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Thanksgiving, 2012
We had Thanksgiving at our house this year. Emily and Dan drove in on Wednesday and Alissa and John and the boys came in on Thursday afternoon.
Menu:
- Grilled Turkey (sort of followed this recipe, – we also brined it the night before, loosely followed this recipe, the turkey was perfect and was great to do outside on a beautiful day.
- Gravy (made ahead of time: sort of followed this recipe)
- Vegetarian gravy (sort of followed this recipe but made it all vegetarian and didn’t use tarragon because I don’t like it)
- Mashed potatoes
- Mom’s sausage dressing (still not as good as hers though)
- Vegetarian corn bread dressing with pecans and cranberries
- Roasted root vegetables
- Green bean casserole
- mashed rutebaga
- cranberry sauce (always use this recipe)
- pumpkin pie
Smitten Kitchen
I got my smitten kitchen cookbook in the mail the other day. It looks like a good one. I haven’t gotten a new cookbook in a long long time and have been looking forward to this one. Smitten Kitchen is one of my favorite food blogs that I have been following for the past couple of years and have made many things from. The cookbook is mostly new recipes and having looked at it just a bit I’m hoping good things are soon to follow. I was just reading that she is currently on a book tour on the west coast and so many people are showing up that there are lines up to three hours long. Of course she’s not coming to Cleveland…maybe next time. NPR gave it a nice review.
An October Day
and later in the day…
Fall Color
Work No. 865: Half the Air in a Given Space; Martin Creed
On our lunch time walk today we made a quick stop at the Cleveland Museum of Art (we are so lucky!) to check out the crazy balloon exhibit that we have seen from the street the last week or so. As it turns out, Martin Creed is know for filling random spaces with balloons. The space they filled at the museum is one of my favorite new spaces in the new East Wing that is a glass room usually filled with Rodin sculptures. They took all the sculptures out and filled it with 25,000 purple balloons and they let you in the room and you walk through the balloons like you are buried in latex. It was very odd, a bit scary, but a unique experience. Art? Of course. It’s there until the end of November so go check it out…as well as the beautiful new atrium.
The artist’s web site here. Interesting stuff.
Summer 2012
What happened to summer? It went way too quickly as it always does. I have been a bad blogger and haven’t shared much even though we have had a great action packed summer with lots of adventure and lots of good food. Here are some food photos that didn’t quite make it on here. I’ll try harder as fall starts here in beautiful Euclid, Ohio.
The Guppy Regatta
A morning regatta last Saturday for the kids at Delaney’s.
Book: The Weird Sisters; Eleanor Brown
Three sisters in their twenties/thirties come home to their small college town when their mother is going through chemo. Their Dad is an English professor and they are always speaking by quoting Shakespeare. Good read.
PJH Rating ****
Swim Championships 2012
Eat On Edgecliff 