Thanksgiving Dinner: Plan Menu This Week
Still following the Thanksgiving Day Dinner plan? Got your turkey ordered for the big day? You should have that done, and your menu planned soon. This week is when you should really should have things...
View ArticleThanksgiving Dinner: Cranberry Sangria Welcomes Guests Before Dinner
Use Beaujolais or Zinfandel in this bright sangria. /Photo by Luca Trovato, Coastal Living Magazine. (Used by permission of Coastal Living.) This gorgeous and cheery Cranberry Sangria recipe was in...
View ArticleHow to Brine a Turkey in Sun Sentinel Column Today
If you want to try brining a bird, check out my column in today’s Sun Sentinel. It’s the moistest turkey you’ll ever eat – but there are tricks — and you’ll have to give up the drippings to use for...
View ArticleThanksgiving Dinner – Restaurants Serving Turkey – or Vegetarian – in 2011
Even if eating out, make a pumpkin pie to come home to. Get this recipe at McCormick.com /photo from mccormick.com Thanksgiving’s a big chore that’s a week in the making and 1 hour in the devouring....
View ArticleDon’t Be a Turkey – Use A Meat Thermometer for the Bird
Is it done? Use a meat/poultry thermometer to be sure. photo/USDA A reader and friend, Laurie Steele, just called to tell me she’s brining the turkey for Thanksgiving this year. Her questions about how...
View ArticleThanksgiving: How to Roast a Heritage Turkey or Fresh Turkey
The Osceola turkey - a heritage Florida breed. Several readers have asked about roasting a heritage turkey, or a natural, fresh bird they’ve gotten from a local farm. The times are going to be shorter...
View ArticleThanksgiving: Quick Hors D’Oeuvres or Appetizers
Marinated olives /photo courtesy lifesafeast.com.au If you’re spending all that time on the dinner, you don’t have time to mess with fancy appetizers. Keep them simple and to the point – and don’t put...
View ArticleThanksgiving: Mashed Potatoes 101
Cooks often get this simple dish very wrong on Thanksgiving, and it’s perplexing. Maybe they’re trying too hard, rushing, or simply don’t know the basics. Here’s the FAQ on making perfect mashed...
View ArticlePumpkin Bread Pudding Wins Sun Sentinel Thanksgiving Dessert Contest;...
Pumpkin Bread Pudding won top prize for Judith Avey of Fort Lauderdale in the Sun Sentinel's Thanksgiving dessert contest. /photo by Josh Ritchie, Sun Sentinel Judy Avey of Fort Lauderdale took first...
View ArticleThanksgiving Dinner – Plan Ahead!
Halloween’s not even here yet, and we’re already talking turkey. That’s because the planning for that once-a-year feast starts now. If you plan ahead, you can pull off that turkey day dinner without...
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