I made cranberry orange relish today, just like every Thanksgiving. It's the earliest thing I can remember cooking — grinding the orange...

Yes, there were many jokes about our goose being cooked. For Christmas I was going to roast a duck -- the perfect two-person holiday meal, w...

This year I used my regular pork filling recipe , though I see now I forgot to use onion. It's missing that flavor base, for sure. For t...

I'm not sure I'll ever do this again, but it sure looked cool. Inside: a "hot milk sponge cake" from Joy baked in a jelly ...

We had a wonderful turkey this year, a free-range bird from Sprouts weighing just under 19 pounds. I soaked it in a light brine overnight, s...

Since we're not religious, we tend to celebrate holidays by feasting on traditional foods rather than by attending church. Grandma got a...

I guess this post is for both of us, Mom, since you called me from Texas last night to talk about cooking black eyed peas and will be nowher...

I mean that it's made with real plums, not dried fruit and suet. This may be Swedish in origin, or my grandmother may have found the rec...

It's easy to be daunted by a recipe that begins: "Disjoint a 12-pound turkey and brown the pieces in lard." All you need to di...

This reprint of an older Slate article is right in one way: because there's no single Christmas meal tradition in this country, one nev...

I never have room for pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving day; fortunately it makes an excellent breakfast the next morning. Here is the menu from ...

I just wanted to post this reminder to myself and everyone else that we won't be eating gravy and butter-based dishes forever. Someday, ...

Monday I made pie dough (after hollering about James McNair's cookbook in an earlier post I used his butter crust recipe); Tuesday I ma...

It's important to plan over a healthy breakfast. Lawson and I are assigned the side dishes for his big family Thanksgiving again. We are...

I wish I could eat some Patagonia tamales! Last Christmas I made green chile and pork tamales and froze a bunch; if I have time at New Year...

I was bored with the turkey idea after Thanksgiving this year. Often we have had turkey at both holidays, but this time I couldn’t get exci...

So Thanksgiving dinner is over, and it was wonderful. I have to confess I missed Russell a lot yesterday—I am getting used to your having yo...

Last night I made meatloaf using Grandma's recipe, plus baked buttercup squash (I'm really excited about squash right now) and steam...

Last night we had Moroccan Salmon in Tomato Sauce, tonight Dad made a Chicken and Eggplant Tagine (excellent!), and tomorrow it’s some kind ...

Last night I baked pies for my office Thanksgiving party. The event is like a massive potluck; every year, the Thanksgiving committee posts...