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It's Over - What candy is left, and what will you do with it?

We have a whole bowl of assorted candy (didn't have as many trick or treaters as expected) and 2 unopened bags of Reese's Lovers (which I'll freeze). The bowl is on my kitchen island so we're kinda just picking through it.

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Thanksgiving Vegetable Sides

oops - after "drain" it should say remove green beans and set aside.

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It's Over - What candy is left, and what will you do with it?

We have a whole bowl of assorted candy (didn't have as many trick or treaters as expected) and 2 unopened bags of Reese's Lovers (which I'll freeze). The bowl is on my kitchen island so we're kinda just picking through it.

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Thanksgiving Vegetable Sides

oops - after "drain" it should say remove green beans and set aside.

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Thanksgiving Vegetable Sides

I make these every year and they are the BEST green beans!!


Garlic Green Beans

2 pounds fresh green beans, trimmed
1 cup boiling water
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup butter or margarine
4 garlic cloves, pressed
1/4 teaspoon lemon pepper

Place first 3 ingredients in a Dutch oven; cover and cook over medium heat 30 minutes. Drain.
Melt butter in Dutch oven; add garlic and lemon pepper, and sauté mixture over medium heat 1 to 2 minutes. Add green beans, and sauté 5 minutes.

Makes 8 servings

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What desserts do you crave?

brownies
butterscotch pie
rice pudding

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Any food you could eat daily til' you kick the bucket?!

I could eat eggo waffles with butter and real maple syrup every day and not get sick of it. Oh, and cheese ....... I loooooove cheese.

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Best Halloween Candy?

sour patch kids, gummy bears, warheads, twizzlers

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Pizza: A cure for the blues?

Yes! Pizza always makes me feel better!

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Chocolate Covered Star Cookies

Look at the cookies in the middle of the tin ... is that the cookie?

http://www.stauffers.net/products/tins

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Chocolate Covered Star Cookies

I'm pretty sure those are made by Stauffers. The star cookies aren't on their website but you could call or email them and find out for sure if they make them.

http://www.stauffers.net/

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Stupid to Make Homemade Halloween Treats?

@arm1970 - we have that law in our schools too.

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Special Halloween Meal?

I make buffalo chicken wing dip every Halloween. I just happened to make it one Halloween night 5 years ago and now it's sort of a tradition.

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Stupid to Make Homemade Halloween Treats?

I have 2 children, ages 18 and 13 so they don't trick or treat anymore, but when they were little I wouldn't let them eat homemade treats unless I knew the person who made them.

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Why are you a serious eater?

but the basic message is, food is life, life should be fun.

AMEN!

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Does one need a microwave?

I don't NEED one, but I sure do use mine a lot and would miss it if it were gone. Ours is used mostly for heating leftovers, boiling water, hotpockets, etc.

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Cook the Book: Pumpkin Baking

My sisters pumpkin roll is the best on earth!

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Pizza: A cure for the blues?

pizza - one of the best foods in the whole world... straight cheese pizza with a great doughy crust always does it for me.

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Search It!

I've seen people ask for recipes and then someone else suggests they Google it, which I think is a tad rude. The way I figure, if someone is asking for a recipe here, they're asking this group of people because there's an expectation that you'll get a tried-and-true recipe rather than just a random recipe that has never been personally tested.

Some people are blatantly lazy, though, and will ask something like "what temperature is medium-rare for beef?" and you have to wonder why they're asking that here instead of looking it up online or in a cookbook. But I usually give them the benefit of the doubt, because there might be a valid reason why they need an answer from this group. If it's something that I know, I can probably post the correct answer as fast as I could post a snarky "Google it" comment.

But just like real life, there are people who enjoy being rude. Sometimes they're the first ones to answer a question. And sometimes the really rude answers are from people who don't post here regularly. They'll just appear, make a rude remark, and disappear. One comment from a cranky poster doesn't mean the whole site has that attitude.

Normally, the people here will make an attempt to offer advice.

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The best hot sauce

DL Jardine's Texas Champagne has an amazing flavor. I've been using it nearly everyday since I was 12 years old.

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It's Over - What candy is left, and what will you do with it?

Sorry - meant to add... We had a fantastic turnout and I saw every costume from Buzz Lightyear (with blowup wings) to a kitten, to a mummy and various ghouls and goblins.

I carved two pumpkins and the parents got the biggest charge out of them.

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It's Over - What candy is left, and what will you do with it?

My nephew lives with us so he will be allowed to pick out his favorites, then EVERYTHING goes to the office with my BF and nephew. Period. End of story. End of temptation!!

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Hard to choose. I started out in food blog land with I Was Just Hungry.

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It's Over - What candy is left, and what will you do with it?

I made brownies with whatever was left - cut into bite side pieces and placed on half the batter, then covered with the rest of the batter before baking. So you never know what you are gonna get!

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It's Over - What candy is left, and what will you do with it?

I hate having so many leftovers, so since I knew that we never get a lot of trick-or-treaters at our home, I only bought one bag of Kit Kats, which I don't even really care for (OD'd of them as a kid), so I took the leftovers and turned them into some really nice chocolate cookies, made with *loads* of cocoa powder and sugar and crunched up (coarse chunks) Kit Kat bars. They turned otu pretty well, so I am happy, and my coworkers are now on a sugar high.

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It's Over - What candy is left, and what will you do with it?

missvenuz: i nearly pulled a muscle b/c i laughed so hard at your comment-they took the bowl too? i am very sorry, of course, but that really struck my funny bone for some reason this morning. :)

@ pooroldmama: you almost made me pee my pants w/your bra drawer comment!

i'm telling you-it's a good thing that i'm alone in my office....

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Halloween Punch & Other Treats

Orange sherbert with hot fudge sauce. Yum.

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It's Over - What candy is left, and what will you do with it?

Operation Gratitude.

Actually, I don't give out candy. I like to give out toys or some other treat, which has worked very well when the child is diabetic or otherwise can't have candy. This year, it was glowsticks.

But I bought a bag of candy corn at 50% off to make the Candy Corn Nainamo Bars to take to an event next weekend.

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Serious Eats and The Wicked Noodle. Looks like a lot of people like Smitten Kitchen, so I'm going to have to check that out!

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It's Over - What candy is left, and what will you do with it?

The leftovers from my three pound bag of Dum Dums should get me through the winter.

Fat free, few calories, long lasting, lots of flavors and without the chocolate guilt you could say I'm a "sucker" for Dum Dums :)

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Serious Eats and The Wicked Noodle. Looks like a lot of people like Smitten Kitchen, so I'm going to have to check that out!

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Serious Eats and The Wicked Noodle. Looks like a lot of people like Smitten Kitchen, so I'm going to have to check that out!

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Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'

I like Serious Eats of course. I also like Smitten Kitchen.

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Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'

My favorite food blogs are this one and Culinate.

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Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'

Serious Eats is my favorite. Simply Recipes is my second favorite.

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Baking Bites and Simply Recipes. I want to cook and eat pretty much everything from these sites!!

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It's Over - What candy is left, and what will you do with it?

I've been fighting flu since Wednesday, so BF handled door duty. I bought about three pounds of assorted candy and we got maybe nine kids (at least half of whom were teenagers that somehow felt costumes and saying "trick or treat" was beyond them - aren't you just begging for candy at that point?). So we have a lot left. I told BF that when I'm healthy, I'll chop the Hershey's mini darks up and put them in pancakes. The rest we'll freeze or eat.

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Location: somewhere in VA

About: married with children

Favorite foods: just about anything Southern, fried green tomatoes, chicken n dumplings, biscuits n gravy, etc.

Last bite on earth: my chicken n dumplings, a big glass of Vernors ginger ale over ice, and a hot cup of illy coffee :)