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My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal...
Grandma's stuffing recipe! My husband and I look forward to it more than anything else in the meal. Just making the big meal is a lot of fun.
Cook the Book: Chocolate Sheet Cake
I made two of these cakes for a camping trip last year and underbaked the cakes just a bit so that when I warmed them up to frost them, they didn't over cook. We were in the Rocky Mountains, so I didn't want to mess with high-altitude baking. The cakes came out great and everyone finished off both pans. Thinking I may need to make this again soon!
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
So, so many to choose from! SE, PWC, SK, Bakerella, Simply Recipes, Sticky-Gooey-Creamy-Chewy. All so inspiring and with good recipes to boot!
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Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
I don't care for olives themselves, but use their oil all the time!
My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal...
Grandma's stuffing recipe! My husband and I look forward to it more than anything else in the meal. Just making the big meal is a lot of fun.
Cook the Book: Chocolate Sheet Cake
I made two of these cakes for a camping trip last year and underbaked the cakes just a bit so that when I warmed them up to frost them, they didn't over cook. We were in the Rocky Mountains, so I didn't want to mess with high-altitude baking. The cakes came out great and everyone finished off both pans. Thinking I may need to make this again soon!
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
So, so many to choose from! SE, PWC, SK, Bakerella, Simply Recipes, Sticky-Gooey-Creamy-Chewy. All so inspiring and with good recipes to boot!
Baked Doughnut Recipes?
I use the recipe at King Arthur Flour for the most part. Exclude the spices and add vanilla for vanilla donuts, etc. Hope to try out their coconut doughnut recipe soon. Sorry, haven't seen a pumpkin doughnut recipe.
Video: Levi Johnston's Pistachio Commercial
There were some other very funny ones on during Sunday Night Football last night. Didn't see the Levi one though.
Cook the Book: 'The Craft of Baking'
This is so hard, narrowing down to just one! The first time I had creme brulee at the Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas, I was smitten!
Zuccini in Chili
We do a "white chicken chili" recipe that calls for zuccini. I say go for it, too! YUM!
Cook the Book: 'Bite-Size Desserts'
So many to choose from... for a no-cook snack, mini-Reese's cups! If I'm baking, brownie bites or chocolate chip cookie dough. By the spoon it's a small bite, right?!
Video: How to Make Brownies in a Waffle Iron
Oh my, adding this to the must make list!
Electric Donut Maker Success!!!
Fun stuff! There are some good baked donut recipes at King Arthur Flour, too.
In Season: Basil
I just made 8 cups of pesto to freeze (sans cheese). And that still leaves half the basil in the garden! YUM!!!
Threadless T-Shirt Giveaway: A Piece of Cake
Cold chocolate cake with chocolate butter cream frosting. But really, any kind of cake - yum!
Cook the Book: Eugenia Bone's 'Well-Preserved'
Tomatoes and more varieties of pickles.
Sonoran Hot Dog Recipe
There's a Sonoran Hot Dog stand near my office here in Tucson. Sounds like a great lunch for today!
Affordable restaurant supplies?
I shopped in the DFW area at Ace Mart and they have a website as well - acemart.com. I haven't done any comparison of their prices compared to their competitors though, but I was always happy with their prices when compared to other national kitchen stores.
You live where?
Vail, AZ - just south of Tucson, but should be moving back to the Dallas-Fort Worth area later this year.
Food "gifts." Is this tacky?
I was going to suggest specialtybottle.com too. I ordered small bottles from them to distribute holy water we'd brought back from The Vatican. They were inexpensive and good quality.
Google Cafeteria Still Stocks It's-It Ice Cream Sandwiches
I love It's Its and having not lived in the Bay Area for the last 17 years, whenever we get back, I always have at least one!
V-Day Giveaway: Praise the Lard Box from Zingerman's
Pan-fried
Oven-baked
Rotisserie
Knowing how good it will taste, regardless of preparation; Pork rules!
Valentine's Day Giveaway: Macarons from Itzy Bitzy Patisserie
Oh my, just about anything sans fruit! Chocolate/chocolate, vanilla/chocolate, chocolate/almond, caramel... that's more than two.
Coconut Candy Recipe Help
The recipes provided are how I make coconut balls, too. Makes me hungry for some now! I hope your boyfriend likes them!
Cook the Book: 'Baking Unplugged'
I made a triple-berry pie and entered it in the state fair a few years ago. I don't care for berries, so I hadn't tested it myself. Hubby tried it when I brought it home and declared it the tartest, sourest berry pie he'd ever eaten. But he kept going back for more, saying it was like a car wreck, he just couldn't stay away from it.
My Shocking Food Confession: What's Yours?
I don't like cheese. I can stomach some mozzarella on pizza (but not "extra" cheese pizza) and parmesan in a caesar salad, but that's it. Many people can't believe I don't like cheese.
Mixed Review: Lipton's Onion Dip and Simply Organic's Guacamole for Football Parties
My favorite with the Lipton dip is BBQ potato chips - YUM!
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
Oh, I love olives so very much. It's a toss-up between a buttery cerignola or the always delicious kalamatas...
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
Never met an olive I didn't love. My current favorite is picholine. It will be something else next week...
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
Yes, I'm boring, but I'll pop kalamata after kalamata in my mouth just like candy (but picholines are nice too, and Gaetas... )
My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal...
ABT: Anything but turkey.
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
young, fat, green cerignolas. and sadly those gross pimento stuffed ones in the grocery store
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
I love kalamatas with pasta and manzanillas plain or chopped in soups
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
feta-stuffed green olives. or black oil cured ones. I love the oil most of all- I practically drink it if it's good enough.
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
I love the ones that have been pressed into oil. :)
My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal...
I also love Thanksgiving - it's my favorite holiday, hands down. My favorite food is Mama's dressing. She bakes cornbread separately, sautes onion and celery, breaks up the cornbread and adds the vegetables, chicken broth, and some of the drippings from the turkey pan and then bakes the mixture. Since it never goes inside the turkey, it's not stuffing, but dressing, and it is yummy!
I love how everybody talks about how cozy Thanksgiving is. I absolutely agree and I love the day after, too. Turkey sandwiches on sourdough bread - yum!
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
Picholine...or a big green one stuffed with a smoked almond. yum.
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
I love any kind of cured black or purple olives, but Gaeta and Alfonso are my favorites.
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
picholine with a little lemon zest and red pepper....mmmmm, too good
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
Kalamata are my favorite!
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
Definitely Kalamata, or ones stuffed with parmesan cheese...mmmm
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
Olive oil with pepper flakes
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
Nicoise olives to eat out of hand.
A hand stuffed blue cheese green olive for my martini.
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
Lugano, for real.
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
I had to look it up because, like many other above, I'm not familiar with the names, but Lucque olive are quite tasty.
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
Kalamata but not in brine--must be oil cured
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
I love those little arbequinas.
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
Kalamata or black cerignola or regular green pimento-stuffed, or garlic stuffed...
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
pimento stuffed "martini" olives. i used to suck the pimentos out then eat the olive--straight from the jar, when parents were drinking martinis
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
the olive stuck deep into my bloody mary during a lazy sunday brunch.
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
There is no olive I do not love; but I love those dried, shriveled ones from Morocco the best.
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
I love all olives, but can't live without Manzanillas
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I don't care for olives themselves, but use their oil all the time!