What’s Cooking This Weekend? — Weekend of November 8-9, 2014

Happy weekend everyone! What’s cooking? Tell us what’s going on in your kitchen this weekend, and check out these favorite posts from the past week. Stay warm; I think it’s definitely soup weather this weekend!

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5 Ways to Turn Canned Beans Into Dinner — Tips from The Kitchn

My young daughter has started to eat more and more solid food but has decided that she generally doesn’t like to eat much meat. Since I want to make sure she gets enough protein, we’ve turned to a pantry staple: canned beans.

I love that they’re pre-cooked, inexpensive, easy to have a variety of kinds around, and are the perfect convenience ingredient to make a quick but still nutritious dinner on a hectic weeknight. Here are five ways that I’ve found to make canned beans more interesting!

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Don’t Splurge On a Pan You Use Once a Year: 5 Roasters Under $50 — 2014 Product Guide

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With Thanksgiving a little less than three weeks away, it’s time to start talking roasters. For the most part, roasting pans come out of our cupboards once or twice a year for the big holiday dinners, so given that we’d rather not spend $150 on one. Instead, here are five budget-friendly picks that’ll get the job done.

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Recipe: Pumpkin Pie Pancakes — Breakfast Recipes from The Kitchn

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Although I get pretty weary of the pumpkin madness that hits the universe come October — I’m looking at you, Starbucks — there are two things I’ll make an exception for: bread pudding and pancakes. And since this post is clearly not about bread pudding, let’s talk about what we like to call “Pum’Cakes” around our house. Yes, they’re so good they got their own name!

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Mom’s Roast Turkey

When I first started collecting family recipes, the one I really wanted to know was how my mother made her roast turkey, it was so good! The turkey breast was never dried out, but always tender and full of flavor. Her method? First she buys the best turkey she can (organic, free-range, etc.) and then she cooks the turkey breast-side down. She also cooks the turkey stuffing separately, not in the cavity, which makes it easier to cook the turkey more evenly.

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