food and nutrition

Limeade pie is a favorite of many cooks. Donna Lesser of Tampa, Fla., has been making it for 30 years. She says it's a great last-minute dessert. This limeade pie whips up quickly, but you must consider about a two-hour refrigeration time before serving. Be sure to completely combine the limeade and sweetened condensed milk. This will take longer than you think.

Could the time have finally arrived for roasted bone marrow to be served in every household on Sunday nights?

Bad boy chef Anthony Bourdain calls the Roast Bone Marrow and Parsley Salad at London's St. John restaurant his "death row meal." That's high praise for a man who has eaten his way around the world a few times.

Dear Lynne,

A plan of attack for other meals during Thanksgiving week:

Monday -- No stress

Q: Are there ways to prepare eggplant other than frying it?

A: Yes, of course!

Just after the Thanksgiving meal, most people feel as if they never want to eat again. But the truth is that it won't be long before food sounds appealing again, even if cooking doesn't.

When I once wrote that you can keep your turkey as long as I get dressing at Thanksgiving, many readers generously submitted their family recipes, just like I asked.

"Growing up, I never cared for my mother's dressing, it was too dry," said Beth Frizzell. "I developed a recipe that I have used with my own family."

Dear Lynne: My fiancee hates making people uncomfortable, so when she's a guest she doesn't say anything about not eating meat.

The thing that really upsets her is a whole cooked animal, so Thanksgivings are tough. This is the turnaround Thanksgiving; it's our first as hosts and cooks, and I want her to be the queen for a change.

Millions of Americans will partake in Thanksgiving feasts. But along with the turkey and all the trimmings, you also get to share the occasion with relatives -- who you may or may not get along with. Grandma Sue is always so critical and Uncle Bill never helps clean up.

The bounty of Thanksgiving soups keeps growing. There's the pre-holiday soup, such as oyster stew; the Thanksgiving Day favorites for anyone who wants to serve a soup course, and then there's the post-feast tureen of soup made with leftover turkey or stock.

Oyster stew is a seasonal favorite.