Over Thanksgiving, my mom came to visit and we had a couple of parties with some of our friends. One of the easiest and most fun parties to have is a dumpling making party; there’s very little prep work before the party and everyone has to help out if they plan on eating. Instead of […]
My mom recently taught me how to make hot and sour soup and it’s so delicious and easy to make at home that you can quickly prepare this for a weeknight dinner (with plenty of leftovers for lunch if you don’t end up going in for seconds or thirds). Hot and sour soup at Chinese […]
After spatchcocking our turkey and feeding 14 people at our 2nd Annual NYC Thanksgiving, we had lots of leftovers. Not as many turkey leftovers as I’d hoped, but still enough for me to make a quick and SUPER simple chili the next day. Pace sent me some salsas to play around with and this recipe […]
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 […]
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 […]
