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The bird isn't even brined or basted for Thanksgiving. But, I'm already thinking about Christmas cookies now.
Right now one of those glittering lemon sandwich cookies would be a sparkly, yummy treat!
Feast your eyes on this! Twenty-five days of Christmas cookies from Epicurious.com
Photo: Epicurious.com
I like my holidays to be both elaborate spectacles and simple to manifest. How's that for being at odds with one's self?
Can a table groaning with elaborate dishes and dides ever be an easy task to accomplish? Sure, why not?
Give your Thanksgiving Day and dinner the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval.
Susan Westmoreland, Food Director at the arbiter of American housekeeping, gives Delish.com the skinny on 9 best ways to streamline and enjoy your holiday. (via Delish.com)
photo courtesy of delish.com
When words just won't do. There's Foodspotting, the viusal guide to great eats around the globe.
Driven by user uploads as well as featured publishers Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations, Zagat's, 7x7 Magazine, and Thrillist, the food recommendation and sharing site started up in 2009.
Created by The Daily Beast's "Women Who Rule the Web" listers Alexa Andrzejewski and Soraya Darabi with Ted Grubb, first Frontend Engineer for Get Satisfaction, Foodspotting invites users to share cravings, spot yummy dishes, and nom (you know the universal tastes good noise) a food. Tips or points accrue for activity.
iPhone app available.
Based in San Francisco, CA, over 90,000 foods have been spotted around the world by over 120,000 website and app users since launching in January 2010.
What a nommy idea!
Photo courtesy of Foodspotting
We're moving the week before Thanksgiving, so I anticipate the first meals in our new home to be served on paper plates atop cardboard boxes.
I could care less!
We're moving into a great little house with a spacious backyard, an adorable side porch, and a fireplace! As long as the fireplace is crackling, I'm good.
But, I realize the rest of the world is scrambling for menu ideas.
Me too, even if I'm not going to go crazy trying to have everything in place day of.
Still, a woman can dream about the next big meal, the one where she's made that fab recycled wood table from ReadyMade, and everyone is gathered together to count their blessings. And on the table a beautiful glistening browned bird.
Oh, the sumptuous sides. Oh, the delicious desserts. Oh the stories we'll tell.
Heres'a holiday recipe round-up for making your own nostalgic moments.
Photo courtesy of The Food Network
Tea drinkers know that this ancient beverage is not only fragrant, delicious and warming, but it's also healthy and beneficial to the diet.
I'm a coffee drinker most mornings. But because of the antioxidant-rich properties of tea, I'm interested in the health benefits of tea-drinking.
Recently, The Republic of Tea sent me a sample of their new raw green bush teas - red teas made with the South African wonder herb Rooibos, pronounced roy-boss.
Rooibos was originally prepared and enjoyed by local African Bushmen, who fermented and sundried the leaves of this wild mountain plant.
The Republic of Tea uses modern production
processes - lightly steaming just harvested plants below 115 degrees F - to halt oxidation and the green version of this red tea is the base for their new line of Raw Green Bush Teas.
The line has five flavors - Organic Raw Green, Plantain Coconut, Black Currant Cardamom, Mango Chili, and Orange Red Carrot.
We sampled Plantain Coconut - two of our Island favorite flavors. One of the ways I love tea is milky, perhaps spiced with chai, and sweetened with honey. But I know studies show milk reduces the benefits of tea's antioxidants, which can reduce the risk of certain cancers, heart disease and stroke as well as protect against Alzheimer's disease.
So, I was delighted to find this low tannin green tea tastes great without milk or sugar.
Even though I steeped it for a strong brew, there was no bitterness and the tea had a slight natural sweetness. The tea's bouquet was perfumed and aromatic.
A complementary benefit of tea-drinking is taking the moment to slow down, to sip and savor, engaging all the senses. Plantain coconut raw green bush tea is a great brew to indulge yourself with a little exotic flavor.
Raw green bush teas are also rich in iron, magnesium, potassium, fluoride, zinc, manganese, calcium and Vitamin C. For the diet conscious, they are caffeine and calorie free.
The teas come in a canister with 36 unbleached tea bags and retail for $10 U.S.
And in news from the fast food nation, we have Dave Thomas revamping his fast food menu at Wendy's and Five Guys taking the top spot for best burger in Zagat's.
foodie fries
Wendy's has reinvented its fries in the first major overhaul of its recipe in 41 years. The new fries drop Thursday into fry cookers nationwide and are hoped to attract foodies.
And though still frozen, the fries are made from Russett natural skin Russet potatoes dusted with pinch of sea salt.
best burger
Five Guys is America's No. 1 fast-food burger, according to the Zagat survey. Even President Obama is a fan of the metro Washington, D.C., start-up, now has expanded to over 600 locations in 40 states and Canada.
