Quick Recipe: Bacon, Kale, & Turkey Stew

Thanksgiving is just around the corner, but I’ve already jumped ahead in anticipation of turkey soup — which is, honestly, much more exciting to me than roasted bird. Save that carcass and pick out a recipe; the broth from turkey is incredibly nourishing and a treat to look forward to.

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   1. Recipe: Turkey Tortilla Soup

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   2. Soup Recipe: Tangy Mulligatawny with Turkey

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   3. 5-Ingredient Soup Recipe: Turkey Avgolemono Soup

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   4. Quick Recipe: Bacon, Kale, & Turkey Stew

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   5. Recipe: Hot & Sour Mushroom, Cabbage, and Rice Soup

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• Where: Amber Waves Farm, Amagansett, New York
• Who: Amanda Merrow, Katie Baldwin, and Carissa Waechter
• See all of the previous installments in this series: Farm Life Through the Seasons at Amber Waves Farm – A New Generation on the Farm

Every Thursday from June through October, Amanda and Katie pack up their haul of delicious organic produce and head out to the Montauk Farmers Market on the easternmost tip of Long Island to give the locals and summer revelers the chance to indulge in the bounty of Amber Waves Farm.

I had the chance this summer to visit them at the market and to experience the community that springs up around this gathering of farmers and food artisans.

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An Outdoor Thanksgiving for 10

Happy weekend everyone! I hope you’re in a Thanksgiving mood, because this is your weekend to get baking and prepping. Here are a few good make-ahead tips and ideas for Thanksgiving, but tell us — what’s cooking in your kitchen today?

• 5 things you should do a week ahead of Thanksgiving.
• Salad greens you can dress ahead of time.
• Make a super pretty, super easy, super inexpensive dip-dyed tablecloth.
• Make mashed potatoes, start to finish, in the slow cooker.
• A make-ahead Thanksgiving schedule, and a make-ahead menu.

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It’s Friday afternoon, the week before Thanksgiving. Do you know where your turkey is? If the answer is, in the freezer, guess what? It’s time to take it out.

It’s Thaw the Turkey Day!

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One Thanksgiving, soon after I married, I brought my new husband to my grandmother’s house for the big holiday meal. Grandma Eve was in her 80s, and while she was never a gourmet, she’d always been an avid cook and genuinely enjoyed spending time in the kitchen.

One dish from that meal still stands out, all these years later. Not the turkey, the gravy, the creamy green beans. Not the cranberry sauce or Parker house rolls.

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