In keeping with family tradition Anna looks like she’ll join in the fray fighting over who gets a turkey leg! I hope that all of you had a wonderful long weekend with family and friends. I will be back on Thursday with a lovely vegetable stew for those who don’t want to see turkey for another year!

The turkey has landed! One week and counting to the biggest food holiday of the year. Are you ready? Yeah, I’m not quite ready this year either. Luckily I have several beautiful recipes already figured out and just waiting to be made. Here are a few ideas from the archives to inspire and move you into the kitchen:

I have a new cookbook crush. In fact it may even be an infatuation. It started innocently enough, with a link from Heidi to a video interview with Yottam Ottolenghi. Now I had heard the name Ottolenghi mentioned before in vegetarian circles- always with proclamations of incredible food and concepts. Yet watching the video brought the passion and love embodied in Ottolenghi’s food to life. An Israeli born restauranteur who runs several eponymous restaurants in London with a Palestinian head chef, I immediately jumped over to Amazon and bought his new vegetarian cookbook, Plenty.