A Walk Through The Thanksgiving Math
Before you finalize your Thanksgiving meal planning, let's do a little preventive math. Add up those future calories. And subtract a future walk's worth of calorie-burning.
Sweet Potato Pie
Just make it. It's great. It's cheap. It's easy. The only real decision is how to serve it. Turkey sidekick or dessert? No Better Way to eat a sweet potato. Thanksgiving Day or Any Day.
Polenta Dressing: Think outside the bird
Dressing. Not stuffing. Cook it separately. Not inside the turkey. So good you might think, who needs the turkey? Here's a perfectly moist and deeply flavorful savory dressing with a luscious whole grain corn polenta base.
Ginger-Spiked Cranberry Relish
Four ingredients. Four minutes of preparation. For a powerful, intense condiment that'll light up your turkey and wake up your mouth. Start with just a little. That's all it takes to beautify and amplify Thanksgiving dinner.
Back to BCS Basics: Polenta
It's delicious. It's cheap and easy. It's a real, whole and complete food. All good, no bad. If pasta or rice is your only answer to "what goes with everything?", polenta's a whole new world to put in your mouth.
Tartiflette: hike before and after
My first taste of this ridiculously delicious and satisfying Alpine specialty was in the middle of a 10-mile hike at a mountainside refuge high in the French Alps. Now that I've made it at home, I can tell you that you don't have to be in the Alps to love it. I can also tell you that it's probably a good idea to walk a few miles before and/or after you enjoy it. Because this is, well, not a light dish.
Back to BCS Basics: Cornbread & Pork
Because they're so thoroughly satisfying. Because they make your home smell great while they cook. 10 minutes or less of actual preparation for each. 24 hours in the slow cooker for the pork, 20 minutes in the oven for the bread. Beyond great for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Mash Note: Turnips at Horn & Hardart
One of my earliest food-flavor memories is mashed turnips. Slightly sweet, a little earthy, soft and warm. But the real attraction was the way the dish was served. Behind glass. Convenient and automatic. Very sci-fi.
3-Layer Pancake with Apples and Pears
Is this a party or is this breakfast? Or dessert? Whichever Way you serve it, it tastes even Better than it looks. Looks like a luscious calorie bomb - but it could help you lose weight. Click and read the magic.
Sweet, Stuffed and All Dressed Up
A festive sweet potato course with enough flavor for an entire meal. And enough Vitamin A to get you through 4 days. If the Thanksgiving turkey's on the bland side, this is the sweet potato dish you want right alongside it.