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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 [...]
Don’t Know What to Do With Leftovers? Here’s One Easy Way to Use Em Up! Now that Thanksgiving is almost here, you’re probably busily planning your holiday menu. But have you decided what you’ll do with all those leftovers yet? From omelets to sandwiches, most people have a few go-tos when it comes to Thanksgiving [...]
Two Crowd Pleasers Combine to Create a Monstrously Good Sandwich Taco Tuesday is a serious affair here in my house, but could they have picked a worse night for turning this tradition into a reality? Tuesday is always a long day as work finally starts to settle in for the week, and I’d much rather [...]