Tag: Holidays | Thanksgiving
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tradition
we don’t have a lot that passes as family traditions — my father cooking great breakfasts, his menu for thanksgiving/christmas dinner.somehow a small wooden rocking chair has lasted through the decades of our tushies to be featured in three generations worth of 18 month birthday photos.
that’s gramma on the top right, and it’s been 65 years (almost to the day) between her picture and the one we took today with sparklet.
amazing.
See Slideshow of the Photos on Flickr:
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macaroni and cheese (for adults)
thanksgiving dinner is a really big deal for the lady sparkler’s family.everybody contributes a dish (or two) and each of the recipes are suitable for the pages of bon appetite or gourmet — wild rice with dried cranberries and chick peas, mexican Chayote with garlic, green beans with lemon zest and hand roasted pine nuts, a spiced pumpkin souffle.
for the first time since “i” became “we,” i joined the thanksgiving culinary arms race this year — with macaroni and cheese.
granted, it’s an adult version of mac and cheese — it uses gruyer and fontina instead of just cheddar, and uses both a tablespoon of mustard and a bit of red pepper to add a little kick.
i’m pleased to say that i held my own.
(i’ve tweaked the recipe each of the last four times i’ve made it, but it was originally based on alton brown’s baked macaroni and cheese.)
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thanksgiving 2012