Today I roasted some red peppers, zucchini & onions in the oven. I grilled a slab of herb foccacia with olive oil on our indoor grill pan….I fried the egg and the rest was history.
Thanksgiving Roundup!!!
So I had a little request from lovely Alex of Strawberry Lemonade to do a little roundup of my Thanksgiving pasts/ideas. My mom always hosts Thanksgiving, so most of the weight of the day is on her. She rocks. She’s traditional. She makes a wonderful spread!
For our Thanksgiving, I bring a sweet potato dish topped with pecans & a HUGE batch creamed spinach to the party. I’ve never blogged the recipes to either one (which kinda shocks me!) Maybe I should….
The past few years I’ve made a fluffy pumpkin tiramisu for dessert, but it usually never gets finished cuz everyone in my family stuffs themselves all day long and never saves room for dessert! I hate that! It tastes good, but it has a shelf life!
If you are looking for some Thanksgiving ideas, I’ve compiled a few!
If you are on appetizer duty,
Make a Sundried Tomato Goat Cheese Log!
Savory Chicken Pocket Pies
Let me begin by telling you how IN LOVE I am with this book!
Mad Hungry: Feeding Men & Boys by Lucinda Scala Quinn (The Executive Food Director for Martha Stewart Living) It’s beautifully written and OMG the inside is a graph designer’s dream. It’s like Blueprint magazine made a cookbook filled with the tastiest looking man food!
I started to mark the recipes I wanted to make with tags and then I had to stop because I found myself marking EVERY SINGLE PAGE.
Flashback! Soups!
I’m totally a visual person (if you haven’t guessed that yet). Which means I rely heavily on my computer and old posts/flickr to get me through food cravings…and help me decide what to make for dinner. I suggest taking photos of what you make, so you can reference! Sometimes I look up stuff online thru my phone at the grocery store. Hooray for technology. I am such a slave.
I’ve been looking around at my collection, and realized that I make a lot of soup at this time of year!
I put together a lil post of my favorites!
Each one will no doubt warm you up on a chilly night…or a nice weekend afternoon.
I tend to freeze a few servings with each batch so I can take them to work with me later on.
Today I ate some Mexican Chicken Soup that I made in August. That was pretty cool.
Recipe Revisited !
Pulling one out from the vault! This time I have daylight pics and some tasty additions.
Last night called for something hearty, warm and comforting…..
I made Chicken Sausage & Bean Casserole with Sage!!
food buzzin’
This past weekend I went to the First Annual Food Buzz Festival. It was teeming with food bloggers from all around the country!
Soo much food! SOOOO much food. Soo much FREE alcohol! FREE!
I don’t think that I could even recap- I wouldn’t know where to start!
I forgot my camera, so I used my cellphone this weekend. That’s OK.
I knew at least someone would be taking pics! Here’s a little visual for ya:
