How do you decide which Thanksgiving recipes to serve?
From
Beverly Mills
| November 24, 2010
In Coffee and Convo
Featured Recipe: Cranberry Sauce with Port and Figs
I’m curious -- how do you decide on a Thanksgiving menu? Are you a cook who’s steeped in tradition and would never change so much as a side dish? Or are you a magazine glutton, combing the popular press for the latest-greatest pies, salads and stuffing?
Do you fall somewhere in between perhaps? I think I’m one of the in-betweeners. Some dishes, like Scalloped Oysters, I just have to make, more because I crave them than because my family does. And then there’s the cranberry sauce -- plain or fancy? (I'm for fancy...) Doncha love the rice vs. mashed potatoes debate? Hubby and kids prefer potatoes, but I grew up with rice. Some years I fix both.
When it comes to recipes, Thanksgiving makes my head spin. My email list is full of messages like these: 15 Time-Saving Thanksgiving Desserts; 14 Yummy Potato Side Dish Recipes; and finally, 138 Thanksgiving Recipes!
Spare me. Really. I don’t want to wade through 14 potato recipes. Just give me the best one and tell me why I should care!
But then there are the glorious photos of burnished turkeys all garnished with the likes of curly collard greens and pomegranate slices. I know I need to step away from the magazines and move toward the kitchen. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just eat the pictures?
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Cranberry Sauce with Port and Figs
November 10, 2009
Beverly says: I truly love Cranberry Sauce with Port and Figs. To me, it wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without it.
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From Alicia Ross - November 25, 2010
I think the magazines make me feel guilty for not being more creative. But it's such a small crowd this year, preparing bunches of traditional or new recipes just doesn't make sense. Maybe we'll just eat the Pumpkin Cobbler all day long!