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Sunday, November 4, 2018
How to Dry Brine and Roast a Turkey
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Saturday, November 3, 2018
Thanksgiving Can Also Be a Time for Seafood Lovers
According to History.com, “Culinary historians believe that much of the [first] Thanksgiving meal consisted of seafood.” Let that sink in for a second. Do you have seafood at your Thanksgiving dinner? Probably not—because you have turkey at Thanksgiving, because that’s what the pilgrims ate. Or did they? While exact records of the food items present at the first Thanksgiving do not exist, there are journal entries indicating a fowling mission took place. It’s assumed that turkey was brought back, but it could have easily been duck, goose, or swan that made it to the dinner table, instead.
Yes, the house of cards on which you’ve assembled your Thanksgiving traditions is crumbling. Repaint that old-timey image of in your mind of pilgrims at the long, wooden table—this time, to include seafood, deer, corn mush, maybe a swan, and cold pumpkin shells full of custard. Doesn’t exactly look like your contemporary Thanksgiving dinner, does it?
I say, let facts free you from the bonds of fallacy-driven tradition, and allow those same facts to shackle you to a more honest Thanksgiving protein: seafood! New England was chock-full of it—History.com notes that “mussels in particular were abundant” and easily harvested from rocky coasts, and that “lobster, bass, clams and oysters” might have been served at the first Thanksgiving, too.
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So let them eat mussels! Or let me eat mussels, at least. I’ll be honest: If I showed up to Thanksgiving with the family, and instead of turkey, there were a big pot of mussels in a buttery beer broth, I would be ecstatic (disclaimer: I am a pescatarian – so this would also mean I get to actually partake in the main dish). Served with some crusty bread, mussels are a crowd-pleaser for a seafood-loving crowd akin to, say, the pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving. Get our Mussels with Fennel, Lemon, and Belgian Ale recipe.
Since any modification to the (arbitrarily) traditional Thanksgiving turkey will certainly be viewed as a personal affront to your family, you can play it safer by adding in mussels as an appetizer. Broiling mussels and serving them on the half shell makes for a pretty and flavorful hors d’oeuvre. Get our Broiled Mussels with Sweet Paprika Aioli recipe.
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Just as likely as turkey, the pilgrims might have had bass for the first Thanksgiving dinner. And if they did, you just know they would have cooked the whole fish, with all the whole-fish flavor that comes with it. If you still have the grill out and usable around Thanksgiving, take advantage of how completely grill-able whole bass can be—no worrying about filets flaking apart and falling through the grill grates! Get our Whole Grilled Bass with Olives, Onion, and Artichoke recipe.
If you’ll be doing all your cooking with the stove and oven, perhaps you can sacrifice some historical accuracy (you’ve been doing it for years, anyway!) and bake bass in foil pouches. The cleanup will be super easy, and the packets help infuse the fish with herbs and spices. Get our Foil Pouch Sea Bass recipe.
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Since we’re talking about modeling traditions off of a meal that was probably heavy on the seafood, we might as well go the whole hog (err…full flounder?) and have ourselves a clambake! I’m talking clams, mussels, shrimp, lobster, and more! Keep it simple with this Easy Clambake recipe, which focuses on the first three seafoods I listed and can be prepared in less than a half-hour. A clambake is perfect for gathering with friends and family, and definitely pays homage to the foods available to the pilgrims at the time!
Finally, if your Thanksgiving style is more chic and intimate, what better way to serve elevated pilgrim fare than with oysters? Use champagne vinegar to make a mignonette that highlights the flavors of fresh oysters, and top with prosecco for an extra-special touch. Get our Oysters with Prosecco Mignonette recipe.
Are you burning tradition to the ground? Or are you just being more honest, with food choices that are more in-line with those served at the actual first Thanksgiving? No matter what you serve, someone is going to be unhappy with change—but, isn’t that even more accurate to the experience of the pilgrims? So, serve that seafood, acknowledge the familial strife you’ve caused, and tie it back to that first horrible year of Plymouth Colony. Ultimately, it’s the most traditional Thanksgiving anyone could ask for!
Related Video: Seafood Dishes for an Italian Christmas Eve
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Simply Recipes Meal Plan: November 2018, Week 1
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Friday, November 2, 2018
How to Make Thanksgiving for One (or Two)
Thanksgiving is traditionally a time for family members to come together to enjoy a bountiful meal and each other’s company. It’s a time for celebration, relaxation, and good eats. But for some people, the thought of going home for the holidays is an absolute nightmare. Maybe you’re living abroad and can’t afford the plane ticket, or you need a break from the inevitable family feud over politics. Perhaps you simply need a little “me time.”
Whatever the reason, you can certainly have a great Thanksgiving whether you’re flying solo or making it a couples thing. Here’s how.
Create a Game Plan
Just because you’re keeping it small doesn’t mean you can’t make your Thanksgiving meal special. Get some candles and flowers for the table and set it up to look inviting and cozy. Break out the good china and use serving dishes, if you have them. There’s nothing sadder than a holiday meal for one eaten right out of the cooking pot.
Set of 3 Fall Leaf LED Candles ($25)
Lend some festive flicker to your holiday table, without smoke or actual flames.
Set of 4 Scalloped Embossed Bone China Plates ($36)
Scalloped and embossed details make these classic plates pretty without being too busy.
Write up a menu and shop for your ingredients ahead of time. If you leave it till the day of, you might have to contend with long lines and empty shelves at the supermarket.
Consider preparing your ingredients and even doing your baking the night before. That way you can have more time to cook and enjoy your meal the following day.
Menu Options
If you’re horrified by the thought of not having roast turkey for Thanksgiving, you may be able to order a small turkey (10 pounds or less) through your local butcher or directly from a turkey farm. As an alternative, consider making cornish game hens, turkey breast, turkey pot pie or, if you’re vegetarian or vegan, stuffed squash.
Instead of making all the sides associated with this holiday, just pick your absolute favorites and either halve the recipe or freeze the leftovers. You might also look for a recipe that incorporates the main ingredients from several of your favorite dishes into one.
Looking for some inspiration? The following recipes can help you make the most of your solo Thanksgiving.
Cornish Game Hens with Millet Stuffing
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This recipe calls for four 1-½-pound Cornish game hens, but you can certainly cut it in half to make two hens instead. The stuffing can be prepared a day in advance, and if you switch the currants out for cranberries, you can make it just right for the occasion. Get our Cornish Game Hens with Millet Stuffing recipe.
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It doesn’t get more simple or straightforward than this. Seasoned with a paste made from olive oil, garlic, rosemary, fennel seed, and lemon, this recipe is easy to make but far from boring. You can even satisfy your craving to “carve the turkey” when you slice it up after roasting. Get our Herb-Roasted Turkey Breast recipe.
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For this recipe, you might want to make the dough and prep the veggies ahead of time so you have less work to do on Thanksgiving day. Once assembled, these pies freeze beautifully before baking. Get our Chicken and Mushroom Pot Pies recipe.
Roasted Acorn Squash with Wild Rice Stuffing
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This dish combines two classic Thanksgiving foods, squash and stuffing, into one. You can either cut the recipe down by two-thirds or freeze the extra stuffed squash halves before baking. The recipe also calls for dried cranberries, so it’s perfect for this holiday! Get our Roasted Acorn Squash with Wild Rice Stuffing recipe.
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Skip the marshmallow-topped casserole and candied yams for these rich, fluffy sweet potato biscuits, which you can slather with butter or use to sop up the juices of your main dish. These sunset-hued beauties make the perfect side for any autumn meal. Get our Sweet Potato Biscuits recipe.
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Every veggie can benefit from a little added umami. In this case, crisp-tender green beans are paired with smoked bacon and dressed in a simple vinaigrette that will lighten things up and bring some verdant color to the table. Get our Green Beans with Smoked Bacon recipe.
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While it may not be traditional to make a chocolate dessert for Thanksgiving, this recipe has its benefits. You can make them individual soufflés that freeze well before baking (if there are any left over, that is). Get our Chocolate Soufflé recipe.
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If it just wouldn’t feel like Thanksgiving without pumpkin pie, these individual flans make a great substitute. You could halve the recipe to make four instead of eight, but really—why would you want to? Get our Pumpkin Pie Flans recipe.
Related Video: How to Make Spicy Maple Turkey Breast
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A Keto Diet Approach to Thanksgiving Dinner
Have I lost you already? No? Ok, good. Hear me out on this.
I promise we’re not here to take the fun out of Thanksgiving. Quite the opposite, in fact. For some out there, indulging in a little holiday cheer doesn’t necessarily mean nullifying all the energy, self-control and money (CrossFit, I’m looking at you) you parted with to keep in relative shape all year. A Ketogenic, or lower carbohydrate, high fat diet, is a great way to enjoy holiday food and fanfare without giving away the farm, and we’ve got the recipes to please even the fiercest carb-ivores among us.
The Ketogenic or “Keto” diet has been on a tear, as of late, and claims Kim Kardashian, Beyoncé and Melissa McCarthy as loyalists. One reason is that Keto, when done properly, can include ingredients and items often associated with indulgence and excess, like whipped cream and BACON! I’m winning you back, aren’t I?
The Keto Diet works off the premise that when carb intake is minimized (although not eliminated completely) the “semi-starved” body activates “ketogenesis” or the production of ketones into your bloodstream. These little fellas are made in the liver and serve as an alternate form of energy that would lay dormant otherwise. The good people at Keto also ask that you limit protein intake just a bit, leaving lots and lots of room for delicious fats!
I’ll concede that some of Thanksgiving’s undeniable charm hinges on those crave-worthy carbohydrates, but with a little thought and creativity, you can pull off a wildly indulgent Keto Thanksgiving, sans having to be hot air-ballooned out of the living room.
To simplify matters, turkey is a mostly Keto friendly-food as long as you don’t do anything crazy like bread and fry the thing, so use your favorite recipe or consult one of Chowhound’s, like this one or this one.
Let’s get to the recipes!
Mashed Potatoes
You’re on Keto so the answer is no…sort of. We’re starting here because this one hurts a little and we’d best rip it off like band-aid.
Little Broken
Fear not, cauliflower exists to save us from ourselves, and even better, Keto allows for lots of fatty dairy like whole milk Ricotta and butter to help soften the blow. If you’re already a Keto guy or gal, you’re probably familiar with the way cauliflower can magically mimic starch. In my experience, the most important thing is getting your cooked cauliflower as dry as possible before moving on to the next step. Squeezing and dabbing (not this kind) helps, but don’t under estimate the infinite power of time. Leave the cauliflower wrapped in towels for a few hours. While we’re at it, this a great candidate to make or prep the night before. Get the recipe.
Gravy
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Gravy, glorious gravy, is Keto friendly by nature and we can all thank a higher power of our choosing for that! A traditional gravy recipe does call for some flour but it’s minimal and you can cut the third of a cup called for here down to a quarter cup and not notice a difference. Get the recipe.
Rolls and Stuffing
How to…this and that
As beloved as Mashed Potatoes are, that other starchy staple, Stuffing, holds just as dear a spot in our Turkey Day hearts. The good news is that there are loads of Keto-friendly premade breads and also from scratch recipes to use as a base. Get the recipe for Keto Fathead Rolls (to serve or for Keto-friendly stuffing).
Broccoli Cheese Casserole
Simply Recipes
A battle rages in the pantheon of Keto-friendly foods. Bacon or Cheese? Cheese or Bacon? The furious debates mirror some on capitol hill, but this divine recipe reaches across the aisle to incorporate both in a Keto-tastic Thanksgiving side dish celebration two of the diet plan’s biggest stars. Consider adding a fresh grind of nutmeg, a bestie of any béchamel. Get the recipe.
Bacon Jalapeño Poppers
Keto Connect
Appetizers are a great way to incorporate more bacon into the menu, as in these keto-friendly Bacon Jalapeno Poppers. Another bonus of Keto is that low-carb foods don’t fill you up as quickly as carbs, so you’re more likely to enjoy ALL the courses without feeling that trademark Thanksgiving bloat. Get the recipe.
Hazelnut Truffles
Low Carb Maven
For dessert, the Keto’s out there will have to make a concession or two. Pie crusts and flour-based cakes and cookies should be avoided but replaced by higher fat lower carb alternatives like these Keto Hazelnut Truffles. I make these, or a version of them, to almost every holiday party I attend, and they always steal the show. Their bite-size makes it easy to taste without overdoing it which people appreciate. Get the recipe.
And if you want that little extra help, you may want to get The Easy 5-Ingredient Ketogenic Diet Cookbook: Low-Carb, High-Fat Recipes for Busy People on the Keto Diet—a best seller that will make your daily cooking a breeze.
Related video: How to Make Keto Burrito Peppers
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