It’s The Season to Talk Turkey
It is the time of year when turkey leftovers are plentiful and cooks are creatively challenged. How many turkey sandwiches can one family eat? Fortunately, there are many alternatives.
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It is the time of year when turkey leftovers are plentiful and cooks are creatively challenged. How many turkey sandwiches can one family eat? Fortunately, there are many alternatives.
If you hated Brussels sprouts when you were young because they tasted strong and bitter, it is definitely time to try them again. Today’s Brussels sprouts are sweeter and milder-tasting than you may recall.
Butternut squash is one of the handiest and healthiest vegetables you can serve. It might win the vegetable versatility award, as you can bake or roast it, steam or boil it, use it in stews or a stir-fry.
You want to know one of the best ways to get lots of flavor and texture into one simple dish? Well, stuff it!
If stewing brings to mind chunks of meat simmering slowly in flavorful liquid, remember some of the best stews are meatless dishes like ratatouille as well as other European dishes.
Who makes the stuffed cabbage in your family? This robust dish inhabits the souls of those with roots in Eastern Europe, where cabbage dishes fuel people through harsh winters.
Once, the only roasted vegetables most people made were potatoes, either nestled next to a chicken, set in a pan under a rack holding a leg of lamb (as the French do), or scattered around a hefty rib roast.
Tomatoes are rich in so many good things, including vitamin C, lycopene and assorted carotenes, that eating them every day is a good idea – especially while local, ripe tomatoes are at their peak.
This is the time of year when ingredients go from the garden to the table without much human intervention.
Today, 95 percent of the tuna we eat is canned, but you can also find glistening, fresh tuna steaks in the fish department at nearly any supermarket. Includes recipe for Marinated Fresh Tuna Salad.
As temperatures climb outdoors, the heat should go down in the kitchen. One way to accomplish this is by serving cold soup, like this Chilled Melon Soup.
When local corn is in season, I can dine on half a dozen ears, steamed or in their husk, with the warm, earth-spice smell of the vine still clinging to them.
As a teenager growing up in New York City, I was Yankee to the bone. But once I read To Kill a Mockingbird, everything culinary south of the Mason-Dixon line fascinated me.
As peoples interest in eating grains has grown, so has the variety of rices available in stores.