During her childhood in Bangkok, the chef Rose Chalalai Singh recently recalled, the city seemed to be teeming with exotic blooms: there was the bounty of the flower market near the Chao Phraya River, the garlands of saffron-colored marigolds at the city’s Buddhist temples. Later, as a teenager, she spent three years living on her…
Hi there! I’m Lex, an editor and recipe developer with New York Times Cooking. As an adoring Veggie reader, I was delighted when Tejal and Tanya asked me to step in this week and tell you about the vegetarian Thanksgiving menu I’ve been working on for three months. Thanksgiving is not the time to reinvent…
Because mashed potatoes are a nonnegotiable part of my family’s Thanksgiving meal, I argue year after year that we do not need stuffing on the table. Potatoes, I believe, render stuffing superfluous. Inevitably, I end up making stuffing anyway, but my reasoning stands. On a holiday when real estate — stomach, oven and table —…
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Vegetables star in these five new dishes that were made for vegetarians and created to appeal to everyone. Maybe you’re adopting a meatless holiday meal for the first time or maybe you have never felt tethered to turkey and are finally skipping the bird this year because of its increasingly high cost. These recipes provide…
Here at New York Times Cooking we start brainstorming turkeys in July. It’s our job to come up with thrilling new recipes for your Thanksgiving table, and it can take months of testing and tweaking to create something at least as tasty and reliable as the many, many, many turkey recipes that have come before.…
When it comes to Thanksgiving, I love using the ingredients of the season to create warmth, comfort and balance. I also love dishes that manage to bring together familiar flavors and unique combinations. Each one of these recipes sets out to do all of that, while being luxurious but still a little lighter than the…
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The gates are flung open, guests start to arrive and Thanksgiving dinner? Soon. In the meantime, something to nibble with a glass of wine is required. The simplest, most appealing choice is a cheese plate. A few cheeses artfully arranged with a smattering of fruits and nuts is enough to whet the appetite for the…
Of all the possible Thanksgiving desserts, pies are the most classic. But what if your band of Thanksgiving merrymakers doesn’t actually like pie? (Is that even possible?) Or perhaps your pies are yearning for some less crusty company on the dessert buffet. Maybe you simply need a change. With that in mind, these three desserts…