Have you been in this situation – you are just ready to serve up your Thanksgiving meal. You look down and notice that your gravy is full of lumps. Nobody wants to serve lumpy gravy. What do you do? Do you just shallow your pride and serve it anyway or is there a better way? …
Category Archive: Side Dishes
Nov
23
Slow Cooker Giblet Gravy for Brined Turkeys
Gravy is the sauce of choice for Thanksgiving day. The meal would be missing something without it. There are many different approaches to making gravy, but today I am going to talk about making giblet gravy. First off, I am a brine guy. Before I roast my turkey, I give it a nice long soak …
Nov
21
Alton Brown’s Whipped Yukon Gold Potatoes
Mashed potatoes are turkey’s best friend, so you must have them at Thanksgiving. Most people don’t think much about the potatoes. They just grab some at the store and boil them up at the last moment. But potatoes can be so much more. I decided to try a couple new recipes this year. The first …
Nov
18
Cranberry Sauce with Cranberry Soda
The last few Thanksgivings I have been making my very own cranberry sauce. It’s a very simple thing to do and taste much better than what you get out of a can. But I was thinking is there anyway that I could make it better? One of the ingredients of the sauce is water. Water …
Nov
17
Neelys’ Shredded Brussels Sprouts with Bacon
Looking for a fast side dish for your Thanksgiving meal? A great choice would be Brussels sprouts. They are in season right now. I was watching an episode of Down Home with the Neelys – Giving Thanks. One of their side dishes was Shredded Brussels Sprouts with Bacon and Walnuts (on in our household without …
Oct
10
Ina Garten’s Roasted Brussels Sprouts
The following words bring a fear to the hearts of many people: brussels sprouts. Kids and adults alike run for the hills when the see these little green balls of slime being prepared. Like many green vegetables they have been given a bad rap because people just didn’t know how to prepare them right. If …
Oct
05
Alton Brown’s Butternut Squash Dumplings (Gnocchi)
The fall time is my favorite time of year for cooking. Apples, squash, and pumpkins, and let’s not forget at the end of fall is Thanksgiving. We have certain recipes that are becoming a fall tradition in my household. One of them is Alton Brown’s Butternut Squash Dumplings or Gnocchi. It is a combination of …
Jul
12
What to Do with Fresh Currants – Jellied Currant Sauce
One of the biggest reasons why people don’t branch out and buy more different types of fruits and vegetables is because they don’t know what to do with them. I didn’t let that stop me when I picked some fresh red currants at Wasem Fruit Farm. Their sour cherries is what brought me to the …
Jun
23
How to Roast Garlic Scapes
If you have never had garlic scapes you are in for a treat. Garlic scapes are the unopened flower from the top of a garlic plant. They are green and tend to curl up. Garlic growers like to remove them from the plants so they can grow larger bulbs. Only hardneck varieties of garlic grow …
Jun
15
Jamie Oliver’s Rainbow Salad & Homemade Dressing Recipes
Recently, Jamie Oliver showed a couple boys how to prepare a rainbow salad with a homemade dressing on an episode of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution. I searched online for quite a while to see if I could find the recipe. I finally came upon a video of another Jamie Oliver show – Jamie’s 30 Minute …
Welcome to my blog! My name is Eric. I live in Saline, Michigan with my wife (Donna) and two daughters, Hannah (3 1/2) and Autumn (1). I started this blog in October 2009 to share my culinary experiences from making my own food from scratch to what I find at farmer's markets and grocery stores.
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