Thanksgiving is nigh. I’m not ready. Usually my grocery list for this epic dinner is pages long, listing ingredients for new dishes and old favorites. It’s too much. This is not the year for it. My standbys will be on the table: a roasted turkey breast (we’re not fond of the rest of the bird…
Category: Holiday Foods
(Fresh) Spinach and Artichoke Dip
Four hundred twenty-six trick-or-treaters pulling one’s bell rope can make a witch grumpy. At my cottage, we can’t beat ’em, so we join ’em! Halloween 2012, by the numbers: 25 pounds of fun-size candy bars, the good kind (Snickers, Twix, Heath Bars, et cetera) for the hordes of costumed children who descended on my patch…
Pumpkin Brownies
If you had a chance to shop for chrysanthemums with a chihuahua riding shotgun in a flower pot, wouldn’t you do it? I did. It’s fun. And if you could dig into a luscious pumpkin brownie crowned with orange-flavored cream cheese frosting, wouldn’t you do that? You should. It’s delicious. That’s not such a stretch…
Baked Apples
Food doesn’t get much more straight-forward than this, and autumn is the perfect time for it. Let me introduce you to Baked Apples, something I consider a treat but which makes my husband, an apple-hater of some renown, recoil. Pay him no mind. These are delicious. No bonnet, pinafore, or gingham apron is necessary to make these…
Two-Rice Pilaf with Grapes
This night’s dinner was a variation on a theme of green and white. The menu: Cornish game hens roasted with herb butter under the skin Wild and white rice pilaf with green grapes and fresh rosemary Roasted cauliflower Spinach and feta cheese rolls from a great local bakery I love green. The game hens and…
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