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Posts tagged “Thanksgiving”

Easy Appetizer Recipe: Beets on Crostini with Goat Cheese

It's a beet day! And with good reason: beets are in season and marvelously festive with all their scarlet coloring. Earlier today Sara Kate gave you a recipe for a wonderful salad with beets and frizz...

Recipe: Thanksgiving Tofu Loaf

For many of us, a vegetarian Thanksgiving means loading up on side dishes. No complaints here; I look forward to mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, and cranberry sauce every year. But there's also somet...

Quick and Easy Thanksgiving Cocktail: The Poinsettia
Straight Up Cocktails and Spirits

Keeping in mind all the multi-dish bustle that comes with Thanksgiving, this year I set out in search for a cocktail recipe that would be: quick and easy to prepare (and replenish!) adjustable to ...

Pumpkin Pie
Best Pie Bakeoff 2008 Entry #29

Recipe: Denise of Chez Us' Pumpkin Pie Category: Classic Well, this is it! The last pie recipe of our 2008 Bakeoff. This means that we'll move on to voting a little later today - please come and vote...

Edith's Sweet Potato Pie
Best Pie Bakeoff 2008 Entry #27

Recipe: Edith's Sweet Potato Pie, from Leonard Category: Classic We've been waiting for a pie entry like this. This is an authentic, handed-down family recipe, and with photos to prove it too. This i...

Jack-O-Lantern Tartlets
Best Pie Bakeoff 2008 Entry #25

Recipe: Stephanie's Jack-O-Lantern Tartlets Category: Classic Here is the second entry from enterprising pie-baker Stephanie; she also entered the Original category with her mouthwatering peanut butt...

Recipe: Fresh Cranberry Relish

This is cranberry relish to us. No wiggling cylinder from a can, no whole berries that are cooked down with sugar. Our cranberry side dish is always fresh, chunky, sweet, and full of fruit. We think w...

Apple Cranberry Galette with Stonewall Kitchen Apple Caramel Butter
Best Pie Bakeoff 2008 Entry #23

Recipe: Donna's Apple Cranberry Galette with Stonewall Kitchen Apple Caramel Butter Category: Original The apple pies keep rolling in! We love all these new recipes for one of our favorite fruits, an...

Chocolate Truffle Tart with Vanilla Crème Brulee
Best Pie Bakeoff 2008 Entry #20

Recipe: Mary's Chocolate Truffle Tart with Vanilla Crème Brulee Category: Original Twenty pies! There are just a few more to go this week as we count down to a reader vote-off for the category winne...

Candy Apple Pie
Best Pie Bakeoff 2008 Entry #19

Recipe: Susan of Doughmesstic's Candy Apple Pie Category: Classic The apple pies keep racking up in our Best Pie Bakeoff, and they are all looking so good! The latest is this caramel-drizzled pie fro...

Almond Cream Pie
Best Pie Bakeoff 2008 Entry #15

Recipe: Julie's Almond Cream Pie Category: Original Raspberry whipped cream, chocolate curls, a flaky and tender pie crust... not to mention an almond filling halfway between cake and pie! These are ...

Pumpkin Pie Cups
Best Pie Bakeoff 2008 Entry #13

Recipe: Lissa's Pumpkin Pie Cups Category: Classic Lissa categorized these "individual cups of spicy, spirited 'pumpkin pie'" as an original recipe, but we love how it plays on the classic pumpkin pi...

Chocolate Bourbon Truffle-Turtle Tart
Best Pie Bakeoff 2008 Entry #12

Recipe: Josh's Chocolate Bourbon Truffle-Turtle Tart Category: Original Here's an over-the-top chocolate bourbon tart to kick off our weekend extravaganza of pies! We don't see many chocolate pies - ...

Sugar and Spice Pumpkin Pie
Best Pie Bakeoff 2008 Entry #11

Recipe: Stirling's Sugar and Spice Pumpkin Pie Category: Classic We do love pumpkin pie; it's a classic for a reason. Here's Stirling's entry into this classic form of pie. She bakes up one of the pr...

Recipe: Sweet Potatoes and Caramelized Onions

We tore through these sweet potatoes before we had the chance to take much of a picture, so we'll have to describe them instead. These are the easiest things. So much flavor for so little work. We c...

Recipe for Entertaining: Pistachio and Chive Goat Cheese on Puff Pastry Wafers

Yesterday we showed you Diane Morgan's newest book, The Christmas Table, as well as an idea for easy holiday table decorations. Today we are giving you a beautiful and easy appetizer from the book. ...

Caramel Apple Crumb Pie
Best Pie Bakeoff 2008 Entry #1

Recipe: Erin's Caramel Apple Crumb Pie Category: Classic OK everybody, this is it! The first entry in our great Pie Bakeoff of 2008. The Bakeoff is to compare our best recipes, share the pies that...

Recipe: Butternut Squash and Parmesan Dip

Really, this could easily be a side dish as well as a dip. It's a simple preparation of twice-baked butternut squash: roasted to get it soft and scoopable, then blended with milk and parmesan and bake...

Recipe: Roasted Fall Vegetables with Feta Cheese

This dish of slowly roasted fall vegetables with cheese is our last entry in a week of recipes that take advantage of the delicious local feta cheese we have in our fridge. We didn't get a shot of t...

Recipe: Baked Goat Milk Brie with Cranberry Sauce

Are you having an Oscars party tonight? Are you trying any of our hors d'oeuvres for the Oscars, like There Will Be Blood Orange Jelly Smiles or Juno's Pregnant Dates? Even if you're not having a p...

Recipe: Confetti Potatoes and Pearl Onions

Rubies and pearls - these potatoes and onions looked like jewels when we put them in the oven. The potatoes were Trader Joe's mixed confetti baby potatoes, a mix of white, yellow, and purple. The gumb...

Today is Black Friday ... and Buy Nothing Day

Some of us were up at 4 a.m. and saw the sun rise over Williams-Sonoma this Black Friday morning. Others are still sleeping off the turkey to mark Buy Nothing Day. What are you celebrating today? A...

Recipe: Ginger Pumpkin Pie with Graham Cracker Crust

What's Thanksgiving without pumpkin pie, and it seems like most of you agree. Here's our gingery, creamy take on classic pumpkin pie - with one twist: a graham cracker pie crust. We love the nutty, bu...

Recipe: Delicata Squash and Gruyere Dip

Squash often makes an appearance as a side dish or a vegetarian main dish, but rarely as an appetizer. And yet its smooth texture and bright color make it a great friend of the hors d'oeuvre buffet....

Recipe: Sweet Potato and Sage Gratin

We have never understood why people add so much sugar to sweet potatoes. With the exception of desserts like sweet potato pie, it seems wholly unnecessary. This sweet dish is not for dieters; it wo...