The Venison Meatballs from this recipe of homemade Italian Spaghetti and Venison Meatballs are so delicious they’re addictive. Once you’ve cooked them, and sampled one, you will wonder how there will ever be enough left for dinner. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Can I Use Beef, Rather Than Venison? DON’T be put off by …
Tuscan Bread Stuffing with Goat Cheese, Dried Cherries and Prosciutto is, for me, the highlight of my Thanksgiving table, where I only serve the best recipes of the season that I know. Why Is This Your Family’s Favorite Stuffing? Oh for a thousand tongues to sing this great stuffing recipe’s praise. It really is the …
Heavenly Havarti and Black Forest Ham Sandwich with Apple Butter, Aioli, and Arugula. It’s melted cheese with ham…yes…but it’s so much more!!!! What’s a Great Sandwich Recipe? In the beginning, I made me a fabulous sandwich. And it was good. Then, a girlfriend challenged me to enter a sandwich recipe contest, and I remembered my …
Buttermilk Biscuits with Chives and Black Pepper require no more skill to make than regular homemade biscuits. If you’ve never made biscuits before, homemade biscuits, made from scratch, are easy to do. Yet, they take a somewhat humble bowl of soup, and turn it into a meal that the whole family is thrilled about! A …
Lentil Soup with Kielbasa is the perfect soup to warm up your heart, soul, and tummy on a chilly fall or winter evening. And it’s easy, too! Why I Thought I Could Never Serve Lentil Soup: The reason has been 25 years in the making. I’m at a bit of a disadvantage, since some of …
My Best Roast Chicken Recipe in a Cast Iron Skillet has several innovative ideas, that take a perfectly good roast chicken to the realm of greatness. Nom, Nom, Nom. A Hybrid of a Recipe, Using the Techniques of Three Great Cooks This recipe for Best Roast Chicken in a Cast Iron Skillet, is a bit …
Perciatelli all’Amatriciana is the best pasta I have ever had in my life. BUT: I can hear you now, from clear over here, in the Boonies. A whole lot of you are saying: “What the ____ is perciatelli?” (Unless you’re Italian. Or a chef. Or, for whatever the reason, you really know your pasta.) What …
Refreshing and palate-pleasing, a bite of Easy Cranberry Orange Apple Walnut Relish is the divine soulmate to a bite of turkey. It’s also the perfect foil to so many of the *heavy* fat-laden dishes, that cause our heavily-laden Thanksgiving tables to groan under the weight thereof. An additional reason I adore this dish is because …
This Apple-Pear Salad with Maple Pecan Bacon is the perfect salad for Thanksgiving. Apples, pears, grapes, salad greens, with Maple Pecan Bacon, drizzled with a cranberry vinaigrette! How I Discovered This Apple-Pear Salad I went to a slumber party with my wonderful girlfriends, and came home with the salad of my dreams: Apple-Pear Salad with …
Last year, I gave you my recipe for how to cook your Thanksgiving Turkey. I went back and revisited that recipe, and I think I SHOULD give you a bit of an update on how we REALLY cooked our Thanksgiving Turkey last year. Because rather than grilling it, we smoked it. And I feel like …
This recipe for Bourbon Pumpkin Cheesecake with Bourbon Sour Cream Glaze is one of the most amazing Thanksgiving Desserts you’ll ever try! My daughter LOVES my Fluffiest Pumpkin Pie, AND she loves my blueberry cheesecake, too. She was TORN between which to ask for for her birthday dessert. And then, I remembered this cheesecake …
This easy crock pot recipe for Old Fashioned Slow Cooker Chicken and Dumplings produces dumplings that are light as a feather, in a rich and savory broth. And you get to brag that you made it from scratch! The recipe for old fashioned Slow Cooker Chicken and Dumplings, from the America’s Test Kitchen Slow Cooker Revolution …
What if you knew you had a recipe for homemade apple pie that was totally excellent? A recipe that produced an apple pie that was perfect in its simplicity? Meet. That. Pie. This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase something after clicking one of my links, I earn money, at no extra cost to …
Slow Cooker Tortilla Soup, ladled over the tortilla chips, and garnished with queso fresco and cilantro, is amazing! A. Ma. Zing. This easy slow cooker recipe is on my family’s list of Fall/Winter Go-To Recipes. This recipe requires a little prep work, but that’s all done on the front end. This recipe DID came …
Pumpkin pie is typically dense, and heavy, but in this post, I’m going to teach you how to make the lightest, fluffiest pumpkin pie, ever. When I was a kid, I didn’t even ~like~ pumpkin pie. Till I made this one for my husband, on the first Thanksgiving that I hosted, all by myself. He …