Author Archives: Kate
Wines for Thanksgiving
My sister Sarah is the Wine Buyer for Amathus Drinks, a London based importer and wholesaler. I know, great job, right? She discovered her calling at University where she became that rare thing, a discerning student drinker. Upon graduating she … Continue reading
The Monday Treat – Tasty spiced apple cupcakes and an extremely tasteful manicure
It finally happened; after weeks of obsessing about pumpkins, carving them, buying mini ones to decorate windowsills, roasting them, boiling them, pureeing them I may have reached my pumpkin quota. It was all going so well. My skin hadn’t turned … Continue reading
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Tagged apple, cupcake, Thanksgiving, toffee apple sauce, vegetarian
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Vegetarian Thanksgiving – 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
Make ahead pureed vegetables
But my family always has a pureed [insert obscure vegetable] and there isn’t one on this menu! Any dinner that involves tradition and family is bound to run up against roadblocks of the ‘but we always have this’ variety. Best … Continue reading
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Tagged butternut squash, carrot, Christmas, potato, pumpkin, puree, recipe, sweet potato, Thanksgiving, turnip, vegetarian, what not to do, yam
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The Thanksgiving Plan: Butter Roast Turkey, served with roasted pumpkin, sweet and fingerling potatoes, green beans, apple stuffing, cornbread and cranberry sauce
Total Thanksgiving cooking time=turkey to room temperature time + cooking time + resting time For me, total Thanksgiving cooking time = 30 mins + 2 3/4 hours + 25 mins Therefore if dinner is at 2pm, I need to get … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, cranberry, green beans, how long to cook a turkey, potato, pumpkin, stay sane, stuffing, sweet potato, Thanksgiving, timings, turkey, turkey cooking times
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This dinner is unlikely to get you laid – sorry – Thanksgiving by a Brit – Butter Roast Turkey, served with roasted pumpkin, sweet and fingerling potatoes, green beans, apple stuffing and cranberry sauce
I’m pretty sure that Thanksgiving Dinner never got anybody laid. All the carbs and all the family – it’s a killer combination. Engaged? Possibly. Divorced? So I’m apocryphally told. But laid? Nope. The best we can hope for is that … Continue reading
The Wednesday Tipple – white cranberry cosmopolitans (with baked camembert and homemade cranberry sauce) to cheer up a friend who dated a turkey
“I wouldn’t say it was a good date, really. No.†said friend Sara as we sloshed the white cranberry juice into the shaker. Sara, you may recall, has been taking positive action since discovering herself to be in the middle … Continue reading
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Tagged camembert, cheese, Christmas, cocktail, cointreau, cosmopolitan, cranberry, cranberry juice, food, online dating, recipe, Sara, Thanksgiving, turkey, vodka
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The Monday Treat – Pumpkin Spice Cookies
My first experience of Thanksgiving was 5 years ago, when I came to New York for four months. Until then I’d never known the pleasure of a pumpkin pie, never eaten a cornbread muffin, never imagined a green bean casserole, … Continue reading
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Tagged cookie, pecan, pumpkin, pumpkin spice, Thanksgiving, vegetarian
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This dinner will get you laid – a conundrum concerning eggplant parmigiana
“You know that old saying, chocolate’s better than sex – but only if you’re doing the sex wrong?†said friend Annie as we chatted on Skype earlier this week.
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Tagged eggplant, food, mozzarella, parmesan, parmigiana, pasta, recipe, tomato, vegetarian
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The Wednesday Tipple – Spiced Cranberry Apple Cooler (with endive autumn salad)
Jon, returning from 3 hours of art class drawing naked middle aged models was tired and in need of succor. Since the building water tank has just been cleaned and the water is currently gurgling coffee-colored spume into the sink, … Continue reading
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Tagged apple, Autumn, canape, cinnamon, cocktail, cranberry, endive, fall, nude model, recipe, salad, vegetable box
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