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Monthly Archives: November 2017
This One-Pan Tuna Mac Is the Easy Dinner You Need This Week — Delicious Links
With Thanksgiving on the horizon, you’re going to be cooking up a storm and washing a ton of dishes over the next few days. While it might be tempting to just order takeout, you can have a comforting, homemade meal on the table tonight in just 30 minutes. The best part? It cooks up in one pan!
Recipe: Instant Pot Pumpkin Purée — Recipes from The Kitchn
Making homemade pumpkin purée sounds like one of those #culinarygoal projects — something that sounds good in theory, but takes far too much time and effort to actually do. Not so much when you add the pressure cooker to the equation. In hardly any time, homemade pumpkin purée, and all the bragging rights that go along with it, can be yours. Just imagine the pumpkin pie you’re on your way to making.
This Blogger Found the Best Pumpkin Pie on the Internet — Delicious Links
Are you on Thanksgiving pie duty this year? If you’re having trouble sifting through all the pumpkin pie recipes on the internet (there are a lot of them!), then you might find this pumpkin pie taste test particularly helpful.
Blogger Erika, of the Pancake Princess, decided to test out 12 pumpkin pie recipes and do a tasting with friends to find the best one. It’s hard work, but someone had to do it, right?
The Best Alcohol-Free Hand Sanitizer Costs $4 — Travel Intelligence
You’ve all heard about the gross things lurking on airplanes (apparently the toilet is not the dirtiest place). Still, I would rather risk the perils of the seat-back tray table than use alcohol-based hand sanitizer. Sure, I’ve read that alcohol-based hand sanitizer is more effective at disinfecting than washing hands with soap and water. Yes, I know it gets the seal of approval from hospitals and doctors everywhere. I just don’t like it.
The alcohol smell is a real turnoff, the liquid is goopy, and it slips and slides off your palm before you have the chance to rub it all in. Even when Bath & Body Works came out with fruity fragrances, like magical melon and peach bellini, to cover up the overpowering smell of alcohol all those years ago, the teenager in me still wasn’t convinced.
That’s why I was so thrilled to discover this alcohol-free hand sanitizer.
How To Make Baked Sweet Potatoes — Cooking Lessons from The Kitchn
In my opinion, sweet potatoes are a superfood on many levels. Not only are they incredibly nutritious (a one-cup serving offers 65 percent of our daily requirement for vitamin C and as much as 700 percent of the recommended daily requirement for vitamin A), but they also have a fairly low glycemic index of 17. They’re also easy to find, easy to store, and easy to cook and they can function equally in sweet or savory recipes. But most importantly, they’re delicious.
Next Week’s Meal Plan: 3 Meals to Cook Before Thanksgiving — Next Week’s Meal Plan
Yes, yes, y’all, I still meal plan the week of Thanksgiving! It keeps us all sane and from blowing through our dining-out budget before the holidays. Luckily with Thanksgiving covering dinner Thursday and probably Friday too, I’ll need just a few meals this week.
Here’s what my family of four will be eating for dinner leading up to Thanksgiving, as well as a peek at our Thanksgiving menu and plan for leftovers.
How To Make Bread Stuffing (Dressing) for Thanksgiving — Cooking Lessons from The Kitchn
Anyone else here think that the stuffing is the best part of Thanksgiving dinner? I love its mix of textures and flavors — crunchy roasted nuts with soft broth-soaked bread and chewy morsels of spiced sausage. Oh mama, that’s good stuff! As the self-designated stuffing-maker in our house, I’ve tweaked and tested my recipe over the years until finally settling on this one easy method.
5 Mexico City Airbnbs for $75 or Less — Bite-Sized Guide: Mexico City
For avid cooks, the pleasures of travel include not just eating out, but also experimenting with local ingredients by cooking at home. That’s why we’re such big fans of staying in vacation rentals, which allow us to break out the pots and pans whenever we want.
From chiles to chocolate, salsas to fresh cheeses, Mexico City’s markets overflow with ingredients that would tempt any home cook, and these five apartment rentals have spacious, dreamy kitchens to accommodate any cooking project, from a simple quesadilla to a complex mole. Best of all, they’re each reasonably priced at less than $75 per bedroom per night. Don’t forget to pack your apron!
10 Lovely Thanksgiving Traditions We’re Stealing for Ourselves — Make Some Memories
Most of us already have our “ways” of doing Thanksgiving — ways our mother did it, ways our extended family did it, ways our neighborhood did it. Thanksgiving doesn’t lend itself well to trying out new things, but sometimes the situation calls for new decisions — you can’t make it home for Thanksgiving, for example, or you have a family now and want to start traditions of your own. So what can you do to heighten, deepen, and extend Thanksgiving to its most memorable end?
We dug through reader comments over the years and pulled out 10 Thanksgiving traditions worth stealing.