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Stuck for Christmas Dinner Ideas? Try Potatoes Anna.
If you need new Christmas dinner ideas, start with your starch, the potatoes. Potatoes Anna are simple to make and look great!
Thanksgiving Potatoes that Beat Boring Boiled or Mundane Mashed
Are you tired of the same thanksgiving potatoes every year? Bored with boiled? Mundane Mashed? Try Duchesse Potatoes instead.
Get The Turkey Stuffing
Under Your Turkey’s Skin This Year!
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Does Your Holiday Stuffing Recipe Have The Right Stuff?
I don’t think I’ve ever used a holiday stuffing recipe. That’s not to say I’ve never made a dressing for turkey, I’ve had to make it for 15,000 people! Imagine trying to follow a recipe for 15,000 people. Would it say “15,000 pinches of salt”?
Brining Turkey
Is Better Than Drying Turkey
Brining turkey is my favorite way to prepare my holiday turkey. People’s biggest fear is that their turkey will be dry after cooking it. This is a reasonable fear, because “roasting” is a dry-heat convective cooking process. When roasted, your turkey is cooked indirectly through the use of hot air. Hot air will evaporate moisture, making your turkey dry.
The Most Important Thanksgiving Cooking Tip of All
Of the many Thanksgiving cooking tips I can give you, this is perhaps the most important. It can be the difference between a triumphant meal and an undercooked case of food borne illness.
Buying Turkey Tips Starts with Choosing Your Bird
I’ve got a lot of cooking turkey tips for you this year, but the very first must be choosing your bird. There are many different classifications and labels that are placed on Thanksgiving fowl, and it can be confusing knowing which type of poultry to purchase.
Thanksgiving Cooking Planning: Start at Your Desk, NOT Your Stove.
Are you anticipating holiday cooking stress already? Is Thanksgiving cooking planning getting you down? I fully understand, because even as a professional chef who has prepared food for thousands, I still feel the anxiety of cooking for family in my own home.
Asian Squash Dumplings
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