December 2010
5 posts
Gingerbread House Contest
This past weekend my family got together for our annual gingerbread house making competition. We break off into teams a few weeks before to strategize and come up with a design. Each team has a gingerbread house kit that we can use in anyway we choose and the entire structure and all adornments must be edible. This year each team had to use the same exact materials, previous years we could...
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Banana Cranberry Muffins
I bought way too many bags of cranberries for Thanksgiving and since I didn’t want to waste them I had to use them before they went bad. I found this recipe on The Wooden Spoon and adapted it slightly by using Chobani Honey yogurt.
Ingredients & Directions:
1 Egg
1/4 C Vegetable Oil
1/4 C Chobani Honey Yogurt
1 C Mashed Bananas
1 3/4 C Flour
1/2 C...
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Satsuma Vodka-tini
This will be the last of my Thanksgiving recipes, but trust me this one is worth the wait. The satsuma tangerine and cranberry blend make for such a nice holiday mixture, but I would totally drink this all year long. This recipe is from Cooking Light Magazine.
Ingredients & Directions:
1 C Fresh Cranberries
1 C Vodka
1/2 C Sugar
4 Whole Satsumas
3/4 C Grand...
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Maple Glazed Carrots & Parsnips
This was my favorite vegetable dish that I prepared on Thanksgiving. I am definitely going to be adding this to the rotation of vegetables I regularly cook for dinner. I never knew parsnips could be so good. I used a recipe from Martha Stewart and adapted it just a little.
Ingredients & Directions:
1 1/4 pounds (about 6) parsnips, peeled
3/4 pound thin carrots, (about 12), peeled
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Panko Covered Pearl Onions
I went to a blogger meetup about a month ago and there was some sort of pearl onion fried as a passed hor d’oeuvres. I decided to try and recreate those hor d’oeuvres as a starter for my Thanksgiving dinner. I can’t wait to have a party to make a ton more of these.
Ingredients & Directions:
Jar of Pearl Onions
1 T Sugar
About 1 C Panko
1/2 C Flour
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