Receta Special Post Thanksgiving Edition..Cooking For The Difficult Eater

I've always loved Thanksgiving and the thing I love most about Thanksgiving is not so much the day itself but the day and evening before. I love the prep. I love the time alone in my kitchen for chopping, slicing, rolling dough, making mince meat, cranberry sauce and setting the table. The actual holiday on the other hand, that's a different story.

What I love about cooking are the challenges. I love learning new things and experimenting and doing anything from scratch, old school style. That's a real turn on. It's what I live for. It's why I love Indian cooking and hell, all cooking. However there are some challenges that come around just once or twice a year that even I quail at. Where I freeze up and food panic hits my brain and…