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Happy Thanksgiving, Del Ray! Are you cooking up a turkey today? If so and you’re ever so proud of your bird, upload a photo of it here to our gallery. Feel free to show us some of your side dishes, table spreads, backyard football games, Alexandria Turkey Trot T-shirts or whatever else makes this a special day in your household. Have a great one!
Participants are asked to bring two non-perishable food items for donation to ALIVE!
The 37th annual Alexandria Turkey Trot is set for a 9 a.m. start Thursday at George Washington Middle School, an hour earlier than previous years. The 5-mile Thanksgiving Day race is sponsored and coordinated by the Del Ray Business Association and the DC Road Runners Club. Online registration remains open until Tuesday. Preregistered runners are encouraged to pick up their race packets between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. Wednesday at the George Washington gym. In-person registration will also be available on Wednesday night. Runners may also register in the middle school gym beginning at 7:30 a.m. the day of the race if spots remain available. The race will once again have special fields for runners with strollers and runners with leashed dogs. A …
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Evening Star Cafe Executive Chef Jim Jeffords offers his Turkey Day side dish recipe.
With Thanksgiving coming up Thursday, many folks around Del Ray are looking for a special recipe to liven up their Turkey Day feast. Jim Jeffords, the executive chef at Evening Star Cafe, offered up his recipe for Sweet Potato Gratin that’s currently on the menu at the Star: Sweet Potato Gratin Evening Star Cafe Executive Chef Jim Jeffords Serves 6 Ingredients Process Assembly Using a casserole dish, make one layer of sweet potatoes covering the bottom of the dish. Next, take half the kale and layer over top the potatoes and then sprinkle the roast garlic mixture on top of the kale. Next, pour half of the béchamel sauce over the dish and then sprinkle half the grated parmesan cheese. Repeat this once more. For some added crunch, you can …
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12:21 pm on Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Just received this clarification: "So when you cut the garlic horizontally in half, the cloves will be split and you are just rubbing a little olive oil on there for the roasting process. When you are sautéing the garlic for the kale, you are using raw garlic from the other half that you did not roast. Yes, you should remove the kale from the stems after cleaning it and then dicing it." more ›
Drew Hansen
12:23 pm on Monday, November 26, 2012
I'm closing comments on this story. If you have any questions, email me at drewh@patch.com. more ›