Chicken Curry
Ingredients: Spice Blend: Instructions: Notes:
Lake of the Woods Nautical Disaster
Brewed in Rat Portage, Ontario (well, formerly known as Rat Portage but renamed Kenora) and with a name that harkens The Tragically Hip to mind, how could you go wrong? Well, it depends on what you’re into I guess. This is a “meme level” IPA, the kind the guys with the beards and toques and buffalo plaid shirts love. It’s a “triple C hop citrus bomb”.. yep, for sure. It does finish “dry” though which pushes back nicely against that…
Great Lakes Brewery Winter Ale
The label says this is a “strong beer brewed with spices” (6.2%) which I guess is where the Winter comes in. It does have a mulling spices thing going on both in terms of aroma and flavour but underlying that is the citrusy foundation of an IPA. Gavin tasted it and called it “Christmasey” which I think is fitting. It’s decent but a bit on the novel side. Esther and I split one in a “snifter” style glass and that’s…
Herb Roasted Turkey
Ingredients Preparation Note: Regarding cooking time, I’ve done turkeys ranging from 12 lb to 18 lb with this recipe and while you would expect the larger the turkey, the longer the time, that hasn’t really been my experience. The high heat for 30 minutes dramatically reduces the cooking time versus the traditional method. At 350, an 18 lb turkey would be close to 4 hours. With this recipe, it’s still just 2.5 – 2.75 hours.
Microwave Turkey Stuffing
My mom found this recipe in the newspaper and it quickly became her default method of making stuffing, which is a bit surprising after decades of stuffing a turkey in the traditional way. Why would you make stuffing outside a turkey? These measurements are mom’s “doubling” amounts that she wrote in the margin of the newspaper clipping. I usually double the recipe below to make enough stuffing to fill a large Dutch oven. Ingredients: Directions: You can refrigerate overnight or…