Pan-Roasted Shallots with Butternut Squash and Brussels Sprouts
This tasty side dish can be partly made ahead for easy finishing during the busy Thanksgiving serving time.
This tasty side dish can be partly made ahead for easy finishing during the busy Thanksgiving serving time.
Make entertaining a little easier by preparing this dish for a gathering a day ahead, then pop it into the oven to reheat while dinner cooks. (From the "Harvest Thanksgiving" menu in the October 2005 issue of Canadian Living Magazine.)
Here's a rich but superlative way to honour the pumpkin and celebrate the Thanksgiving harvest.
Soup that you can make ahead and reheat just before serving is always a good idea for a Thanksgiving menu.
This composed salad is elegant yet simple — perfect as the first course for Thanksgiving dinner. A sprinkling of minced fresh chives and thinly grated carrots would make an attractive garnish.
Freshly harvested pears are always the juiciest and most fragrant, and they marry well with cheese, especially rich, creamy Brie. Add puff pastry and the perfect trio provides a delicious opener for Thanksgiving dinner — or any fall party.
Pastry chef Miriam Folkins prefers the dense orange butternut squash to pumpkin in this delicious Thanksgiving version of crème caramel.