Don’t tell my kids that I’m changing the way I make eggplant parmesan. I’ve taken great precautions and if they find out, things could get ugly. The last time I changed an established recipe was Thanksgiving 1998, when I made stuffing with Italian parsley, pine nuts, parmesan and bacon. The wishbone wish that year was […]
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Thanksgiving Leftovers
Happy belated Thanksgiving, to all of you who celebrate. Even though Thanksgiving is one of those phenomena that no one wants to hear/read/talk about the second that the last fistful of stuffing is placed into the mouth of the person doing the dishes at the end of that tryptophantasmic gorgy, I’m going to set […]
You Saw It Here First
For the record, I’m fine with Christmas decorations being out in the stores right after Halloween. I have no problem with steamrolling over Thanksgiving, the day we commemorate our gracious ability to have a civil dinner with people we’ll later dispossess and turn into alcoholics. But I was in CVS on Tuesday this week […]
What Happens in Key West is Too Uneventful to Go Anywhere Else Anyway
I am reporting live from Key West, where I’m on a Thanksgiving vacation. You know, the traditional all-American island, tropical, step-over-the-drunks-in-the-street, Key West vacation. This is a nice vacation for a middle-aged woman, her husband, daughter and mother-in-law. As it turns out, you don’t have to drink yourself blind when you’re in Key West. […]
Time to Buy the Turkey
It’s time to start planning for another Thanksgiving. I know this, because at my grocery store, the featured meat case has turkeys in it and there is an archway of artificial autumn leaves at the cigarette/lottery ticket/customer service counter. (In Florida, it’s important to pay attention to these clues since we often forget what […]
Turkey Talk
Thank God Thanksgiving is over. If I eat another carb with gravy on it I’m going to burst. And enough already with the commercials for Turkey Day with the cute cartoon turkeys being all excited about this holiday. We have to stop making the connection between the food that we eat and the cute animal […]