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Friday Favorites – Christmas Entertaining (Episode 75)

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If you’re much like me, you’ve probably rushed around to finish all of your shopping and get the gifts wrapped so that you have next week to focus on food. Granted, I do make a lot of homemade gifts, so I don’t have ALL of my gifts done. But, I would much rather spend the week before Christmas in my kitchen listening to Christmas music while I cook and bake. It sure beats pushing your way through the super-crowded stores looking for last minute gifts! I suppose that it’s also a good time to clean the house if you have guests coming, but we won’t talk much about that.

Since I spent last week introducing you to more cookies than you could ever possibly bake during one holiday season (that’s a challenge… I dare you!), I thought it would good to focus this week’s Friday Favorites post on holiday entertaning! After all, we can’t live on cookies alone (or can we?).

Friday Favorites – Thanksgiving Guide (Episode 73)

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I have hosted Thanksgiving dinner at my house for the past couple years. This time around, I have the year off. Yellowdog (our yellow lab, in case you were wondering) has to remain “calm” and is not allowed to play with kids, other dogs, and relatives for the next few months until she has fully recovered from her knee surgery. So, that pretty much means that there will be no big get togethers at my house for a few months, either.

That doesn’t mean I won’t be cooking, though! I plan to make a side dish or two, and of course I’ll be taking some sort of dessert. I will also be traveling with my handy dandy meat thermometer, which I believe is the key to a perfect Thanksgiving turkey. Whether it’s my kitchen or my mom’s, there’s no better place to be on Thanksgiving day!

Kitchen Bootcamp Roundup – Pastry Doughs and Batters

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This month’s challenge may have been a bit of a challenge for a lot of people.  I’m not so sure that everyone enjoys pastry doughs and batters quite the way I do.  That said, it turned out to be a bit of a challenge for me, as well. Though I had great plans of making homemade…

Sparkling Cardamom Cocoa Drops (A Review of Desserts 4 Today)

Today I am doing something a bit different… I want to share a new cookbook with you, one that I have fallen in love with! The book I’m referring to is Desserts 4 Today by Abigail Johnson Dodge, a lovely collection of desserts that can be made with only four ingredients! I first met Abby at…

Friday Favorites – Episode 50

If you are trying to watch your weight or cut back on sweets, stop reading. I must apologize right off the bat for the fact that this is another Friday Favorites post all about sweets! I’d like to think that preparing for the Food Bloggers Bake Sale is the reason that I have sweets on…

Friday Favorites – Episode 40

Another week has come and gone, and it’s time for my Friday Favorites! Let’s just get right to it, shall we? If you have wanted to make croissants but held back because you thought they would be difficult, think again!  These homemade Croissants from Tracey’s Culinary Adventures are some of the best I’ve seen.  Tracey…

Friday Favorites – Episode 17

It’s Friday again, which means it’s time for me to pick my favorite blog posts of the week. I enjoy settling in each evening to read all of the new blog posts in my RSS reader.  I start to feel sad when I run out of new posts.  This week, however, there seemed to be an…

Easy Lime Pie

Last Thursday, we had a friend over for dinner and a movie.  She offered to bring Texas Caviar as an appetizer, so I thought it would be good to make a Tex-Mex themed dinner.  I made steak fajitas on the grill (no surprise there) with all of the usual accessories – sour cream, guacamole, salsa,…