Weekly Roundup: Pre-Thanksgiving Edition

November 21, 2009 at 7:50 am · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged DC, recipes I want to try, thanksgiving, weekly roundup

The Swedish Embassy, decked out for the holidays. We're in the thick of the holiday season.

I’ve loved reading the Thanksgiving posts and articles that have gone up this week. It seems like everyone is preparing for the big day. Except me, of course – I’ll be attending the Thanksgiving celebration of a friend from my bookclub, and I’ll leave all the difficult turkey-cooking to her. I’m a little sad that I won’t be cooking the meal myself, but I’m excited to share the holiday with my friends in DC. And it gives me more time to concentrate on pie – my true obsession this month.

Recipes I want to try, as found on the Internet this week:

• Yogurt panna cotta with maple and pears at Cannelle et Vanille

• Pumpkin ice cream at David Liebovitz.

• Stuffing muffins (brilliant) with chanterelle and pears from the New York Times

• A fabulous butternut squash cheesecake, from Adventures in Shaw.

• Homemade vanilla extract, from Mango and Tomato. I’ve been meaning to do this forever – I go through vanilla extract like water.

And in other pre-Thanksgiving news;

• The Washington Post taste-tests frozen pie crusts. The verdict? They suck.

• Find out which  Starbucks baked good is worth buying at The Tipsy Baker.

• I’ve been having a ton of fun watching the tweets from DC’s first Cupcake Cart, Curbside Cupcake. Now if they’d only come up to Tenlytown.

• Gradually Greener issues a warning on sunchokes.

• The Arugula Files experiments with kale chips, and finds them wanting.

• 6th and I is holding a potato cookoff. Mango and Tomato is already signed up as a contestant!

• Crumbs Bake Shop is coming to DC! Actually, I’m pretty happy with our current cupcake offerings. Do we really need another? Via Metrocurean.

Happy Friday!

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