Once again Y&H spent Thanksgiving dinner with Mrs. Y&H's parents, and once again, a magnificent feast was laid before us — roast turkey, oyster dressing, crudites, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, green-bean casserole, rolls, fudge pie, pecan pie, and all the wine we wanted to drink. As we pulled out of the driveway, fat and happy, here are a [...]
How To Cut the Post-Thanksgiving Dinner Cleanup in Half Uploaded by Howcast. – Parties, dorm life, and other college videos. Embedded deep within this cheesy instructional video from Howcast are a few decent tips on how to make clean-up easier this year. (Though I have to think that wrapping your burner liners in foil isn't [...]
As we head into Thanksgiving, Y&H wants to help you eat like a pilgrim (a Native American, too, because we’re all about equal opportunity eating here). In other words, we want to help you eat locally for the holiday. Almost 400 years ago, the pilgrims had no choice but to eat local. These days, we [...]
Raise your hand: Who among you was relegated to the kids' table during Thanksgiving? Y&H was. I didn't care, either. As a kid, I didn't get Thanksgiving, at least the gathering around the table for hours and doing nothing but eating. I was an active little snot and didn't like sitting among the adults, as [...]
As we head into Thanksgiving, Y&H wants to help you eat like a pilgrim (a Native American, too, because we’re all about equal opportunity eating here). In other words, we want to help you eat locally for the holiday. Almost 400 years ago, the pilgrims had no choice but to eat local. These days, we [...]
Y&H salutes Chow.com for this smart, straight-forward video on how to brine your turkey. Brining, of course, is a terrific way to avoid dry, tasteless, and under-seasoned birds that require a gallon of gravy to make them palatable. But as chef Michael Chiarello from Bottega in Yountville, Calif., points out, brining is no insurance against inferior turkey. Plenty of things can [...]
Let's say, for the sake of argument, that Y&H wanted to cook a holiday dinner from locally sourced ingredients. You know, just so Y&H could be totally in harmony with the whole local/seasonal/sustainable zeitgeist. Now don't assume I'm trolling for tips in order to write a City Paper story, because, God knows, we have a [...]
