Ask Kelsey: How to Make a Good Meal Great — OCTOBER MAKER TALK VIDEO
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So you’ve made a delicious meal and you’re about to sit down to eat. Maybe you have friends over, or maybe it’s just you. Hold up! Are you forgetting something? Find out what Kelsey Nixon believes to be the most important step to making a good meal great!
The Easiest Thanksgiving Centerpiece I’ve Ever Made — Gatherings from The Kitchn
When we got together and threw this year’s outdoor California Thanksgiving bash for The Kitchn I knew I wanted to have a centerpiece that was easy, colorful, and very California. This led me, naturally, into the easiest centerpiece I’ve ever created for a Thanksgiving table, and probably my favorite as well.
You too can do this; I swear it will only take you five minutes.
Recipe: Fig Cranberry Sauce — Thanksgiving Recipes from The Kitchn
When it comes to cranberry sauce, I am a cranberry-plus girl. Cranberries plus dried cherries; cranberries plus booze; and in this particular case, cranberries plus figs. It’s not that cranberries aren’t good on their own (they are!); it’s just that they play so well with so many other things.
This is a rich, jammy cranberry sauce with dried figs and plenty of spices — the perfect complement to our California-inspired Thanksgiving menu this year.
Roasted Brussels Sprouts
If you show up at my father’s house with a bagful of fresh brussels sprouts to be cooked, he will howl and complain like a 3-year old confronted with liver and onions. Such then, is the sweet satisfaction of seeing this dyed-in-the-wool brussels sprouts avoider pick these roasted emerald jewels out of the pan and munch on them like candy.
Low-Fat Recipes: Honey Orange Green Beans
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“Green beans are seasoned with honey, orange zest, garlic, soy sauce, and balsamic vinegar in this side dish recipe.”
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Ask Kelsey: If You Could Have Dinner With One Person… — OCTOBER MAKER TALK VIDEO
At our October Maker Talk, Kelsey Nixon shared with us who her wish-upon-a-star dinner date would be. Hint: she is another food personality who may or may not wear shoes. And you probably want to eat dinner with her too.
pickled cabbage salad
I first discovered the peculiar subcategory of chopped raw vegetables called “health salads” some 14 years ago when a friend introduced me to the many wonders of the prepared foods aisle at Zabar’s. Even then, I found the idea of one type of salad being labeled “healthy” while my other favorite in the same refrigerator case, the Mediterranean Pepper Salad with Feta and Olives was, I don’t know, something akin to a heart attack on a cracker, somewhat eye-rolling but I now realize that it was the coleslaw-like salad’s mayo-free dressing that designated it such a lofty nutritional status.
Regardless, ever stubborn, I did not eat it because it lacked much-maligned mayo, because it was chock full of folate-rich cabbage or because it was branded wholesome, but because I liked it. Crunchy, bright, as good on day 2 as it is on day 7, it was the perfect light meal or side to a sandwich and even though I lived nowhere near the store and found shopping at Zabar’s, even on the slowest day, to be a shopping-cart-rammed-into-the-back-of-my-heels level of annoying (though, really, I should know better than to pause between locals and their smoked fish counter), I was a loyal customer for life so long as they could keep providing me my lightly pickled cabbage fix.
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