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Holiday Glazed Ham

November 9, 2010 by Arena Blake 9 Comments

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…

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Filed Under: Cooking, Recipes, Thanksgiving Tagged With: dinner, Ham, recipes, Thanksgiving

Cornbread Dressing

November 8, 2010 by Arena Blake 7 Comments

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…

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Filed Under: Cooking, Recipes, Thanksgiving Tagged With: recipes, Side Dishes, Thanksgiving

Nightshade Giveaway Winner

November 8, 2010 by Arena Blake 2 Comments

Thanks to everyone who entered my Fall into Fantasy Nightshade Giveaway! In the end, there were 129 entrants with 519 entries. This was so much fun, and Nightshade is such a great read, I’m excited to get to share a signed copy with one of you! My super-awesome brother created a web program for me…

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Filed Under: Reading Tagged With: Giveaway, Nightshade

Cranberry Sauce

November 5, 2010 by Arena Blake 3 Comments

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…

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Filed Under: Cooking, Recipes, Thanksgiving Tagged With: Cranberries, recipes, Sauce, Thanksgiving

Paranormalcy by Kiersten White

November 5, 2010 by Arena Blake 12 Comments

A month ago, I got to meet Kiersten White.She is so funny and bubbly and cute! It was a great night. Since then, I’ve been *dying* to read her debut novel, Paranormalcy. I finally had the chance to this week, and let me tell you — it was awesome! By the way, I’m giving away…

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Filed Under: Reading Tagged With: Five Stars, Giveaway, Kiersten White

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Arena is the wife of a Nerd and mom of a toddler who loves his Star Wars blankie a little too much. She shares parenting adventures, yummy recipes, and great photography on this Dallas mom blog. thenerdswife@gmail.com

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