{"id":5964,"date":"2015-12-10T22:31:38","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T04:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/?p=5964"},"modified":"2015-12-10T22:31:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T04:31:38","slug":"feasting-on-the-light-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/?p=5964","title":{"rendered":"Feasting on the Light Side"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"rss\"<\/a>

Hello friends, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday.\u00a0 Per tradition, we had\u00a0roast turkey, a couple of classic sides, and pumkin pie on Thanksgiving day. \u00a0For our annual Friendsgiving party, though, we had French and Wisconsin cheeses side by side on two tiers, crowned by the\u00a0luscious Rush Creek Reserve,\u00a0smoked salmon, pumpkin and sage galette, onion consomm\u00e9, and\u00a0pork sausage rolls with Stilton cheese (inspired by our favorite pie stand at Borrough Market\u00a0in London called The Ginger Pig).\u00a0 In addition\u00a0there was an\u00a0assortment of fresh and dried fruits, nuts, French macarons and chocolate truffles.\u00a0 We sipped on a favorite new pink bubby from Illinois Sparking Wine Co.<\/a> then Calvados and absinthe into the wee hours of the morning.\u00a0 November and December are months\u00a0for fine eating and drinking.\u00a0 I was going to post some pictures of everything we had during Thanksgiving but I could only stand to look at the salads!<\/p>\n

Watermelon Radish & Lemon Salad<\/em><\/p>\n

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I felt like I cheated when I made this simple\u00a0watermelon radish and lemon salad.\u00a0\u00a0All you need is a mandolin to slice it uniformly and thinly, then sprinkle with lemon juice.\u00a0 The radish is gorgeous on its own.\u00a0 I felt like I was plating precious prosciutto.\u00a0 It’s is great alternative to crackers for eating cheese or as a refreshing palate cleanser between the richer items.<\/p>\n

Green Pea Hummus<\/em><\/p>\n

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This green pea hummus\u00a0was also easy to make, according to Keith.\u00a0 Take\u00a03 cups\u00a0thawed green peas, 1\/4 cup olive oil, the juice of half a lemon, 1 garlic clove, salt, black pepper,\u00a0fresh or dried mint to taste\u00a0and puree in a food processor.\u00a0 Decorate it to your liking.\u00a0 The dried chive blossoms and mint were from the summer garden.<\/p>\n

Kale, Apple, Walnut, Sumac-Onion Tabbouleh<\/em><\/p>\n

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This kale, apple, walnut, sumac-onion tabbouleh is a mouthful to say but it is\u00a0my absolute favorite salad this winter.\u00a0 I like it so much, I’ve eaten it for breakfast.\u00a0 It is that good.\u00a0 Click on the recipe here <\/a>from Tasting Table.\u00a0 If you do not have sumac,\u00a0use onion and a little paprika in the onion marinade.\u00a0 Sumac grows everywhere in Wisconsin.\u00a0 Keith and I gathered quite a bit late summer for\u00a0use this winter.\u00a0 Normally they taste exactly of lemon but the ones here taste of plums and lemons.\u00a0Even better!<\/p>\n

Happy Eating and Happy Holidays!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello friends, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday.\u00a0 Per tradition, we had\u00a0roast turkey, a couple of classic sides, and pumkin pie on Thanksgiving day. \u00a0For our annual Friendsgiving party, though, we had French and Wisconsin cheeses side by side on two tiers, crowned by the\u00a0luscious Rush Creek Reserve,\u00a0smoked salmon, pumpkin and sage galette, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[200,69],"class_list":["post-5964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-salad","tag-thanksgiving","has-featured-image"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5964"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5980,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964\/revisions\/5980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}