SNACK TIME: click your heels three times to get home to NYC, a vegan-ized green bean casserole, the sweetest of potatoes get creamy with coconut, soup for the marching men, and slid from the can no more: cranberry quince sauce

Babbo's Pumpkin Cake, made by Claudia Young of CookEatFRET CookEatFRET

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SNACK TIME: click your heels three times to get home to NYC, a vegan-ized green bean casserole, the sweetest of potatoes get creamy with coconut, soup for the marching men, and slid from the can no more: cranberry quince sauce

POSTED: Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 5:05 PM
Filed Under: Recipes | Snack Time
Babbo's Pumpkin Cake, made by Claudia Young of CookEatFRET
CookEatFRET

Every week, Meal Ticket pokes around the food blog world to see what's simmering. The Thanksgiving Edition of Snack Time brings you last-minute recipes from genius food bloggers to load up your holiday table.

- Displaced New Yorker-in-Nashville Claudia Young of CookEatFRET picks up Gina DePalma's new pastry cookbook and whips up a version of Babbo's pumpkin cake. The batter makes use of toasted pine nuts, grappa, Spanish extra-virgin olive oil and a surprise appearance by rosemary, to good effect — for dessert or just a happy snack.

- Alexandra Harcharek of A Food Coma updates that mushy holiday classic, green bean casserole, with a vegan-ized treatment of actual fresh green beans with nary a can of Campbell's condensed mushroom soup in sight. A dash of cayenne should fortify vegans enduring their annual round of holiday explanations to Aunt May regarding why turkey is, in fact, a meat.

- 101 Cookbooks author Heidi Swanson shares a recipe from her friend Nikki for totally indulgent coconut and macadamia-crusted, double-baked sweet potatoes. Not only are these tater babies absolutely gorgeous and creamy with coconut milk, they are magically vegetarian and vegan.

- Neal over at Burning Pasta shares a kinda-historically accurate butternut squash and apple soup that is good enough to have sustained General Washington himself. He also reassures readers that the ghost of Julia Child will not strike you down should you use store-bought chicken stock instead of making your own from scratch. Whew, dodged that lightning bolt.

- Uber-locavore Nicole of the Farm to Philly blog presents a new Turkey Day challenge: cajole canned cranberry sauce lovers into at least tasting homemade cranberry quince pinot noir sauce. Though the canned vs. homemade cranberry sauce battle is as deep-rooted as the Jets/Sharks rivalry, hopefully the spirit of Thanksgiving will triumph on this, the most gluttonous of holidays.


Alexandra Harcharek
Posted 2008-11-25 12:24:58
Thanks so much for linking to my site each week. I love your description...I can't tell you how many time's I've had the following conversation: "You're a what? What the heck is that?" "I don't eat any animal products." "But you can eat chicken/butter/eggs/turkey/milk/insert-other-animal-product here right?" " ..." Keep up the great work guys! I love Meal Ticket!
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