Holiday Season

I don’t want to panic you or anything, but have you looked at the calendar recently? The Holidays (capital H, here) are racing up on us and along with them, the dinners, the parties, the last minute and impromptu get-togethers. I’m going to do something a little bit different today, and I’m not going to [...]

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Recipe Monday: Leftovers & Reruns

It’s the Monday after Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday for you internet-savvy holiday shoppers. You’ve got two problems: You’ve got all this leftover turkey from last week, and you don’t have a lot of time to make supper tonight. You know what? I’m with you. I’ve got at least 6 new posts in my head (one [...]

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Recipe Monday: Amaretto Cranberry Sauce & New Orleans-Style Yams (Sweet Potatoes)

My office’s big annual Thanksgiving pot-luck luncheon was yesterday, which I’ve organized and contributed to for the last 10 years, and frankly, I was too pooped to post. So, I bring you Recipe Monday on Tuesday. Shoot me. Everyone’s tossing their favorite holiday recipes into the internet ring, this week, and I want to share [...]

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Thanksgiving – Epilogue

You Are Mashed Potatoes Ordinary, comforting, and more than a little predictable You’re the glue that holds everyone together. What Part of Thanksgiving Are You? No kidding? Dammit! I was hoping to be something a tad more exciting. Like, umm, the Turkey or the Yams. Mashed potatoes, indeed! Hmmph! We had a great day, yesterday. [...]

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Giving Thanks – Part III

Happy Thanksgiving to all of my friends in the U.S. and elsewhere! It is very nearly time to turn on the TV for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, form my dinner rolls and pop them into the oven. This year, MJ and I will be driving down to the wilds of Homestead at the far [...]

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Giving Thanks – Part I

I know I haven’t written in a couple of weeks. It isn’t like there’s a shortage of material out there, both political and personal. It’s just that, well, Thanksgiving is coming up this Thursday, and while the world still seems bound and determined to go to hell in a handbasket before Barack Obama’s inauguration in, [...]

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