Don’t try this at home … or anywhere:
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Thanksgiving on the Upper West Side means being jarred awake by the sound of helicopters covering the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. This year, it also means Julia Child’s Duck Stuffed With Apples and Sausage.
And yes – I could totally pull off that dress.
Consider this an open thread for your cooking adventures. I’ll post my duck saga as it happens, and you should send me photos to post as well.
Tonight it’s Julia’s Carbonnades a la Flamande (Belgian Beef and Onions Braised in Beer):
So tonight we’re going for the gold – Sole Meuniere (the dish that turned Julia Child on to French food), haricot vert (in this case, French green beans from Fairway), and pommes de terre (here Potatoes Lyonnaise). First, the potatoes, because they can be made ahead and reheated. The finished dish:
I will post the next step in the nachos recipe now, in case anyone is cooking along. You need to make the guacamole now, or soon, so it can sit in the refrigerator and come together. As I progress, I will add photos and commentary to this post.
For reasons explained earlier, tonight it’s nachos. The recipe for the refritos, one of the toppings, is here. Now, we move on to the quacamole:
I was going to dive back into Mastering the Art of French Cooking, but the girlfriend wants nachos. If you wish, go grab the ingredients and cook along with me. I am cooking from scratch and making it up as I go along.
I’m off tonight, so commenter mellbell is taking charge:
I certainly can’t compete with our resident chefs blogenfreude and promnight when it comes to savories [eds. – oh please], but give me some flour, butter, sugar, and eggs, and I’ll whip up something sweet. And when The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports rolls around (or even when it’s, say, eight months away), that something sweet is Derby Pie.
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