St. Patrick’s Day Ideas
If you are planning a little St. Patrick’s Day celebration, here’s a few ideas for you.
Guinness Milk Chocolate Ice Cream
St. Patrick’s Day Ideas From Around the Blogs
Simply Recipes – Irish Beef Stew
Kitchen Parade – Caraway Corned Beef
Mardi Gras Celebrations
Tuesday is Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, and we have a few suggestions to help you make a Cajun or Creole style celebration.
Emeril’s Jambalaya with Chicken, Shrimp, Andouille, and Ham, no tomatoes. Read more
Quick and Easy Christmas Ideas
It’s Christmas Eve, and perhaps you are feeling a little rushed to get everything ready for the big day? Here are some quick and easy ideas for Christmas Day that will help you put on the festive spirit. Merry Christmas from our home to yours!
New Favorites for Thanksgiving
November 23, 2007 by Andrea
Filed under Holidays, Poultry, Vegetables
My plan to blog yesterday fell by the wayside as this Thanksgiving was as busy as ever. Though we stayed at home and had a small celebration with our little family, it seems that we’re still stuck in the mode of struggling to get meals on the table while trying to manage the three-ring circus, aka our three little boys. I did manage to continue my tradition of forgetting to serve the cranberry chutney. Last year was the first time in three years that I actually remembered to serve it, and I promised myself that I would remember this year, but once again it sat in the refrigerator forlornly while we enjoyed the turkey and the rest of the trimmings. Oh well, it will taste good with turkey sandwiches for the next few days!
In a departure from our tradition, we roasted a whole turkey this year rather than just a turkey breast using Elise’s method for roasting the bird breast-side down and Food & Wine’s recipe for shallot butter with Madeira thyme gravy. The breast meat was so tender and juicy it was falling apart as we cut it, and the flavor of the gravy was a real winner. I will never roast a bird breast-side up again because it was *that* good. After picking off all the meat for a turkey pot pie, the carcass went into a stockpot to make some good, rich stock for turkey noodle soup. Read more
