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Thanksgiving to Make a Pilgrim Proud (Part 2)

Pumpkin Cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory

Here’s my Thanksgiving Menu for 2010, a little lighter and healthier.  Well, maybe not the cheesecake but it’s a holiday so don’t sweat it.  For me the key word this year is SIMPLIFY!

Herb Roasted Turkey and Gravy Cornbread Sausage Stuffing with Apples Make Ahead Mashed Potatoes Green Beans with Toasted Almonds and Rosemary Sweet [...]

Thanksgiving to Make a Pilgrim Proud! (Part One)

What did Pilgrims really eat for Thanksgiving? Pumpkin pie? Sweet potatoes with melted marshmallows?   Cool Whip or jello or french fried onions atop green beans swimming in cream of chicken soup?

According to history, at the first Thanksgiving, there were probably wild turkeys, ducks and geese, we know from history that the Wampanoag Indians [...]

Taste of Home, Sweet and Spicy Apple Butter!

Sweet and Spicy Apple Butter

One of the best smells filling up your kitchen is the warm fragrance of apples, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves.  All the homey, feel good spices bring sweet memories of the holidays flooding in with one deep inhale.

Some foods we make connect us to generations of women who have spent hours peeling and slicing [...]

Delicious and Heart Healthy Salmon Patties

Salmon Patties

Here’s a heart healthy and, might I add, delicious recipe to add to your collection. It comes from a fantastic new cookbook by Dr. Josh Axe of Nashville, TN.  The cookbook is called The Real Food Diet and it’s chock full of not only delicious recipes but lots of excellent and up to date health [...]

Easy Cinnamon Rolls for Your Holiday Breakfast

Homemade Cinnamon Rolls - baked and frosted

Imagine this. It’s early Thanksgiving morning and you are up with the sun so you decide to whip up a batch of  cinnamon rolls.  As they bake, the luscious aromas of cinnamon and sugar waft through the house  awakening sleepyheads.  One by one they drift into the kitchen trying to peak in the oven to [...]

Favorite Christmas Cookie #1 – Shortbread

Shortbread Hearts

Holiday cookie magazines just intimidate me. I look at all those perfectly decorated cookies and I get overwhelmed.  Oh, I buy them alright and read the recipes. Then I realize that many of my tried and true standby’s are just as good and maybe even better.  Not fancy-dancy but homey and full of flavor and [...]

Sweet and Luscious Upside Down Apple Pie

Upside Down Apple Pie

Oh fall, I love you.  In Florida, we don’t get much fall but what we get inspires me to bake and bake I do.  Cinnamon, pecans, sugar, apples.  All favorites and when married, well, let’s just say it’s a marriage made in heaven.

This is my new most favorite dessert.  I’m a pie person so [...]