Happy Thanksgiving

REPOSTING from 2011, with updated dessert photo!

A happy Thanksgiving Day to all, and I wish the best to all J's Theater readers. Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, try to take time out to consider what you have to be thankful for, as tiny or tremendous as it is, and also consider how you might help someone else out there who might be struggling in some aspect of life.

For those who are scrambling to finish holiday meals, if you want a thorough and easy-to-read guide to holiday cooking with a soulful edge, consider C's Holiday Kitchen, which is now available as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook and iTunes stores.

There's also an iPhone/iPad app version as well!

I can attest to the deliciousness of every dish in this book. But don't just take my admittedly biased advice: as Maggie Da Silva writes in her Examiner.com review,  the author

is no snob and helps us out with painless instructions for turkey roasting, “one of the easiest meals to prepare,” he writes. “Try it!”  He also provides simple recipes for dishes I had assumed were beyond my reach – like lemon curd! Who knew it was a snap? In fact, most of the recipes in this delectable ebook reveal what all experienced cooks know: food doesn’t have to be complicated to be great.

So true!

This year I am going to make a pumpkin pie, so if it turns out okay, I'll post a photo of it!

Update: The pumpkin pie! It turned out well, and everything about it, from the crust to the filling, is homemade!

Homemade pumpkin pie, using
real pumpkins!

Random Photos

So many blog posts backed up like cars at a bottleneck. Instead, here are a few photos from recent weeks.

The new Barclay's Center, in Brooklyn

Fish's Eddy's election tribute

An unknown New Yorker's political statement

Street fair, West Village, at night

The line at the Maison Martin Margiela launch at H&M

FEMA pop-up office, Jersey City

One of many destroyed cars (a dizzying phalanx lines the far east
end of 14th Street in Manhattan)

Skaters at the Rockefeller Center rink

The Rockefeller Center tree rising

An interior topiary

At the Vaginal Davis exhibit @ Participant, Lower East Side

East Side of Manhattan, from Roosevelt Island
(UN tower visible on the left)

1st Avenue, Manhattan, from the air

A packed tram or, New York, in a single image

One of my favorite aspects of Thanksgiving,
the leftover meal (no turkey or ham for this vegetarian, though)

Happy Thanksgiving!

A happy Thanksgiving Day to all, and I wish the best to all J's Theater readers. Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, try to take time out to consider what you have to be thankful for, as tiny or tremendous as it is, and also consider how you might help someone else out there who might be struggling in some aspect of life.

For those who are preparing holiday meals, if you want a thorough and easy-to-read guide to holiday cooking with a soulful edge, consider C's Holiday Kitchen, which is now available as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook and iTunes stores.

There's also an iPhone/iPad app version as well.

I can attest to the deliciousness of every dish in this book. But don't just take my admittedly biased advice: as Maggie Da Silva writes in her Examiner.com review,  the author

is no snob and helps us out with painless instructions for turkey roasting, “one of the easiest meals to prepare,” he writes. “Try it!”  He also provides simple recipes for dishes I had assumed were beyond my reach – like lemon curd! Who knew it was a snap? In fact, most of the recipes in this delectable ebook reveal what all experienced cooks know: food doesn’t have to be complicated to be great.

So true!

I am going to make an apple pie, so if it turns out okay, I'll post a photo of it!

Update: The apple pie! It turned out well, and everything about it, from the crust to the filling, is homemade!

Happy Thanksgiving

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

(Photo courtesy of AP/AFP/Getty)