December 2007 – Fennel*Twist

December 30, 2007

Tasty, Tasty Side Dish: Parsnip-Hazlenut Gratin with Pancetta and a PSA

Here's a holiday side dish that we had on Christmas. It has all the things that make a holiday meal great -- fatty, delicious, forbidden pork products, heavy cream and cheese. But, you know, it'll still work after the holidays. It's just a bit harder to justify...maybe if you only have a small taste. Yeah. …

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December 27, 2007

When the Shazam! Breaks…You Know the Party's Over

My mom came to visit us and we had a very nice holiday. We ate a little fruitcake and a lot of pix and today, I knocked the leftover Shazam! over and broke it. That's okay -- it's still tasty! Here's a picture of the holiday table featuring -- Cornish Game Hens, Stuffing, Roasted Vegetables, …

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December 20, 2007

RWT Chili Cook-Off: Working Person's Green Chili Bowl

I recently came across Running with Tweezers call for chili recipes and I remembered that I had the most perfect cookbook for this -- Chili Nation by Jane and Michael Stern. This is basically a collection of 50 chili recipes, one from every state. Now normally, when I make chili, it's veggie chili and I …

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December 18, 2007

WCC 23: Celebratory Lamb Stew with Olives and Caramelized Onions

This month's Weekend Cookbook Challenge is hosted by Mel's Diner with the aptly chosen, Celebration Dishes as the theme. For this, I chose my newest cookbook, Nigella Express and made a lamb stew from it. She calls it a tagine, but since I didn't cook it in an actual tagine and I'm not familiar enough …

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December 17, 2007

The Tree is Up…and a Salad!

We got our tree up this weekend and celebrated in the usual way -- lox, bagels, veggies, dip and champagne. We decorated in between bites of bagels and assorted snacks. A very nice evening! We also had a really tasty salad recently. It consisted of spinach, halved cherry tomatoes, mint, goat cheese and toasted pine …

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