Cranberry Sauce with Cider and Cinnamon

Cranberry Sauce with Cider and Cinnamon

by | Jan 3, 2016 | Miscellaneous recipes

For my daughter this is the undisputed highlight of our Christmas dinner and one of her all-time favorite foods.  I have been making it for years from a photocopy from a cookbook whose title had been cut off from the copy (or “Xerox” as we used to call...
Dry-Brined Turkey

Dry-Brined Turkey

by | Dec 26, 2015 | Miscellaneous recipes

Photo: Evan Sung for the New York Times I think I’m done searching for the be-all and end-all turkey.  Right here, this is it.  Probably the best turkey I’ve ever made and I’ve made a few.  I was a devotee of Cook’s Illustrated’s wet...
Ultimate Sugar Cookies

Ultimate Sugar Cookies

by | Dec 6, 2015 | Bon Appetit Magazine, Featured

Even though I have a perfectly fine recipe for sugar cookies, I’m always open to try a new one.  Because resisting new things makes you old and gives you frown lines and age spots and turkey neck.  True story. This one is from the December 2013 issue of Bon...
Guest Recipe: Mo’s Holiday Cookies

Guest Recipe: Mo’s Holiday Cookies

by | Dec 20, 2010 | Original Recipes

Mo and I met at my very first job (I won’t say what year that was but I will give you a hint: we did not have computers and people smoked with abandon right in their offices).  We were young and single together and did lots of young, single things.  Like go to...
Off Topic: Thanksgiving

Off Topic: Thanksgiving

by | Nov 17, 2010 | Cook's Illustrated magazine

For the last 18 years we have spent Thanksgiving with my husband’s family in Ohio, so I have not made a Thanksgiving dinner since 1992.  And, truth be told, I wouldn’t have been very good at it back then anyway. To make up for not getting to make this...