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Thanksgiving Is Coming!

Karen · 4 Comments

Now that Halloween is over, and we have turned the page over on the calendar to November, it is time to start thinking about that all important Thanksgiving Menu. I’m having company for dinner again this year, and can hardly wait for them to get here. We’ll be cooking together again, too, since I can’t do the bending and lifting that it takes to cook those yummy dishes. I have gathered up some delicious looking recipes from my own blog, and from some of my friends’ blogs, too, to help you as you plan your dinner.

At my house, besides the turkey or a big fat chicken, the second most important is the dressing. And of course, because I am from the south, I always make Cornbread Dressing. A seriously good savory bread pudding, it is the basis of any good southern holiday meal.

Gluten Free Cornbread Dressing
Gluten Free Cornbread Dressing

After you get things going for the bird and the dressing, most cooks want an army’s worth of side dishes. My mother always made potato salad, green beans, macaroni and cheese, creamed corn, rutabaga, squash casserole, and sweet potato casserole. And that was not the end of the meal!  Here is my version of Home Made Potato Salad:

Homemade Potato Salad
Homemade Potato Salad

After making a ton of side dishes, Mama always made at least four desserts. There was a chocolate cake, a coconut cake, a lemon meringue pie, and a pumpkin pie. Sometimes there were more, and we feasted on sweets for weeks after the holiday.  This is the recipe my mother always used to make her Lemon Meringue Pie:

Lemon Meringue Pie
Lemon Meringue Pie

As time went by and my brothers, my sister and I all got married and left home, we started bringing our own dishes to add to the table. There were Pig Lickin Cake, red velvet cake, banana split cake, death by chocolate, and more. Here is my banana split cake recipe:

Banana Split Cake
Banana Split Cake

We are still adding new recipes and dishes to our Thanksgiving meal. My friend Emily from Baby Dickey gave me this recipe for pumpkin cream cheese muffins. This recipe is not gluten free but just by changing a few ingredients it can be:

Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins
Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins

She also shared a Chunky Pumpkin Spice Cookie recipe:

Chunky Pumpkin Spice Cookies
Chunky Pumpkin Spice Cookies

My friend, Lynda from Southern Kissed also makes a cornbread dressing, but hers is a different version that has shredded chicken cooked right in it:

Southern Kissed Dressing
Southern Kissed Dressing

 Alison from Being Alison, who is from New York  sent me her recipe for cooking Brussels Sprouts with Caramelized Onions:

Brussels Sprouts With Caramelized Onions and Proscuitto
Brussels Sprouts With Caramelized Onions and Proscuitto

My Canadian friends and family celebrate Thanksgiving in October, so theirs is already over with. Sheri from Kidsumers, shared her Candied Yam recipe:

Candied Yams
Candied Yams

Here is an Italian twist on the bread stuffing for the turkey from Lisa at Life With Lisa:

Pepperoni Stuffing Recipe
Pepperoni Stuffing Recipe

She also offered me this yummy jello salad recipe. What holiday event is complete without one?

 

Pink Stuff
Pink Stuff

And last, Lisa from Between The Kids celebrates with a different kind of food altogether, her Braided Spaghetti Bread:

Braided Spaghetti Bread Recipe
Braided Spaghetti Bread Recipe

What is your family tradition for holiday meals? Do you have recipes handed down for generations, or do you come up with your own?

 

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Bloggy Buffet:Soup Soup Soup

Karen · 3 Comments

Bloggy buffet

This week at the Bloggy Buffet we are sharing our soup recipes. While it may be hot as blazes out there right now, it won’t be long now until there is a chill in the air and the leaves start falling, That is when I get in the mood to make soup. The soup I am sharing with you today is my version of Lima Bean Soup. For many years I just made beans. Dried beans, water, salt and pepper, with a chunk of salt pork to season them. Then one day I decided to make that same old pot of dried beans have some personality. This is the result of that inspiration:

Lima Bean Soup
Lima Bean Soup

 

1 bag dried baby lima beans
3 stalks of celery, chopped
1 medium onion, chopped
4 fresh tomatoes, skinned and diced
8 oz frozen shoe peg corn
1 smoked ham hock, skin removed, and meat cut up in chunks
salt, pepper, and garlic powder to taste

Place dried beans in a pot of water and bring to a boil. Boil for five minutes. Meanwhile, place all other ingredients in crock pot and turn on high. Pour hot beans and water into crock pot and cook for several hours. Serve hot with corn bread or biscuits.

What is your favorite soup? Link up your recipe below:

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Bloggy Buffet: Chicken Chicken Chicken

Karen · 2 Comments

Bloggy buffet
I’m hosting a new Blog Hop that I hope you all will want to join in. It is named The Bloggy Buffet and it will go live each week on Thursday. There will be a prompt every week for bloggers to share a recipe with us, using that prompt ingredient. The idea here is to show how many different ways you can prepare the same thing.

For instance, this week, the first week, the prompt is Chicken. It can be a recipe for breakfast, lunch or dinner. It can be an old post. It can be main dish, salad, sandwich, soup, or side dish. As long as it has chicken in the recipe, you can link it up.  There aren’t too many other rules for participation:

1. Create a post with a picture of your prepared chicken dish, and share the recipe.

2. Put the Bloggy Buffet graphic in your post

3. Include the linky code. That way, everyone can hop from one blog to another and see all the recipes for the week.

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4. If you link up, try to visit all the blogs in the linky to comment, pin, tweet, or share in some way.

5. I will post the next week’s prompt on this weeks post, so be sure to look for that.

6. You do not have to participate every week, but I hope you will want to.

So, here is my first contribution to the buffet:

Chicken and Rice with Salsa

only four ingredients, easy!
only four ingredients, easy!

This is one of my favorite chicken recipes. I got it from my mother-in-law. She told me that when she and my father-in-law used to travel in their RV, they would meet up with their friends in the desert out west. They parked their RV’s in a circle and everyone contributed something to the dinner meals. That is where she learned to make it. I can see why, because it is so easy and so quick to fix.

Chicken and Rice With Salsa Recipe

4-6 pieces of chicken

1 cup uncooked rice

1 jar of salsa, your favorite brand

2-3 tablespoons olive oil

2 cups water

Salt and pepper to taste

Salt and pepper the chicken pieces. Heat the olive oil in a large skillet with a lid. Add the chicken pieces to the skillet, and brown slightly. Add in the rest of the ingredients in the skillet, stir to mix well.

chicken and salas

Bring to a boil, then turn the heat down to simmer. Cover and cook for thirty minutes, stirring once or twice.

Chicken and Rice with Salsa
Chicken and Rice with Salsa

I serve this with a salad or sliced cucumbers.

The prompt for next week is Soup. Show us your soup next week!

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