Garlic Chicken Wings and Button Mushrooms

Thanksgiving Day is almost here! Whether you have the honor of hosting a Thanksgiving dinner at home, or  you'll just be bringing a dish to a potluck party, thinking of the perfect food to prepare for your family and friends can be difficult. If you're still looking for recipe ideas for your Thanksgiving feast, you should check out Macy's Recipe Share on Facebook. There you'll find favorite Holiday recipes for appetizer, side dish, main course and dessert shared by Macy's fans. And while you're there, and you have your own favorite recipe to share, you might as well do so for a chance to win awesome prizes like $1000 Macy's gift card and a signed copy of Marcus Samuelsson's "New American Table" cookbook.
 
By the way, if you haven't entered our MACY's Thanksgiving Giveaway, you may still do so until   November 21, 2011 - 9PM CST! This is open to all U.S. residents. One lucky winner will be chosen via random.org, and will win a Martha Stewart Professional Cookware of his choice from these three items: 

-  Ceramic Covered Casserole Dish 
-  Hand Anodized Fry Pans (set of 3)
-  Stainless Steel 15” Roaster with Roasting Rack

 

Today, I'm sharing with you another family favorite! Just as I've mentioned before, we all love mushrooms here. But it's not only mushrooms that made this dish our favorite. This has chicken wings too which we love a lot! With mushrooms and chicken wings combined, you can just imagine how happy we all are whenever we have this on our dinner table! This very easy to prepare but totally great tasting Garlic Chicken Wings and Button Mushrooms can be served either as an appetizer or part of the main course. You can never go wrong with chicken wings and mushrooms, right?

Beef Morcon and Macy's Thanksgiving Giveaway

Growing up in a country where there's no Thanksgiving celebration, I was at lost as to what to prepare when we first had our first Thanksgiving here in Texas. We relocated here from the Philippines a week before Thanksgiving Day in 2004, and though we were invited by a friend to celebrate with them, I decided to cook something that we can bring. I searched over the internet about what's usually served on a Thanksgiving feast, and though I wanted to be adventurous and try cooking a usual Thanksgiving dish, I opted to just make something that I'm used to prepare. Beef Morcon, which is a favorite holiday food in the Philippines was one of them...and surprisingly, it was a hit not only to our friend's Filipino guests but also to the American ones!  

This will be the 8th time that we're celebrating Thanksgiving here, and though I've been preparing traditional American Thanksgiving food (like roast turkey, mashed potatoes & green bean casserole) since our second time, Beef Morcon is one of those Filipino food that I love making for Thanksgiving. I don't know if it's simply because it was my late Mom's favorite dish to cook for my birthday (which falls on Christmas Day) or it's my way of looking back to our first Thanksgiving celebration 7 years ago. Well I guess both are good reasons...but I must say that Beef Morcon is certainly a dish to love.

Let me share with you my Mom's Beef Morcon recipe that I altered a bit. You will find this dish irresistible, and you definitely won't regret if you'll make this a part of your Thanksgiving or Holiday feast. It's such a good addition to the usual star of the dinner table, Mr. Gobble Gobble Turkey. The best thing about Beef Morcon is that you can prepare it ahead of time!