Lonely No More: Veg*n Holiday Cooking & Eating
Sharyn is a professor of English, avid runner, and champion napper. When not teaching, running, or under her beloved Slanket, she bakes vegan treats and greedily reads her friends’ blogs. Originally...
View ArticleThanksgiving Thoughts: Roasted Turkey
Call it a gobbler, a motherclucker, even Big Bird (if you’re a certain, recently-former presidential candidate). I’ll know what you mean. Turkey is the centerpiece of almost every Thanksgiving meal....
View ArticleHappy Thanksgiving
To all of you out there who are cooking or being cooked for — to all of you who are hosting or being hosted, this year — I’d like to wish you a safe, delicious, happy Thanksgiving. I hope you all have...
View ArticleThanksgiving Thoughts: Roasted Squash with Sage and Bacon
So here’s the good-news / bad-news situation. Which should — by this point — sound like a pretty familiar situation to folks reading along at home. The bad news is that once again, for the third year...
View ArticleThanksgiving Thoughts: Hunger and the Holidays
As of November 1 — just in time for Thanksgiving — Federal funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has been drastically reduced. The program had been living on funds from the...
View ArticleThanksgiving Thoughts: Roast Turkey Breast Roulade
As you consider this turkey breast roulade, I’d like you to think about two possible scenarios. First: you’re having a small Thanksgiving. Maybe the budget is a little tight this year — maybe you got...
View ArticleThanksgiving Thoughts: Pumpkin Mousse
I would appreciate it if you would all take the word ‘pumpkin’ in pumpkin mousse to be a metonym for a larger category, rather than a thing unto itself. I’m not trying to mislead you about the content...
View ArticleTwice Cooked Thanksgiving Recipe Index
The moment of truth is upon us, Thanksgiving cooks. Now is the time for a frenetic flurry of brining birds and baking bread, looking up last minute formulae for oyster dressing and sweet potato pie....
View ArticleCaramelized Onion Tart, 2014 Edition
Is your old model caramelized onion tart starting to feel long in the tooth? Do you bring it to parties only to have your friends and family give it a big ho hum? Well I’m here to tell you, folks, that...
View ArticlePumpkin-Poultry Pot Pie
I agonized — let me tell you — about what to call this recipe. First, in my head, it was a pumpkin pot pie. But that sounded too much like a plain old pumpkin pie; or like a pot pie with little chunks...
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