With Thanksgiving around the corner, it’s that time of year when we cling to favorite recipes and traditions. Making Mincemeat falls into that category at our house. Dutifully looking at a recipe shared with me years ago, I go about using different ingredients and amounts than what is suggested on the card. It’s kind of …
Preparing Grapefruit… the Simple Way
A Recipe for Grapefruit… not a recipe for baking, broiling, roasting or poaching…but our favorite preparation for eating this delicious fruit. Sweet and juicy; that’s what it is! You know it’s got to be good since all eight of our kids never knew a time when they didn’t like it. High in vitamins C, A, …
Cranberry Sauce
This is NOT like the traditional “open the can, slip out the solid cylindrical figure on the plate” type of cranberry sauce that is found on Thanksgiving tables around the country. I’ll always pass on that one, thank you. Instead, this cranberry sauce is full of bright fresh flavor and is more like a gelatin …
Caramel Apples
It’s that time of year again…autumn breezes, crackling leaves and apple harvest. There are so many recipes involving apples, that were we to list one here each month, we’d still be talking about apples years from now. Meanwhile we wouldn’t be able to cover other important subjects like birthday cake, lemon pie, delicious cookies, and, …