Roasted pepper cream cheese spread

I made a happy invention this week, which added considerable zing to my appetizers on Thursday. I had purchased several kinds of breads, crackers, cheeses (and can I just say HALLELUJAH! We now have a Trader Joe’s on our side of the Twin Cities, so I got gorgeous fancy cheeses for great prices!) [...]

Stacey’s favorite Chocolate Pecan Pie

My great friend, Stacey, who does NOT consider herself much of a cook, gave me this recipe. It sounds quite wicked and I’m pretty sure that if she’s making this pie, she IS a cook!

Funny kid

We spent Thanksgiving with my husband’s family in the Chicago area. We out-of-towners stayed at a hotel around the corner from my sister-in-law’s house.
Yesterday morning, we lounged around the hotel until mid-morning, fending off the plaintive “What about breakfast?” questions as long as we could. We finally made it over to my sister-in-law’s house [...]

That nearly irresistible longing to nap….

In the next few hours, hundreds of thousands of thanks-givers will start thinking nappish thoughts. And about half of them will guiltily glance at the stripped turkey carcass. Somewhere in the back of the brain lurks the idea that one must DO something with that carcass before naptime.
If you are one of those guilty glancers, [...]

Happy Thanksgiving!

We want to wish all our readers the warmest blessings on Thanksgiving Day. God has blessed us richly and our hearts are filled with thankfulness.
Barb
(I’m laughing because clearly Laura and I were posting at the same time!)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Barb and I would like to take this opportunity to wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving! In the midst of all of your cooking (and judging by the stats we’re looking at, some of you just realized that you need to do something about that turkey ) take time to reflect on the [...]

Turkey still frozen? Don’t Push the Panic Button!

It’s Wednesday. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. Do you know where YOUR turkey is?
Just in case this thought is a Very Bad Thought, I want to refer you to this post from last year on how to STILL pull off a great Thanksgiving turkey.
Barb

Pear Salad with Raspberry vinaigrette

As Laura mentioned in the post on “lightening up” Thanksgiving dinner, I’m not terribly attached to the traditional green bean casserole. I AM, however, committed to having a green vegetable on the table tomorrow along with the turkey and dressing and potatoes. This salad is festive, special, and delicious…all while still being a lite variation [...]

Lighter alternatives for Thanksgiving side dishes

Are you trying to keep your Thanksgiving dinner from being a calorie-bomb, while still having traditional foods? Here’s my one hot tip: if it’s not something that you LOVE, make it differently. You can have any or all of the traditional foods, but use alternate cooking methods that lighten the food up.

Deep-frying a turkey….

This is a call for help from all you experienced turkey-fryers. Neither one of us has ever deep fried a turkey and we’d really like some information on how to do it.
Have you deep-fried your turkey? Tell us how and we’ll post your instructions and give you credit (unless you don’t want  to see your [...]