Friends, have you started shopping? If you are looking for inspiration, here are a few ideas. The selection is kind of random and not all food related, but I hope the items featured below might spark some ideas for you. Some of the items are repeats from previous gift guides, but which, again, I ...
Favorite Thanksgiving Recipes
Friends, Thanksgiving is fast approaching. Are you ready?I've been making to-do lists and slowly stocking up: with every visit to the store, I pick up an extra pound of butter or a sack of flour or a bag of brown sugar ... I know it won't go to waste.I've rounded up my favorite recipes below. Hope ...
Simple Make-Ahead Gravy
A few weeks ago, when I began thinking about Thanksgiving, I logged in here, to my Alexandra's Kitchen dashboard, hoping to find a Thanksgiving 2018 "After Action Report", a draft I thought — hoped! — I had created with notes from last year's feast. Incredibly, it existed. Truly a Thanksgiving ...
Freezable Stuffing with Kale and Caramelized Onions
A great way to get a jumpstart on Thanksgiving preparations is to make stuffing and freeze it. Below is the recipe I love, an adaptation of the stuffing in my cookbook, Bread Toast Crumbs, and includes kale and caramelized onions. After 45 minutes in the oven, it emerges with a crisp golden ...
2 Tips for No-Shrink Pie Crust + Pie Crust Cookies
Michelle Lopez, the blogger behind Hummbingbird High, has a cookbook out: Weeknight Baking: Recipes to Fit Your Schedule. It's filled with recipes that not only come together quickly, but that also can (and often should) be assembled over the course of several days. Michelle breaks down recipes ...
![In the March 2009 issue of Gourmet, Ruth Reichl describes this warm sesame tofu as: “a beautiful dish, which takes ten minutes, costs very little, and is so utterly delicious”.
It truly is. The method calls for simmering tofu in water, making a simple sesame-scallion sauce, and pouring the sauce over the warm tofu, which gets custard-like in texture during its warm water bath.
Over a decade later, I still have that issue of Gourmet (hoarder), I’m still making the tofu, and it’s still one of my favorite ways to eat it. So simple and good. 💯
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