Category: Seasonal Favorites
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Twice-Baked Sweet Potatoes
Sweet potatoes are good with just about anything. I love making these to help dress up leftovers, though they are an amazing side for quick suppers, or elegant dinners. I made them for a lunch with friends the other day and noticed several just picked them up as finger-food and that worked too. You can…
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Chocolate Rum Balls – No Bake!
Years ago I was at an auction and bought a beautiful, wooden, recipe box that had some nice age to it for only a few dollars. Once it was handed to me I was very surprised to find it filled with handwritten recipe cards for all sorts of dishes and treats. Who would sell a…
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Black Olive Cheese Spread – Low-Fat & Holiday Perfect!
It seems as though most holiday get-togethers always include a cheese spread, or a cheese ball, in one form or another. Cheese is delicious, but is high in animal fat. This Black Olive Cheese Spread is low in fat as compared to most cheese indulgences. It has no saturated animal fat. Yes, there is a…
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Easy Cranberry-Pretzel Brittle
Peanut brittle is a holiday favorite. We have an uncle who always made tons of peanut brittle, often with his own maple syrup, and every year we all hoped we would be lucky enough to get a sample. Traditional brittle is made with peanuts, or cashews and is delicious! I have a young friend with…
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Heavenly Mac & Cheese – It’s Gluten-Free!
Every once and awhile my girlfriends and I go out for dinner. We look forward to a glass of wine, or a fruity martini together. Relaxing and catching up is the order of business for these occasions, and we all anticipate it for days. More often than not we end up at the same, local…
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Mushroom Sauce – Stands Alone or Dresses Up Anything!
Mushroom sauce is delicious served so many ways! Mixed into any pasta with a bit of Parmesan cheese and you have an easy, but delicious meal. When my kids were little they loved it spooned on buttered bread and eaten for lunch. They were fussy about the mushrooms though, they had to be cut into…
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Baked Oatmeal – Breakfast In A Bite! Low-Sodium, Fat, & Gluten Free!
While visiting my daughter recently she mentioned eating baked oatmeal. Thoughts of mushy, gooey, porridge came to mind. Our grandchildren instantly perked up! “Yum!” Their ‘yum’ surprised me, and intrigued me. The girls were too hungry to wait the thirty-minute baking time and enjoyed stove top oatmeal laden with fruit. Baked oatmeal didn’t leave my…
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My Favorite Sloppy Joe Recipe
Sloppy Joes seem to have been around forever. Ever wonder how they came to be? Loose meat sandwiches were popular in the early 50’s. Legend has it that a cook named Joe (of course) in Sioux City, Iowa (of all places!) added tomato sauce to his loose meat sandwiches and people loved them, but thought…
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Holiday Sweet Potato Rounds
Sweet potatoes and holiday dinners seem to go hand in hand. Mashed sweet potatoes are good, but not traditional. Baked sweet potatoes oozing with brown sugar, butter, and marshmallows are present on many, many, holiday dinner tables. Sweet potatoes are delicious this way, but usually everyone who eats them, if over the age of 20,…
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Cranberry Banana Bars – Just In Time for The Holidays!
Oh my! May I just say these bars are a nice change of pace! If you have never combined cranberries and bananas, you haven’t lived. For some silly reason we always think of cranberries in the fall around Thanksgiving time. I am sure it is because cranberries ripen and are harvested in the fall. But…