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Last year, I did posts on two ways to make your cranberry sauce: I made a boiled cranberry sauce and a raw cranberry sauce.

This year, I’d like to talk to you about ROASTED cranberry sauce!

You can roast your cranberries! These cranberries will come out caramelized and delicious, with a little flavor of burnt sugar. Here’s how:

What you’ll need:
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At our Thanksgiving, we always have a soup course, and one of my favorite things to make is a root vegetable puree soup. These soups are easy to make, can be made ahead of time, and you can mix and match your root vegetables.

This year, I’m using turnips for mine, but you can use beets, rutabagas, celery root, potatoes, parsnips, or carrots, and ( Read more... )

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I don’t often mix aperitif cocktails, but I thought it would be nice to do something that would go well with a pecan or pumpkin pie. This is a very simple drink, sweet, and spicy, meant to be sipped at room temperature.

Ingredients for six drinks
4 1/2 oz Sortilege Maple Whiskey
4 1/2 oz Averna Amaro
4 dashes per drink Fee Brothers Whiskey Barrel ( Read more... )

kittehkatasked for a stuffing recipe. I did a pretty good breakdown of a bread stuffing last year, and it’s not one that’s cooked inside the turkey. Here is the link to that. I hope it helps.

Today is two weeks before Thanksgiving. You should have your menu pretty well-planned so you can make sure there’s nothing you HAVE to do this far ahead (and that ( Read more... )

I asked on my LiveJournal for people to give me questions to answer or write about this Thanksgiving. ( Read more... )

It's almost Thanksgiving time!

I wanted to check with all of you, while I'm doing my prep work this year, if any of you have questions or tips that you'd like me to write about. The only traditional foods I don't do are sweet potatoes and squash.

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I don’t have photos, because by the time I start cooking my turkey, you might have had to do yours, so I just want to get up some tips for those of you who need help!

-Your turkey will need fifteen to twenty minutes of roasting per pound, so keep this in mind when you start cooking. For example, a 12 pound turkey will take about 3 hours, while a ( Read more... )