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Here’s an interesting site I stumbled across - that will help out with food ideas. Each of the main foods is surrounded by a diagram of appropriate food combinations.
Which fruits go best with cooked chicken? Which cheeses? What about the vegetables?
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Every year around this time, we anxiously await the arrival of a package from my dad’s friend Fred. What we crave is a loaf of the most wonderful fruitcake, packed with dates, raisins, and glazed cherries, a raisin bread on steroids, made by Fred’s elegant and gifted wife Patricia. As soon as the [...]

One of my favorite things to make with leftover turkey is turkey tacos. Usually I have some leftover cranberry relish (I always make too much) to go with the tacos in lieu of salsa, but this time I thought I would make some fresh cranberry salsa from scratch, which turned out surprisingly good. [...]

What to do with all those turkey leftovers? We decided to make turkey stroganoff with some of ours. Stroganoff is a classic Russian dish, popularized in America after World War II, which typically has beef and mushrooms served in a sour cream sauce. Turkey doesn’t have as strong a flavor as beef, [...]

Updated Tuesday, Nov 27, 11:00 am, PST
Today at Amazon.com, as part of their Black Friday huge blow-out sale, several KitchenAid mixers are on sale.
The brand new KitchenAid Artisan Series 5-Quart Mixer is on sale in red and white for $199 from $349. With a $20 rebate the effective price drops to $179. On [...]

Based on a tip in Alice Waters’ new cookbook, The Art of Simple Food, that fuyu persimmons make a good fruit salad, I begged some just picked fuyus from my neighbor and fellow blogger Andrea and set about to make this colorful harvest salad. Persimmons come in two main varieties - fuyu, which are [...]

From the my earliest memory, we have said grace at the table before our family dinners. It’s a simple blessing, our Catholic grace. I think growing up we kids didn’t think much about it, just that it was one of those things we had to do before we could eat. But ritual [...]

Most of the ice cream recipes we have on this site involve making a custard base. This approach results in a creamy and smooth homemade ice cream, but requires several extra steps and extra time. If you don’t use an egg custard base, your ice cream will not be nearly as rich, but [...]

“How many pies should we bake, dad? There are only 5 of us for dinner.”
“Two.”
“Two?”
“Two. Because there is nothing better on God’s green earth than apple pie for breakfast.”
“Ah yes, of course.”
We are making two apple pies for Thanksgiving this year, both with [...]

Updated. From the recipe archive.
This is my grandmother’s recipe, which my mother has been using to make our Thanksgiving turkey stuffing for more than 40 years. I’ve never tasted any turkey stuffing that has come close to as good as mom’s. Although years ago we used to stuff the bird, these days [...]