This year we’re exploring Thanksgiving as an immigrant holiday, in the broadest terms. We hoping to have the menu to reflect the people around the table and where they’ve come from (this could be in terms of heritage, family memories or even recent experiences).
Author: kitchentourist
I'm a librarian by profession and personality: I love to learn and explore new ideas, and I love books. I apply this to most areas of life, including my cooking. With a limited budget in a big city, international cookbooks give me a great excuse to explore my local grocery stores and the cultures they represent all over the world.
Baked Corn Casserole
When we serve this dish at holiday or birthday feasts, it’s almost always the first pan emptied, no matter what else we make – comfort food at its finest.
Caramel Apple Cake
It’s fall! Time for pumpkins and apples and all my other favorite seasonal ingredients that get blended with sugar and spice to make even more delicious treats.
Garden Herb Salads
These recipes from Vietnam, Korea, and Italy make lovely colorful salads using the chives, basil, mint and more from my garden.
Happy Birthday to Me Menu
Birthdays make great excuses for feasting in my family. I have fun making menus for everyone else, but this one’s for me (and all the friends I’m looking forward to sharing it with).
Favorite Picnic Salads
I just told my sister I could live on these salads. She said it wouldn’t be a well balanced diet, so I described the ingredients. She took it back: Broccoli and Bacon Salad, Deli-Style Pasta Salad, Avacado Corn Salad
Mother’s Day Picnic Menu
A range of sandwiches, fun salads, finger food and more – as usual, we may have gone a bit overboard with the menu planning. But how would sticking to the basics be any fun?
Sweet Potato Chocolate Torte with Walnut Custard Filling
An unusual cake that uses mashed sweet potatoes and ground walnuts with eggs for the batter. Filled with a walnut custard and topped with a chocolate glaze, it’s rich and tender but not overpowering. And now it sounds like a skeezy romance novel hero.
Yuca Shrimp Empanadas
These delicious turnovers have buttery, tender crusts with yuca mashed into it and a rich filling that balances the flavors of garlic and shrimp, coconut and chillies, lime and cilantro so none of them overpower the rest.
Festive Christmas Salads
These two salads are delicious anytime of the year, but since they’re red and green they’re especially great for the holidays when you want something healthy and festive to balance all the sweets. I love how simple and flavorful both of these salads are – they both have a mixture of great textures, too. Both…
Cranberry Mojitos
This is a great holiday cocktail recipe: easy to make by the pitcher, naturally colorful (bright red & green!), and flavorful enough to attract people who may not normally like cocktails. There’s a little over 2 oz. of rum per serving, which is on the light side for a cocktail this size. Still, you might…
Gingerbread Traditions
My family has an annual problem: too many gingerbread houses. Of course it’s a self-created problem, because every year we like to invite friends over for a sleepover party where we stay up playing with candy, eventually collapse into a sugar coma, then wake up and make a nice brunch before everyone heads out the…
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