Archive for 'Recipes'
Last Minute Appetizers and Snacks
As we count down the days to Thanksgiving, we have one eye on the turkey and another eye on the upcoming holiday season. If you’re like me, you are probably starting to feel stressed about all the obligations that come along with this time of the year, wondering when you’ll have time to make all [...]
Full StoryBrining Your Bird
Every year I look forward to receiving all my holiday magazines filled with delicious festive recipes. Almost every publication contains an article on the latest trend to preparing the perfect turkey and I have come close to trying all of them. I can honestly say that the best way to add flavor and moisture to [...]
Full StoryWhat to drink Thanksgiving Day?
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. It is the time to bring families together sit around the table and enjoy home cooked food. But it can also be quite stressful as family can be harshly critical. So how are you to pick the perfect wine to please the “connoisseur”, the uncle who thinks he’s [...]
Full StoryCall it Seoul Food
Maybe you haven’t noticed, but Korean food is fast approaching and maybe surpassing the popularity of other Asian cuisines, including Chinese, Japanese and Thai. Its popularity isn’t sudden; Korean food has been quietly building a loyal following, first in ethnic neighborhoods and then moving to more mainstream parts of cities and towns. Call it Seoul food.
Korean food [...]
This Thanksgiving … Just Stuff It
One of the most beloved dishes at the Thanksgiving table is the stuffing. A mix of seasoned vegetables and starches that is traditionally cooked within the cavity of the turkey, stuffing can be traced back to the Roman Empire. Today, however, it is most widely associated with Thanksgiving. Although a basic stuffing is made from bread [...]
Full StoryTop 10 Thanksgiving Leftover Dishes
Instead of picking your way around the turkey carcass and zapping those cold mashed potatoes in the microwave, how about jazzing up your Thanksgiving leftovers this year with these ten brilliant leftover recipes from our own FriendsEat family of inventive foodies.
1. Arroz con Turkey
Ingredients
1/2 cup Leftover turkey, shredded
1/2 yellow onion (chopped small)
1 tbsp Sofrito (you [...]
Poor Man’s Gourmet Cappuccino Foam
In my younger years I worked at an espresso bar operating a $5000 La Pavoni espresso machine. Back then a restaurant cappuccino was made with two shots of espresso in a large coffee cup; we added steamed milk, and topped it off with foam. We made the foam by pouring Half & Half into a [...]
Full StoryNew Take on Traditional Green Beans
Traditional southern green beans are found on Thanksgiving buffets at every home throughout the southern states. These beans are slow cooked with ham hock or bacon until they are tender and turn almost a grayish green in color. Don’t get me wrong, these beans are delicious, but this year I want to try something new. [...]
Full StoryTips for Defrosting Your Thanksgiving Turkey
If you’re planning to cook a turkey this Thanksgiving, this is the week for big sales. Whether the turkey you buy is fresh, frozen, free range, organic or heritage, you will likely be storing it in the freezer until it gets closer to Thanksgiving, at which point you will need to figure how much time it takes to defrost.
According [...]
New Turkey Traditions: Try Grilling or Deep Frying
A Thanksgiving dinner without the traditional foods – turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie – would seem sacrilegious. However, there are many daring and innovative holiday revelers who would like to try something new, but without sacrificing the time-honored tradition that family and friends have come to expect. There are already some [...]
Full StoryFavorite Thanksgiving Desserts
Thanksgiving is one of our favorite holidays. Not only do we give thanks for all the blessings we’ve received over the past year, but we get a chance to consume massive amounts of incredibly delicious and comforting food without guilt. What a great deal!
By the time dessert rolls around, we all swear that we can’t eat another [...]
Thanksgiving Food Facts and Myths
The first Thanksgiving on record dates back to the fall of 1621, when 52 English colonists and 90 Wampanoag came together in Plymouth, Massachusetts for a three-day feast celebrating the bountiful harvest. The Native Americans contributed five deer to the celebration, with the colonists supplying everything else. In addition to celebrating their crop’s abundance, they [...]
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