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Filed under: Vegetables, On the Blogs, How To, Real Kitchens, Holidays, ChristmasI saw an ad in a food magazine recently in which a mother was putting down a platter holding a tofurky in front of her son and girlfriend. It implied that it was the first tofurky that this woman had prepared and that she was doing it for this new arrival who was ...

Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, Vegetables, Recipes, How To, Comfort Food, Thanksgiving Thanksgiving was Thursday (yes, I realize that it's always on Thursday) and now it's Saturday. This means that you are heading into your third day of turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes and might be ready for a bit of a break. Whenever I find that I've overdone ...

Filed under: Dinner, Television/Film, Lists, How To, America, Thanksgiving In case you haven't figured it out yet, we have a strange love-hate-love-hate-hate-hate relationship with the Femme Faux-tale of the Food Network, Sandra Lee. On the one hand, the blonde, bubble-headed Barbie doll of a woman whose body couldn't possibly absorb a single ...

Filed under: Dinner, Vegetables, Recipes, How To, Fall Flavors, Spices Late last week, I happened to drop mention of the Ginger Squash we often have for Thanksgiving around my family table. I got several requests for the recipe and so I'm now going to do my best to create one for you, despite the fact that this is not a dish I've ever tried to ...

Filed under: Dinner, Poultry, Newspapers, How To I know that some of you have got your Thanksgiving menus all set by now, since the big day is only a week and a half away. But for those of you who are still looking for a little last-minute inspiration, I've got another good resource for you. The San Francisco Chronicle has pulled together all ...

Filed under: Dinner, Vegetables, Recipes, On the Blogs, Real Kitchens My continuing search for interesting, different and tasty Thanksgiving side dishes has taken me to A Veggie Venture, a food blog written by the very passionate veg evangelist, Alanna Kellogg. Yesterday she posted a recipe for Cauliflower Cream that made me sit up and cast my ...

Filed under: Dinner, Poultry, Recipes, How To, Spices The first year I brined my Thanksgiving turkey, it was something of a disaster. I didn't plan ahead well as to what I was going to brine my turkey in and so ended up using a tall, blue plastic garbage can that I had stashed away in my hall closet (I scrubbed it well before committing any ...

Filed under: Dinner, Vegetables, Cheese, Recipes, Baking, Eggs, America, Comfort Food Sometime last week, while I was on the phone with my mom, she said, ''Just a second, there's a recipe I want to read to you.'' Pulling out an ancient pumpkin cookbook, she proceeded to narrate a recipe that consisted of pumpkin, potato, cheese and egg, all ...