RECIPES: Alternative Holiday Potato Recipes

If you don’t have sacrosanct holiday potato recipes, here are two outside-the-box ideas, one for mashed potatoes, one for sweet potatoes. Of course, they work on non-holidays, too. Both are from GoBoldWithButter.com, one of our go-to sites for delicious recipes. RECIPE: BLUE CHEESE MASHED POTATOES Butter, buttermilk and blue cheese give these mashed potatoes a…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make Chicken Or Turkey Stock

Enjoy your feast, but don’t toss the carcass. Use it to make stock! Photo courtesy Sur La Table.   Plan ahead: Don’t throw away that turkey carcass. Or the roast chicken* carcass. Or those tops, root ends and stems from trimming vegetables. Save the vegetable trimmings from the week’s meals: carrot tops, celery ends, fennel…
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RECIPE: Make & Bring Sweet & Savory Nut Clusters

Sweet and savory nut clusters, with pumpkin seeds added for the holidays. Photo courtesy QVC.   If you’ve been invited to Thanksgiving but not asked to contribute, you may still want to bring a gift that isn’t a bottle of wine. Something like these Sweet & Savory Nut Clusters from QVC’s chef David Venable can…
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