This blog post is by Evangeline, Local History Librarian
It's that time of year again...
In just a few days, the holidays will be upon us! You know what that means--food, food and more food! Now is a good time to start planning for those holiday meals and the library has just what you need. I'm not talking about our wonderful selection of holiday cookbooks, but our great assortment of magazines featuring the latest holiday recipes and decorating ideas. What better way to celebrate the season than with ideas from three of my favorite magazines for recipes, period--Country Living, Southern Living and Taste of Home. All three of these magazines contain classic "southern" and "country" style cooking. Their recipes are usually very easy to follow and full of flavor.
The November issue of Country Living features recipes from "The Great Thanksgiving Cook-Off." The magazine asked five chefs to come up with a Thanksgiving meal using traditional ingredients like turkey, stuffing, potatoes and cranberries. Some of the dishes that caught my eye included: cornbread stuffing with sweet peppers, onions and celery, roast turkey with hoisin gravy and roasted wild mushrooms with garlic and shallots. All of the recipes are listed in the back on page 120 and there are great ideas for leftovers beginning on page 111.
My all-time favorite magazine for recipes and all things decorative is Southern Living. I come from a long line of typical southern mothers. I learned from them how to cook and keep house on a budget starting at a young age and, as I get older, I appreciate those skills more and more. Southern Living's November issue offers four Thanksgiving menus that you can mix and match to suit your own family's taste. The menus start on page 93 and offer both traditional and non-traditional fare. The Brussels Sprouts with Pancetta picture on page 96 (recipe on page 98) looks fantastic and the Green Beans with Garlic (recipe on page 102) is a super simple recipe that will go well with any holiday meal. For a list of all the recipes in the November issue you can turn to page 140. Not the cook this Holiday? You may also want to check out the "Family Weekend Getaways Under $500" and the excerpt from Fannie Flagg's new novel I Still Dream about You.
Another go-to magazine for delicious recipes is Taste of Home. One of the reasons I love this magazine so much is that it is written and edited by every-day folks like you and me. The recipes are simple, down-home fare easily prepared by even a novice cook (Thanksgiving is definitely not the time to learn how to cook, however). In the October/November issue, page 54 has a recipe for Maui-inspired Turkey Breast Roll that looks simply delicious. There are ste-by-step pictured instructions to help and some quick and easy appetizer ideas on page 47. Another good article to check out contains tips by cookbook author Katie Lee.
If you don't want to worry with heavy cookbooks or if you want a new twist on the traditional holiday meal, the magazines here at the library are a good choice for you. Remember that the newest magazine issues do not check out, but you may make copies of any recipe that tempts you. Magazines that do check out may be kept for one week only and then they must be returned so that others may enjoy them. Please remember to take care of the library's magazines--they are easily torn and damged with food and drink. You can also find recipes on the magazines websites: http://www.countryliving.com/, http://www.southernliving.com/, and http://www.tasteofhome.com/.
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