Thanksgiving dinner—a memo for next year
I hope that those of you who celebrate Thanksgiving had a wonderful time last Thursday—we certainly did. My parents were visiting from France, and we prepared our first ever traditional Thanksgiving dinner together. We usually jump on the occasion of a 4-day weekend to travel around the US, but staying home with family and cooking all day was actually quite enjoyable (as always!). We prepared no fewer than 8 dishes from scratch, using recipes we had never tried before, with lots of unfamiliar ingredients and techniques. Quite a challenge... But everything turned out great. Before I forget, let me write down what we cooked. This will come in handy a year from now... Or sooner... We started with dessert, using this butternut squash pie recipe from High Ground Organics farm , but with orange kabocha squash, heavy whipping cream, and this pie crust . I had roasted the squash and taken a ball of pie dough out of the freezer the night before, and was ready to go in the morning. Before lu...