There’s Big Thanksgiving Pumpkin Pie Taste In These Little Layered Bars! Oh, joy unbounded! Thanksgiving is here, and it is that time of year when the annual frenzy of holiday baking begins. I generally refrain from becoming heavily involved with this. One memorable year, I had the crazy notion that joining a cookie exchange would [...]
How To Turn A Lonely Thanksgiving Into A Special Treat, Just For You! Everybody loves Thanksgiving, right? What’s not to love about an annual gathering of family and friends, to celebrate all they are thankful for, before devouring a veritable feast, then entering tryptophan-induced comas and snoring in front of the TV as they sleep [...]
Little Known Ways To Use Thanksgiving Leftovers How many times have you ever sat down to any Thanksgiving dinner, whether it was one with a plethora of family, a few close friends or even just by yourself, and eaten the entire meal that was fixed – every last scrap and crumb – in one sitting? [...]
Why I Eat Pasta Salads All Year Round (And Maybe You Should, Too) Okay, let’s just get this right out in the open. Nearly everybody loves pasta salads. I know that I do, and I eat them all spring and summer long at family gatherings, pot lucks, church socials and any other kind of gathering [...]
Don’t Let One More Thanksgiving Pass You By Without Trying This! Poor little cranberry! It spends a lot of its life cycle growing in a soggy bottom bog, just waiting and hoping to be plucked up and turned into jelly or sauce. But it is high time that people elevated cranberries to a loftier position [...]
Now You Can Have A Complete Breakfast Baking In The Oven Without Even Waking Up! Okay, you wake up in the morning and you are in the mood for ham & cheesy hash browns. So you stumble to your kitchen, barely awake and start rummaging through the refrigerator. You find the ham steak you bought [...]
Now You Can Have Great Mexican Food At Home And Avoid The Hassle & Expense Of Eating Out If you have known me for more than a minute, then you know that I have an ongoing and passionate affair with Mexican food. I crave it, I dream about it, and I will go out of [...]
How Even An Inexperienced Cook Can Deliver On A Thanksgiving Promise! Thanksgiving can be very stressful, especially for those having a houseful of guests. If those guests are your in-laws, and this is your first time cooking for them? Well, honey, you are in a boatload of hurt! Cooking a big meal, and trying to [...]
Give Me 2-3 Hours And A Crock Pot And I’ll Give You Comfort Food You know those days when you just can’t take one more drain on your energy or one more kink in your already frayed last nerve? If you live the same kind of busy life that I do, chances are you have [...]
Are You Worried About Making A Good Impression On Your In-Laws This Thanksgiving? It isn’t very often that you can turn bare bone basics into show-stopping, luxurious results. Cinderella’s transformative journey to the ball comes to mind. With that story as an example, I think you would have to agree that April’s simple, yet absolutely [...]