Category Archives: Cooking This weekend is River’s birthday party. She turned two on Nov. 1 and we’re getting together to celebrate the occassion. I’m so excited! It’s a Wonder Pets theme. Oh, you don’t know who the Wonder Pets are? Maybe you should hang out with more two-year-olds. ♫♪♫ Lenny, Tuck and Ming-Ming, too, are Wonder Pets and…  I’m not the biggest fan of cooking turkey. Yes, I know how terrible that sounds — a food blogger who doesn’t like to cook turkey. In fact, every year, we order a smoked turkey for Thanksgiving. So, I like to serve a holiday glazed spiral ham to offer guests a little variety. Here’s a no-fail…  It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without dressing. It’s my favorite part. And, since I’m a Southern girl, it’s all about the cornbread dressing for me. This is the recipe my mother makes. Every year, she makes it without measuring her ingredients. She just does it. So during our pre-Thanksgiving dinner, I *made* her measure everything. I’m…  My whole life, we’ve always had cranberry sauce from the can. You know, that yucky jellied glob? Yuck. Then, I married The Nerd and we had our first Thanksgiving together. Cranberry Sauce is his favorite thing at Thanksgiving. But his mom made homemade cranberry sauce. I just couldn’t disappoint him. So, I scoured the Internet…  When I sat down to plan out our menu for Thanksgiving this year, I wanted to include some items that we hadn’t tried before. These green bean bundles looked like the perfect side dish. So, I made a few during our pre-Thanksgiving trial run. And boy was I glad I did! The sauce puts them…  Every Thanksgiving, my grandmother makes this recipe. It’s been part of our holiday tradition for as long as I can remember. I’m sure there are variations of this recipe everywhere on the Internet. In fact, my friend Ashley has the same recipe on her blog. I don’t really have a source for this recipe, as… |
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