It's Monday: What's bookin' and cookin'?

You know that cozying up with a good book demands a great nosh. So join us on a new hop:

• Tell us what you're cooking this week.
• Point us to a great cooking blog or website, or share a recipe risk you're taking this week. (If you wish.)
• If you can make a bookish connection, so much the better!
• Link back here so others can share in the biblio-gustatory abundance.

Here's my response this week, beginning with a question:

What dish could I make this Thanksgiving that would offer a nod to all the Greek gods, goddesses, monsters, and heroes I've been reading about this past month? (Stay tuned for my review of the exceptional upcoming novel The Song of Achilles later this week...)



My bunnies will look like this,
 only w/black olives
and cream cheese tails.

What's on our Thanksgiving menu so far?

Old-school appetizers:  Jacques Pepin's little olive bunnies, plus cheese-n-crackers.

Warm fennel, pear and cinnamon toscano cheese over butter lettuce salad. (A riff on this recipe from herbivoracious...)

Roast turkey, old school stuffing (just the basics, always the best), baked delicata squash and purple yams, Parker house rolls (nod to the Dave's traditions).

Pumpkin pie w/ginger ice cream from our local masters of all dairy dessert goodness, Mallard's.

What'll I read while I'm kickin' back post-feast?  American Gods by Neil Gaiman or Alice Hoffman's The Dovekeepers. 

And what are you cooking and booking this week?

MFB, well-fed,

L