Category: BiteClub

Last-Minute Thanksgiving Upgrades

With less than 36-hours until the feast hits the table, I'm sure we all have too much to do and not enough time in which to do it, so today's is a post with a purpose: Fast, easy, small little things you can do to elevate some of your Thanksgiving Day standards - mashed potatoes, green beans, glazed carrots, cranberry sauce, stuffing - from the delicious but possibly tired to a more lively yet still traditional level.

Safeway Avocado Alert

I could wax excitable and eloquent for pages upon pages about the virtues of the California Hass avocado (and yes, it is "Hass", not "Haas", named for Rudolph Hass, the postman who, in the 1920s, planted the one and only Mother Tree of virtually every avocado you've ever eaten), but I cannot stomach the poor excuse on offer at my local Safeway.

Thanksgiving Favorites: Pie for Breakfast

First, the come-clean: This picture is of the pie that I ate, but is not my pie. I don't really do sweets and, with the notable exception of pizza and its close derivatives, I rarely bake - suffice it to say that we may all have a place in the kitchen, but mine is most assuredly not at the pastry station. But when Thanksgiving - my favorite official holiday bar none, and the only US holiday implicitly engineered for the home cook - comes knocking, I start to anticipate pie like, well, like a crack-head anticipates crack.