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January 05, 2013 • 0 COMMENTS
Recipe: Pan Sauce 101: The Key to Non-Boring Chicken
In the left corner, you! In the right corner, a package of those ubiquitous damn chicken breasts. It’s enough to make you want to drop to the ground and concede defeat – you just can’t face another boring chicken dinner. But wait, what is that up your sleeve? A pan sauce? You’re brilliant, you’re inspired,... MORE
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November 29, 2012 • 3 COMMENTS
Roasted Butternut Squash
Roasting winter squash with a bit of brown sugar falls into the nothing-new-under-the-sun category, but frankly feeding children and searching for new things under the sun aren’t always compatible endeavors. This is an easy side dish you can make all fall and winter long, and one that you will happily call upon when it comes... MORE
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November 26, 2012 • 0 COMMENTS
Recipe: Turkey Posole Soup
For no apparent reason every year I think of posole as I face down the Thanksgiving leftovers, in particular the turkey carcass and the pile of leftover turkey meat. A warm, comforting soupey stew is always in order, and the chewy-soft texture and gentle flavor of posole, which sometimes refers to the dried and soaked... MORE
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November 18, 2012 • 6 COMMENTS
Recipe: Simple Lemon-Garlic Roasted Turkey Breast
I got a little touch of Thanksigiving fever just now, and because I am not making the turkey this year, I felt compelled to make a pre-Thasgiving bird. But not the whole bird, just the breast, which seemed a bit more manageable and less insane than roasting a whole bird just days before Thanksgiving. I’m... MORE
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November 17, 2012 • 5 COMMENTS
Recipe: The Best Streusel Apple Pie Ever
Prone to hyperbole? You bet I am. But this pie deserves as much hyperbolic praise as it can get. It is inspired by an apple pie from an old cookbook, Marcia Adams’s Cooking from Quilt Country. The apples are blanketed and bound up with a custardy coating, and a thick layer of sweet, crumbly streusel... MORE
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November 14, 2012 • 6 COMMENTS
This Year’s Thanksgiving Reality (otherwise known as, yes, you can in fact bring something)
Here’s what’s happening in our world. My dad’s been sick, and it’s cancer, and treatment is starting soon, and he’s amazing and we’re highly optimistic. Which doesn’t mean that it hasn’t been a crazy couple of months of crap, compounded by the storm, compounded by regular life. But it’s okay, it will be okay, and... MORE
