Macaroni and cheese wasn’t on my original Thanksgiving menu until Friday night, when my friend told me that it was always part of his Southern-style Thanksgiving dinners. I didn’t want to exclude any side dish and it was too late to ask someone else to make it, so after work on Friday night, I walked […]
I didn’t grow up eating stuffing at Thanksgiving, so when I asked my friends for recipes, they referred me to Stove Top since it’s what they grew up eating. I searched around for some good stuffings/dressings and finally decided to go back to my post from last year: cornbread dressing (dressing = not stuffed in […]
Nothing says fall quite like roasted butternut squash soup. You can purchase butternut squash soup at the grocery store, but I prefer making it at home because you control the amount of sodium (and flavor) that goes into the soup. It’s a hearty (and healthy) soup that’s super easy to make. I decided to make […]
While I was researching recipes for my NYC Thanksgiving menu, I came across this easy (and tasty) recipe by Giada de Laurentiis. The recipe looked like it was pretty easy to make beforehand and I just happened to have all of the ingredients (some of the ingredients, like garlic, olive oil, black pepper, and parmesan […]
For this year’s Thanksgiving, I wanted to make sure that my turkey was absolutely amazing. I started researching pretty early (as in, after I finished last year’s Thanksgiving dinner). Most websites suggest brining the turkey and injecting the turkey with flavor throughout the roasting process, but I did BOTH last year and my turkey still […]
