Parsnips — sweet, citrusy, spicy, and starchy — make a crazy-good latke. What? You thought latkes were only made from potatoes and only for Hanukkah? Let me explain.
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Parsnips — sweet, citrusy, spicy, and starchy — make a crazy-good latke. What? You thought latkes were only made from potatoes and only for Hanukkah? Let me explain.
Looking for a make-ahead lunch for your lunchbox this week? Want something easy, healthy, and filling? Look no further than this lentil salad — it's one more lunch salad for your repertoire, full of crisp and colorful bell pepper and onions, with nutty toasted walnuts and fragrant herbs. A sweet, tangy dressing pulls it all together.
When I ask fellow cooks about their favorite cookbooks of the last several years, there is one name that invariably comes up: Ottolenghi. Yotam Ottolenghi's brand of Mediterranean, vegetable-forward cooking gained followers and fans at his London delis and restaurants, but it found an even wider and more avid audience through his books.
What makes Ottolenghi so special? Let's cook through some of his recipes and talk about why people love his recipes so much. This week we're going to bring you five of his recipes, all wonderful for lunch, and some thoughts on his roots in the deli and the lunch counter. Nearly any Ottolenghi recipe is very, very good to eat for lunch, and this first recipe, for a rice and chicken salad, exemplifies that perfectly.
Thanksgiving has come and gone, but we still have a month of entertaining to look forward to. December brings lots of opportunities to feed the people we love, from Christmas cookie baking to formal sit down dinners, and everything in between. But what about feeding ourselves?
Nachos certainly have a time and place. When I was in college, that time and place broadened exponentially to include pretty much anywhere and any time, but today things have certainly changed. We make nachos occasionally when the Super Bowl is on or when a group of friends are over to watch a movie, so to try and persuade me that nachos belong on the breakfast table would be stretch, but after working on this recipe, I'm a changed woman.
A couple years ago I realized that I like the idea of Thanksgiving leftovers more than the actual leftovers themselves. After I've finished off my second day of Thanksgiving dinner and requisite turkey sandwiches, there still seems to be a never-ending plate of turkey. And by that point, I'm over turkey and gravy.
Since I can't bring myself to just toss the remaining turkey, the obvious solution is to reinvent my turkey leftovers into a totally different meal — like spiced enchiladas topped with gooey, melted cheese.
This is how the cooking goes when I'm back at my parents' house: My mom shares the stockpile of recipes she's been saving over the last however-many months, and casually slides them across the table with a request for me to make them. I accept the offer and decide which to make and which to kindly ignore. This whole performance plays out like a scene from movie, except it's recipes for roasted broccoli and banana bread we're dealing in, not stolen gold bricks and the codes to a secret vault.
This recipe for sour cream balsamic sweet potatoes began with one of those situations. The original recipe — likely ripped out of a magazine — disappeared long ago, but the dish we first made has stuck around ever since. Today, it's one of the must-have recipes on our Thanksgiving.
For this low-maintenance marinated mushroom appetizer, we packed in tons of flavor, but kept the ingredient list nice and short. The best part about serving marinated mushrooms as a holiday appetizer is that it can be made a week in advance and tucked away in the back of your fridge until you are ready to serve.
This festive, savory tart is one of those appetizers that always looks super-impressive, but only requires a few simple steps. Using frozen puff pastry might just be the thing that saves you from your Thanksgiving Day appetizer conundrum.
All you need is a sheet of thawed puff pastry, an egg wash, seasonal squash, a touch of seasoning, and plenty of cheese, and boom! You've got a crispy, crunchy appetizer that everyone will be snacking on until dinnertime.
In my family, the most special moments always happened in the kitchen. Growing up in the South, I spent the days before Thanksgiving underfoot in my grandma's kitchen, scooping out cupfuls of flour and adding the finishing touch — a dust of powdered sugar — to her famous bourbon chocolate pecan pie. (As a reward, I got to turn the dough scraps into my own tiny pies, also dusted with sugar.) These little moments turned into beautiful memories that stick with me every year. The smell of this pie — now a classic on my own holiday table — takes me right back to those days. I make the recipe just like she used to, and that includes using Imperial Sugar: No Southern lady, my grandma included, would trust a Thanksgiving dessert to any other brand.
In my family, the most special moments always happened in the kitchen. Growing up in Virginia, I spent the days before Thanksgiving underfoot in my grandma's kitchen, scooping out cupfuls of flour and adding the finishing touch — a dust of powdered sugar — to her famous bourbon chocolate pecan pie. (As a reward, I got to turn the dough scraps into my own tiny pies, also dusted with sugar.) These little moments turned into beautiful memories that stick with me every year. The smell of this pie — now a classic on my own holiday table — takes me right back to those days. I make the recipe just like she used to, and that includes using Dixie Crystals: No Southern lady, my grandma included, would trust a Thanksgiving dessert to any other brand.
In our opinion, a holiday table isn't complete without a big basket of fluffy dinner rolls. How else are you going to sop up the last bits of gravy? These soft and airy sweet potato rolls are perfect for the job. They're also very nearly foolproof, making them one less thing to worry about when planning the meal.
For this version of the classic cheese ball recipe, we mixed equal parts crumbly blue cheese and cream cheese, folded in a handful of dried figs and a drizzle of honey, and then coated the whole thing in toasted sliced almonds. The result? A perfectly tangy, spreadable cheese ball with a hint of natural sweetness.
Yes, you really can cook a frozen turkey. Yes, it sounds completely improbable — even slightly alarming. But against all odds, yes, it works. If you find yourself staring down a turkey that's still frozen solid on Thanksgiving morning and you're wondering how in the world you're going to get dinner on the table in a few hours, there's hope. Here's how to go from frozen to golden without skipping a beat.
Larger than its chicken counterpart, turkey breast is the ideal solution when you're hosting Thanksgiving dinner for a small crowd. This simple, sweet-and-savory, stuffed turkey breast is your answer to getting everything you love about the whole bird — without actually cooking an entire turkey.
Whether your favorite part is the lean, juicy meat; the crispy skin; or the stuffing, this dish has it all.
When I was in my 20s I decided to live alone, finally, after sharing homes and apartments with an ever-changing stream of roommates. That first year in my solo apartment was the genesis of my desire to learn how to cook well. I knew how to follow a recipe, but I realized there's so much more to becoming a cook at ease in the kitchen. I remember staring at a pile of brown and wilted vegetables in my fridge and thinking how recipes are nothing more than the gleaming tip of the iceberg, shiny and alluring, but not signaling the many demands they make on a cook: how to shop, how to plan, how to make the most of the ingredients in your fridge and pantry every single day.
There were a few recipes that got me through those early days of starting to acquire the 95% of kitchen knowledge that isn't found in recipes. No matter how empty my fridge, I always had eggs, lentils, and spices, and maybe you do too. If so, this is the simplest weeknight meal — homey and comforting.
Thanksgiving is arguably the most highly anticipated culinary day of the year. While some people may resort to beer and football on this day, I personally enjoy leading the charge in the kitchen. I like to ease those pre-dinner jitters and possible family tensions by making a shareable, seasonal punch that gets everyone into the holiday mood.
Here's a fall-inspired cocktail that you can share and enjoy all morning while you're prepping Thanksgiving dinner. It's not too boozy, but it's refreshing enough to keep you relaxed as things get hectic ... because we all know they will.
It seems like everyone's family has a potato dish (or two!) they traditionally serve for Thanksgiving. Ours is a potato gratin, which I decided to gussy up this year with the addition of nutty Gruyere cheese and crispy pancetta. It has all the familiar flavors of a classic gratin, but the elevated add-ins lend this version an easy sophistication for the holidays.
Mashed sweet potato recipes generally start with roasting your sweet potatoes, but this can be a tricky proposition when oven space is limited. For a stovetop adaptation, simmer those sweet potatoes in a rich cooking liquid that gets blended right in at the end. This keeps things more flavorful and less waterlogged than if you’d just boiled the sweet potatoes in water.
If you boldly volunteered to roast the Thanksgiving turkey this year and are starting to feel your first nervous twinges, I have three words of advice: brine your bird. Brining is your ticket to a juicy, full-flavored turkey, even if you're not feeling totally confident about your roasting skills. Today, I'll explain why this works and show you exactly what you need to do.