Thanksgiving Favorites

Thanksgiving Dishes - Appetizers, Turkey, Stuffing, Side Dishes, Mashed Potatoes, Risotto, Salads, Pie, Cakes, Desserts

I‘ve gathered all of my best recipes together for the Thanksgiving Holiday so take a peek if you need some inspiration for your holiday meal! There are appetizers, turkey for both main course and leftovers; stuffing, side dishes, desserts and even my favorite homemade cranberry liqueur!

Pistachio & Cambozola Cheese Sables with Denver Sausage & Wine for #Baketogether and #HappyHourFriday

Pistachio and Cambozola Cheese Sables with Denver Sausage and Wine

This weeks Happy Hour Friday is a bit different and I hope you’ll enjoy it; after all, beverages are only one component of Happy Hour and we need the accompanying foods too, right? I participate in a monthly event called #Baketogether that was started by my friend Abby Dodge. Abby is a former pastry chef [...]

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Meyer Lemon Peasant Boule for #Baketogether

After months of sweets and other indulgences, our wise #Baketogether leader Abby Dodge decided a simple bread would be something all of us might be craving. She was so right. When she said simple I couldn’t imagine any bread THIS simple. I’ve seen bread novices and talented aficionados alike claim the ease and never-ending possibilities [...]

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Ferrero Rocher Milk Chocolate with Hazelnut Cake for New Years

I first made the original version of this cake WAY back in 2009. It was a recipe on the cover of Bon Appetit magazine as a Peppermint Chocolate Cake and it was perfect for a Christmas dessert. As I shared in that post, it was the start of a special relationship with Abby Dodge; a [...]

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Crab and Mushroom Cheesecakes With Spanish Cava

This is a crazy time of year for everyone and I’m no exception. No matter how well I plan, it always seems to come down to the last moment and a million things to get done. Work to finish, dishes to prepare for the holiday, gifts for friends and family, shipping things out of state [...]

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Cranberry Cheesecake with a Gingersnap and Cranberry Crust

After letting my love of cranberries be known before Thanksgiving with Cranberry Liqueur, Cosmopolitan Cranberry Sauce and Turkey Sandwiches with Cranberry Sauce and Cream Cheese, I thought I would take a break, or rather, give my readers one. Me too I guess but still, after doing cocktails and more savory offerings I had a craving [...]

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Deep Fried Turkey with Honey, Bourbon and Roasted Pecan Glaze

As much as I love to experiment with new recipes for almost any occasion, I love this Maple and Bacon Roasted Turkey so much that I can’t imagine not having it each year on Thanksgiving. After that effort which always entails a full day of cooking, I make a point of making Christmas easier. I [...]

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Turkey, Cranberry and Cream Cheese Sandwich with Sprouts and Sunflower Seeds

I admit…I’m pulling something from the Archives to publish again. I’ll hope you’ll forgive me; pretty please? When I first started this blog I had 2 readers; me and my dog. Still, I transferred some of my best recipes from an older recipe website where they now languish in the archives and deserve better. This [...]

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Cosmopolitan Cranberry Sauce – Is it a Cocktail or a Sidedish?

Like so many, my childhood memory of cranberries is centered on the canned, jellied version of cranberry sauce. I can’t say I hated it, but I just don’t care for anything ‘jelloish’; preferring jam in a heartbeat to jelly. Still I was unprepared for how much I would LOVE cranberry sauce made from scratch. Talk [...]

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Warm Honeyed Brie with Raspberries and Almonds

I’ve participated with Steven Gilberg and @WineTwits before when I’ve hosted combination wine tastings and tweetups that serve to get the word out about different wines; either by region or type. When I was asked to serve as a host for a ‘food’ event, how could I say no? I invited friends; made sure they [...]

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How to Make Cranberry Liqueur and the Perfect Champagne Cocktail for the Holidays

This is one of my favorite things to make over the holidays yet because I put it on my blog a couple of years ago, it has for the most part languished in the nether world of being there but no one knowing it. As I work to finish the batch for this year along [...]

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Better than Kahlua – How to Make Coffee Liqueur

My youngest daughter Lauren works at Nordstrom’s in their Visual Merchandising department; she is one of the elves that work behind the scenes for weeks in preparation for the big reveal of all things Christmas the day after Thanksgiving. I won’t say it’s not hard for me that we don’t spend the holiday together but [...]

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Sage and Caramelized Shallot Brown Butter on Pumpkin and Sage Biscuits

I’ve mentioned to a couple of friends that I was developing some compound butters for Kerrygold, my favorite butter for baking. They were unfamiliar with that phrase and though I could explain it easily enough the fact is that I think what’s come from this effort deserves a new name. I can’t help but think [...]

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Cranberry Ginger Fizz Cocktail for #HappyHourFriday

I spied the original version of this cocktail in Bon Appetit magazine when I received their October issue in September of this year. Though clearly a fall cocktail, at that time we were having a hot streak and the notion of fall or cranberries seemed in the distant future. Fast forward and suddenly 95 degrees [...]

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French Toast with Toasted Walnut, Orange, Cranberry and Brown Sugar Compound Butter

Christmas seems to have come early for me this year. A ring of the bell, no one there but luckily I spy a package on the stoop. As I bent to retrieve the box and noticed it was from the Irish Dairy Board, I quickly looked up and down the street for Santa or even [...]

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Caramel Apple and Walnut Streusel Coffee Cake for #Baketogether

That name is a mouthful isn’t it. And this cake is too. When our fearless leader Abby Dodge, she of Bon Appetit, numerous cookbooks and now #baketogether fame posted that we would be doing coffee cake this month, it seemed destined from the start for me that I would be mixing it up with some [...]

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