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November 19, 2009

Thanksgiving Roundup!!!

So I had a little request from lovely Alex of Strawberry Lemonade to do a little roundup of my Thanksgiving pasts/ideas. My mom always hosts Thanksgiving, so most of the weight of the day is on her. She rocks. She’s traditional. She makes a wonderful spread!

For our Thanksgiving, I bring a sweet potato dish topped with pecans & a HUGE batch creamed spinach to the party.  I’ve never blogged the recipes to either one (which kinda shocks me!) Maybe I should….

The past few years I’ve made a fluffy pumpkin tiramisu for dessert, but it usually never gets finished cuz everyone in my family stuffs themselves all day long and never saves room for dessert! I hate that!  It tastes good, but it has a shelf life!

If you are looking for some Thanksgiving ideas, I’ve compiled a few!

If you are on appetizer duty,

 

Make a Sundried Tomato Goat Cheese Log!

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November 16, 2009

Savory Chicken Pocket Pies

Let me begin by telling you how IN LOVE I am with this book!

i am sooo excited to cook from here

Mad Hungry: Feeding Men & Boys by Lucinda Scala Quinn (The Executive Food Director for Martha Stewart Living)  It’s beautifully written and OMG the inside is a graph designer’s dream.  It’s like Blueprint magazine made a cookbook filled with the tastiest looking man food!

I started to mark the recipes I wanted to make with tags and then I had to stop because I found myself marking EVERY SINGLE PAGE.

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November 12, 2009

Flashback! Soups!

I’m totally a visual person (if you haven’t guessed that yet). Which means I rely heavily on my computer and old posts/flickr to get me through food cravings…and help me decide what to make for dinner. I suggest taking photos of what you make, so you can reference! Sometimes I look up stuff online thru my phone at the grocery store. Hooray for technology. I am such a slave.

I’ve been looking around at my collection, and realized that I make a lot of soup at this time of year!

I put together a lil post of my favorites!

Each one will no doubt warm you up on a chilly night…or a nice weekend afternoon.

I tend to freeze a few servings with each batch so I can take them to work with me later on.

Today I ate some Mexican Chicken Soup that I made in August. That was pretty cool.

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November 11, 2009

Recipe Revisited !

Pulling one out from the vault!  This time I have daylight pics and some tasty additions.

Last night called for something hearty, warm and comforting…..

I made Chicken Sausage & Bean Casserole with Sage!!

nom

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November 10, 2009

lately:

I have a bunch of fuyu persimmons- what should I do with them?

persimmons loot

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November 10, 2009

food buzzin’

This past weekend I went to the First Annual Food Buzz Festival.  It was teeming with food bloggers from all around the country!

Soo much food! SOOOO much food. Soo much FREE alcohol!  FREE!

I don’t think that I could even recap- I wouldn’t know where to start!

I forgot my camera, so I used my cellphone this weekend.  That’s OK.

I knew at least someone would be taking pics!   Here’s a little visual for ya:

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November 5, 2009

Welcome to Limboland, Population: ME

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Oh hello there! Nice of you to stop by.  I thoughtI would take a moment and share with my current state with you.

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