Stop Making Boring Thanksgiving Side Dishes! Have you ever wondered why some people have always called this recipe “dressing” while others know the exact same dish as “stuffing?” This can be a regional preference, or it can be localized to just within your own family, as compared to your neighbors, for instance. Here is the [...]
Serve Thanksgiving Apple Pie Like Martha Stewart Would! Okay, so you’re NOT Martha Stewart. I feel your pain, because I’m not Martha Stewart, either. But wouldn’t it be great if we could serve a show-stopping dessert at our next Thanksgiving feast? One just like you know good ol’ Martha is whipping up in her kitchen [...]
If You Can Open A Box You Can Wow Thanksgiving Guests With This! Okay, everybody had at least one grandma that probably qualified as a Master Baker. That can certainly be an intimidating heritage to try to live up to, especially when the closest you’ve ever come to baking a cake was walking down the [...]
Get A Show-stopping Dessert Without Making A Complete Mess Of Your Kitchen! So you thought that you had seen the last of one of your favorite types of dessert – the humble cobbler – when summer came to an end? Think again, my friend! Cobblers have extended their season into autumn’s falling leaves and cooler [...]
How To Get One More Absolutely Free Meal Out Of A Bedraggled Thanksgiving Turkey Now that everyone has completely gorged themselves on your abundant Thanksgiving feast, and you have sliced off whatever nice pieces of turkey you can salvage to make turkey sandwiches, what do you have left? I’ll tell you what! You have the [...]
If You Don’t Make This For Thanksgiving, You’ll Get A Slap Upside Your Head From Your Mama! Talk about a classic Southern recipe! This one is practically whistling Dixie! You know how certain foods can just open up the floodgates of your brain and a rush of memories flashes across the movie screen of your [...]
This Cleverly-Disguised Recipe May Be Dangerous To Your Identity As An Adult! When I came across this off-the-wall recipe on the Tablespoon site, it blew my mind, and I was instantly transported back to my teenaged self, sitting with friends at the ballpark, cheering my boyfriend on to defeat and eating a chili dog. So [...]
How My Willingness To Try An Unorthodox Recipe Got Me Gratifying Compliments It is often challenging for even a well-seasoned cook to come up with interesting, palate-pleasing side dishes. Most of the effort of meal preparation involves creating an impressive entrée guaranteed to please family and friends. Side dishes are treated like red-headed stepchildren of [...]
These Cute Little Bats Will Lend A Festive Air To Your Halloween Buffet Let’s have a show of hands of all the people that love fried foods. Yep, I thought so. Most everyone loves at least one type of fried food that they just couldn’t live without. The one food they would take with them [...]
Be Careful Whom You Point This Finger At! What a positively ghoulish Halloween recipe Elizabeth has created! These witchy fingers look perfectly scary and will add an authentic touch to your Halloween party buffet. But they really are a tasty salty-and-sweet treat that everyone will love. Young and old Halloween partygoers, alike, will get a [...]
