Butternut squash soup with seared cod
Growing up, I never ate butternut squash, but my husband did. Two glorious years ago he introduced me to the oddly shaped veg. We became friends.
Today I have to share with you a wonderful soup and fish combo. It sounds weird, but looks and tastes delightful.
Mooseloaf with potatoes and a spinach salad
Mooseloaf with a side of buttery Greek yogurt mashed potatoes and a fresh salad sounds like a dinner you can brag about tomorrow. Maybe bring leftovers to work. Casually mention it at lunchtime. We have the recipe to get you started.
8 ideas for the bounty of mangoes this spring in Australia
As America picks over Thanksgiving leftovers and gears up for Christmas, I’m loving summer here in Australia, because summer = mango season. My partner Andy and I are mango-obsessed, so I was not terribly unhappy to leave the US in the end of October, saying goodbye to its snow. Especially because it meant coming home to a box full of mangoes.
In which I share my secret wine selection method
It’s really quite simple:
#Set a budget for your wine buy
#Choose your favorite wine label
#Buy wine with said label
Come, let me show you exactly how I choose wines.
Eating with intent: staying conscious about food in the gluttonous haze of the holidays
I don’t want to let food turn the holidays into an emotional battlefield, so let’s huddle up and have a pep talk. I love food, and the holidays are ALL about food. That said, I totally don’t love diarrhea, which is what can happen when I eat four-meals-worth of food at a friend’s holiday potluck.
With avoiding those mornings of seasonal indigestion in mind, here are eight ideas for staying a bit more intentional and conscious about food during the holidays.
5 recipes for a Game of Thrones-style Thanksgiving feast
I love the niche cooking blog Inn at the Crossroads. I just love reading each weird new recipe IatC puts out. This Thanksgiving I’m going to try to make at least one of their Game of Thrones dishes for a warm and hearthy feeling, but it would be so easy to put together an entire menu. Here are my picks.
Gingerdead man cookie cutter: Holiday cookies with a twist of dark in your sweet
I adore these adorably macabre gingerbread man cookie cutters from ThinkGeek, which imprint a gingerbread skeleton into your rolled cookie dough.
Setting a Thanksgiving budget: When to spend out and when to cheap out
You may think I’m a weirdo for setting a Thanksgiving budget this far in advance of the glorious meal, but I assure you, if I don’t, I won’t have enough money by the time turkey purchasing day is upon me.