My sisters and my brother all love to cook and at gatherings, and especially at Thanksgiving and Christmas, many, many good dishes are made. I featured Christine and Cathy's dishes from Thanksgiving in a previous post (
Thanksgiving 2011: Three Sides from Two Sisters) and now it's Sara's turn.
For our Christmas Eve dinner, Sara made a potato, fennel gratin based on a recipe by Ina Garten, from "The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook", and it's a very good recipe, but Sara's tweaks made it better still.
Slight caramelization of the onions and fennel, a little nutmeg plus a combination of
Gruyère and Fontina (also doubling the amount) cheeses elevate the dish.
RECIPE: POTATO-FENNEL GRATIN
