Dinner the day after Thanksgiving... ALMOST my favorite use for white meat... the only sandwich to seriously challenge the BLT for the crown... the TURKEY SANDWICH (needs a better name, though)...
Slices of my good homemade bread (1 cup of…
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Turkey sandwiches! One of America's great contributions to world cuisine...
I had homemade bread that I'd made for the dressing... I had arugula... I had mayonnaise... and white meat from the Thanksgiving turkey.
Perfect.
But one must have potato chips…
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No one finishes the Thanksgiving meal.
There are always containers of... remaining food.
What to do? Dump everything in a pot and call it soup? YUCK.
Instead of thinking of The L Word as some "used" food you need to…
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Just cubing some homemade bread for dressing and thought I'd share...
Please carry on...
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!
In honor of the Founding Father who wanted the turkey to be declared our national symbol because the eagle was a bird "not of good moral character..."
I thought you'd get a kick out of this shot of…
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Dressing... Yes, I'm from Michigan and we called it "dressing" whether on the inside or the outside of the bird!
I went a little crazy this year, but after 8 months away from my kitchen, I think I was due…
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OK... It's happened... I've drunk the Kool-Aid... I will quite probably never cook a turkey any other way.
Yesterday [Thanksgiving morning!], I spatchcocked the Thanksgiving turkey!
All that actually means is...
I cut out the backbone, then made a…
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I cannot believe it's already Thanksgiving!
My elderly parents warned me about time speeding up but, like every child, I didn't believe them.
Guess what. They win.
All of this is to say, here come tons of Thanksgiving posts from…
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I realize you must think at times that I should just change the name of this blog to “This Old Schnitzel,” since I serve and post about it so frequently. But it's never ever the same! That's one of the…
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OK, let's just call it Paella-flavored Risotto.
Let me explain.
My best friend rarely gets to the correct coast. So, when she does, celebration is in order. I always ask her for menu requests and, this time, one of her…
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So, you roasted a chicken.
You made some vegetables to go along.
You made a gravy.
You didn't eat all of it...
POT PIE!!!
Now, just in case you haven't roasted a chicken yet... I love the Bittman Method:
http://www.thisoldchef.com/blog.html/easiest_roast_chicken_and_its_aftermath/
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As we were eating a Sunday breakfast of homemade biscuits and homemade sausage...
We realized that I've never actually given you a "biscuit primer..."
I have tried scores of biscuit recipes over the past (cough cough) years, and I always…
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As the summer herb season starts to wind down...
(NOOOOOO!!!!!)
... I have an abondanza of Thai basil.
I realize that may not be a problem many of you have.
So we wondered if there was any point in making…
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I made a huge batch of chicken stock the other day, so huge, in fact, that I was having trouble finding space in the freezer for all of it. I began to think of interesting ways to utilize some of…
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It has been a truly bizarre summer, tomato-wise. Gorgeous, huge plants, lots of fruit, but almost none have yet ripened... and it's September! Oh well. Tomatoes are often finicky...
One beautiful beefsteak did appear ripe the other night. Not enough…
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