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Thanksgiving Dinner for Six [Herb Roasted Turkey Breast]

Maris Callahan — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 06:00:48 +0000

We’ve talked about how to cook Thanksgiving dinner for two people. We’ve talked about how to cook Thanksgiving dinner for a crowd of ten people or more. Not to sound like Goldilocks or anything, but how do you cook for a group of people that’s just right? This menu is actually the closest I’m going to get to my actual Thanksgiving menu, which I’m cooking for four people and maybe a few others who will drop in for drinks, dessert and to eat our leftover potatoes. What do you do when you’re planning a dinner for an ambiguous number of people? Well, I know that I, for one, will make way too much food so that we can eat Thanksgiving dinner at least three times. What? Thanksgiving dinner leftovers are the best leftovers you’ll have all year, so take any leftovers needs — loaded turkey sandwiches, turkey noodle soup, turkey quesadillas…and so on — into consideration when you order your turkey by the pound. The Menu We’re inviting our friends to come over around 2:00 p.m. or 3:00 p.m. with the expectation that we’ll have dinner around 5:00 p.m. or 6:00 p.m. This means we’ll need to keep something on hand to keep the […]

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Thanksgiving Dinner for Ten [Classic Slow Cooker Stuffing]

Maris Callahan — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 06:11:16 +0000

Last week we talked abut how to cook Thanksgiving dinner for two people, and soon we’ll cover how to cook Thanksgiving dinner for six people. As the years go on and your family and friend circle grows, your Thanksgiving dinner table probably will too. Some experts say that once you’ve cooked for 10 or 12 people, you can cook for pretty much any size group of people by doubling recipes or asking people to bring a dish. By some experts, I mean my mom. THE MENU Taking into consideration that Thanksgiving side dishes are arguably the best part of the meal (no offense to the 12-pound fresh turkey I just ordered online for my own 4-6 person Thanksgiving dinner), cooking for a big group is worth the stress — it allows you to have more side dishes for everyone to sample, mix and match. For a few years, my family Thanksgiving was three or four people, which always brought a little bit of contention: we don’t really need apple and pecan pie because only one person likes them (the solution? we’d have both) and we don’t really need to have a green been casserole and corn pudding (the solution? we’d have both). As a […]

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Warm Quinoa Salad with Roasted Sweet Potatoes and Sage

Maris Callahan — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 06:10:13 +0000

No matter how big your turkey or how tart your cranberry sauce, there are few aromas that say Thanksgiving quite like the aromas of sage and thyme emanating from the stovetop. This warm quinoa salad delivers just that, even though that aroma comes from stuffing (or dressing, depending on what part of the country you’re from).” Every family seems to have their own traditional stuffing recipes – cornbread and cranberries, sourdough with chestnuts and oysters, sausage and apples with once-crusty whole wheat bread. But if you keep a gluten-free diet, stuffing is probably not the same for you as it is for the rest of your family. If you want to eliminate any feelings of stuffing-envy that arrive, uninvited, at your dinner table this year, skip the stuffing altogether, however unimaginable that may be, and instead opt for a side dish that’s naturally gluten-free: quinoa. Quinoa, pronounced keen-WAH, is a close relative to the leafy greens family that bears resemblance to the grain family. With a light, fluffy texture, quinoa will offer the same forkful of comfort that stuffing would – with many of the same flavors and even more nutrients then you would get from the same amount of wheat […]

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