Yeah, it’s been a while.
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by Laura
by Laura
This meal has been in top rotation since I found the recipe years ago. (It, like many good ideas, comes from the brain of British cook Nigel Slater.) We make it so often that it has become comfort food around our house – and I wanted to post a recipe for folks looking for some comfort over the next few weeks.
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by Laura
I made these gingerbread cookies so that, (a) my house would smell amazing, and (b) three grown-up humans could sit around the table and laugh at each other and have fun icing Christmas cookies.
Don’t let the fact that you aren’t ready to be the make-my-own-icing, own-all-the-food-dye person hold you back here. Clearly I did not, and I don’t regret it.
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by Laura
It is time to bake the annual Christmas cake – a rich, dark fruit cake of some sort or another, for those of us from the UK. Dense, moist, more dried fruit than cake batter, these cakes are often baked weeks in advance and then fed a steady trickle of booze as they age and settle (until just before Christmas Day itself, when the boozing stops and the cake is topped with a layer of marzipan and iced in a snowdrift of white icing).
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by Laura
After a brief pause while we moved house, I’m back! And I come bearing stir-fry. With pomegranate.
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by Laura
Anyone still in need of pie inspiration for Thanksgiving? I’m late in posting this, since we just moved. And I’m a bit frazzled. But I can still make (rustic?!) lattice pie!! (That feels like an accomplishment with my frazzled moving brain.) Our new place smells amazing right now, and I can’t think of a better way to inaugurate the new oven. I hope everyone has a happy Thanksgiving – or at least that you have a few moments where the kitchen smells like baking pie and you breathe it in and slow down for a minute and smile at someone you love.
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by Laura
Yellow curry is probably my favorite of the Thai restaurant stoplight-colored curry array (red, green, yellow). I think I might be alone in this? Usually people go for the red or the green. Not me. …
by Laura
This pulled pork is my best “I’m cooking for a crowd of meat-eaters” recipe. And that’s saying something, since I grew up in a house of meat-eaters, but didn’t really cook or enjoy eating barbecue until my late 20s. Hey, that house of meat-eaters was also a house of Brits – we ate curry aplenty, but it took me a really long time to appreciate root beer, anything cinnamon (I know), peanut butter, and BBQ, amongst many other classic American flavors. I’m making up for most of these lapses now (except root beer, shudder), and this recipe has successfully made it all the way back home to family in the UK, so everything has come full circle at last.
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by Laura
This is a recipe for people who: (a) have a couple of extra apples lying around, (b) are planning ahead for some homemade holiday/hostess gifts, and/or (c) want to up their leftover turkey sandwich game. Also see: goes well with cheeseboards and the ploughman’s lunch.
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by Laura
‘Tis the season to roast all of the squashes, my friends. And by roast, in my house, I mean well-blistered with caramelized goodness. This salad is a favorite – I make it every year, with different squashes, different greens, and different fruits and nuts. It also works extremely well with a tangy crumble of feta cheese, for the dairy eaters out there. The prunes were a new gambit, and they made the salad so fancy I just might serve it for Thanksgiving this year.
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