Recipe: Spicy Pumpkin-Currant Bread with Pepita Butter
This is a particularly tasty version of the pumpkin bread that pops up virtually everywhere this time of year.
Recipe: Vegetable Moussaka
Moussaka is traditionally an extremely rich, hearty dish full of lamb or beef that will leave you in a food coma for several hours.
Recipe: Pumpkin & Mushroom Lasagna
This is an interesting Thanksgiving twist on traditional lasagna. The pumpkin and mushrooms combine for a savory, earthy flavor that is anything but dull.
Recipe: Pillow Biscuits
The key to a healthier biscuit is to replace some (no more than half) of the enriched flour with whole wheat flour. The biscuits will be too heavy if you use all whole wheat flour. Such is the nature of whole grains! In addition to the leavening agents in this recipe, folding the dough over into layers also helps inject air into these biscuits. Hence their airy name.
A Vegetarian Thanksgiving
The original Thanksgiving was not a banquet of turkey and stuffing and mashed potatoes and gravy and cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie with whipped cream and…and…and whatever else you can cram down your gullet before collapsing into the recliner in a food coma. It was a three-day harvest celebration (and not repeated for many years), attended by the early American settlers as well as the natives who initially welcomed them and helped them adapt to and survive in a harsh and unfamiliar landscape.
Recipe: Spicy Pumpkin-Sweet Potato Soup with Homemade Croutons
…and you thought pumpkin was only good for pie or bread!
Au contraire!
This is a sweet-and-savory harvest soup with a kick that will take the chill off of any Fall evening. Serve it with fresh-baked Pillow Biscuits and a mixed-greens salad livened up with some dried cherries, walnuts, and crumbled blue cheese.
