If your pie is solid and unmoving–like old jello-it’s overdone or old. If the filling is pulling away from the crust, it was made too many days ago. Is it cracked? Well, that just happens once in a while (probably overbaked)–but next time bake it for less time and see if you can avoid that. Continue reading
It is of course possible to dance a prayer.
~Terri Guillemets
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Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.
~W.J. Cameron
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Hunger, it is said, “is the best sauce.” Pancakes outside cooked on a Coleman stove after a long hike. A pot of stew in the slow cooker waiting at home while you’re at work. Anytime you “could have eaten a horse.”
The other day Dave emerged from his tiny, temporary office (my old study) after a #$5*@!) morning and said, “I’m hungry; what’s for lunch?” While he’s perfectly happy to get his own meals (peanut butter and crackers eaten over the sink in 5 minutes is a favorite), he’ll take more of a break if I fix anything at all. If I’m cooking, I often cook early and he’s lucky enough to get some of it. That day, I wasn’t cooking; I was cleaning and unpacking one more box or ten. Still, I was hungry, too. A quick search of the fridge allowed that there were indeed eggs along with some leftover tomatoes, cooked red potatoes, and a big box of crispy, peppery arugula. I didn’t know what I’d make exactly, but I began with a large skillet with olive oil and onions…. Continue reading
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| Moving on this year, we added a vegetarian timpano from Stanley Tucci’s new cookbook, THE TUCCI COOKBOOK. Layered inside a 10-inch springform pan lined with thinly sliced, broiled eggplant, this luscious creation is perfect for your vegetarian Thanksgiving. Emergency Alert—Please click here to donate: World Food Programme Philippine Relief |
I’m not sure why lamb isn’t eaten more the United States; I adore it. But often people will just blurt out, “I don’t like lamb.” In some other parts of the world, lamb is precious, but more common than stateside–as is goat. It doesn’t answer the question about why so many Americans “don’t like” lamb; I think they just haven’t had much of it and what they have had as been poorly prepared. I wish they could have some stew…
I rarely had lamb growing up–and, if I did, it was a tiny lamb chop with some potatoes and peas prepared simply to showcase the sweet bite of meat. Of course there was mint jelly. This may have had something to do with living with in 25 miles of the Chicago Stockyards, or simply in the mid west where beef was (and is) king. Maybe it was southern-born parents cooking up north. Maybe it was cash. Continue reading
To say that I’m well-fed is a nice way of putting things and is somewhat of an embarrassment. Dave insists I’m simply…well…maybe we needn’t go into it. Suffice it to say he doesn’t complain. (I love that man.)
