Everybody thinks of green bean casserole as a Thanksgiving dish, and it is, but we love it anytime during the chilly season. It’s just that kind of cozy, comforting dish, the kind of dish you’d bring to a Christmas or holiday potluck, or serve as part of a special weekend dinner. Making green bean casserole …
If I bake only one pie for Christmas this year, this is it. It’s been a few years since I made a maple pecan pie. I used to always follow the Fanny Farmer (aka Marion Cunningham) recipe and it was fine. But this! This is freaking fabulous. God bless the cooking geeks in America’s Test …
Bundt cakes, up to now, have made me nervous. I slather butter into the dips and peaks of the pan. I flour the pan if the recipe calls for it. But too many times, when I turn the cake out onto a plate, parts of it stay behind, stuck to the pan. This time would …
Kale and sweet potato are two bold ingredients most of us love. Baked together in this gratin recipe with onion, garlic, and a cheese sauce, they become even more beloved. ~~~ In the past two weeks, we’ve received twenty pounds of sweet potatoes and a few bags of kale from our CSA, In Good Heart …
Gingerbread is the ideal counter cake. It sits on the counter and gets more and more delicious each day. Friends drop by during the holidays, you cut a few slices, and damn it’s good — intensely spiced, moist and tasty. It also goes really well with eggnog. This recipe was developed by Claudia Fleming when …
I love baking with cranberries and apples in the fall and winter. I found this Ina Garten (aka The Barefoot Contessa) recipe from her cookbook, How Easy Is That?, on the Serious Eats website. Ina calls it “Easy Cranberry Apple Cake,” and it lives up to the “easy” part of that title. I grew up …
My brother Ed, our friend Jasper and Jasper’s father all make a sweet potato and apple casserole for Thanksgiving. I’ve had all three. Each makes his just a bit different than the others. Ed gave me his recipe, but also referred me to a recipe at Food & Wine from Jasper White, not our Jasper. I still …
By now, if you’re hosting Thanksgiving, you probably have your shopping done and your prep list ready to go. But before you get going, take a peek at what super kitchen scientist Harold McGee says about some common Thanksgiving turkey myths. He also shares Thanksgiving cooking tips with Serious Eats. If, like me, you’re going …
I just found my missing favorite cranberry sauce recipe and want to share it with you in case you don’t have a recipe yet for Thanksgiving. I’ve got a lot to say about cranberries, surprise surprise, but I’ll save that for another time. I first discovered this recipe in the December 1997 issue of Bon Appetit …
“We could not now take time for further search or consideration, our victuals being much spent, especially our beer, and it being now the 19th of December.” Those words from the diary of a Mayflower passenger are attributed to William Bradford who later became the governor of Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. The Mayflower’s original destination …
Grabbing the Gusto 