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Jody London’s Apple Cider-braised Turkey and more

Jody London, the school board member for North Oakland’s district one, has shared her recipes on OaklandNorth.net before. Her constituents are often treated to her cookies at meetings she hosts and today she’s sent out three of her favorite holiday recipes. Think your recipes are good enough to make you an elected official? Send them to us! Email: lillian.mongeau@oaklandnorth.net Subject: RECIPE Here’s Jody: When Thanksgiving is at my house I make this Apple Cider-braised turkey from Cooking Light Magazine. I…

Matt’s Mommy’s Yummy Quiche

This is a recipe that I got from my roommate in college, and now it’s a Thanksgiving favorite at the Chin household. Note that it is for two quiches (my family eats a lot), so cut the ingredient list in half to make one quiche. Matt’s Mommy’s Yummy Quiche Ingredients 2 pastry crusts 1 1/2 onions, fried in butter (enough to comfortably cover the bottom of each pan) 2 small bunches of chopped up, uncooked broccoli About 14 ounces grated…

Community Cookbook featured recipe: Rustic Rice

We’re having a great time collecting your favorite Thanksgiving Day recipes for our Community Cookbook and we hope you keep sending them! (Just email lillian.mongeau@oaklandnorth.net. Subject: RECIPE. And include a few words about where the recipe came from.) Today, our featured recipe comes to us from Tonya, no last name given, who wrote that she’s been making this hardy dish for nearly 15 years. The best part of it is that it travels well and can be prepared a day…

Mama’s Persimmon Bread

Serina Elliott is a graduate of the Kitchen of Champions Culinary Training Program of St. Vincent de Paul. She was previously featured in a video on OaklandNorth.net about the culinary program’s Guest Chef Series and has gone on to complete her first year of culinary classes at Laney College. In another year she will be a college graduate! Mama’s Persimmon Bread Recipe creates two 9-inch loaves. 3½ cups sifted flour 1½ teaspoons salt 2 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon ground…

Curried Bananas

I’ve been enjoying Thanksgiving with a group of good friends for the past thirty-some years. We all cook, and the various members’ contributions range from the traditional to the exotic. I myself took the yummy prize once with a batch of pumpkin pecan tamales. One year one of our members brought a big bowl of curried bananas, and it was such a hit that we’ve included it in our menu every year since. Enjoy! Curried Bananas Ingredients 6 lbs. bananas,…

Rustic Rice

I found this recipe in a magazine about 15 years ago. I think it was in Gourmet but I’m not 100 percent certain. I adapted the original recipe a bit and have been making it ever since. It compliments almost any kind of main meat dish and is always very popular. The nice thing about this rice is that it travels very well so it’s the perfect dish to take if you are driving some place for Thanksgiving and need…