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Nov 20, 2022Liked by Domenica Marchetti

My Italian Nonni made chestnut stuffing too with pecorino. We also had agro dolce braised red cabbage with currants. Iā€™m going to do both this year alongside my turkey thighs. Happy Thanksgiving, dear Domenica!

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Nov 20, 2022Liked by Domenica Marchetti

I'm on my own for Thanksgiving this year, and I'm going to try my hand at your turchetta. For at least four decades I hosted a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, sometimes stressful, but so important to me. Though I miss it, now I get to experiment, so thank you for sending so many recipes our way today (I also have a big, beautiful cauliflower in the fridge...). Also, I LOVE chestnuts, so probably will make our family's no-recipe-just-make-it dressing that we find delicious, even cold in the days following. Chestnuts make it special. Happy Thanksgiving!

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Nov 20, 2022Liked by Domenica Marchetti

Slightly off topic, but I made a cranberry galette yesterday, and I want to make NYTā€™s cranberry curd pie.

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Iā€™d REALLY like more info on chestnuts...how to treat them, cook them, peel them and the stuffing recipe. One long ago thanksgiving a local gourmand brought a chestnut puree side to our table. Iā€™ve never forgotten it, nor have I ever replicated it...though Iā€™ve tried. Chestnut stuffing has moved through my mind this season, but I donā€™t think Iā€™ll get to it. Hope to see more from you Domenica. Thank you

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Nov 20, 2022Liked by Domenica Marchetti

My Italian-American mother always made creamed cauliflower as a side dish for Thanksgiving.

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Nov 20, 2022Liked by Domenica Marchetti

Ditched the turkey for pork this year as well--but if Iā€™d seen this recipe sooner I might have re-considered turkey. It looks so good! I do like turkey but I donā€™t love cooking it and I have mixed luck. (My daughter said, why donā€™t you ask grandpa to mail us some of his turkey itā€™s so much better šŸ¤Æ). I made your porchetta shoulder recently (so good!) and for T day planning to do Giuliaā€™s pork loin roast, rolled and stuffed. She has an ingenious stove top method that works so well!

We always had a lasagna or stufffed shells at thanksgiving growing up but Iā€™ve ditched it over the years, just too much food.

The one thing I can never not make is my motherā€™s stuffing. It is a bread stuffing with sausage meat, cubed mozzarella, and raisins (i often use dried cherries now). It is so delicious! I regret that I never thought to ask her its origins.

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I've just arrived at the idea you came to long ago. Forget the turkey! Thinking your mini-porchetta . . . .

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