‘Tis the Season

(I made this with Scrapblog.com – try it – it is very fun)

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Blogging Thanksgiving

Pie baking, stuffing, sweet potatoes… Let’s live blog Thanksgiving!! We begin with the pies. Here is a picture from my vintage 1950 Betty Crocker cookbook… We are making pumpkin (naturally) and pecan! But first … my favorite part of Thanksgiving – my mother’s pumpkin pie recipe: NOW! Onto the pie baking! Make cinnamon rollups with [...]

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I Remember Mama…

Songs my mother taught me In the days long vanish’d Seldom from her eyelids Were the teardrops banish’d Now I teach my children Each melodious measure oft the tears are flowing oft they flow from my mem’ry treasure (Anton Dvorak) My mom and I used to sing this together. It was a heavily marked song [...]

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(Bumped again by popular request) My Really Exceptional Stuffing (I made this up myself)

  Stuff this guy!   2 Boxes of Gourmet Seasoned Croutons - Crumble a bit with your BARE HANDS so they aren’t so lumpy (DON’T USE GARLIC CROUTONS!!!) 3 Celery Stalks – chopped  1 Big Onion – finely chopped – FINELY! FINELY MEANS FINELY 1 Granny Smith Apple – chopped 1 Bulging handful of Golden raisins [...]

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