Timing is Everything… a timetable for trouble free Thanksgiving Dinner by Karen Mitchell-Wilcher

It is hard to believe it is November already and time to get serious about the Holidays. The key to making sure the holiday season is enjoyable for the family cook is to break the infamous to do list into manageable weekly segments. Now if you are the host for the Thanksgiving Meal, you should decide early what your main course is to be. My family, like many others, expects turkey with the trimmings. read more . . .

Recipes:

Candied Yams,   Toasted Coconut Pound Cake

Bagel Dough Foundation of a Doughy Adventure
by Marcy Goldman

November is a good time to be indoors baking. It is also off the radar on the Jewish holiday calendar, this being a year when Chanukah is firmly planted in December, instead of late November as it sometimes is. What better time to cozy up with your mixer or bread machine, some bread flour and a packet of yeast and start a bagel dough adventure? read more . . .

Recipes:

Master Bagel Dough 
This recipe makes New York Style bagels, amazing bagel dough pizzas, soft pretzels, or an ‘everything’ bialy or ‘Jewish Foccaccio’. Malt powder is available from bagel store, home beer brewing stores or King Arthur Flour

Bagel Dough Pizza
Crisp, rustic, extra thin pizzas on a superb dough. This is great for individual pizzas for a crowd but just as nice for plate size pizzas for four.

Bagel Dough Soft Pretzels
These are similar to New York City soft pretzels from a street vendor. Find coarse salt in a gourmet store or pretzel salt from King Arthur flour. Serve these with nippy, yellow mustard.

Bagel Dough “Everything’ Foccaccio
This is essentially a flatbread, that has the shape of Foccaccio but tastes like an Everything bagel. Cut in wedges, offer cream cheese and lox or use as a Panini bread. The most versatile way to use a bagel dough ever! Because of the small amount of yeast used, these take a long time to rise. If you want to use this dough but have less rise time, add 2 teaspoons more yeast to the Master Bagel Dough recipe.

Featured Recipe:

Pumpkin Biscuits with Orange Honey Butter

Perfect with your Thanksgiving meal, or serve at tea time! These biscuits are moist, flakey, and have a wonderful golden color - thanks to the beta-carotene rich pumpkin in the mix!

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