The decent thing to do, after a day filled with turkey and mashed potatoes and gravy and stuffing and apple pie and pumpkin pie and pecan pie and who knows what-all, would be to talk about salad. Instead, I thought I’d talk about cookies.
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Archive for November, 2009
November
2009
2009
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Fruit Butter Cocktails for Thanksgiving
by megan@spoon
Here are two things you may not know about fruit butters: 1) they don’t actually contain any butter and 2) they’re awfully good with gin. Or bourbon. Or champagne. I haven’t always possessed such encyclopedic knowledge of fruit butters. As I child I wrinkled my nose at the thought of apples mixed with butter and only later learned that fruit butters are so named because they’re silky and smooth and spreadable – like butter.
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November
2009
2009
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Heirloom Tomato Preserves
by megan@spoon
We promised you Heirloom Tomato Preserves. In early Spring, tucked away on one of the very last pages of our catalog, we featured a photo of ten unlabeled jars in shades of orange and red and yellow and green, with a brief caption identifying those jars as Heirloom Tomato Preserves and indicating that they’d be available come Fall. It was a subtle promise, but a promise nonetheless, so we mailed our catalogs and set about keeping it.
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November
2009
2009
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French Toast with Heirloom Apple Spoon Fruit and Pumpkin Cream
by megan@spoon
One of my favorite things about weekends is the possibility of brunch. While my weekday breakfasts typically consist of cold cereal or whatever I can safely consume while driving, brunch is a leisurely, no-obligations indulgence filled with foods few of us have time for during the week — foods like french toast.
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