My mother always made creamed onions at Thanksgiving. I remember one of those old celebrity cookbooks she had with recipes by John Wayne and other stars from that era. This came from that book, I think, but I never actually saw her use a recipe to make it. She would show up at my house…
Holidays
Homemade Pasta, Including Ravioli!
Hopefully my daughters aren’t reading this because we wanted to surprise them but it’s okay if they do. Marlo and I were wanting to do more homemade gifts this year but he works as a UPS driver so you can imagine the season is a bit busy lol. I have an old pasta rolling machine…
Beef Stroganoff
I had a hard time deciding what to make for Christmas dinner this year. We don’t have any firm food traditions for Christmas dinner. Christmas breakfast is always cinnamon rolls, sausage, scrambled eggs and orange juice (with champagne now that the girls are grown!). We varied that a little this year because my youngest wanted…
Ina Garten’s Tricolor Salad with Oranges
For our early Thanksgiving, I made this tricolor salad with shallots, radicchio, endive, arugula, oranges and kalamata olives. It provided a much needed bright and fresh flavor to counter all the carb-y goodness of turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes and creamed onions. It was also beautiful to look at! I also made this fun turkey yard…
Turkey, Corn and Potato Chowder with Avocado and Lime Salsa
Thanksgiving is done. You’ve made turkey broth, right? Or maybe you’ll get to that today. (You can always do it in the crockpot overnight.) And you’ve got leftover turkey for all kinds of good things turkey sandwiches, turkey enchiladas and turkey shepherd’s pie. And you can make an easy turkey soup with whatever Thanksgiving leftovers…