Food Food and More Food

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I am posting about FOOD!  Happy Thanksgiving, I hope you all have a great day with your families!

 

So I have been watching a decent amount of Food Network in the past few weeks, and it has mostly been Thanksgiving themed episodes and there have been a number of dishes I want to try.  I am not doing any cooking this Thanksgiving, but I wanted to put these all in one place to find them in the future.  So here they are, incase any look good to you!

 

And last time I did a random post, and posted about that Apple Chicken Sausage Pasta, I went ahead and made it and it was GOOD, make it! Make it!  I didn't take pictures to blog about in, but I will next time we make it.  Colin wasn't feeling it as I was making it, but told me it was really good, and his friend who "wasn't hungry" had two bowls! haha So I would call that a win!

 

Stuffing - I pretty much like any kind of stuffing, I have been looking forward to stuffing for a few weeks snow.  I only have a few more hours to wait!  These 2 recipes caught my eye.

 

Sausage and Herb Stuffing - Ina Garten

Here is the video, if you prefer that

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Thanksgiving Dressing/Stuffing - Pioneer Woman

But the show I was watching, she added roasted Brussels Sprouts and Butternut Squash to it, for a very veggie stuffing! YUM!  Oh look, Food Network has that version.

 

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And both of these lovely cooking ladies has some yummy looking Cranberry Sauce, that looks way better than what comes out of the can! Ha! Pioneer Woman's version, Ina Garten's version. : )

 

 

I also saw the Pioneer Woman make theses little dinner rolls.  I also noticed when she makes her turkey she rubs a rosemary orange zest butter all over it.  Granted butter totally grosses me out, but rosemary and orange - that sounds good.  Perhaps if I ever make a real turkey, I'll need to look up her recipe for that!

 

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This is not a Thanksgiving recipe, but I think Colin would be fond of this

Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie I also saw her make recently.

 

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OK back to Thanksgiving food, we both watched Giada make a "Leftover's" Shepherd Pie that looked pretty amazing.  I might need tweak it a bit if I try to make it without leftovers, but either way, I am pretty sure it will make a pretty good dinner!

 

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Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!!!

I have had gourds and pumpkins around the house, but I did a little extra for Thanksgiving and did a nice little vignette on the sideboard in the dining room.  I had eyed up these downloadable prints from Etsy and decided it get them to make our dining room more 'thankful'. : )

 

 

The frames are just ones I found upstairs to not spend anymore money, but they work considering they will be up for about a week, then get stored for next year.  Although I really love the chalkboard one, so perhaps that one might stay out a little longer.

 

Be Thankful always Print

give thanks Print

 

I hope you all have a wonderful holiday and a nice long weekend without work! : )

Leaf Cookies

So the finger cookies I made on Halloween were so tasty I decided to use the same recipe for some fall cut outs.

(I know I have not shared my Halloween Cookies with you yet, since I am a slow blogger, but I will soon. )

Here is the recipe, I just used the same dough, but did not make "fingers"! haha

Dough from Recipe Girl
I did my best to roll out the dough with without a rolling pin. (side note, if anyone wants to get me a rolling pin and a whisk for Christmas that would be awesome! haha (shamelessly beg here))
Then I cut out some leaves and popped them in the oven!!!



For the icing, I just googled a few recipes and ended up doing powered sugar, milk and a tiny bit of vanilla.

I divided up the icing in 3 bowls to add the food coloring and mixed and matched!!!

Last step is to load them up in a tubber (yes I know it is really a tuPPEr) and bring them to Thanksgiving!!!!

Yummy Tasty Fall Leaves! Yay! I wish I had one to eat right now!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving

Love Her!

So there are tons of photos I need to get up on here, but I figured until I have the time, I might entertain you with one of my favorite ladies. The Target 2 Day Sale Lady! haha I love her! And she is only on a few shorts days of the year. I am glad she is back!

This one is my favorite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KlvvDnkjKg

Thanksgiving Weekend

Since I knew I would be spending my long holiday weekend studying,

when I got home from my grandparents on Thanksgiving I decided to have some "me" time.

I made some of this:

Then curled up on the couch with some of these:

It was the best part of my weekend. I never have time to just sit and read my magazine.

Then I spent the rest of the weekend here:

Studying for this:

But I did sneak out to see these lovely ladies- My cousins Emily and Olivia:

I snuck out again to see 2 more lovely ladies -Kerri and Katie, but we didn't document our lunch with any photos! : )

Goodbye Fall - Christmas Season- Here we come!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanksgiving 2009

I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving! I did! I hadn't seen my entire family in a long while so I was very excited to see everyone. My Mom, Dad and Kevin picked up my Nana and headed over to my Grandparents to meet my Aunt, Uncle, Molly and Brian.

This was a card my Grandma had, haha how funny-people dancing with drum sticks!

The ladies getting dinner ready:

Brian and Molly:

Nana and Kevin:




After dinner we celebrated some birthdays:

Happy Birthday Dad!

dad,please note those mad photoshop skills you paid full tuition for! : )

Happy Birthday Uncle Ron!

Happy Birthday Brian!

when did he get 13?????

"umm can I blow these out yet?" " no little teen, not until we are done singing!"

Fine silver and Paper Plates- A winning combo!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!!!!