Buttermilk Channel, a new Carroll Gardens bistro, opens tomorrow night. Owner Doug Crowell, a former manager of Blue Water Grill, thinks that people in the neighborhood who stop in for a bite to eat might notice some familiar touches in the newly completed dining room. “We bought a lot of things from stoop sales, cleaned them up, and used them here,” he said today. A giant suspension spring from an old truck on the bar attests to that fact. Elsewhere, parts of the restaurant have seemingly been assembled from bits and pieces of old Brooklyn: in the center of the room is a long communal table that was made from ceiling beams reclaimed from a Red Hook warehouse. The same craftsman who made the table also put together Buttermilk Channel’s pegged butcher-block bar. more ›

For our second Thanksgiving recipe, we hand you over to Doug Crowell and Ryan Angulo, owner and chef (respectively) of the soon to open Buttermilk Channel in Carroll Gardens. Angulo was most recently chef de cuisine at The Stanton Social and is accustomed to tinkering with American standards— Stanton Social executive chef Chris Santos famously makes Chinese soup dumplings out of French onion soup, and corn dogs out of crab cakes. Ryan Angulo’s recipe included here is a variation on the time-tested and traditional baked-yam-and-marshmallow casserole extravaganza. He says the inclusion coconut milk, chestnuts and cranberries only add depth to the dish. more ›