Food goodness

I am sure Joy the Baker would never lead us astray, but I tried her roasted winter citrus last night, and I must have done something wrong, because... no. Just no. Not sure if it was too much of the herbs de provence (that Alissa brought me from France!) or too little salt or oil or sugar or what, but it was really vile and wrong. "It tastes like hot fruit" is a direct quote from J, and it was not a compliment. (He ate it, of course, because he eats everything, but I don't think he wants to repeat the experience.)

Shannon and I are mulling a change in FG's background, possibly to one of the templates shown here . In the comments, vote for your two or three favorites. Viva democracy!

Alright, I finally bit the bullet and bought some steel-cut oats. I'd like to either cook them in the pressure cooker or the slow cooker overnight. Anyone have a good recipe? I did a search of the food blog but nothing came up. Thanks!

I could use some expert counsel from my favorite expert cooking counselors. This year, we're going to DC for our annual friends-and-fun Thanksgiving meal (after the real holiday instead of before), and there are some unusual constraints: 1. Driving down on a Saturday for a wedding, staying overnight in a hotel, making the meal on Sunday. The hotel does not have a refrigerator. This means that the before-the-fact prep has to be pretty limited... I think we might buy and brine the turkey and bring it down in a cooler (in fact, last year we brined the turkey overnight in the trunk of my car anyway to keep it away from critters, so that's actually not unprecedented). But everything else is a little more of a challenge -- I don't have enough cooler space for dishes with dairy products, for example, and that would make me too nervous anyway. I obviously don't want the meal to end with a nice bout of food poisoning for all my favorite people. 2. We'll probably have six hou...