Out West Style Thanksgiving celebrates Pacific Northwest farm to table ingredients with warm, earthy spices. Fresh from the garden Roasted Spiced Carrots with Agave and Pepitas bring a rustic elegance to your table in just 20 minutes. These beautiful, organic rainbow carrots are oven roasted with cumin and paprika, then topped with agave and pepitas. Cranberries dot a Shaved Brussels Spouts Salad like beautiful jewels. Drizzled in shallot lemon vinaigrette with parmesan and toasted breadcrumbs, this salad gets more delicious as it sits. Bring a little heat to the table with this creamy Serrano & Potato Gratin, made fool-proof with an easy to make cheesy sauce and finished in the…
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This Thanksgiving head Out West with this Chorizo Cornbread Stuffing packed full of sliced apple, pecan and celery with rustic bread cubes. The seasoned toasted bread cubes in this Chorizo Cornbread Stuffing combined with the crumbled cornbread adds the perfect nooks and crannies for all that goodness to nestle in. Ingredients in Chorizo Cornbread Stuffing Hempler’s Chorizo Ground Sausage – This recipe calls for chorizo, a Mexican spiced ground pork sausage. There are many different types and qualities of chorizo ranging from very greasy with little meat that typically comes in a tube to all natural ground sausage that has more substance and less grease. You can immediately tell the…
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Layers of beautiful orange persimmons and leafy greens with a dusting of Washington walnuts makes for a festive winter salad. Persimmons in the winter time make me so happy. You see, I’m a salad person and come winter in the Pacific NW we are in a lack of tomatoes phase. So, what a better replacement than sweet persimmons? They have a beautiful orange color, are sweet, but fairly mild with a honey taste and have a similar texture to tomato. In this salad we use chopped walnut because right about this time, the walnuts have dried from the Washington State walnut trees. Drizzle on my house dressing, a shallot vinaigrette,…
