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British Thanksgiving
What’s not to love about Thanksgiving? Americans eat mashed sweet potatoes covered in mini marshmallows, drizzled with maple syrup, then broilled / grilled to a molten goo. This is amazing.
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Tagged Apples, beans, potatoes, pumpkin, stuffing, sweet potatoes, Thanksgiving, turkey
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A Rotarian Halloween and Whole Roasted Pumpkins with Butternut Squash Risotto – This Dinner Will Get You Laid
One Halloween when my husband was a kid, he was picked by his school to be in one of those murder mysteries that were the absolute Newest Craze – the kind that you can still buy now in a box … Continue reading
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Tagged Autumn, butter, fall, halloween, parmesan, pumpkin, risotto, Rotarians
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This Dinner Will Get You Laid – Thanksgiving Roast Chicken – and a triumphant lack of naked ballet!
Here are some of the things that a quick poll of my friends revealed they are thankful for this year: good health, family, having jobs, not having mice, iPads. Here’s what I am thankful for this year: I did not … Continue reading
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Tagged chicken, cranberry, naked ballet, parsley, pumpkin, sage, sausage, stuffing, Thanksgiving
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The Monday Treat – Spiced Pumpkin Apple Cake with Maple Frosting
Thanksgiving is just around the corner. Great excitement; the paper turkeys can once more grace the window sill. That’s not a metaphor for something. I mean actual paper turkeys. And also paper pumpkins and garland. Gotta love a theme.
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Tagged apple pumpkin cake, cake, pumpkin, pumpkin spice, Thanksgiving
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Roasted Butternut Squash Hummus and the stresses of pumpkin carving
The key to successful pumpkin carving, it turns out, is having access to some kind of saw.
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Tagged butternut squash, halloween, Plenty, pumpkin, pumpkin carving, vegetarian
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This Dinner Will Get You Laid – Pumpkin Lamb Stew – with optional eyeballs (full disclosure – the eyeballs will almost certainly not get you laid.)
If you’re planning on dressing up as any of the following: sexy kitten, sexy devil, sexy cowgirl, sexy bunny, French Maid, Dominatrix, you don’t need to be worrying about making lamb stew. Seriously. Cheese and crackers is plenty. This post … Continue reading
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Tagged eyeballs, halloween, lamb, lamb shanks, pumpkin, stew
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The Wednesday Tipple – Pumpkin Beer (and cocktail) with Roasted Spiced Chickpeas
I’d never heard of Pumpkin beer until I came to New York and bought a selection of Autumnal bottles because I loved the Halloween themed labels. Yes, I am a marketer’s dream.
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Tagged chick peas, cocktail, crunch, pumpkin, pumpkin beer, sugar spice
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Roasted vegetables with cranberry wild rice
I make this Thanksgiving themed rice dish as often as I think Jon will put up with it, throughout Autumn and Winter. I think it might have been the first dish that I ever cooked for his parents, when they … Continue reading
Sweet potato puree / Yam puree / Jerusalem artichoke puree / carrot and turnip puree / pumpkin and butternut squash puree (serves 8, generously)
Warning: Under no circumstances attempt to blend regular potatoes in a blender or processor. You will end up with a gummy wallpaper paste mess. It is bad enough that one of us had to do this. Use a masher, potato … Continue reading
Roasted pumpkin, sweet and fingerling potatoes with cranberries
Ingredients (serves 6) 1 medium pumpkin 8 large sweet potatoes 20 Fingerling potatoes 1 handful of dried cranberries soaked for five minutes in a splash of orange juice Olive oil Salt and pepper Slice the pumpkin into 1 inch wedges, … Continue reading