Posts

Showing posts from November, 2012

Thanksgiving dinner—a memo for next year

Image
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 lunch

Golden Parmesan Knots

Image
Are you in charge of rolls for Thanksgiving?  Then we've got a recipe for you!  It's so easy since the dough comes from refrigerated biscuits but they come out so pretty and looking like they were made by a professional bread artisan.  Impress your friends and family with this simple yet delicious recipe!