Cranberry sauce

This cranberry sauce recipe is being posted early - we aren't making it until Thursday, for our family Thanksgiving lunch. But it's a recipe we've used the past few years and love it, and I thought I'd go ahead and pass it along if anyone was looking for a simple, delicious, fresh cranberry sauce for their own Thanksgiving feast this week!

11.23.09 Rib roast with herb crust

Dinner last night was rib roast with herb crust from Everyday Food magazine. Again, they don't have the link on their website yet (it's from the December issue), but I'll add it as soon as I see it. I cooked the roast for 40 minutes at 385 degrees because I had a potato dish in the oven at the same time that needed a lower temperature than the 400 this recipe calls for. The meat was cooked to a perfect doneness, and the herb crust added lots of delicious flavor!

Double-chocolate cranberry cookies

I baked double-chocolate cranberry cookies this week from Everyday Food magazine. These cookies are rich and chocolaty, and the dried cranberries add a bit of tartness. I halved the recipe and made 8 very large cookies. I also took a shortcut and melted the chocolate in the microwave instead of on the stovetop - don't tell Martha!

(The recipe link isn't on their website yet, but I'll add it as soon as I see it. For now, you can just visit the magazine's site here for other recipe ideas.)

11.15.09 Brown-butter ravioli with roasted butternut squash

Sunday dinner was brown-butter ravioli with roasted butternut squash from the Rachael Ray show, and let me tell you, this recipe was a HUGE hit at our house. The roasted butternut squash was so sweet and delicious, and when you add pancetta (Italian bacon) and fried sage - out of this world!! This felt like a fancy restaurant dinner, and I suspect Robert will be requesting a repeat very soon.

11.13.09 Grilled steak and vidalia onions

Robert was in the mood to fire up the grill last night, so we made Bobby Flay's grilled steak and vidalia onions with mustard-worcestershire vinaigrette. Oh. my. goodness - we loved this one! The vinaigrette is like a homemade steak sauce, and the steak and onion combo was perfection. This recipe only has a few ingredients, so it will definitely go into the regular rotation at this house. Enjoy!

11.12.09 Lasagna soup

Staying with the lasagna theme this week, we made lasagna soup from Rachael Ray's magazine for dinner one night this week. Again, a simple recipe and it tastes just like lasagna! I used whole wheat lasagna noodles (the regular kind, not no-boil). Yum!

11.10.09 Lasagna burgers

Dinner last night was lasagna burgers from the Rachael Ray show. These were simple to make and the two sauces were delicious. It really tasted like lasagna - on a bun!

M.I.A.

Well, the food blog has taken a hit lately for lots of reasons. Mainly, the move to our new house has consumed a lot of our time and our nights are too hectic to try as many new recipes. Also, we've made a few lately that didn't earn our seal of approval for blog posting, so those two things combined have created a void on Lindsay's Menu. I'm still collecting recipes and will be back soon, I promise!

Pumpkin whoopie pies

I can't remember if I've posted these before, but they're one of my favorites and deserve a repeat if I have. This is a recipe for pumpkin whoopie pies from Rachael Ray's magazine. These are simple to make and are DELICIOUS. The recipe says to make 12 generous mounds of batter for 6 large cookies, but these are pretty rich, so I make more, smaller versions (usually 28ish mounds for 14ish cookies). This is definitely one of my favorite fall recipes!!