With Thanksgiving just around the corner, I thought I’d round up some Runaway recipes to help you plan your celebration, whether you are hosting the feast at home, or taking a dish along to family or friends. Just click on the highlighted titles for the recipe. If you need some nibbles while everyone is waiting [...]

My First Thanksgiving The first Thanksgiving feast that ever I cooked was during graduate school in England.  An American friend and I decided to host a holiday meal at his digs, which had a larger kitchen, for a motley crew of Americans, Canadians, South Africans and an Ecuadorian thrown in for good measure.  This plan [...]

Perhaps the most over-looked, undervalued aspect of the Thanksgiving meal is the bread basket.  Now, I love a good dinner roll and I think that’s what ends up on the table most of the time. If you are lucky, you have a family member who specializes in good, old-fashioned Parker house or cloverleaf or fantan [...]

For most of my childhood, we spent Thanksgiving with my family in Arkansas.  It was always a big, loud, boisterous gathering of family we didn’t see nearly enough.  For many of these years, my brother and I were the oldest of the kids, so we got to sit at the grown-up table, which made us [...]

When I was a kid, my favorite holiday TV special was always A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.  Back in those days, there was no DVR, DVD or even tapes.  When the special was on, you watched it and that was it.  No second chances. Maybe my love of Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, even more than the Great [...]

I don’t do Halloween.  Of course, as a kid it was my favorite time of year, what with the candy and all.  I used to spend weeks thinking about my costume, and they were almost always homemade.  I was Darth Vadar one year in a navy blue blanket and German helmet a neighbor kid’s grandfather [...]

My favorite time of year is finally here – pumpkin time!  I love pumpkin - in cake, soup, risotto, muffins, bread and, of course, cookies. I am sure over the next few months my pumpkin obsession will manifest itself with a host of recipes, so be prepared! We’ve just had our first cool days here and [...]