As I type this we haven't yet reached Halloween, so I'm loath to say that the holidays are upon us. But who am I kidding? The holidays are upon us, dudes! Mostly because people's calendars book up fast, and your most organized (read: most annoying) friends sent out save-the-dates for their holiday dinner parties months ago. So if you want to get in on the action, you've got to throw a pre-Friendsgiving Friendsgiving. Like, tonight.
When you do that, please, don't make turkey. Nobody needs turkey before Thanksgiving. Make chicken. Chicken for a crowd, like this recipe from this month's Bon Appetit. It includes sausages, too, so it's really everythingbutturkey, which is perfect.
Of course, you could go the carb route. Runners carb up before a marathon, and the holidays are nothing but a marathon of eating. So this baked pasta (also from Bon Appetit) is a perfectly logical—strategic, even—choice. (Serve beer [more carbs!] with this thing—it's spicy.)
Meats, carbs—how about some greens up in this article? Donna Hay's to the rescue on that front. Have you seen this soup of hers? It's basically a salad,but you drink it.
Finally, the ultimate shareable dessert (this one also from the amazing Donna Hay). It's a ridiculously good cookie that's the size of a baby panda, and it's topped with ice cream and caramel sauce.She calls it a "share cookie,"because I suppose it's big enough to share. Perhaps it is. Me? I'd have to make two.
