Happy Thanksgiving! Today I’m sharing several of my family’s favorite dishes for Thanksgiving. I haven’t had a chance to post all of our dishes yet, but I’m slowly getting there year after year. I often serve soup for the first course, but family members sometime complain that eating soup makes them full, leaving less room for the turkey. To that I respond, just have a few bites of soup, not a bowl! :) Pumpkin...
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I love this time of the year. It’s hard to believe that we’ll be celebrating Thanksgiving this Thursday. Where does the time go, and so quickly at that! Over the weekend we celebrated a few birthdays that take place in the Fall and I thought our cake was so funny, I was compelled to share it on my blog. Because one of our fabulous friends wasn’t in the mood to celebrate, the name on the cake was left blank with just the right...
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I’m not sure about everyone else, but I definitely feel like the holidays are upon us. Yet, at the same time, I can’t believe it’s already that time of the year. This week flew by so fast, and was filled with so many things, I feel like I didn’t get to half the things I needed to do. However, despite the “holiday crunch” that I’m starting to feel, yesterday I spent a fabulous hour with Bebe E, during...
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Happy Halloween!!! I love Halloween. It’s one of my most favorite holidays. Not only is the giving of candy and treats fun, so is making fun party food that both kids and adults can enjoy. Thanks to my husband for suggesting little orange pumpkin rice krispie treats for a kids’ Halloween Party potluck this past weekend, I took the orange ball idea and went a little overboard. As my friend N said, “I’m getting a little...
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Happy Mother’s Day! As it turns out, we are spending our Mother’s Day weekend at home, but I have no complaints about this. My little one is still recovering from her cold, and as feared, I came down with a sore throat yesterday. I should have known I was coming down with a cold when I slept through both Round One Lakers games #5 and #6 this past week. I barely watched last night’s game #7, but thank goodness I stayed awake...
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I considered a non-food related, no-recipe blog post about our pre-Easter weekend extravaganza. However, after a little thought I changed my mind and decided on a post about “perfect” boiled eggs, how to color them with simple food coloring, as well as to share a few crafty ideas for decorating eggs. Before we get to the cooking and decorating of eggs, I’ll share what I really wanted to write about, which is our...
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This year, Valentine’s Day was quite fun as Bebe E and I enjoyed a number of arts and crafts together. We decorated the house with little paper hearts. Then she made mommy a Valentine’s Day card. Yes, I helped by tying two pieces of red card stock together with ribbon, making little cut-outs and buying some supplies at Michael’s half-off (yay!). I also helped to stamp the balloon images so that the ink would show up, but the...
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Happy New Year! Thank you all for your friendship, love, kind words, encouragement, delicious food and good company! May you all enjoy a healthy, prosperous and happy 2012! * * * * * * * * Soooooo….. Despite my comments regarding beef in my last post for 2011, I ended up cooking a rather LARGE piece of red meat for my family’s Christmas lunch…. ….And then, Christmas came and went in a flash. The days that immediately...
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