Thanksgiving dinner:
Persimmon and Pomegranate salad with Arugula and Hazelnuts, from the Lucques cookbook: a delicious and light start to the heavier courses to come. (Watch Suzanne Goin and Martha Stewart make this salad.)
Chestnut Stuffing, as delicious as the first time.
Roast Chicken with potatoes. Simple and wonderful.
Pumpkin Pie with Spiced Walnut Streusel. Lovely the first night still warm; even better the second day cold; and, I'm guessing, better yet the third day. I'll know, tomorrow!
But the best of all, frankly, were the sandwiches we made tonight: leftover roast chicken, stuffing, cranberry sauce, homemade mayonnaise, and frisée, all on toasted white bread; served alongside roasted brussels sprouts with bacon, the only way to make them: roasted for 20-25 minutes at a high temperature until they're almost blackened on the outside.
Last week's New Yorker had a brief & strange article about Prince in Talk of the Town. My favorite part was this bit about his Jehovah's Witness faith:
He attends meetings at a local Kingdom Hall, and, like his fellow-witnesses, he leaves his gated community from time to time to knock on doors and proselytize. "Sometimes people act surprised, but mostly they're really cool about it," he said.
Il Divo's performance of "Hallelujah" is the most sincere thing, ever (via Idolator):
My favorite in the series:
Oh, the things that you can do with bread!
Suzanne Goin's Chestnut Stuffing (from Lucques), with fennel, pancetta, and many other wonderful things. This was the side dish to a veal chop, marinated in thyme, rosemary, garlic, and olive oil, and which was itself incredible, and yet: I'm going back for the stuffing.
Bread Pudding, from Simply Recipes. Odds are, you've got everything you need to make this bread pudding; I decided to make it at 9pm, because I wanted something sweet, and I had leftover bread from the stuffing, and, because I'm a normal person, I have milk, vanilla, eggs, sugar, and spices. And that's all you need! And it's absolutely delicious.
