Dan and I aren’t having turkey on Thursday, instead we’re having dinner with his family on Saturday. In recent years, I’ve taken on large parts of the Thanksgiving meal (turkey, sweet potatoes, rolls, and dessert). But this year, I’m opting for a simpler approach: I’ve volunteered to make pie. And maybe a cake. And ice cream…
Desserts are easy, the hard part is keeping myself reined in.
What are your plans this holiday season?
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Flipping through the last issue of Gourmet, I was on the hunt for pie recipes. While I did find a couple of pies, I was distracted by a few of the side dishes (the photos in Gourmet are always so lovely… and distracting). You see, I am a sucker for sweet potatoes. From the marshmallow topped Thanksgiving staple to simply roasted in the oven and everything in between (unless it comes from a can. If you are eating sweet potatoes, or yams for that matter, from a can… we need to talk). So when I saw the simple baked sweet potatoes with acorn squash, I stuck a bookmark on that page and went back to my pie search.
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I hope you are having a wonderful summer Saturday wherever you are. I made some little red velvet cakelets to celebrate Independence day. I only cheated a little… I had a couple of layers in the freezer from the last time I made red velvet cake (I made extra to save). This is the first time I’ve frozen red velvet cake, but after almost two months in the freezer, it tastes fresh. Each cakelet is topped with cream cheese frosting in white and blue.
I used the smallest ring in my cutter set (similar to this one at Sur la Table) to cut the 9″ round layers into cakelets. Then using my largest star tip, I made swirlies of white. And the smallest star tip to make little blue tips.
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Who comes up with these things? It seems like every month or every day has some special designation. June it so-happens is National Candy Month. Why June? Because they said so. Who am I to disagree? And so I have been celebrating with peanut butter M&Ms. And plain M&Ms…
But then to keep us on our toes, June is also National Fruit and Vegetable Month, Dairy Month, Iced Tea Month, and Turkey Lovers Month (reference: butlerwebs). I’m skeptical of how widely celebrated any of these “holidays” are since I only get a few random hits when I do a search on Google for any of these. But they sound fun anyway. I’m definitely celebrating Candy Month (with M&Ms as mentioned before, and also I am reading Candy Freak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
And just to keep things balanced, I’m going to try to celebrate Fruit and Vegetable month or at least Eat Your Vegetables Day on June 17.
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