Simple Cranberry Sauce

The cranberry sauce I make around the holidays is super simple, sweet, and tangy. It’s exactly what you want to bring a little color and acid to your Thanksgiving plate and leftover turkey sandwiches. I also LOVE a little bit of this orange cranberry sauce on a crostini with goat cheese, add a little pistachio…

Dark Chocolate Pie

Pie is my favorite dessert during the holiday seasons. I almost never eat it any other time of year. I think twice I’ve made a fruit pie in the summer, and it was great but nothing like this dark chocolate pie that I make during Thanksgiving and Christmas. There is a lot of nostolgia tied…

Thanksgiving Shopping List

Last week I went over a few different recipes for the big Thursday in November, Thanksgiving! Below is my grocery list for the following dishes, all serving about 8-10 people, and making 2 pies…because more pie is always better. Herby Thanksgiving Stuffing Soft Rolls Turkey Turkey gravy Cranberry Sauce Dark Chocolate Pie (watch for the…

Soft Rolls

In my opinion, dinner rolls are one of the most important parts of any big meal, especially Thanksgiving. My reasoning for this, is not only will they be eaten at dinner and used to sop up all the delicious gravy, cranberries, and other sauces left on the plate, but I will be making Thanksgiving leftover…

Herby Thanksgiving Stuffing

Thanksgiving is a huge food day in the US, and each year it’s a huge task to undertake. On top of that usually an entire family or extended family will be eating and judging each others dishes. Stuffing is one of the first of the main Thanksgiving dishes that I made from scratch, even before…

Pumpkin Chili

As promised, here is my almost famous pumkin chili recipe. Last fall one of my younger sisters asked me to make pumpkin curry, in a pumpkin. She wanted to eat it, but not to make it. She ended up having to cancel coming over to cook it with me and I decided that trying to…