Fall Harvest
My favorite part of the holidays, and any change in the seasons is seasonal cooking. I love barbecuing in the summer, corn on the cob and berry cobblers, holiday baking, chili, and all the goodies that go along with Thanksgiving and Christmas. It seems like everyone gets some sort of holiday excitement right after Halloween, whether it's the decorations and seeing the lights on the houses, the Christmas carols, all the shopping and gifts, the smells of pine trees and mulled cider, or just seeing Eggnog in the grocery store. Well for me, all the holiday excitement is centered around the cooking and baking involved.
I am thrilled to see the pumpkins and squashes, the cranberries and pomegranates, the nuts and sweets lining the grocery isles. And most of all, the wondrous Holiday cooking magazines.... Now Ashley can attest to this, that I just can't seem to get enough cookbooks and cooking magazines. All the pies and beautifully decorated cookies, the gorgeous hams and prime rib. Int he last two years I have been trying to limit the number of cooking magazines I collect. Once I have them, I can't get rid of them. After moving for the third time with boxes of 5 year old Martha Stewart and Cooking Light issues, I started to see scenes from my mothers basement her digging though old piles of Good Housekeeping & Better Homes & Gardens (to her defense, she has created her own catalogued library and filing system and everything is quite organized - but still) So now I am not allowed to buy any more cooking magazines until I have tried all the recipes I want in the stacks already piled up in my kitchen.
I did break down last week and buy the November issue of Cooks Illustrated (my new favorite) So far I have made four recipes from it; roasted turkey, free form apple tartlets, butternut squash soup and the sweet potato casserole.
Yesterday I saw the new issue in the checkout stand.... I didn't buy it, but I don't think I'll be able to make it.
I am thrilled to see the pumpkins and squashes, the cranberries and pomegranates, the nuts and sweets lining the grocery isles. And most of all, the wondrous Holiday cooking magazines.... Now Ashley can attest to this, that I just can't seem to get enough cookbooks and cooking magazines. All the pies and beautifully decorated cookies, the gorgeous hams and prime rib. Int he last two years I have been trying to limit the number of cooking magazines I collect. Once I have them, I can't get rid of them. After moving for the third time with boxes of 5 year old Martha Stewart and Cooking Light issues, I started to see scenes from my mothers basement her digging though old piles of Good Housekeeping & Better Homes & Gardens (to her defense, she has created her own catalogued library and filing system and everything is quite organized - but still) So now I am not allowed to buy any more cooking magazines until I have tried all the recipes I want in the stacks already piled up in my kitchen.
I did break down last week and buy the November issue of Cooks Illustrated (my new favorite) So far I have made four recipes from it; roasted turkey, free form apple tartlets, butternut squash soup and the sweet potato casserole.
Yesterday I saw the new issue in the checkout stand.... I didn't buy it, but I don't think I'll be able to make it.
posted by kiki @ 12:24 AM
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