Tag Archives: Thanksgiving
My Thanksgiving
I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving…whether you were a host or guest. Here is a postmortem with photos of and comments on my Thanksgiving — our first Thanksgiving at home in some years. Our final menu. As guests … Continue reading
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Thanksgiving Redux: Game Day
This is a re-post from last Thanksgiving with added content. With At Home I see myself as your “home entertaining coach” — not just a provider of recipes. The central task of great coaches – and I aspire to be … Continue reading
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Game Day: Thanksgiving
With At Home I see myself as your “home entertaining coach” — not just a provider of recipes. The central task of great coaches – and I aspire to be a great coach – is to have a good game … Continue reading
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Stop. Think. And Delegate: Ways Guests Can Help at Thanksgiving
There’s some misguided moral notion—perhaps a hangover from that first Puritan Thanksgiving—that working to the point of fatigue is good for you. Wrong. You already work hard enough. If you’re hosting, you’ve opened your home to friends and family for … Continue reading
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New Video: Setting Up for Prep + Thanksgiving House Cocktail
Setting Up for Prep – The Video The time consuming aspect of cooking is not the cooking, but getting everything ready to cook — what in our kitchens we call prep. Prep is more a matter of organization than skill. … Continue reading
Thanksgiving Wine
What Wine for Thanksgiving? People obsess way too much about wine. If your family Thanksgivings are anything like mine, they border on chaos. Hardly anyone is focused on the fine points of wine. At Home includes two very useful charts … Continue reading
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Do Ahead, No Compromise Turkey Gravy Recipe
Making Turkey Gravy is a bit like a football game. It takes hours to watch a football game. But, on average there are 125 plays per game, each lasting about 7 seconds for a total of just 14 plus minutes … Continue reading
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At Home’s Football Sunday Do Ahead No Compromise Turkey Gravy
All around America this Thanksgiving too many hosts and hostesses will be frantic in their kitchens making last minute turkey gravy with pan drippings of their just roasted turkey. It’s part of what contributes to Thanksgiving panic. There simply is … Continue reading
The Do Ahead Thanksgiving
My goal for home entertainers is one relaxed hour prior to guests arrival. The key to getting your hour is getting as much done ahead of time as possible. That simply requires a little planning. I always counsel one full … Continue reading
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Gingered Cranberry Orange Sauce
A good cranberry sauce should balance the natural piquancy of cranberries without being puckeringly sour. It should have a texture in which you can clearly differentiate the cranberries — with a lots nearly whole so that the berries pop in … Continue reading
